Charles Weatherford
CHARLES WEATHERFORD and SEHOY III
LifeNotes: According to Dr. Marion Elisha Tarvin, Charles Weatherford "was a man of means and was a government contractor, and constructed and owned the first race courses in Alabama "
Charles Weatherford came to Creek country before 1778 with his friend Samuel Mims He was also a longtime friend of Lachlan McGillivray
Born: about 1752 ; Married: about 1780 in Alabama; Died Parents: Martin Weatherford and Mary ?, a half-blood
LifeNotes: Was a trader He was a friend of Lachlan McGillivray He went to the Creek Nation with his friend Samuel Mims.
He lived at his horse track on the Alabama River, about 5 mile upriver from Sehoy; it was customary for Indian couples to live separately and Charles kept the custom with Sehoy The Weatherford house was near what is now North Motgomery at Pickett Springs There were conic mounds on the property -- 5 of which are still visible from what is now Coosada Ferry Road
James Albert Pickett tells this story in The History of Alabama: In 1792, Creeks frequently attack homes on the Cumberland They captured a young girl named Elizabeth Baker and brought her back to Coosawda, after murdering her family before her eyes. Across the river, Charles Weatherford heard of the girl and ransomed her back, putting her in the care of Sehoy (III), his wife.
Sehoy III
LifeNotes: Of the Wind Clan. See her page.
Born: about 1759 in Little Tulsa, Elmore, AL; 1st-union in 1774, Alabama; Married 2nd-about 1778 in Alabama; Married 3rd-about 1780; Died 1811-2 , buried in Baldwin County, Alabama; her son William Weatherford lies buried next to her Parents: Sehoy II and a Tuckabatchee chief
Her first husband was Colonel John Tate, a British officer with rank of colonel and the last British commander at Ft. Toulouse. The children of Sehoy II and her first husband John Tate were: David Tate, born 1778. See his family page. (m.1st-Mary Randon who died with her 2 of her daughters in the Massacre of Ft Mims; m 2nd- Margaret Dyer; d 1829), John Tate II
Their children are: William Weatherford , or Lamochattee -- Red Eagle, born about 1781 See his family page Married 1st-Mary Moniac, daughter of William Dixon Moniac and Polly Colbert, in 1801 Married 2nd-Sopathe Thlanie Married 3rd- Mary Stiggins William Weatherford died 1824.
John "Jake" David Weatherford, born about 1783 in AL See his page. Married about 1802 in AL to Patty Dyer (b about 1785), sister of Margaret Dyer who was the 2nd- wife of David Tate Their children were: John D. Weatherford (m 1st-Elizabeth Tunstall; m. 2ndElizabeth Waller on 6-09-1864, Monroe Co , AL, to with Johnathon English as security and A J Lambert as minister), Caroline Weatherford (b about 1805; m ? Killiam) John Weatherford assisted General Andrew Jackson during the Creek War Given a land grant by Jackson. John and his family lived in Monroe Co., AL. and he appears on the 1854 tax list. Rosanna Weatherford, born about 1789 in AL See her page. Married in 1789 in Baldwin Co., AL to Captain Joseph Shomo They lived in Monroe Co., AL Their children were: David Tate Shomo (b about 1809 ; became a physician; m Elizabeth Nettles Hobbs), Joseph Weatherford Shomo (b about 1811; became a physician; m 1st-Mary Elizabeth Wheadon; m 2nd-Anne Tarke Moniac, widow of Dr Alexander Moniac), James Preston Weatherford (b about 1813), Francis William Shomo (born about 1815), Virginia Elizabeth Rosanna Shomo (b. about 1817), William Augustus Shomo (b. about 1819; m. Margaret Ione Staples), Frances Blount Shomo (b about 1821)
Dr Marion Elisha Tarvin, her nephew, said, "I well recollect Aunt Rosannah and Capt Shomo, having often been at their house She was woman of great force of of character She was born in the upper part of Baldwin county, Ala , near where rests the remains of her warrior brother, William the 'Red Eagle" Elizabeth Weatherford, born about 1785 in AL Married Samuel Takkes-Hadjo Moniac about 1802 in Baldwin County, AL See his Moniac page Sam was born about 1781 in AL Their children were: David Moniac (m Polly Powell; their children were: David Alexander Moniac, sheriff of Baldwin Co., AL and d. 1880), Margaret Moniac (m. S. J. McDonald). From Dr. Marion Elisah Tarvin: "under the treaty at New York, was graduated at West Point He was made a major and commanded 600 Creeks and Choctaws against the Seminoles in the Florida war of 1836 He was killed, 13 bullets piercing his body A braver man never lived "), Alexander
Moniac, Levitia Moniac (m William Sizemore of Baldwin Co., AL, son of Dixon Baily's sister. William became a wealthy planter on the Alabama River. Levitia "Vicey" and William had children) maybe Washington Weatherford, born about 1787, Baldwin Co , AL http://homepages rootsweb ancestrycom/~cmamcrk4/crkfm3b html
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