Elizabeth Hicks (abt. 1762 - aft. 1802)

Born about 1762 in Cherokee Nation (East)

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1802 after about age 40 in Cherokee Nation (East)

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Uncertain parents

The woman called "Na-ye-hi Conrad" is listed here as the mother of Elizabeth Hicks (and her siblings) and the Cherokee wife of white trader Nathan Hicks. Little is known about her and her family is speculative based on a statement in the Moravian diaries that says, "the very sick Gunrod left his own family to live with Charles Renatus Hicks a very close relative." Researcher James Hicks interprets this to mean that Charles Hicks was Gunrod's nephew, and that "Na-ye-hi" was his (Gunrod's) sister. Emmet Starr stated that Nathan Hicks wife was "a full-blood woman of the Wolf clan," ^[1] which would mean she was not the daughter of a white trader.

Biography

Elizabeth was Cherokee.

Elizabeth Hicks was born in the Cherokee Nation about 1766, the daughter of a white trader named Nathan Hicks and his Cherokee wife, possibly Nan-ye-hi Conrad. She is believed to have had three husbands, Samuel Bigby, James Vann (no children), and Richard Fields, and at least four children, James Bigby, ^[2] and George, Elizabeth, and John Fields. ^[3] Elizabeth's date and place of death are unknown, but her last child was born about 1802 in Tennessee. George and Elizabeth attended the Rev. Gideon Blackburn's mission school near Sale Creek in Tennessee about 1807, but there is no further information.

Sources

1. ↑ Hampton, David K. and Baker, Jack D., eds. Old Cherokee Families Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1987. p. 119 note C641
2. ↑ McClinton, Rowena, ed. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2007 p. 387 "... we received a very cordial visit from James Bigby, a cousin of our Peggy." [daughter of Elizabeth's sister Sarah]
3. ↑ Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma Yesterday Publications edition, Tulsa, OK. 1979. p. 308-9.

• "The Hicks Family Lineage and many family branches" by James Raymond Hicks, Jr