Big Warrior,
a man of much prudence and shrewdness, was a native of Alabama, and a
pure-blood Indian. He was peaceably disposed towards the whites, and sided
with them in the war of 1813. He died in Washington in 1825, while in
attendance there with a delegation of his tribe.
Leclerc Milfort was a
Frenchman who lived from 1776 to 1796 among the Muscogees. He married a
sister of McGillivray, and often led the warriors of the nation against
the Georgians. Returning to France, he was made a general of brigade by
Napoleon, and wrote an account of his sojourn in Ia nation Creek."
Opothleyoholo was born
in Tookabatchee, and was the son of the half-breed Alexander Cornells,
Weatherford's brother-in-law, by an Indian woman. A brave man and
influential chief, he was always friendly to the whites. He became
wealthy, and removed with his people to the West, where he was residing in
1861, when he sided with the North in the war between the States.
