Eliza L Davis

Eliza was a Cherokee woman of the Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Gi-gu-i)

Cherokee Nation

The cemetery at the Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, Vinta, Oklahoma

Biography:
Born c. 1842 in the Cherokee Nation West, Indian Territory to parents Anderson Pierce Lowrey and Mary Nave. through her father, she was, therefore, the grand-daughter of Tsa-Tsi-Agi-Li aka Major George Lowrey, cousin of Sequoyah, and Assistant Chief of the Cherokee Nation, making her a descendant of one of the earliest and important Cherokee families.

Anderson and Mary Lowrey and their nine children were listed in family group #586, Tahlequah District, C.N., Emigrant Roll of 1851. (Curator Note: this statement states 9 children, FaG lists her as 7, Family Search lists 11, and Emmett Starr lists 10 siblings!)

Eliza married William Henry Davis and had six children: Lowry Davis, Perry Brewer Davis, William Henry Davis, Jr., Mary Lynch Davis, Eugene Davis, and Andrew Jefferson Davis.

It seems that Eliza spent much of her adult life after six children in mental institutions. The initial diagnosis is not known but upon arrival at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians she was diagnosed with chronic dementia, revised in 1910 to dementia praecox and paranoid. (Dementia is a chronic condition that causes a progressive loss of mental abilities and memory that interferes with daily life. Dementia praecox was a term used to describe a group of psychoses that included paranoid and hallucinatory symptoms and is now known as schizophrenia. The distinction between dementia praecox, paranoia, and paraphrenia is not clear.)

It was the daughter Mary Lynch Davis who requested BIA to effect a transfer of her mother Eliza from St. Vincent's to the Canton Asylum. That correspondence can be found here: https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000211008426864.

Eliza had previously been confined at St. Vincent's Institution in St. Louis, Missouri, but family hardship made it increasingly difficult to remain paying for private care.

St. Vincent's Institution in St. Louis, Missouri
transferred to and committed at the Canton Asylum on June 18, 1907, NO admission records to Canton in her medical file. In June 1917 she was said to have been "about 68".

The Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, Canton Township, Lincoln County, South Dakota
discharged from Canton Asylum on May 3, 1922, sent to the Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Vinta, OK

Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane, Vinta, Oklahoma

Eliza reportedly died on November 1, 1924, in Craig County. Vinta and the Eastern Hospital for the Insane are in Craig County.

Her profile is part of the https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Canton_Asylum.

Research Notes:
-Eliza is NOT identified in the June 30, 1922 female census at the Canton Asylum, which confirms her transfer date to Vinta being before that date.
-Cherokee (by Blood), Card 683
Name Age Sex BloodQuantum Roll No. Enrollment/Card Group Note Card No.
William H. Davis 64 M 1/4 1931 Cherokeeby Blood Card 683
Eliza Davis .............54 F 1/2 1932 Cherokeeby Blood Card 683
-1939.ELIZA LOWREY (ANDERSON PIERCE7, LUCY6BENGE, WURTEH5WATTS) was born 1846 in CNW, and died Aft. 1906.She married WILLIAM HENRY DAVIS, SR 1870, son of WILLIAM DAVIS and MARY BURNS.He was born April 08, 1838 in Flint Dist, CNW, and died Aft. 1906.
More About ELIZA LOWREY:
1851 Drennan roll: Tahlequah, 536
1880 Census [CN]: Flint, 439 as E L D Davis
1890 Census [CN]: Tahlequah, 3818 as Eliza L Davis
1902-07 Dawes roll: card# 683, roll# 1932 as Eliza Davis
1906-09 Miller roll: Stilwell, OK, ap# 9650, roll# 9443 as Eliza L Davis
Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Gi-gu-i)
Source: Hicks, James. “James-R-Hicks-va - User Trees - Genealogy.com.” Genealogy.com, 2024, www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021-0464.html. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
-111271 Daniel Webster Lowrey.
2 Henry Lowrey. Mary Parris and Evaline Evans nee Russell.
3 Lucy Ann Lowrey. Charles Hicks Campbell.
4 Dollie Eunice Lowrey. James Fields, * Thomas Starr and Charles Galloway. *
5 George Lowrey. *
6 Susan Lowrey. Richard Robertson and Jefferson Carter.
7 Eliza Lowrey. William Henry Davis.
9 James Monroe Lowrey. Susie Vickery.
10 Andrew Lowrey. Dora Pinckney nee Bruton.
Source: Starr, Emmett. “Full Text of “History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore.”” Rootsweb.com, 2024, sites.rootsweb.com/~oktttp/cherokee/history/chapter16.htm. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
-Dates for birth and death of Eliza's siblings are based on her recollection as stated in her 1907 Eastern Cherokee application #9650 dated January 7, 1907.

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Sources:

1900 Dec 1 - Dawes Enrollment Jacket for Cherokee, Cherokee by Blood, Card #5900, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian AffairsSeries: Applications for Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes,


(Curator Note: shown as the mother of Mary L. Davis and spouse of William H. Davis, father of Mary)

1907 Mar 4 - Microcopy No. T-529
FINAL ROLLS OF CITIZENS AND FREEDMEN OF THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES IN INDIAN TERRITORY, (As approved by the Secretary of the Interior on or before March 4, 1907, with supplements dated September 25, 1914), Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the InteriorSeries: Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, pg. 241/911, line 14129, Davis, Mary L., 27, F, 1/2 blood, 5900 (Census Card No)

1910 Jul 2 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll015unit/page/n502/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 503/519 (page damaged), line 37 (age 61 married), female census of the Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1910 Aug 12 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=675/1115, line 88, Table 7 Form of mental disease of those admitted since opening of Asylum

1910 Aug 12 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=677/1115, line 38, Table 8 Form of mental disease of those in Asylum, June 30, 1910, revised

1911 Jul 3 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll015unit/page/n503/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 504/519 (page damaged), line xx (age 62, married), female census of the Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1917 Oct 1 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=776/1115, line 51 (age 68), enrollment list for the Asylum for Insane Indians School

1918 Feb 7 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=879/1115, line 44 (age 68), attendance for the Asylum for Insane Indians School

1918 Jun 30 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=887/1115, line 6, female census of the Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1920 Jun 30 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=899/1115, line 7, female census of the Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1921 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll015unit/page/n506/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 507/519, line 9, female census of the Canton Asylum, Lincoln County, South Dakota