Edna Irene FREEMAN

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY:
5th great-granddaughter of Captain Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand, French commander of Fort Toulouse in Alabama; and Sehoy I, Indian princess of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi), the highest ranking tribe of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

4th great-grandniece of "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

2nd great-granddaughter of "Red Eagle" William Weatherford, Chief of the Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, who famously battled and then surrendered to Colonel Andrew Jackson at Fort Toulouse (Fort Jackson) during the Creek War.

2nd great-granddaughter of Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.

Half 3rd great-grandniece of Alexander McGillivray (descendant of the Scottish Clan MacGillivray Chiefs Lineage, part of the Clan Chattan Confederation of the Scottish Highland), who became Chief of the Upper Creek (Muscogee) Indians, one of the most powerful and historically important Native American chiefs among the Creek of the Southeast.

1st cousin, three times removed, of Major David Moniac, an American military officer who in 1822 became the first Native American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

  Research Notes:

Find A Grave, Memorial # 7629500

Edna married Shead Isaac NEWTON, son of Benjamin Franklin NEWTON and Martha Josephine "Josie" WHITLOCK. (Shead Isaac NEWTON was born on 13 Jan 1904 in Eufaula, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, died on 7 May 1987 in Bakersfield, Kern County, California and was buried in Arvin Cemetery, Arvin, Kern County, California.)