Mary Levitia WEATHERFORD

  General Notes:

ANCESTRY:
Her great 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 grandmother, great grandmother, and great great grandmother were each named "Sehoy" and were Native Americans of the Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Her great grandmother's uncle was "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Her father 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 mother was Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.

Her half 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 cousin 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.

NOTES:
Inscription: 30 yrs, 2 mos, 28 days;
"Wife of Dr. Wm. F. Howell"

Mary Levitia 'Weatherford' Howell, Born 1823 in Little River, Alabama. Married on April 11 1842 in Monroe County Alabama to Dr. William Forbes Howell, M.D. She is buried with two of her children , Bonapart (1846-1852) & Natalia (1844-1859).

Mary is the daughter of William Weatherford (Red Eagle) and Mary Stiggins. William (Red Ealge) was Muscogee Creek Chief who lead his warriors against the armies of Andrew Jackson, Trying to save their ancestral lands.

Excerpt from Eliza Howell's family papers.
"Weatherford, always quick to perceive, knew that Old Hickory was egotistical. Thinking it wise to end his talk with words that were more pleasing to Jackson's ears, he continued. "If I had been left to contend with the Georgian army, I would have raised my corn on one bank of the river and fought them on the other. But your people had destroyed my nation. General Jackson, you are a brave man; I am another. I do not fear to die. But I rely upon your generosity. you will exact no terms of a conquered and helpless people, but those to which they should accede. Whatever that may be, it would be folly and madness to oppose them. If they are opposed, you shall find me among the sternest enforcers of obedience. Those who would still hold out can only be influenced by a mean spirit of revenge. To this, they must not, and shall not, sacrifice the last remnant of their country. You have told us where we may go to be safe. Yours is good talk, and my nation ought to listen. They shall listen."

The surrender was in 1814. Andrew Jackson went on the White House, William Weatherford did go free. He returned to family near Little River, Alabama and became a well-to-do plantation owner.
The last child born to him and Mary Stiggins Weatherford was a daughter, Mary Levitia. She was born in 1822. Pretty Levitia eventually married Dr. William Forbes Howell in 1841. He was Eliza's brother. They lived near the Sellers till Levitia's mother's estate was settled, in 1851. They then moved to Louisiana. "

In about 1850 Dr. William and Mary left Alabama and moved with several children and numerous slaves to Louisiana where the family had holdings in Natchitoches, DeSoto and Sabine Parishes.

Dr. William Howell was born in Alabama and moved to Louisiana from Wilcox County, Alabama. After Mary died in 1859, he married Louisa Elizabeth Smith Durr, Widowed about 1860. They had a daughter Emily Hall Howell, born 1962 after the death of Dr. William Howell in 1961. Also William brother was a doctor (Dr. Caleb Monroe Howell, M.D.) And is buried in Lucedale, Mississippi.

Children of William F. and Mary L. 'Weathrford' Howell are:

1) Theodicia Howell, born 1843, Alabama.
2) Natalie Weatherford Howell, born 1844, Alabama, died 1859 and is buried next to her mother.
3) Lamar Howell, born 1846, Alabama. He fought for the Confederacy and later lived in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.
4) Bonaparte Weatherford Howell, born 1846, Alabama. Died 1852 and is buried next to his mother.
5) Winfied Scott Howell, born 1850, Alabama.
6. Josephine Elizabeth Howell, born 1852, Louisiana. Married Lloyd C. Freeman.
7) William Howell, Born 1855

Information from: Michael Howell (Fort Worth, TX )

  Research Notes:

-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Weatherford)
-- Find A Grave, Memorial # 43004556

Mary married Dr. William Forbes HOWELL on 11 Apr 1842 in Monroe County, Alabama. (Dr. William Forbes HOWELL was born in 1818 in Wilcox County, Alabama and died in 1900 in Pleasant Hill, Sabine Parish, Louisana.)

  Marriage Notes:

U.S. and International Marriage Records (1560-1900)