Pfc Leonard Lee NEWTON

  General Notes:

MILITARY AND DEATH:
Served with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. Leonard was a rifleman (USMC) and died as a result of gunshot wounds to the head and body from hostile small arms fire during a company patrol. Survived by his parents,Joseph L & Madie L Newton of 2828 De Ovan Street, Stockton, California.

The Silver Star Medal was posthumously awarded to PFC Newton.

Gravestone Inscription:
CALIFORNIA
PFC CO I 26 MAR 3 MAR DIV
VIETNAM PH

Note: Age 19

ANCESTRY:
First-Cousin (Tenth Times Removed) to Sir Isaac Newton.

7th 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.

6th great-grandnephew of "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

4th 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.

4th great-grandson of Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.

Half 5th 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, five 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 # 108781752