Winfield Scott HOWELL
- Born: 1850, Monroe County, Alabama
- Died: 1881, Penobscot County, Maine at age 31
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY:
His 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.
His 2nd great-granduncle was "Red Shoes" (Muskogean Chief), an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
His 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.
His grandmother was Mary Stiggins, a Natchez American Indian.
His 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.
His 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.
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