These pages represent the work of an amateur researcher and should not be used as the sole source by any other researcher. Few primary sources have been available. Corrections and contributions are encouraged and welcomed. -- Karen (Johnson) Fish
Julia Parks

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. Leander Jackson Fish

Julia Parks 2

  • Marriage (1): Leander Jackson Fish on 28 Apr 1878 in Cherokee, Kansas, United States 1

   Another name for Julia was Julia Parke.

  Research Notes:

George Fish research c. 1980 says Julia Parks is on Shawnee & Cherokee rolls.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Adopted: into the Quapaw tribe, 1 Oct 1880, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, (United States). 3 Excerpt from a letter from L. J. Morgan, Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs to the U. S. Secretary of the Interior:
"December 21, 1881, Senator Plumb filed in this Office, with favorable recommendation, a paper purporting to be signed by the Chiefs and Headmen of the Quapaw tribe, in which they stated that Leander Jackson Fish, Julia Fish, and Paschal Fish had been accepted and received into the tribe, and adopted as members thereof, in open Council on the first day of October 1880."

• Divorce: from Leander J. Fish, 1883, <Oklahoma>, United States. 4 This event was shared with Leander Jackson Fish.

• Report: re. Leander J. Fish by Inspector Gardner, 9 Sep 1884, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, (United States). 4 Excerpt from page 12 of a letter dated April 19th, 1890, from L. J. Morgan, Commissioner of the Office of Indian Affairs to the U. S. Secretary of the Interior:
"In a report dated September 9, 1884, Inspector Gardner reported that Fish had been prevented by the cattlemen who held leases of certain lands from occupying a place which he had selected and partially improved, and was therefore compelled to live in Baxter Springs to support himself.
"Inspector Gardner upon ascertaining these facts called the Council of September 5, 1884, at which the Indians expressed the desire that his adoption should stand and not be revoked upon condition that he would live upon the reservation and not in Baxter Springs 'as he has been doing in the past'.
"In said report Inspector Gardner stated that L.J. Fish's wife, Julia, a white woman, had during the preceding year, procured a divorce from him.

• Authorization: granted by the U.S. Department of the Interior to the Quapaw tribe of Indians, 14 Mar 1891, Washington D.C., United States. 5 "for the enrollment of Leander J. Fish as a member of the Quapaw tribe of Indians with the statement that the claims of Pascal Fish (his father) and Julia Fish (his wife) for enrollment, were not in any wise recognized by the authority for the enrollment of Leander." [excerpted from a letter dated February 12, 1896, from the Commissioner, Office of Indian affairs, D. [M. or W. illegible] to the Secretary of the Interior.


Julia married Leander Jackson Fish, son of Chief Paschal Fish and Jane Quinney, on 28 Apr 1878 in Cherokee, Kansas, United States.1 The marriage ended in divorce in 1883. (Leander Jackson Fish was born on 7 May 1852 in (Wyandotte), Indian Territory (Kansas), United States, died on 20 Nov 1914 in [near Quapaw], Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and was buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States 6.)


  Marriage Notes:

Marriage record has names "L. J. Fish" and "Julia Parke" according to the transcription.

Sources


1 <i>FamilySearch Historical Files</i> (www.familysearch.org), "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWGC-ZZ5 : 14 January 2020), L. J. Fish, 1878. Cit. Date: 21 Apr 2020.

2 Cindy Higgins, "Where the Wakarusa Meets the Kaw" (https://www.eudorakshistory.com/index.htm, 2010), "Delaware and Shawnee Migration," https://www.eudorakshistory.com/delaware_shawnee/delaware-and-shawnee.htm. Cit. Date: 20 Apr 2020.

3 (https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection), https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll27/id/18. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2019.

4 (https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection), https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll27/id/27. Cit. Date: 1 Oct 2019.

5 (https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection), https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll27/id/4. Cit. Date: 30 Sep 2019.

6 <i>www.findagrave.com</i>, Memorial ID 143167344. Cit. Date: 15 Apr 2020.


Home | Table of Contents | Surnames | Name List

This Website was Created 10 May 2020 with Legacy 9.0 from MyHeritage; content copyright and maintained by karen@ffish.com