Managers of Na-ye-hi Hicks,
I am contacting you about this profile: Na-ye-hi Hicks
Sincerely,
Darlene D. Miller
Hello, I am a descendant of Nanyehi,
I figured out this woman on this page was never a Conrad. It was a genealogy mistake but I can see how it happened. It was because there was confusion on a nephew of Charles Hicks named Hamilton Gunrod Conrad. He actually was not a nephew but the brother-in-law on Charles R. Hicks' have-niece name Jenny (Walker) that married Charles Fox-Taylor a half-brother to Hamilton Gunrod Conrad. That was how it was confused. Hamilton Gunrod Conrad and his half-brother Charles Fox-Taylor were the sons of Jenny Taylor that was living at the Brainerd Mission at Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was a Caucasian woman. Also, to help add to this that Hamiliton Gunrod Conrad's son (Hair Conrad) shows on the 1835 census that he was only 1/2 Indian. So, that makes his father (Hamilton Gunrod Conrad) full Caucasian, and his mother was Onai that was full Cherokee.
Jenny (Walker) was the granddaughter of Nanyehi through her daughter Caty Kingfisher. Also, Charles Renatus Hicks' mother was known as Nanyehi and it was noted that on September 21-26, 1776, in a journal by Captain Francis Ross on the Williamson Expedition Against the Cherokees that the following were held prisoners for that week: "Nathan Hicks, Nanyehi, Peg, son Charles Hicks, Walter Scott, wife Sarah and two children." This was quoted in Isenbarger, Dennis L. ed. Native Americans in Early North Carolina. Office of Archives and History, North Caolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, N.C. 2013. p. 244. Peg was Margaret Peggy (Scott)/Vann. Sarah was Sarah Gosaduisga Hicks. Charles was Charles Renatus Hicks. He was the uncle of "Peg." In the Spring Place Moravian Missionary diaries on 5 July 1807, The "Chicou Nhela" meaning "Ghi-co-u Nanyehi" came to see Margaret Peggy (Scott) Vann in Spring Place. She said Peggy was her "relative."
So Nanyehi (Nancy Ward) is the same person. She was the mother of more than three children. She was mother of at least five children more that equal eight. I am thinking that Hiskyteehee Fivekiller is not her real son. The reason is that there was an "Iskittihee or Fivekiller" that was enrolled in the Spring Place Missionary School in 1805. He was living in Rabbit Trap on the Coosawattee River. It was near Spring Place. They said his step-father was "The Mouse. The mother was not named. The was another child under the Mouse father with the name of Young Wolf and his name changed to Gardiner Greene.
As far as any Nanyehi Conrad, there was never one. It was an error in genealogy.
Na-ye-hi Hicks (Conrad)
