Sal-lie ‘Sarah’ Smith

Not the daughter of TahChee "The Long Warrior" Dutch who was born after she was.

Were her parents Oganstota & Unknown?

from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-105:

Oganstota was a Cherokee man probably born about 1750. HIs wife, whose name is unknown, was from the Deer Clan. They were the parents of The Ridge, and David Oo-wa-ti. [2] The Moravian missionaries also mentioned a daughter, but not by name. [3] According to memories of The Ridge, the family was displaced in 1776 during the Revolutionary War when American militia under Rutherford destroyed the Cherokee towns near Hiwassie [4] and moved to the Sequatchie valley farther down the Tennessee River. The family made a final move to Pine Log (now Georgia) about 1785. Oganstota and his wife are believed to have died there about about 1789. [5]

Biography

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235630924/sarah-blair

Work in Progress

Sarah Sa-Lie Watie was born 1774 in an Indian Village located on the Coosawattee River in Gilmer County, Georgia. She died at the same place on 19 May 1851. Her parents are [Oganatota "Dutch" "Long Warrior" "Da-Tsi" "Tally" Tah-Chee and Susannah "Deer Clan" Catherine Wickett.] [No]

Sarah was a full-Blood Cherokee Indian.

Sarah was married to Col. James Hays Blair in about 1791. They have three known Children: George, Jennie, Margaret. Col. Blair was also married to another woman at the same time as he was married to Sarah and her name was Mary Elizabeth Powell. The two woman had children born from this man in the same time frame.

The place were Sarah was born and died is a famous place where several known Cherokee families lived. We can see where she is intermingled with these families. Her daughter Margaret was married to William Richard Henson and his parents were Joseph Henson and Rebecca Scruggs. Rebecca Scruggs goes back to the Walkingstick family that lived in Mountain Town, Gilmer Georgia. Sarah's granddaughter, Catherine Blair married Jesse McCuen and their son George McCuen married Akie Jane Walkingstick. George and Akie are buried in the Blair Cemetery.

Sarah Watie Blair's siblings are also well known Cherokees: Major John Ridge , David O'Watie and Chief Nettle Carrier.

Although the records show she was born and died in Gilmer County, Georgia, her daughter Jennie Blair married George Sweetwater died on the Trail of Tears. , we do not know if Sarah was involved in the Trail of Tears. We do know that William Richard Henson went west with the 500 Cherokees in 1832-1834 to Arkansas. His grandparents are William Joseph Henson and Anne Rosse.

James Barget Henson married Susan Tally and went to Arkansas at the same time as William Richard Henson and James great-grandparens are the same. Elizabeth Susan Tally(Talley)'s grandmother was Nancy Silvers Walkingstick and she belongs to the same Walkingstick family as above.
The reason that Sarah's father, Oganatota carries the name Tally in his name is not known.

By Virginia Perigo Tillery

Sarah/Salie (seen as d/o Yonaguska of Georgia,) was first married to James Hayes Blair and four children were born. They married and removed west. Guion Miller Applications 1906-1910.

• Not the daughter of Oowatie (Oo-Watie) ‘David’ Watie
• Probably not the same as Sally Go-le-tse-hi Yonaguska who married Flying Squirrel - she’s a generation younger.
• Sarah (who married Jim Blair) was the same as Sarah Smith, wife of John Choo-stoo-lee Smith Smyth 1790–1869 BIRTH 17 DEC 1790 • Madison County, Virginia, USA DEATH 11 APR 1869 • Cherokee County, North Carolina.

Blair children

• George Oo-di-qua-no-si Blair (1789-1887),
• Margaret "Peggy" Blair (Henson),
• Jennie Blair (Sweetwater).

Smith children

• Samuel, moved to Alabama
• William, moved to middle Georgia
• Ester/Easter, married William McLeymore
• Sarah Lu-See, married a Timpson
• Henry / Harry, married Charlotte Hawkins

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http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/topics.ethnic.natam.nations.cherokee.c...

This link has an interesting and romantic story about Sarah and John Smith which says her father was Yonaguska.

Sarladih (Sarah) born sometime around 1770 in South Carolina. Migrated to Georgia, then North Carolina. She married 1)James Blair, and 2) John Smith. There is evidence that she is either the mother or sister of Yonaguska (Drowning Bear), or that Yonaguska was her father as the Smith story says.

Margaret Henson and her family and her mother and stepfather didn't have to go on the Trail of Tears as did her brother and sister. There was a clause in on of the treaties that allowed a Cherokee to claim a "reservation" of 640 acres and become a citizen of the U.S. Margaret and Richard Henson and Sara and John Smith had reservations as did Yonaguska. Don't know if that's why they remained in NC but it is known that Yonaguska made some kind of deal with the government in order to stay. Yonaguska's band became the Eastern Band of Cherokees some time after that.

http://cherokeeregistry.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic...

This is a list of all the Rolls. The Chapman Roll has Sarah Blair and John Smith, William and Margaret Henson, Rebecca Staritt, and their relatives. They are also on most of the other rolls.

The Mullay Roll of 1848 notes that Sarah's husband James Blair has died and that she is married to John Smith.

Sarah Blair Smith and her husband didn't go on the Trail of Tears.

Notes

Charles William Blair Commented, June 2021, in discussion https://www.geni.com/discussions/233003?msg=1481413

I have found that my 4X great-grandfather, James Hayes Blair had at least one son and three daughters with a Cherokee girl named Sa-Li, daughter of Yonaguska, starting when he was age 27 and she was 14. The children were George Oo-di-qua-no-si Blair (1789-1887), Margaret "Peggy" Blair (Henson), Sarah Lu-See Blair (Timpson) and Jennie Blair (Sweetwater). George, his first wife Sarah Blythe and his sister Jennie relocated to Oklahoma as a part of the Richard Taylor Detachment in Sept. 1838. George's first wife, Sarah, his sister Jennie, her husband and four children all died on the Trail and are allegedly buried together just outside Nashville. I know that Sally Go-le-tse-hi was not relocated because of arrangements her father made with the U.S. government to stay in the East around Oconaluftee icw the 1817 and 1819 Treaties. However, George Oo-di-qua-no-si, Jennie, and other family members are listed on the Taylor Detachment roll. Upon arrival in Oklahoma, George remarried, had more children and purchased the cabin home of Sequoyah, which is now on the National Register. I've gotten some of this information from talking with Cherokee "cousins" in Oklahoma, results of Ancestry, 23&Me, and FTDNA DNA tests, and researched the rest. Might anyone have more information on Sa-Li that could verify or debunk what I've found, and might Sa-Li be the person about whom I'm talking? Any help and information would be most appreciated.

References

• The 1848 Mullay Roll shows Sarah, age 72, a full-blood with a granddaughter, age 10, Louisa Smith. They are living next door to Stacey Blythe, identified as the daughter of James Blythe. Sally is noted as dying in 1853. The Siler Roll lists John (white) age 69, Sarah his wife age 80, and Esther their daughter age 36. John, Sarah, and Esther are all also on the Chapman.
• Sarah Smith on the 1851 Chapman Roll. AncestryImage John Smith (age 69); Sarah Smith (age 80) (wife); Easther Smith (36) (daughter)
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6650414/george-blair
• The Drennan Roll lists George Blair, his wife Nancy, and ten children living in the Flint District. Their son Thomas' on his Eastern application (#1050) said he did not know who his father's father was, only that he was white. He listed his father's mother as "Sarah or Sallie Smith." His sister Betty (Quatie on the Drennan) listed her father's parents as "Jim and Sarah Blair." She listed some siblings as half-siblings so Sarah Blythe may well be the wife on the 1835 census and her sister Nancy the second wife. Most of the Blair children died before the Dawes so we don't know exactly which ones go with which mother.
• Eastern Cherokee app for Elizabeth Smith showing Lucy Timpson AncestryImage
• “ Chief Nimrod Smith” Posted: 29 Aug 2000
• http://alicepreston.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=alicepresto...
• Chapman Cherokee Roll # 1357
• https://www.paulridenour.com/mrcomplt.htm