Daugherty (Winchester) Colbert although listed as a son in the large family of Levi Colbert which consisted of twelve sons and eight daughters and although he was reared as a member of that family, a verification impels the conclusion that he was not, in fact, a son of Levi Colbert. He is reputed to have been the natural son of an itinerant, adventurous white man by the name of Darrity.(1) His mother was a Chickasaw Indian woman and he was born in the Tombigbee River country near Cotton Gin Port, Monroe County, Mississippi in 1810. In his early years, this child of romance was received by adoption into the family of Levi Colbert.
(1) Personal interviews with Mrs. Minor Mead, a granddaughter and with Charles Colbert, a great grandson of Levi Colbert, of Durant, Oklahoma and with Dr. T. P. Howell of Davis, Oklahoma.
