Notes:

She was very young when her father died. She was the only daughter of William Weatherford to grow to adulthood.

Mary Levitia and her Dr. Howell would stay in Alabama till 1850, when her mother's estate was settled, and then moved with several children and numerous slaves to Louisiana where the family had holdings in Natchitoches, DeSoto and Sabine Parishes. Sadly, there was much sickness along the bayou's, and Levitia died at age 36 in 1859.

Died: in 1859; is buried in a lonely, unkept forest place (Campground Cemetery) near Pleasant Hill, Louisiana. Two of her children are beside her, Bonaparte, age 5, and Natalie, age 14. The widower put up a nine foot apex style monument, which has fallen at least once.

Mary married William Forbes HOWELL on 11 Apr 1842 in , Monroe, Alabama. William was born in , Wilcox, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

C. C. Sellers, surety, T. Burpo, Ordained Minister (source: "Monroe and Conecuh County, Alabama Marriages 1833-1880", Dr. Lucy Wiggins Colson, P. D. and Dr. Robert Ellis Colson, Southern Historical Press, 1983)

Notes:

War name: Hopnicafutsahia -- Straight Talker or Truth Teller
Best known as Lamochattee or Red Eagle

Died 3/24/1824, following a bear hunt and is buried next to his mother Sehoy III in a grave in Baldwin Co., AL

Leader of the Creeks. Deemed "the architect of the Massacre at Fort Mims". See the letter his grandson Charles Weatherford, Jr. wrote about William. Nephew of Alexander McGillivray and by marriage, nephew of LeClerc Milfort; received their wisdom, according to tribal custom-- the role of the uncle was considered far more importart than that of the father.

Red Eagle goes on to full participation in the Creek War. Another massacre --the Kimbell-James Massacre, the Canoe Fight with Sam Dale and his forces against the Red Sticks, the Battle of Holy Ground with Red Eagle mounted on Arrow, his black steed, the Battle of Talladega, to the climactic Battle of Horseshoe Bend where all come together -- General Andrew Jackson's forces, including Davy Crockett and Sam Houston joining with Choctaws and other tribes against the Red Sticks. This ends the war.

After the terrible defeat at Horseshoe Bend in 1814, Red Eagle goes to Ft. Jackson (formerly Ft. Toulouse), and surrendered to General Andrew Jackson. Jackson, filled with sympathy and admiration for the noble chief, takes Red Eagle home to Nashville, TN. According to Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin, William's half brother, David Tate, (Tarvin's grandfather) was the only man in AL who knew where Weatherford was during his stay at the Hermitage.

William Weatherford lived out his days as a well-to-do and well-respected planter in Monroe Co., AL.

William married Mary STIGGINS in 1816 in , , Alabama. Mary (daughter of Joseph STIGGINS and Nancy Haw GREY) was born about 1783 in , , Alabama; died in 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charles married Sehoy III MCPHERSON in 1780 in Creek Nation, Baldwin, Alabama. Sehoy (daughter of Malcolm MCPHERSON and Sehoy II MARCHAND) was born in 1759 in Little Tulsa, Elmore, Alabama; died in 1811 in , Baldwin, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Petition of JOSEPH STIGGINS

Thanks to Woodrow Wallace for this contribution

Baldwin County
Mississippi Territory
August 1, 1811

To Honorable Legislator of Mississippi Teritory, Governor and Council:

The Humble petition of Joseph Stiggins Showeth that having formerly Resided in the Creek Nation amongst the Indians and marrying an Inddian woman by whom I had Children, that I moved to the Country and Edicated and brought up to the Cristian Religion, and finding it Disagreeable that by the law of our Teritory that they can't have their oath though borne of a free woman.

Your petitioner prayeth that they may be Released from that Disability the same that their oldest Brother, Geo. Stiggins, was by his own petition. Viz: Mary Stiggins, Susannah Stiggins, Nancy Stiggins and Robert G. Stiggins their poserity this Indulgence your petitioner thinks he justly Intitled to whilst he is forever Bound to pray.

/s/ Joh Stiggins

August 1, 1811

We the UnderSigners thinks that persons in foregoing petition is worthy of Mention, and prayeth that the Petition may be Granted.

William Pierce
Charles Woolf
Harry Toulmin
Buford Weekley
Abel St.-roll
Laz. Jno. Bryars
Benjamin Hoven
Thomas Smith
Edward Stidhams
John Pierce
Andrew Mixon
George Weekley
John Y. Clayton
Joseph Thomas
Wiseman Walker
Thomas Adcock
Moses Stidham, Senr.
John Hoven
Charles Smith

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Reference: Record Group 5 (Legislative Records, Territorial Archives), Volume 26, Petitions of the General Assembly, 1810-1816, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi.

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Appeared in Mississippi Genealogical Exchange, March 16, 1974, and contributed then by Richard S. Lackey, Co-Editor.



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Joseph married Nancy Haw GREY in 1790. Nancy (daughter of UNKNOWN GREY) was born in 1766; died in 1832. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Natchez, sister of Chinnabbee;

Malcolm married Sehoy II MARCHAND about 1757 in Creek Nation, Baldwin, Alabama. Sehoy (daughter of Louis Francois De Coursalle MARCHAND and I SEHOY) was born about 1722 in Fort Toulouse, Elmore, Alabama; died in 1814 in Little River, Montgomery, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]