Joseph LeRoy FREEMAN

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY:
4th great-grandson 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.

3rd great-grandnephew of "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Great-grandson 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.

Great-grandson of Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.

Half 2nd great-grandnephew 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, twice 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:

-- California, Death Index (1940-1997)
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 99660544

Joseph married Dona Elizabeth BAKER on 24 Mar 1907 in Checotah, McIntosh County, Oklahoma. (Dona Elizabeth BAKER was born on 27 Feb 1890 in Grady County, Oklahoma, died on 15 Aug 1970 in Taft, Kern County, California and was buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, CA.)