Andrew Bray Blair

Andrew was a half-blood Lakota Sioux (aka Sicangu Sioux) man

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Biography
Born in 1904 to a Negro father named Andrew Blair and a Sioux woman named Beulah White Woman, Andrew is shown in census reports as an orphan before 1917.

He was admitted to the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians on January 6, 1916, per Asylum for Insane Indians School attendance records, where he died on August 4, 1921.

Andrew was buried in the Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery tier 6 plot 37 per the L.L. Culp letter dated February 17, 1934, according to the LL Culp letter of February 17, 1934, the 90th person buried there.

His profile is part of the The Canton Asylum One Place Study.

Research Notes
-Was on the Canton census for 1917,1918, 1920 and 1921
-Was NOT on the Canton census for 1922 or 1923
-Father Andrew Blaire was a Negro from Tennessee and married a Sioux woman named Buelha.
-the 1900 census of Rosebud Reservation shows Beulah White Woman age 41 widowed as Head and mother of Rebecca b. 6/1890 and Mary b. 3/1898. Mary is shown as a step-sister to Andrew so Beulah married Andrew Blair as her 2nd marriage after 1900. White Woman died on 23 May 1922 in SD (b. 1870)
-White Woman b. 1870 was Oglala Sioux
-some census entries make Mary a step-sister. (without explanation)
-half-sister Rebecca is not seen in census reports after 1900, indicating that she may have died

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Sources

1910 -"United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPXT-215 : Tue Oct 03 20:13:05 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Blair and Beulah Blair, 1910, pg. 673/1005, line 26-30 >>>(Andrew Blaire 61 Head born Tennessee, Beulah Blair wife 49, George son 16, Mary stepdaughter 12, Andrew Jr.6 in 1910 which confirms b. 1904)<<<, Rosebud Reservation, Todd County, South Dakota

1910 Nov 26 - "United States Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K6Q-VD7Z : 16 June 2023), Andrew Bray Blair, 1927, pg. 28/252, (Andrew Bray Blair sells 160 acres of the Rosebud Indian Reservation to Ray L. and John E. Carson), United States Bureau of L...Tract Books, 1800-c. 1955 Dakota Territory Vol 204 (Andrew would have been 6, no one listed as guardian! however a George White Woman also sold 160 acres in an adjacent section on the same page!)

1911 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:76GT-38PZ : Fri Oct 06 13:33:23 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, 1911, pg. 13/488, line 153 (age 7, mother is White Woman Blair, sister Mary White Woman is 14), census of Rosebud Sioux Indians, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

1915 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:76G8-16PZ : Fri Oct 06 07:26:47 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, pg. 290/488, line 57-58 (Andrew b. 1904 and sister Mary White Woman b. 1897), census report of the Sioux Indians of the Rosebud Indian Agency

1917 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7PPP-69ZM : Fri Oct 06 18:19:26 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, 1917, pg. 230/459, line 59 (orphan b. 1904 living with Head of household George Blair b. 1893), census of Rosebud Agency, Rosebud, So. Dak.

1917 Sep 30 - Camp Verde School: 1910-27; Canton Insane Asylum: 1910-22, Series: Superintendents' Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408 @ https://catalog.archives.gov/id/155854182?objectPage=774

1918 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7K6N-2JT2 : Tue Oct 03 16:29:31 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, 1918, pg.8/733, line 57 (Orphan b. 1904), census of the Rosebud Agency, Mellette County, Rosebud, So. Dakota

1919 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7KX2-QVZM : Tue Oct 03 21:35:22 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, pg. 267/733, line 59 (orphan), census, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

1920 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPQH-PDQ3 : Tue Oct 03 08:53:01 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, pg. 507/733, line 64, census, Rosebud Agency, South Dakota

1920 - "United States Census, 1920", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6J7-FXL : Fri Dec 08 01:30:59 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew B Blair, 1920, pg. 651/1130, line 24 (age 15), census of the Asylum for Insane Indians, Canton township, Lincoln County, South Dakota

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:688C-J46N : Thu Oct 05 19:14:31 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, 1921, pg. 508/522, line 2, Canton Asylum Male census

1921 Jun 30 - "United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP3T-NGCX : Thu Oct 05 15:36:31 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Bray Blair, pg. 56/894, line 75 (Indians belonging in Agency district, but who live away from the reservation:), census Roll 1921 Rosebud Indian Agency, S. Dak.

1921 - "South Dakota, Grave Registration Records, 1940-1941", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CYRJ-SLMM : Fri Dec 15 04:33:48 UTC 2023), Entry for Andrew Blair (death date 4 Aug 1921)

1921 Aug 6 - Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14493703/a-b-blair: accessed 22 December 2023), memorial page for A B Blair (unknown–6 Aug 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 14493703, citing Hiawatha Asylum Cemetery, Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, USA; Maintained by Graveaddiction (contributor 46528400).

Hilton, M. (Ed.). (2023, July 10). Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians Historical Marker. Historical Marker. https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=183486 Photo by Ruth VanSteenwyk, July 10, 2023, courtesy of HMdb.org

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