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- MONIAC, DAVID, cotton planter, major, U. S. Army, was born in 1802, in Alabama, and was killed at Wahoo Swamp, November 21, 1836; son of Sam and Elizabeth (Weatherford) Moniac, the former who was the Red Eagle of the Creek Indians [correction by site administrator: Sam Moniac was the brother-in-law of William Weatherford, the Red Eagle], the latter the sister of William Weatherford, the warrior, and half sister of David Tate; grandson of William and Polly (Colbert) Moniac, the former a native of Holland, the latter a Tuskegee woman, and of Charles and Sehoy (McGlllivray) Weatherford, the latter a sister of Alexander McGillivray. He was appointed to West Point from Alabama, and was educated and prepared for the academy by John McLeod, an Irish scholar who had a military school in Washington, D. C. He was a cadet at West Point from September 18, 1817, to July 1, 1822, when he was graduated and promoted to brevet second lieutenant, Sixth infantry, U. S. Army. He resigned from the army December 31, 1822, and engaged as a cotton planter in Baldwin County, 1822-1836. He was appointed captain of Creek mounted volunteers, August 17, 1836, for service in the Florida War, and was promoted to major, November 15, 1836. He was engaged against the Seminole Indians in the battle of Wahoo Swamp, November 31, 1836, and while crossing a difficult morass in face of the fire of the enemy posted on the opposite bank, he was killed. Married: to Mary Powell, a cousin of Oceola, whose real name was Powell. Children: 1. David A., who served two terms as sheriff of Baldwin County; 2. a daughter. Last residence: Baldwin County. [2]
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