Elizabeth WEATHERFORD

  General Notes:

NOTES:
Elizabeth was a mixed-race Creek Indian. She was the great granddaughter 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.

Her mother's uncle was Red Shoes (Muskogean Chief) who became an Indian Chief of the prestigious Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi) of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Her brother was famed Chief "Red Eagle" of the Wind Clan (Hutalgalgi), the highest ranking tribe of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

In 1822, her son David Moniac became the first Native American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Her half-uncle 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.

  Research Notes:

-- Biography of William "Red Eagle" Weatherford (http://www.genealogyforum.rootsweb.com/files/AL/BioRedEagle.htm)
-- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscogee_%28Creek%29_Nation)

Elizabeth married Sam Takkes-Hadjo MONIAC, son of William Dixon MONIAC and Polly COLBERT, in 1802 in Alabama. (Sam Takkes-Hadjo MONIAC was born in 1781 in Alabama and died in 1837.)