De-Go-S-Ka Hair Conrad

De-Go-S-Ka ‘Hair’ was a Cherokee man

Biography

Hair Conrad was born about 1796 in the Cherokee Nation, the son of two Cherokees, Gunrod and a woman named Onai or Ali. He was the only one of his siblings to use the name "Conrad" as a surname. He married Katie North and Ollie Candy, a great-granddaughter of Nancy Ward. [1] Hair was also the father of a daughter named Eliza. Emmet Starr lists her mother as Melvina McGee, but the Dawes application for Eliza lists her mother as Peggy Deer-in-the-water. [2] Hair Conrad and his family appear on the 1835 Cherokee Census living on Candy’s Creek in what is now Tennessee. [3] The family home there is still standing and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4]

Hair Conrad Cabin, Blythewood Farm off of Harrison Pike
Added to the registry in 1976, in the early 1800's the area was inhabited primarily by Cherokees, among them Tekahskeh, or Hair Conrad as he came to be known. Conrad, a man of means and leader of the first detachment of Cherokees from Rattlesnake Springs on the infamous Trail of Tears, built hiscabin in the architectural style of white settlers during the early 1800's. The cabin, the oldest residential structurein Bradley County is preserved on the 350 Blythewood Farm.

Hair was a prominent Cherokee citizen, a signer of the Constitution of 1827, a mediator between the U.S. Government and the Seminole Nation in 1837, [5] and a signer of the Constitution of 1839. [6] He was the conductor of the first Cherokee-led detachment over the Trail of Tears which left in August, 1838 and arrived in January, 1839. The detachment totalled about 730 Cherokee and followed what is called the "Northern Route." Hair became ill during the journey and turned over leadership to his assistant, Daniel Colston . [7] The family settled in Tahlequah District once they reached Indian Territory. Hair died there on November 2, 1844 and is buried at the Tahlequah City Cemetery. [8]

Hair and Katie North were the parents of James, Elizabeth, and Ollie.

Hair and Ollie Candy were the parents of seven children, Elizabeth, Jefferson, Susie, Diana, Nancy, and Mary Hair and John Hair Conrad.

Hair and Peggy/Melvina were the parents of Eliza.

Research Notes

Emmet Starr incorrectly listed Hair as the son of a white man, Hamilton Conrad, and a Cherokee woman. Records of the Moravian missionaries make it clear that Starr missed a generation and that Hair was the grandson of a white man named Johannes Conrad and his Cherokee wife. [9]

Melvina "Nellie" Hair was the half-sister of Quatie Thornton based on the Eastern apps of James Hair and Wallace Thornton. James and Nellie had just married when the Trail of Tears took place, she was only about sixteen or seventeen years old. It makes sense that the couple would have taken in her younger siblings, Wade and Lucinda would have been 13 or 14, Arch maybe 8 or 9 (1880 census says he is 50)

Sources

1. ↑ Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005 p. 114
2. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. pp. 426-427 and Dawes Application #7236, Jackson Blythe. This application was completed by her son, Jackson, and he may have been confused by the fact that Eliza’s first husband was named Deer-in-the-water.
3. ↑ Tyner, James. Those Who Cried. Transcript of 1835 Cherokee census. Chi-ga-u, Inc. Norman, OK. 1974. p. 171
4. ↑ http://trailofthetrail.blogspot.com/2010/09/hair-conrad-cabin.html
5. ↑ Letter of Principal Chief John Ross to John H. Sherburne, 5 September, 1837. Collection of the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK. Item GM4026.467
6. ↑ Starr, History, pages 63 and 130
7. ↑ Starr, History, p. 103
8.↑ Hampton, Mixed-Bloods, p. 114
9. ↑ Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. Vol. 3, pp. 1376-76

Source:
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HAIR DE-GO-S-KA CONRAD (GUNROD5, JENNIE4ANI'-WA'YA, OCONOSTOTA3, MOYTOY2, A-MA-DO-YA1) was born Abt. 1794, and died November 02, 1844 in CNW.
He married (1) AELIE CRITTENDEN, daughter of JAMES CRITTENDEN and SARAH GO-DA-GE-WI. She was born Abt. 1818, and died 1884.
He married (2) CATHERINE NORTH Abt. 1808. She was born Abt. 1794.
He married (3) OLLIE CANDY Abt. 1812, daughter of SAMUEL CANDY and ELIZABETH WEST. She was born Abt. 1794, and died Abt. 1851.
He married (4) MELVINA MCGHEE Bef. 1843. She was born Abt. 1798.

• 1835 Census roll: Candy's Creek, TN, 1m18-, 2m18+, 3f16-, 2f16+
• Blood: 1/2 Cherokee
• Clan: Ani'-Tsi'skwa = Bird Clan (Onai)
• Detachment: October 05, 1838, 38-01 Daniel Colston/J Nevins; as Conductor (became ill, replaced by Colston)
• Starr's Notes: C806

More About AELIE CRITTENDEN:

• 1835 Census roll: Candy's Creek, McMinn Co, TN?

More About OLLIE CANDY:

• 1851 Drennan roll: Going Snake, 161 as Ah-ley Hair

Children of HAIR CONRAD and CATHERINE NORTH are:
488. i. JAMES DA-LA-SI-NI7 HAIR, SR, b. Abt. 1808, Tennessee; d. December 01, 1863.
489. ii. OLLIE HAIR, b. Abt. 1810.

	iii.	 	JOSEPH HAIR, b. Abt. 1814.

• Detachment: October 16, 1838, 38-03 Bushyhead-RomanNose; Express Rider

490. iv. ELIZABETH HAIR, b. Abt. 1818.

Children of HAIR CONRAD and OLLIE CANDY are:
491. v. JEFFERSON7 HAIR, b. Abt. 1812; d. Abt. 1858.
492. vi. ELIZABETH HAIR, b. 1814.
493. vii. DIANA HAIR, b. 1819; d. March 26, 1860.
494. viii. SUSIE HAIR, b. Abt. 1822; d. Abt. 1858.
495. ix. JOHN HAIR, b. 1825; d. July 27, 1885.

	x.	 	JACKSON CONRAD, b. Abt. 1828.

• 1869 Census [CN]: Tahlequah, 346 with 1 woman, 3 boys & 1 girl
• Detachment: October 05, 1838, 38-01 Daniel Colston/J Nevins; Wagonmaster

	xi.	 	NANNIE HAIR, b. Abt. 1830.

496. xii. MARY HAIR, b. Abt. 1832; d. Abt. 1862.

Child of HAIR CONRAD and MELVINA MCGHEE is:
497. xiii. ELIZA7 HAIR, b. 1843; d. July 31, 1904.

Source: Hicks, James R. “Cherokee Lineages: Register Report of Amatoya Moytoy” Genealogy.com, Sites.Rootsweb.com,, https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/i/c/James-R-Hicks-VA/BOOK-0001/0021...

Research notes to check further…

War of 1812 - Conrad served as a private and corporal in Colonel Gideon Morgan, Jr.’s Regiment of Cherokee Indians with between 400 and 700 other Cherokee.

Captain in the Creek War of 1813-1814
1814 Old Cherokee Nation East

Marriage: Spouse: Katie North
Circa 1805, Bradley, Tennessee, United States

Residence: 1804 Rattlesnake Springs, Bradley, Tennessee, Old Cherokee Nation East, United States

1835 Candy's Creek, Tennessee, Old Cherokee Nation East, United States
Residence: Cherokee Census records Hair Conrad as living on Candy’s Creek, with 8 Cherokees (listed as “half-breeds”) in the family and 7 slaves. He had 12 houses at that time, with 65 acres in cultivation. Five of the family members could read and write in the Cherokee language, but none could read English, according to the Census. Nearby neighbors included Tallasah, Black Fox, Samuel Foreman, and members of the Candy family.

Siblings:
Rattlinggourd Turtle Conrad
Youngwolf Conrad
Quatsis or Quatie Elizabeth Conrad
Terrapinhead

Children:
James Hair
Elizabeth Hopkins (born Hair)
Jefferson Hair
Diana Robertson (born Hair)
Susie Rattling-gourd (born Hair)
John Hair Conrad
Nancy Hair
Mary Hair

Hair Conrad "TEKAHSKEH"

• Birth: 1794 in Cherokee Nation East
• Death: 02 Nov 1844 in Tahlequah, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States
• Father: Gunrod Conrad
• Mother: Onai / A-Li

Biography

Te-kah-skeh Old Language before Sequoyah

The son of a Scotch-German immigrant Gunrod Hamilton Conrad and a full-blooded Cherokee woman Onai, Conrad married and had three children with Kathy North and they separated, he married Ollie Candy,the daughter of the famous Cherokee Samuel Candy and a granddaughter of Nancy Ward.Hair Conrad was an important leader among the Cherokee tribes.Hair Conrad lived in eastern Tennessee before 1838 in Bradley County,Tennessee in a one room small log cabin that is now preserved as an Historical Trail of Tears site in Cleveland,Tennessee.The Conrads established a school for Cherokee children in Tennessee and worked on writing the Cherokee Constitution in 1827.Hair Conrad served in Washington, D.C., prior to 1836 as a delegate for the Eastern Cherokee Nation.The Conrads helped lead other Cherokees west on the "Trail of Tears" with Chief John Ross to Oklahoma and Hair Conrad died shortly after arriving to his new home.Hair Conrad was one-half Cherokee. He was a captain in war of 1814; a member of the Constitutional Convention of the Cherokees in 1827; a captain of the first detachment of Cherokee immigrants leaving the old nation in 1838; was elected to National Council from Tahlequah District in 1843; died November 2,1844. He married Melvina McGhee and their son was James. As was the custom of many Cherokees, the son took the first name of his father and James became James Hair, instead of James Conrad. James Hair became the father of Nicholas Hair, who married Lucinda Robertson and they were the parents of Alice Hair.Record in private papers of Mary Sunday Morgan.

Trail of Tears list:

• Hair Conrad (Quatie's brother led detachment #1), 8/28/1838 to 1/17/1839
• John Benge (Quatie's third husband, #4) 9/28/1838 to 1/11/1839
• James Brown (Quatie's first husband, #9) 9/10/1838 to 3/5/1839 [SIC: not Quatie's husband]
• Other leaders included Elijah Hicks #2 and George Hicks #10 (Hicks Friends of this family)

Family

Hair Conrad,b.c 1794;d.Nov.02,1844 in Cherokee Nat., I.T.,OK.

m/#1.Ollie Candy,dau. of Samuel Candy and Elizabeth West. She was b. c 1794;d.c.1851 Samuel Candy attended Brainerd Mission school Chickamauga,TN Ollie Candy:1851 Drennan roll:Going Snake,161 as Ah-ley Hair

m/#2.Melvina McGee,b. c.1798 Hair Conrad--Blood:1/2 Cherokee (Bird Clan)

Children of Hair Conrad and Ollie:

• .....1.Elizabeth Hair,b. c 1814
• .....2.Jefferson Hair, b. c 1816
• .....3.Susie Hair, b. c. 1822
• .....4.John Hair, b. c 1824
• .....5. Diana Hair, b. c. 1826
• .....6. Nanny Hair, b. c 1830
• .....7. Mary Hair, b. c 1832

Children of Conrad Hair and Melvina:

• .....1.James Hair Sr ,b.c.1814
• .....2.Ollie Hair,b.c.1816
• .....3.Elizabeth Hair,b.c.1818

Child of Conrad Hair:

• .....1.Eliza Hair,b.c.1843

Children of Hair Conrad & Ollie Candy

• 1. Diana Hair
• 2. James Hair sr ( Found Grave )

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Father: Gunrod "Hamilton" Conrad Mother: Onai / A-li

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Hemmet served in the military in 1812 as a captin in the war 1812. Was elected as councilor Aug 7 1843 in Tahlequah District Cherokee Nation, IT (Now Cherokee OK). He commenced migration to the west over the Trail Of Tears between 1838/1839. Hair Conrad was a conductor of the first detachment of emigrants to leave the old Cherokee Nation for the West. He was 1/2 degree of Cherokee Indian blood. He was a member of the contitutional convention from Amohee District in 1827. He was one of the mediators between the US Goverment and the Seminoles in 1837. He was captain of a detachment of emigrant Cherokees in 1838 and 1839 was a signer of the Consitution September 6, 1839