Robert E. Lee Carey
© Grove Sun
July 8, 1910, page 5
Submitted by: Peggy Shuping
I have added information on Lee from my own records which comes from roll applicates and Dawes Roll cards.
Died, Wednesday June 29, 1910, Lee Carey, age 41 years old. The deceased received injuries in the Grand River Bridge fall, in the year of 1905, from which he never recovered. He leaves a wife, seven children, a father and several brothers to mourn his demise.
note: Grand River Bridge callapsed Sep. 1904 according to a copy of a news clipping I have from the "Fairland Newsboy" Fairland, Cherokee Nation, I. T., Friday, Sept. 30, 1904.
ROBERT E. LEE CAREY: born: 9 July 1869; place: Carey's Ferry, Cherokee Nation West, now Grove, Delaware, OK.
married:
place:
died: 29 Jan. 1910 at age 40; place: Grove, Deleware, OK
spouse: Sarah Anne Miller
father: Edmond Duncan Carey
mother: Lucy Pigeon (Unknown where Lucy is buried)
buried: Buzzard Cemetery**
place: Grove, Deleware, Okahoma
Dawes roll: card# 64, roll# 210
blood: 1/2 Cherokee
Census: 1896 Census of Deleware District, Cherokee Nation #623
Guion Miller roll # 2727
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