Mellum Harris

Mellum was a Modoc woman

The Klamath Tribes consisted of three Native American tribes who traditionally inhabited Southern Oregon and Northern California in the United States: the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians.

Biography:

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

Research Notes:
-In the 1912 census, I'm surmising, still, the Indian Agency likely gave Melllum the title "Head" because she was living alone at Canton, and no longer living with the family.
-Mellum is NOT in the 1913 census
-Mellum (as Aunt Betsy Harris) began living with her nephew William Crawford and his family in 1901. It was from there in 1911 that she was committed to the Canton Asylum
-The Crawfords lived in the Agency district, the Yainax District did not seem to contain any Crawfords or Harris's. Before June 20, 1900, I found NO one named Mellum at all or Betsy Harris of the required age in the Klamath Agency census.

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Sources:

1885 Jun 30

1900 Jun 20 - "United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K28-K3MD : Sun Mar 10 08:24:45 UTC 2024), Entry for Mellum Harris and Orville Elliott, 20 Jun 1900, pg. 828/1104, Section 7, Township 34, Range 7.5
Willamette Meridian, 160 acres, Orville Elliott purchaser

1901 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n517/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 518/663, line 124 (age 46, Aunt Bitsy Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1902 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n551/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 552/663, line 126 (age 47, Aunt Betsy Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1903 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n569/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 570/663, line 130 (age 48, Aunt Betsy Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1904 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n590/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 591663, line 132 (age 49, Aunt Betsy Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1905 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n609/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 610663, line 128 (age 50, Aunt Betsy Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1906 Jun 30 -“Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll224unit/page/n631/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 632663, line 130 (age 51, Aunt Betsy Harris), census of the Klamaths, Modocs, Paiutes, and Pitt Rivera Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1907 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPR1-5GGM : Sat Mar 09 14:02:21 UTC 2024), Entry for Mellum Harris, 1907, pg. 12/663, line 138 (age 52, Aunt), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and the Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1908 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll225unit/page/n42/mode/1.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 43/660, line 140 (age 53 as Mellum Harris), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and the Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1909 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPR1-P2HY : Sun Mar 10 18:55:13 UTC 2024), Entry for Mellum Harris, 1909, pg. 76/663, line 139 (age 54 as Mellum Harris), census of the Klamath Indian Reservation, Klamath, Oregon

1910 May 17 - "United States, Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLBW-7TB : Sat Mar 09 05:14:25 UTC 2024), Entry for White Cinda and Mellum Harris, 1910, pg. 241/1278, line 31 (age 54, widow), census of the Klamath Indian Reservation, Klamath, Oregon

1910 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll225unit/page/n105/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 106/660, line 144 (age 55 as Mellum Harris, Aunt), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and the Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1911 Jun 28 - “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, line xxx (age 70!, census of the Canton Asylum

1911 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll225unit/page/n146/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 147/660, line 130 (age 56 as Mellum Harris, Aunt), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and the Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1912 Jun 30 - “Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940 [Microform].” Internet Archive, Washington : National Archives and Records Service, 1965, https://archive.org/details/indiancensusroll225unit/page/n192/mode/.... Accessed 29 Feb. 2024, pg. 193/660, line 144 (age 57 as Mellum Harris, Head), census of the Klamath, Modoc, and the Yahooskin band of Snake Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon

1912 Aug 31 - The Evening Herald, Aug 31 1912 • Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States

(Curator Note: states her age as 71, which aligns with the Cansum census, but she is 13 years older than the age sequence from the census reports from the Klamath Agency. States date of death as August 23, 1912. And, why would a paper in Georgia be reporting on a death in South Dakota and shipment of a body to Oregon?)