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Greenwood LeFlore was unanimously elected by the tribal council to become Chief of the Mississippi and Alabama Residing Indian Nation at the age of 22, thus becoming the youngest leader of thetribe's history. He was schooled in his teenage years in Nashville, making him the first Chief to have any formal education. He is regarded as the greatest Chief among the Choctaws for the many reforms that he instituted among his People. These include mandatory schooling, abolition of cruel Trible practices, which had given the Choctaws their name (from the Spanish "Chat" meaning "flattened" which referred to the practice of flattening the heads of its male infants. President Andrew Jackson presented Lefloreacommission as Colonel in the U. S. Army and LeFlore would lead his people in defense of his country. The Choctaws were the only Indian Nation that never raised a hand against the flag that LeFlore loved as his own. By 1854, LeFlore owned a 15,000 acre plantation, sawmills, brickyards, steamboats and over 200 slaves.
From " Greenwood Leflore and the Choctaw Indians of the Mississippi Valley" written by Ms. Florence R. Ray, great-grand-daughter of Greenwood's.
Greenwood was the last Chief of the Choctaw Indians of East MS.He was bornin Jackson, MS near the site of the old capital.His father was Louis Leflore, a full-blooded French Canadian. His mother was Rebecca Cravet, half-french & half Choctaw Indian.Greenwood went to Nashville, TN with Major John Donley when he was 12 years old to get an education.That is how he meet his 1st wife Rosa, Rosa & Greenwood were married in Nashville, TN, then went back to MS, (they had 2 children) after Rosa's death he married Elizabeth Cody, (no children), and when Elizabeth died he married Rosa's younger sister Priscilla James Donley (1 child).
In his twenties, Greenwood became a chief of the Choctaws and vigorously encouraged education, Christianity and law-making.After the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek the Choctaws had to sell their Mississippi Land to the whites.Greenwood was no longer the Chief.He became a United States Citizen and remained in MS.He was a member of the MS senate in 1841-44.
The rise in the Economic system of the white man was remarkable.Greenwood's first home was in a log cabin in Greenwood, MS, but he prospered so that in 1854 he moved into a stately mansion, "Malmaison".His domain came to comprise of 15,000 acres in MS, on which were 400 slaves & he had a part interest in 60,000 acres in TX.He also built a small town, Point Leflore, & constructed a $75,000 turnpike to divert plantation business to his town.During the Civil War his various enterprises languished and his TX lands were lost.He had deplored secession, and remained loyal to the Union until his death at the close of the war.In accordance with his last request, his body was wrapped in the flag of the United States and was buried near his home in Greenwood, MS.**Here, again is where there are more than one resource with different information.With Greenwood there were not too many contradictions.One that I recall is one source has another daughter, Jane,belonging to Greenwood & Rosa.
***Other sources found so far are:Leflore Trail History, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians, among a few.
Location: NW of Carollton, MS, Malmaison plantation.
Copied By: Mrs. Isabel C. McDougal & W. Guy Humphrey in Nov. 1954
GREENWOOD LEFLORE/Last Great Chief of the Choctaw Indians East of the MS River/died Aug. 31, 1865/aged 65 yrs./The gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
PRISCILLA J. LEFLORE/Dec. 8, 1817/Nov 8, 1910
ELIZABETH DONLEY/June 27, 1785/July 23, 1837
ROSA DONLEY/wife of Greenwood Leflore/June 11, 1804/Oct. 3 1829
ALFRED SOMERVILLE/son of J. F. & Dora Donley/Nov. 29, 1880/Aug 27, 1890
GREENWOOD L. HALSEY/1840--1900
JOHN B. HALSEY/June 3, 1842/July 22, 1900
LOUIS L. HALSEY/OCT. 3, 1879/SEPT. 29, 1920
GEORGE W. WRIGHT/May 27, 1861/Nov. 14, 1908
MARY J. HALSEY/July 19, 1851/Mar. 12, 1896
JOHN T. TERRY/May 5, 1856/Dec. 4, 1901
ROSA A. HARRIS/wife of Marvin W. Bryan/dau. of J. C. & R. C. Harris/Nov. 28, 1878/July 7, 1903
MARVIN W. BRYAN/1869-1924
G. LEFLORE HARRIS/Oct. 29, 1886/June 13, 1896
ALICE CLAY/dau. of J. C. & Rebecca Cravat Harris/Mar. 4, 1861/Nov. 2, 1863
EDWARD R. YARBRA/Jan. 25, 1884/Nov. 10, 1911
C. E. Williamson/Jan. 22, 1859/June 9, 1903
JAMES CLARK HARRIS/Aug. 16, 1826/Sept. 26, 1904
REBECCA LEFLORE/his wife/May 4, 1837/July 21, 1922
GREENWOOD LEFLORE/son of J. B. & M. J. Halsey/Dec. 3, 1879/Oct. 19, 1887
CLAUDE G. GOODSON/Jan. 28, 1888/Mar. 18, 1912
A. HUGHES/son of J. B. & M. J. Halsey/Mar. 17, 1881/Feb. 6, 1891
LOUIE D. LEFLORE/son of J. C. & R. C. Harris/Oct. 10, 1858/July 26, 1864
HENRY JONATHAN/son of W. L. & Florence D. Ray/July 19, 1881/Oct. 7, 1881
EDNA EARL/dau. of Wm & Florence D. Ray/Jan. 7, 1878/Sept. 28, 1884
SANUEL DONLEY/Oct. 22, 1820/June 2, 1888
JOHN L. DONLEY/JAN. 18, 1854/DEC. 21, 1913
MS NEWSPAPER OBITS: 1862-1875:
OCTOBER 20, 1865
Colonel Greenwood Leflore died on the 31st of August, at his residence in Carroll County, aged sixty-five years.He was in on sense "the last of the Choctaws".He claimed his lineage from Choctaw Indians, although not of the full blood.Colonel Leflore was the last Chief of the Choctaws.He remained in this State while his tribe took up their melancholy march to the lands west of the Mississippi.
CHOCTAW CENSUS & CITIZENSHIP,& APPLICATIONS FOR IDENTIFICATION AS MISSISSIPPI CHOCTAWS:Microfilm # 1666451 (FHC):
Chief Green Leflore 250 acres cultivated land, Total in family -- 5, Males over 16 -- 1, Males & Females under 10 -- 2, # of slaves -- 32, Location of land -- Big Sand Prairie, Yazoo Valley, Total of # of acres -- 2560, Remarks: Good land, Chief, 4 sections provided by supplement.
Notes for Elizabeth Cody:
July 7, 1996:States in the Greenwood Leflore book that Elizabeth was the a Cherokee, the niece of Chief Ross, a cousin to William Cody (the famous Buffalo Bill).
Notes for Priscilla James Donley:
July 7, 1996:Priscilla was Rosa's younger sister.She was 16 when she married Greenwood.They only had 1 child, who they named after Greenwood's mother...Rebecca Cravet Leflore.
Children of Greenwood Leflore and Rosanah Donly are:
+ 98 i. Elizabeth Donly6 Leflore, born Aug 1, 1820 in French Camp, Natchez Trace, Mississippi; died Jun 24, 1847 in Carroll Co., MS.
+ 99 ii. John Donly Leflore, born Dec 15, 1824 in Frenchman's Camp, Natchez Trace, MS.
100 iii. Jane G. LeFlore, born Nov 14, 1828 in French Camp, Natchez Trace, Mississippi (Source: Greenwood Leflore's Will.).She married William Spring Abt. 1853 in MS.
Child of Greenwood Leflore and Priscilla Donley is:
+ 101 i. Rebecca Cravet6 Leflore, born May 4, 1837 in Mississippi; died Jul 21, 1922 in Malmaison, Carroll Co., MS.