Person:Levi Colbert (2)

Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Alabama)07 Jul 1940, SunPage 27

The Cherokees formed no settlements on
the Tennessee River until about 1770. There
were four Cherokee villages in Colbert County
during the last quarter of the eighteenth cen-
tury. Beginning on the river, the first was
Doublehead's Village, founded about 1790,
and situated a short distance above the
place where George Colbert subsequently
established his ferry. A large spring, still
known as Doublehead's Spring marks the site
of this village.==============George and Levi Colbert, for whom the
county was named, both lived in Colbert
Countv on the Natchez Trace, which crossed
the Tennessee River at Colbert's Ferry. How-
ever. George Colbert did not live continuously
at the ferry, but spent the greater part of his
time at his other home, on Wolf Creek, four
miles west of Booneville, Miss. Levi Colbert's
home was on the Natchez Trace, at the cross-
ing on Big Bear Creek. These two Colbert
brothers were not real Chickasaw chiefs. On
account of their knowledge of English and
their superior intelligence they were appoint-
ed by the Chickasaw King to act as princi-
pal chiefs in all matters connected with the
United States Government. George Colbert
died in 1839, in the Chickasaw Nation west;
Levi died at Buzzard Roost in the spring of
183 4, while on his way to Washington city
on some official business. Another brother,
James Colbert, lived 30 or 40 miles further
down the Tennessee.

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Maj Levi Itawamba Minco (Bench Chef) “Okolona ( Calm or Peaceful)” Colbert
Birth: 1759
Death: 2 Jun 1834 (aged 74–75) Colbert County, Alabama, USA
Burial: Unknown

Memorial #: 52425730
Bio: Maj. Levi Colbert, the youngest of the four sons of James Logan Colbert
in 1833 Levi Colbert, the head chief of the Chickasaws, lived about one mile West of Cotton Gin Port.
He had a plurality of wives, he had an intellect far superior to the common mass of people without regard to color or nationality, he was shrew and influential among the Chickasaw tribe,his words or advice was the law among them, his people loved him, the Chiefs, Captains, with their King, looked up to him: his speeches in the councils would electrify them and throw them almost into ecstasies. His eloquence might well be compared to Henry Clay and Mr. Webster or any one else, his eyes would glow with brightness, his gestures were so sublime that they seemed to [unreadable] what he was about to say, his Indian name was It-a-wam-ba Mingo (meaning) Setting King He was kind and generous to a fault, liberal in all dealings, never out of humor, he loved his friends and was loved and honored by all who knew him, he was kind and affectionate to his family, He had a number of wives (3) and two of them sisters,(surname Allen)(could be daughters of John L. Allen) they lived as cordial and affectionately as so many sisters. They would laugh and joke each other as though they wives of different men, and no discord ever happened among them.
Each of them had their children so trained that it seemed that all three were their mothers, and cared for alike.
Maj. Levi Colbert's children
sons,
1. Martin
2. Alexander
3. Adam
4. Charles
5. Lemuel
6. Daugherty
7. Abijah
8. Commodore
9. Morgan
10. Lims
11. Benjamin
12. McKinney
daughters
13. Charlotte
14. Zilia
15. Eliza
16. Charity
17. Ailsa
18. Philista
19. Maria
20. Kilpatrick Carter whose given name I have forgotten, she married a white man and raised one son and a daughter now alive and living near Doaksville in the Chocktaw Nation.

Maj Levi Colbert settled about 18 or 20 miles below Tuscumbia Alabama at a place called Buzzard Roost and employed a white man by the name of Kilpatrick Carter to build him a house and when the house was near finished said Carter married on of his daughters. Levi Colbert then gave up his new home to Carter and built a large Double head log house on the west side of the Tombigbee River one and a half miles west of "Cotton Gin Port"
While on his way to Washington City, he went by way of his old home below Tuscumbia, where he had a married daughter, on his arrival there he was taken sick with Pneumonia and died in the beginning of the year, in 1833 or 1834 in the (80) eightieth year of his age.

Family Members
Parents
James Logan Colbert 1721-1784
Siblings
William Cooshemataha Pyaheggo Colbert 1742-1836
George Colbert 1744-1839
James Colbert 1768-1842
Children
Martin Colbert 1795-1837
Maintained by: Roger Leedy (47465848)
Originally Created by: John Andrew Meyer (46869698)
Added: 15 May 2010
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52425730/levi-itawamba_minco_(bench_chef)-colbert
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 February 2021), memorial page for Maj Levi Itawamba Minco (Bench Chef) “Okolona ( Calm or Peaceful)” Colbert (1759–2 Jun 1834), Find a Grave Memorial no. 52425730, ; Maintained by Roger Leedy (contributor 47465848) Unknown.