Samuel Parker Bunch

Eastern Cherokee Application
1907

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State of Kansas, County of Meade, ss.
Bill of Exceptions filed by Samuel P. Bunch, Claim No. 44416.

Now on this 26 th. day of August A.D. 1909, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public
within and for the County and State aforesaid, Samuel P. Bunch, whose Post Office address is
Meade, Meade County, Kansas, who being by me first duly sworn upon his oath deposes and says:
That I have been taught from my earliest childhood, that I was Cherokee by blood, and that as such
Cherokee I applied for my part of the Eastern Cherokee fund, and was rejected on May 28th, 1909,
by G. Miller, Special Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and I am filing this Bill of Exceptions to said
Ruling of said Special Commissioner and ask for re-instatement. I further declare upon oath that my
Father's name was John Carr Bunch, who was born in Virginia in 1808, and was living in 1835 and 1851.
I further depose and say that I was born in the State of Missouri in the year 1850; and that I have no
issue living, or had none on the 28th day of May 1909.
Samuel P. Bunch
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of August A.D. 1909.
Notary Public
Comm. expires Aug. 12, 1911.

Submitted by John Corbin

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