Edna Irene NEWTON
- Born: 23 May 1931, Oklahoma
General Notes:
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Nine Times Removed) to Sir Isaac Newton.
6th 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.
5th great-grandniece of "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
3rd 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.
3rd great-granddaughter of Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.
Half 4th 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, four 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.
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