Maj. David Tate Moniac

1802 - 1836  (33 years)

• Name	David Tate Moniac
  Title	Maj.
  Born	25 Dec 1802	Pinchony Creek, Montgomery, Alabama   [1]
  	Present-day location. Moniac reportedly was born at his father's tavern on the old Federal Road.
  Gender	Male
  Graduation	01 Jul 1822	West Point, New York
  	United States Military Academy
  	Moniac was the first native American, the first non-white, and the first Alabamian to attend the United States Military Academy. Woodward attributes his entry to his father's standing with the white community. He graduated 39th in a class of 40 cadets. He resigned his commission to recover his father's flagging fortune. http://www.usma.edu/wphistory/sitepages/notable%20graduates.aspx
  Died	21 Nov 1836	Sumter County, Florida
  	Killed at the Battle of Wahoo Swamp, Seminole War
  Buried	Florida National Cemetery
  		Moniac, David Tate
  		Moniac, David Tate
  Notes	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]
  Person ID	I5125	Dickinson
  Last Modified	19 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Sam Moniac,   b. Abt 1770, Tuskegee, Alabama ,   d. 21 Aug 1837, Pass Christian, Harrison, Mississippi  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Weatherford,   b. Abt. 1780, Coosada, Elmore, Alabama
  Married	Abt. 1797	Alabama   [3]
  Notes	"Charles Weatherford was the second and last husband of Sehoy McPherson. They raised four children that I knew. Betsy, the oldest child, married Sam Moniac, and was the mother of Major David Moniac, who was educated at West Point and was killed by the Seminoles in the fall of 1836- he was educated at West Point in consequence of the faithful and disinterested friendship of his father to the whites. Billy was the next oldest, Jack next, and a younger daughter whose name I have forgotten. She married Capt. Shumac, a very intelligent officer of the United States army." [4]
  Family ID	F1373	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Dalphine Powell,   b. 1810, Alabama
  Married	16 Sep 1828	Alabama   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Margaret J Moniac,   b. Abt 1830, Alabama ,   d. Bef 1900, Mississippi  (Age ~ 70 years)   2. David Alexander Moniac,   b. 29 Jan 1834, Alabama ,   d. 29 Sep 1882, Baldwin County, Alabama  (Age 48 years)
  Last Modified	20 Dec 2010
  Family ID	F1374	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Graduation - United States Military Academy - 01 Jul 1822 - West Point, New York  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Documents

  Weatherford, William Order on Letters of Administration

  
  

  Histories

  Cadet David Moniac: A Creek Indian’s Schooling at West Point, 1817–1822 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2008 Sep;152(3):322-48 Hauptman, Laurence Dixon, Heriberto

  
  

• Sources

  [S336314] History of Alabama and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, Albert James Pickett, (Sheffield, Alabama: Robert C. Randolph, 1896), 619. "Sam McNac, who still lived near the Pinchoma, on the Federal Road...." This is given to be March 1818. [S336312] History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 4 volumes, Thomas McAdory Owen, (Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1921), vol. iv, 1215. [S336330] The Rise of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Lou Vickery and Steve Travis, (Upword Press, 2009), 62. [S336313] Woodward's Reminiscences of the Creek or Muscogee Indians, Thomas S. Woodward, (Montgomery, Alabama: Barrett and Wimbush, 1859), 89. [S036451] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing, (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004). Year only.