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Walter Washington “Black Watt” Adair

Birth
Bartow County, Georgia, USA
Death
20 Jan 1835 (aged 51)
Adairsville, Bartow County, Georgia, USA
Burial
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s/o John J. & Nancy Ga-Ho-Ga Lightfoot Adair, she was Cherokee of the Deer Clan.

h/o Rachel Thompson Adair, 1786-1876.

John Adair married Ga-hoga, a full blood Cherokee Indian woman of the Deer clan and his son, Walter Adair, known as Black Watt, was born on December 11, 1783 and became an active character among the Cherokees. Walter Adair married Rachel Thompson, a white woman, on May 13, 1804 and died in Georgia on January 20, 1835. Rachel Thompson was born in Georgia on December 24, 1786 and died near what is today Stilwell, Oklahoma, on April 22, 1876. Nancy Adair, a daughter of Walter and Rachel Adair was born in Georgia on October 7, 1808, married Samuel Mayes on January 22, 1824 and died in what is today Mayes County, Oklahoma on May 28, 1876 and is buried in the old family cemetery on the Wiley Mayes place some seven miles east of Pryor, Oklahoma.*

*From the Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 15, Number 1.
s/o John J. & Nancy Ga-Ho-Ga Lightfoot Adair, she was Cherokee of the Deer Clan.

h/o Rachel Thompson Adair, 1786-1876.

John Adair married Ga-hoga, a full blood Cherokee Indian woman of the Deer clan and his son, Walter Adair, known as Black Watt, was born on December 11, 1783 and became an active character among the Cherokees. Walter Adair married Rachel Thompson, a white woman, on May 13, 1804 and died in Georgia on January 20, 1835. Rachel Thompson was born in Georgia on December 24, 1786 and died near what is today Stilwell, Oklahoma, on April 22, 1876. Nancy Adair, a daughter of Walter and Rachel Adair was born in Georgia on October 7, 1808, married Samuel Mayes on January 22, 1824 and died in what is today Mayes County, Oklahoma on May 28, 1876 and is buried in the old family cemetery on the Wiley Mayes place some seven miles east of Pryor, Oklahoma.*

*From the Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. 15, Number 1.


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