Actor Wes Studie on ‘Finding Your Roots’ 16 January 2024

Erica Howton C

1/16/2024 at 8:50 PM

We think this is the first time Native American genealogy has been done by Dr. Henry Gates, Jr.

The PBS schedule is here, if you missed it today: https://www.pbs.org/show/finding-your-roots/

Many thanks to managers for quick reactions in building his tree.

Wes Studi

Please don’t add his living children and spouses, we already have them, and it’s impossible to merge them.

What we have so far, please check and add citations:

His father was either Bobby Hunt Blair or Jess Blair We don’t at this time have a way to know which brother, so I’ve set up a placeholder profile: unknown Blair as a link to grandparents, Jesse Thomas Blair & Katie Mayree Blair

That Jesse was the son of Thomas Blair &
Chu-mung ‘Margaret’ Blair

That Thomas was the son of Oo-di-qua-no-si ‘George’ Blair & Sarah Blair

That George was the son of Sal-lie ‘Sarah’ Smith & James Blair.

Can we confirm that James as this man, Col. James Hayes Blair, Sr.

And can we confirm that James as son of Colbert Blair, Sr. & Sarah Blair

Erica Howton C

1/16/2024 at 9:11 PM

Correction: Thomas Blair was the son of Oo-di-qua-no-si ‘George’ Blair & his second wife, Nancy Blair Sarah’s sister, who died on the Trail of Tears.

Erica Howton C

1/17/2024 at 12:31 AM

On his maternal side, we do far have up to Lizzie Ussrey a Cherokee women who married a white man, Phillip ‘George’ Ussrey

Lizzie’s origins should lead to his sixth great grandmother, Nancy Ward, Ghi-ga-u, ‘Beloved Woman of the Cherokees’

Can you all help us get there on Geni?

Erica Howton C

1/17/2024 at 1:55 AM

Going back to the Cherokee wife of
Col. James Hayes Blair, Sr. Sal-lie ‘Sarah’ Smith was she the daughter of Oganstota and Unknown

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-213

Oganstota was a Cherokee man probably born about 1750. HIs wife, whose name is unknown, was from the Deer Clan. They were the parents of The Ridge, and David Oo-wa-ti. [2] The Moravian missionaries also mentioned a daughter, but not by name. [3] According to memories of The Ridge, the family was displaced in 1776 during the Revolutionary War when American militia under Rutherford destroyed the Cherokee towns near Hiwassie [4] and moved to the Sequatchie valley farther down the Tennessee River. The family made a final move to Pine Log (now Georgia) about 1785. Oganstota and his wife are believed to have died there about about 1789. [5]

Erica Howton C

1/17/2024 at 2:04 AM

This is the geni profile for Oganstota

Kathryn Forbes

1/17/2024 at 4:49 AM

Lizzie’s origins don’t lead back to Nancy Ward. Her mother was married to a Nancy Ward descendant, but she wasn’t one.

Kathryn Forbes

1/17/2024 at 4:51 AM

How would Sallie Smith connect to Oganstota?

Erica Howton C

1/17/2024 at 5:01 AM

The https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235630924/sarah-blair researcher (labeling it WIP) suggests she was the daughter of Oganatota "Dutch" "Long Warrior" "Da-Tsi" "Tally" Tah-Chee and Susannah "Deer Clan" Catherine Wickett. “Sarah Watie Blair's siblings are also well known Cherokees: Major John Ridge , David O'Watie and Chief Nettle Carrier.”

There seem some errors, but it looks like it’s possible?

Kathryn Forbes

1/17/2024 at 6:52 AM

Except there doesn't seem to be any record to support that claim. Thoms Blair listed his grandparents as Sallie Smith and an unknown white man on his Eastern Cherokee app. The Moravian journals supposedly mention an unnamed sister and her children Lucy and Samuel but I can't find the reference.

Kathryn Forbes

1/17/2024 at 7:34 AM

That is an unnamed sister for the Ridge

Actor Wes Studie on ‘Finding Your Roots’ 16 January 2024

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