Josephine Elizabeth HOWELL

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY:
Her 3rd great-grandparents were 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.

Her 2nd great-granduncle was "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Her grandfather was "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.

Her grandmother was Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.

Her half great-granduncle was 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.

Her 1st cousin, once removed, was 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:

Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Dawes Census Cards for Five Civilized Tribes (1898-1914)

Josephine married Lloyd Calhoun FREEMAN Sr., son of Sidney W. FREEMAN and Elizabeth "Betsey" McGOUGH, on 15 Mar 1873 in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. (Lloyd Calhoun FREEMAN Sr. was born about 1849 in Alabama and died in 1910 in Hitchita-Pierce, McIntosh County, Oklahoma.)