William H. Hendricks, Sr

1797 - 1866  (68 years)

• Name	William H. Hendricks  [1]
  Suffix	Sr
  Born	25 Aug 1797	Georgia, United States of America   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Jan 1866	Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma   [1]
  Buried	Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma   [1]
  Person ID	P2886	Woelfel Test
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2020

  
  

  Family	Susannah Sokinny Harnage (Hendricks),   b. 25 Jan 1798, Hightower, Cherokee Nation, Georgia ,   d. 25 January 1866, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 68 years)
  Children	+ 1. Anna "Annie" Hendricks (Price),   b. 24 May 1819, Long Swamp, Cherokee Nation, Georgia ,   d. 19 Aug 1879, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 60 years)  [natural]   2. James R. Hendricks,   b. 23 Nov 1819, Georgia, USA ,   d. 3 May 1901, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 81 years)  [natural]   3. Jane R Hendricks (Parris),   b. 1820, Georgia, USA ,   d. 1870, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 50 years)  [natural]   4. Mary E Hendricks (Ferrell),   b. 1820, North Carolina, USA ,   d. 1870, Wake County, North Carolina, USA  (Age 50 years)  [natural]   5. Margaret "Peggy" Hendricks (Woodall),   b. 12 Jul 1822, Georgia, USA ,   d. 8 Feb 1915, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 92 years)  [natural]   6. John Hendricks,   b. 1 Jan 1824, Georgia, USA ,   d. 28 Jan 1899, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   7. Nancy Jane Hendricks (Chambers),   b. 4 Sep 1825, Georgia, USA ,   d. 26 Nov 1879, Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 54 years)  [natural]   8. Susannah Hendricks (Woodall),   b. 1 Sep 1827, Georgia, USA ,   d. 20 Apr 1883, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 55 years)  [natural]   9. Katherine Hendricks (Chambers),   b. 13 May 1829, Georgia, USA ,   d. 8 Feb 1912, Claremore, Rogers, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 82 years)  [natural]   10. William H. Hendricks, Jr,   b. 28 Feb 1831, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA ,   d. 24 Dec 1911, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 80 years)  [natural]   11. Willis Robin Hendricks,   b. 13 Sep 1833, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma ,   d. 15 Dec 1893, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 60 years)  [natural]   12. Franklin Hendricks,   b. 28 Feb 1836, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma ,   d. 17 Jun 1894, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma  (Age 58 years)  [natural]   13. Elizabeth Hendricks (Rattling Gourd),   b. 20 Oct 1838,   d. 11 Jun 1914, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 75 years)  [natural]   14. Thomas Hendricks, Sr,   b. 29 Aug 1839, Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, Oaklahoma ,   d. 12 Aug 1930, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA  (Age 90 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F577	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  His middle name might have been Henry; last name might have been Hendrix. He had 3 known brothers: John Hendricks (Hendrix); Willis Hendricks (Hendrix) d. 1847, and James Hendricks (Hendrix) 1790-1799. ****************************** "◦James, Thomas and William Hendricks, all in their 30s, were enumerated together on the Hall Co., Georgia 1830 census. John Hendricks, also in his 30s, was enumerated close by. In approximately 1831, James, Willis, William and Thomas Hendrix, all white men, registered for licenses to resided in the Cherokee Nation (Georgia). James had a wife and two children, Willis was single, William had a wife and eight children, and Thomas had a wife and five children. They were all listed together. Listed separately was John Headrick with wife and four children. All were farmers. John, William, Willis and James Hendricks are all on the Voters List of an election held at the home of Ambrose Harnage, Cherokee Co., Georgia, on February 6, 1832. The 1834 census of Cherokee Co., Georgia shows Thomas Hendrix with a family of 10, and John Hendrix with a family of 6. The 1835 Cherokee Census shows Willis Hendricks, a white man connected by marriage with a half-breed wife and one quadroon daughter, residing on Talking Rock Creek, Gilmer Co., Georgia; James Hendricks, a white man connected by marriage with half-breed wife, one son, one daughter, and one full-blood Cherokee, residing on Cooewhulla Creek, Murray Co., Georgia; and Annis Hendricks, a quadroon under age sixteen, residing on Chicamauga Creek, Walker Co., Georgia. [Annis Hendricks is listed in Walker Co., Georgia, 1840 U.S. Census.] It is known that three of the Hendricks' emigrated to Indian Territory. They presented claims against the U.S. government in 1842 as follows: William Hendrix, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation by marriage, presented a claim of $177.00 on April 18, 1842 for his improvements abandoned on Long Swamp Creek, Hightowah River, Georgia. He stated that he emigrated to the western Cherokee Nation in 1832. Mrs. Hendrix and James Hendrix, Jr., were his witnesses. Willis Hendricks, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation by marriage, presented a claim of $450.25 on [undated] for improvements abandoned on Long Swamp, Cherokee Co., Georgia. He stated that he emigrated to the western Cherokee Nation in 1838 and resided on the Illinois River, Tahlequah District. His witness was James Hendricks. James Hendrix, Sr., a citizen of the Cherokee Nation by marriage, presented a claim of $1620.00 on March 23, 1842 for improvements abandoned on Long Swamp Creek, Cherokee Co., Georgia. He stated that he emigrated to the western Cherokee Nation in 1836 by water and resided about five miles west of the town of Tahlequah in 1842. Willis Hendrix, Sr. was his witness." **************************** William H. Hendricks (Hendrix) was a white man who married a full-blood Cherokee named Susannah Sokinny in Georgia (the old Cherokee Nation). They moved to OK in 1832 voluntarily before they were forced from their lands in Georgia after gold was discovered there. They had 13 children: James R., Anna "Annie", Jane, Margaret, John, Nancy, Susannah "Susan", Catherine, William H. Jr.(all 9 born in the state of Georgia(the old Cherokee Nation); the following four were born in Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma)--Willis, Franklin, Elizabeth, and Thomas. William H. and Susannah are the oldest graves in the cemetery--thus the cemetery was named after them. Photo of Grave w/red Flowers, courtesy of: Jill Delene Schneider, Descendant.

  
  

• Sources

  [S-911861636] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).