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The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, affiliated with the National Trails Program, held a marking ceremony at the former Adair Family Cemetery, now the Stilwell City Cemetery, Stilwell, OK, October 4. Walter Scott (Red Wat) Adair and his family were honored with bronze plaques unveiled on their tombstones, tributes read by descendants, and Cherokee hymns and prayers presented. Walter Scott Adair and his wife Nancy (Harris), with their six older children of ten born to them, came with the Taylor Detachment, with Walter serving as assistant detachment leader, in the removal of the Cherokee people from Georgia to now the Cherokee Nation in now Oklahoma. When they arrived in the west Walter purchased a plantation from a widow, a Mrs. Webber, and this site served as a rations distribution site for the area in the year following the removal. Walter S. Adair was born January 28, 1791 and died September 26, 1854, and served the Cherokee Nation in a number of positions during his life time. In the east his home was in the Oothcaloga Valley, and served as a circuit judge in the 1820's for Hickory Log and Etowah Districts. He served as justice of the Supreme Court 1826-30, was a member of the committee to plan the nee3w Echota capitol in 1825, a commissioner to seettle the Cherokee-Creek boundary dispute in 1829, and in 1833-1846 was vice-president of the Cherokee Temperance Society. He was a member of the Constituional Convention and a signer of the Constitution in 1839, justice of the Supreme Court 1839-44, superintendent of education 1847-51, circuit judge of the southern district in 1850. He was also active in the Methodist Church and was the first Master of Flint Lodge No. 21 A. F. and A. M. , the first Lodge established in Indian Territory, and a number of other associations.
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