Oklahoma
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Adairs of Scottish and Cherokee Indian Origin
Transcribed
to Electronic form by Jo White
Published in The Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly
Volume 9, Number 2, 1964
Compiled by Georgia Ora
(McCullogh) Brown (Mrs. Victor).
1. Robert Adair m Arabella Campbell; parents of
2. Niegello Adair who m _____; parents of
3. William Adair who m _____Vans; parents of
4. Alexander Adair who m Euphemia Stewart; parents of
5. Ninian (sic) Adair who m Katherine Agnew; parents of
6. William Adair who m Helen Kennedy; parents of
7. Niniam (sic) Adair who m Elizabeth Gordon; parents of
8. William Adair who married Miss _____Houston; parents of
9. Reverend John Adair (Presbyterian) who m Miss Cathcart; parents of
10. Reverend Patrick Adair (Presbyterian) who m Jean Adair (his first
cousin). Reverend Patrick Adair was b 1625, d late in 1694. His wife, Jean
(Adair) Adair d 1675. They were parents of
11. Alexander Adair who m _____; parents of
12. Thomas Adair b 1680, who m _____; parents of
13. James Adair b 1709 in Scotland. This James 13 Adair b 1709 became an
Indian trader and author and was in the Cherokee Nation as early as 1735. He
was an Indian agent under King George III. He married on 18 October 1744 Ann
Mccarty (sic) of Fairfield, Connecticut. He died in Robeson Co., N.C. between
1784-1790; his plantation manor was called Fairfields. They were parents of
14. John Adair b 1756 who went into the Indian country quite young and
married Gahoga Foster in 1779 in Georgia. She was a full blood Cherokee. They
had five children who lived until they were grown. The fifth child was John who
died unmarried in his early twenties. Their second son was
15. Walter Adair (called Black Watt) b 1783, who was one-half Cherokee. He
married Rachel Thompson, "a white woman of an excellent North Carolina
family." The were parents of
16. George Washington Adair b 1806 in Georgia. He married Martha (Patsy)
Martin b 1815 in Georgia and were parents of
17. Rachel Jane Adair b 1845 in Oklahoma (Indian Territory), paternal
grandmother of the contributor. Rachel Jane Adair b 1845 married on 1 July 1868
a man named Milton Howard McCullough from Ireland, who was born in 1840; They
were parents of
18. John Washington McCullough b 1869, who married Florida T. Williams;
They were parents of
19. Georgia Ora McCullough, who married Victor Brown. They were parents of
20. Napanee Jane Adair Brown, who married E.L. Coffman.
George Washington 16 Adair, born 1806, and wife Martha
(Patsy) Martin, born 1815, migrated from Georgia to Oklahoma. They arrived in
April, 1837, and settled one half mile southeast of Salina. They built their
home in 1837. It faced north and was built of hewn logs set in mortar. Spaces
were left for windows and a breezeway. This two-story house, later
weather-boarded, had a gabled roof and originally 7 or 8 rooms. During the War
Between the States, the rooms extending south from the west end were partly
burned, were then torn away, and were never replaced. A smaller room called
"the little room: extended from the east room. Huge fireplaces were in
each room. The old house stood 111 years.
George Washington 16 Adair died in April, 1862, and his
wife died in January, 1875. They were buried in the family cemetery across the
road from the house where they lived. (The "Adair Story" appeared in
the Chronicles of Oklahoma, May, 1951, Oklahoma Historical Society
publication) The old cemetery where 20 Adairs were buried—all the old
family—has been relocated to make Way for the Markham Dam. George Washington
Adair and wife Martha (Patsy) Martin brought 15 slaves, including small
children, when they came to Oklahoma. Five of the slaves or the slaves’
children were buried in the family cemetery some distance from the Adairs.
Reinterrment (sic) from the Adair family Cemetery is in the "Martin-Mayes"
Cemetery.
Walter Adair 15 (Black Watt) aided in the War of 1812 and
has been recognized as a "patriot."
George Washington 16 Adair aided the Confederacy in the
War Between the States.
Georgia Ora McCullough Brown (19) is experienced in
(examining?) the Indian records. She was at one time employed as a Secretary in
the Probate Attorney’s Office, U.S. Indian Service, at Chickasha (Oklahoma) and
is herself an "enrolled" Cherokee (3/64 degree), as is her paternal
grandmother, Rachel Jane (Adair) McCullough. Mrs. Brown cites The History of
the Cherokees by Starr as an interesting reference and credits Mrs. Grant
Foreman, historian, widow of the late eminent historian, Dr. Grant Foreman,
with much assistance in her research.
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