Tallapoosa County Alabama - History - Creek Indian Information
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Chief Efau Hadjo,Mad Dog ,of the Wind tribe  became
Chief of the Creek Indian Nation in 1793 when he
suceeded Alexander McGillivray. The Creek Nation at
that time consisted of the Wind Tribe who were the
most elite, the Upper Creeks and the Lower Creeks. He
lived in Tuckabatchee which is near present day
Tallassee. He signed Treaty's as early as 1765 and as
late as 1802. In 1929 , the Alabama Anthropological
Society placed a monument marking the Creek Indian
Nation at the great Council Tree in Tuckabatchee where
the Wind Tribe resided.The monument mentions Chief
Efau hadjo. The monument has been moved to present day
Tallassee. There is nothing now to mark Tuckabatchee.
  Big Woman was the daughter of Chief Mad Dog.She was
married first to Tom Low and had a daughter, Anny
Low.She then married ALexander Cornells and had 3
children, Suckey, Charles,and Hawkins. Big Woman was a
full blooded Creek and I believe Alexander Cornells to
be white. Alexander Cornell was interperter to
Benjamin Hawkins,the Indian Agent as early as 1784. 
   Anny Low first married a George Goodwin , then
Polly Miles. One daughter was born, Mary Lou Miles, on
July 24, 1824 at Pigeon Creek , Albama.
     Mary Lou Miles married James Cornell Oliver in
1837, son of William Oliver and Mary Kean. William
Oliver is the 6th son of Revolutionary  war hero
Dionysius Oliver. Mary Kean is is the daughter of John
Kean and Lucy Cornell Kean.There were 4 children :
    William James Oliver , born 1839
    Catherine Oliver , born August 5, 1844 who married
Richard Burgess, son of William Burgess of Pike County
    Frances Nancy Oliver, born 1845
    Malinda Hawkins Oliver, born 1850
 Upon the death of Oliver, Mary Lou Miles Oliver
married Richard Wingard on July 14,1853, son of
William and Ellender Wingard of Pike County . She had
3 more children with Richard Wingard :
         Nora Wingard who married William Curry
         George Franklin Wingard born July 27, 1860
         who married Lena Curry on Jan 3, 1883 and had
3 children. He then married Carry Lou Moore on July
15, 1981 and had 10 children. He was still alive in
1946.
         James Wingard, died as a boy.
      Richard Wingard died on July 27,1862 and is
buried in the Wingard cemetery in Wingard, Al.  Mary
Lou Miles Oliver Wingard came to be known as "Grandma
Wingard ". She had 7 children , 24 grandchildren from
her Oliver children and 13 grandchildren from her
Wingard children.There were great and great
grandchildren also. She died on June 17, 1911 . 

Dorothy Singelmann Burandt, New Olreans, LA.