Katie ‘Caty’ Conrad

Katie North was Cherokee woman.

Katie North, daughter of Martin North and Tookah, was a wife of Hair Conrad. She was born about 1780.

Hair and Katie North were the parents of James, Betsy, 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 were the parents of Eliza.

1835 Census of the Cherokee Nation, Hamilton, Tennessee

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This 1835 census was taken in order to have a correct record of all members of the Cherokee Nation , their land, skills, possessions prior to removing them from the east in Georgia, Tennesee, Alabama, North Carolina, etc. prior to the forced removal to the designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. Catherine "Katy" North was listed as one of those Cherokee members, listed as household, #52, near the city of Hamilton, Tennessee, near Chickamauga Creek. In the household were the following: one male under 18 years., 2 males over 18 years, 1 female under 16 years, 2 females over 16 years, for a total of 6 cherokees. She listed no slaves in the household. She listed one farm with the following crops raised this year; 120 bushels of corn and 10 bushels of that corn sold for ??. Two of the household could read in Cherokee. Three residents were half-breeds while three were full-blood. Three persons could weave and spin.

Verification of Katy North, where she lived, who lived in her household, household skills, farm, income.

Source: United States, Congress, Main, and Grant Foreman. Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi and Index to the Roll, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia Title Also Known As: Henderson Roll, Type Written Copy compiled by Grant Foreman ed., vol. 14, National Archives, 1835, pp. 46. Line #8 from the top Tennessee by Daniel Henderson, Esq. * The 1835 census is the only known census which lists the all or almost all of the members of the Cherokee Nation east of the Mississippi River before removal began.

• Entry on Pg. 9 of 270 typewritten document as Caty North in Chickamauga County

Six Cherokees, 3 full-blood, 3 half-blood, one intermarriage with whites. Two farmers were on their farm and the had 3 weavers and 3 spinsters.

Research Notes:
The census of 1835 shows Caty as head of household. If the unsubstantiated date of marriage of 1808 in Bradley County, TN is correct, and her husband Hair Conrad died in 1844, then she may have been divorced in the Cherokee fashion, Hair could be an ex-husband at an unknown date.