Onai Conrad

Onai was a Cherokee woman

Biography

Next to nothing is known about the woman Emmet Starr called "Onai." She appears in Starr’s History of the Cherokee Indians listed as the wife of a man named "Hamilton Conrad." [1] Starr may have missed a generation, combining a white trader with his Cherokee son. Onai was most likely the wife of Gunrod Conrad, but she apparently had died before the Moravians arrived so there is no actual record mentioning her by name.

The Moravian journals, information that Starr did not have access to, recorded a half-German Cherokee named Gunrod (assumed by them to be a corruption of Conrad), son of a well-to-do Indian trader who was killed by Indians in a war when Gunrod was three or four. In a March, 1810 entry they record that Gunrod had four sons, one of whom was named Youngwolf. [2]

Sources

1. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 426.
2. ↑ Crews and Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee National Press, 2011. Vol. 4, pp. 1375-76.

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Onai-1
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Conrad.
11 Onai. Hamilton Conrad.
1112 Rattling-gourd Conrad. Mary Toney.
2 Hair Conrad. Ollie Candy and Melvina McGee.
3 Youngwolf Conrad. Jennie Taylor.
4 Quatie Conrad. Alexander Brown, Archibald Fields and John Benge.

Source: Starr, Emmett. “History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore.” Warden Company, 1922.
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Research Notes:

1851 Drennen roll of the Cherokee Indians pg 96