Alice Lone Bear

[phil]

Hi,

I'm trying to find more about Alice Lone Bear, who was photographed at the Omaha Exposition by F.A. Rinehart.

There's an Alice Lone Bear listed on the Indian censuses for Pine Ridge who later became the wife of Dewey Beard, Little Bighorn survivor.

But I'm not sure if the two women were one and the same--or if there were two different Alices who went by that name.

Does anyone have any ideas on this one?

Thanks!

Phil

[Dietmar]

Welcome Phil,

this is the Rinehart portrait of Alice Lone Bear:

[phil]

Thanks for posting this, Dietmar.

It's a great photo!

Any lead that anyone might have on Alice is welcome......

[ladonna]

Bad Face b. 1810

Children
Women's Dress b. 1835
Oliver Lone Bear-Mato Isnala b. 1849

Oliver Lone Bear
1st Spouse Lizzie Walk in Night
Children
Daughter: Alice Lone Bear
Son: Samuel Lone Bear
Son: Dell Lone Bear

2nd Spouse:
Alice Plenty Brothers b. 1849
Children
Daughter: Susan Lone bear
Son: Benjamin Lone Bear
Daughter: Najinyapi-twin
Son: Najin Heyapi-twin
Daughter: Juilia Lone Bear
Daughter: Susie Lone Bear
Son: Abraham Lone Bear
Son: Depend on
Son: Henry Lone Bear
Son: Big Hair



Alice Lone Bear b. 1868
1st Spouse: Holy Eagle
Children
Daughter: Katie Holy Eagle
Son: Jesse Holy Eagle
Son: James Holy Eagle
2nd spouse Nicholas Garcia

[phil]

Thank you, Ladonna, for the details on Alice. I've been on the road and wasn't able to respond until now.

Do you use the Indian censuses for your genealogies? Do you have other sources?

I'm hoping to improve my stock of sources for future work.

[ladonna]

I use the census, and other documents that are available here at the tribal office

[gwilym]

The problem is that Oliver Lone Bear died in 1918 while another Lone Bear, husband of Lizzie and father of Sallie, Samuel and Alice, died in 1914. Sallie accepted the headstone from the US Army for her father in 1933. Sallie later married Thomas Stabber and in 1940 Samuel Lone (or One) Bear was lodging with them. Samuel the son of Oliver Lone Bear died in 1937. There were two Lone Bear family, though one sometimes went under the name of One Bear. I have found the will of Lone Bear (no mention of the name Oliver) and it records three children and a widow - Fannie. Seemingly Lizzie Walks At Night died before 1910 and Lone Bear (or One Bear) remarried to a Fannie. The children were Sallie Stabber, Samuel Lone Bear/One Bear and Alice Beard, she was the wife of the famous Dewey Beard.

There is definite some confusion going on here. Also several books have claimed that Samuel, brother of Sallie and Alice, was a criminal. This is not so since when the criminal Samuel Lone Bear was serving time at McNeil Island, Samuel the showman was in Europe and can be tracked. The criminal Sam was released for good behaviour in 26 May 1935, meanwhile Sam the showman had signed up a circus in Europe on 16 April 1935 and was on board ship sailing out on 8 May 1935.