8. | Jefferson Hollinger was born Abt. 1810, Baldwin County, Alabama (son of William Hollinger); died 17 Apr 1859, Point Clear, Baldwin, Alabama . Other Events:
- Residence: 1850, Division 1, Baldwin, Alabama
- Residence: 1855, Baldwin County, Alabama; 4 white males under 21; 1 white male over 21; 1 white female under 21; and 1 white female over 21.
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Creek Test. P. 9-12. Thomas Tate Tunstall, #30048:l which appeared in CHEROKEE BY BLOOD/ Records of Eastern Cherokee Ancestry in the U.S. Court of Claims /1906-1910 / Volume 8
Creek Test. P. 9-12. Thomas Tate Tunstall, #30048:
I am 84 years old and born in Baldwin Co., Ala., April 8, 1823. I was Consul to Cadis, Spain, a period of six years under Pierce and Buchannan. I was again Consul to San Salvador under Cleveland's Administration. I claim my indian blood through my mother, Louise Tate, who was the daughter of David Tate and David Tate was the son of Sehoye McGillivrary. Seyhoye McGillivrary was the mother of Billy Weatherford. After the death of my great grandfather, Sehoye McGillivivary married Charles Weatherford, and the chief Billy Weatherford was their child, and the junior half-brother of my grandfather, David Tate. Sizemores intermarried in my family. He was a Creek indian-very dark. I knew William Sizemore personally. I know his son, Alex, and all his daughter. Alex Sizemore married into the Weatherford family also. David Moniac was a nephew of David Tate and a graduate of West Point Military Academy and served in the U.S. Army. He was killed in 1836 at the massacre of Withlacoochee. Moniac's father was a Scotchman but his mother was a Creek indian. I knew him well. Samuel and Susan Moniac were relations of David and belonged to the same people. Old Billy Hollinger was a Creek Indian. I knew him very well- a Creek Indian, too, and a relation of my father. I know Jeff Hollinger, son of Billy Hollinger, and I knew him well. I knew Old William Colbert, a good old indian. He was a Creek Indian and lived among us and died about 35 years ago. He was an older man than my father and dressed like an indian. Margart Tate was the second wife of my grandfather, David. She was a widow Powell. She was Originally a Dyer. They were a Creek family. Seminole means "run away" in the Creek language. Jeff Hollinger's wife was a Miss Franklin, but the Franklins themselves were white people. The old man Linn McGhee was Scotch and indian-Scotch and Creek Indian. He was one of my grandfather's stock minders, and his children were all mulattoes. The woman he lived with was one of my old grandfather's slaves. They were Creek indians. Simon Hadley was a white man and no relation to the Tunstalls. I never heard of Lousia Jonnaghan nor Mrs. Wm. Johnson. They are no relations of mine. I knew the old man Boon- Elijah and John Boon were his sons. They had no indian in them. Nor the Tarbins. I do not know of any Indians called Chuck or Shomac Indians. I knew the Steadmans. Reben Steadham, the son of John Steadham on his mother's side, Traced back to Linn McGhee. I knew Gideon Gibson. He was a white man. His wife was one of those Indian Moniacs. She was a sister of Old Sam Moniac. I know the Barlows. They are Thad, Euriah and Bob Barlow. They were good people but white people with no indian at all. I never heard of a Red Jacket Treaty. I know Mrs. C. M. Killiam. She is a neice of Billy Weatherford. We went to school together. She is a cousin of mine. In the neighborhood of Mt. Pleasant in Baldwim and Monroe Countries, Ala. I never knew any Choctaw Indians living there, nor Cherokees. They never got down that far. The Choctaws were Mississippi Indians and the Cherokees were Georgia Indians.
SIGNED
Tom Tate Tunstall
Mobile, Ala.
Feb 6, 1908.
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Schedule 4 (Productions of Agriculture) reports that Hollinger was the owner of 15 acres of improved land with a cash value of $105.00. He owned 3 horses, 25 milk cows, 50 other cattle, 8 sheep and 100 swine.
Jefferson married Elizabeth Harris 11 Nov 1852, Monroe County, Alabama. Elizabeth was born 06 Nov 1825, Alabama; died 03 Feb 1895, Monroe County, Alabama; was buried , Poplar Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Jeddo, Monroe, Alabama. [Group Sheet]
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