Choctaw Leader Educated in Nashville by Local Family - Wednesday, 08/27/03

Choctaw leader educated in Nashville by local family - Wednesday, 08/27/03

Home | News | Business | Sports | Entertainment | Features Classifieds | Jobs | Cars | Real Estate | Shopping KEYWORD Search: Website (7 days) Archives (1999...) [ advanced search ] Wednesday, 08/27/03 | Middle Tennessee News & Information! NEWS Local news Education Choctaw leader educated in Nashville by Gov & Politics Growth & Dev local family Lottery news Business news As a young lad, Greenwood Leflore, Nation-World Choctaw Indian of Mississippi Entertainment news eTech news (later Choctaw chief) was brought Space news to Nashville by a Mrs. Donly to live Williamson A.M. with the Donly family and receive Learn Nashville an education. Top 40 Under 40 Can you advise the location of the News Columnists Donly residence? A photo, if Tim Chavez available, would be fantastic. Gail Kerr Additionally, in what educational Dwight Lewis facility was Leflore educated? I Brad Schmitt believe he married one of the Donly COUNTY NEWS daughters and took up residence in Cheatham Mississippi. — June C. Pollard, About Davidson A.M. Franklin Dickson Maury The idea that a prosperous Choctaw COURTESY OF RON COLLINS Montgomery leader who rose to prominence and Choctaw Chief Greenwood Leflore is seen in Robertson great wealth almost 200 years ago was a portrait hanging in the Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, Miss. The artist and About Rutherford A.M. educated in Nashville and married date are unknown. Leflore was educated in Sumner/Gallatin into a Nashville family is probably Nashville before marrying two Nashville Sumner/H'ville still news to most Nashvillians. sisters. The museum has a room of Leflore Williamson family artifacts. Williamson/ Fairview Very little at all appears to have been Wilson written in Tennessee about _____Today's Top Stories_____ Lawmakers put in for pet projects Greenwood Leflore, the Mississippi • Talk of tax hike triggers number slaveholder who once stood up to • crunching Nashville's President Andrew Jackson After 40 years and move to Vegas, and was a pivotal figure in his tribe's • ACM finds itself ultimate fate. • Executives team up to form hospital

MAIN SECTIONS chain More information exists in his native Home • Metro Council to discuss putting up Mississippi and in Oklahoma, where Local News glass shield Sports most Choctaws were relocated, thanks Entertainment to the agreement Leflore signed with Business the federal government in 1830. Opinion Nation-World News Even the Tennessee State Library and Features Archives, widely respected for its Saving Time/Money comprehensive collection, has only a letter from a Kentucky woman in Moments of Life

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Dating For Endo Lab/Gi Office John Donnelly is said by several SUB SECTIONS sources to have had a stagecoach mail All Top Jobs Celebrities route south out of Nashville along the Lottery news Natchez Trace. He met young E-Mail This Article About Davidson A.M. Greenwood most probably while About Rutherford visiting the lad's father's ''stand,'' or Printer-Friendly (text only) Education trading post, along the route in Subscribe to The Tennessean e-Technology Mississippi. e-ThePeople FYI 2004 Area Guide Donnelly noticed the boy's aptitude and proposed to oversee his education in Gov & Politics Nashville. Greenwood's family agreed. His mother was Choctaw, but his father was Growth & Dev French, named Lafleur or Lefleau, and said to have settled in Mobile when it was still Ms. Cheap Newspaper in Edu. part of western Florida during French colonial governance. Obituaries Photo Gallery There is little doubt the Donnelly family brought Greenwood to Nashville about 1812, Real Estate when he was age 12. His education here lasted about five years. Soon afterward the Space Donnelly family provided daughters — not one but two, on account of the death of the Williamson A.M. first — as his wives. Both of them produced descendants. EXTRAS Columnists Donnelly's brother James, who died in 1830 at about age 85, appears to have been an Coupons even better known Nashville property investor/trader. James settled here first at Crossword ''Eaton's Station, near the French Lick Station,'' his 1830 obituary said. His holdings by Horoscope 1787 included 274 acres along Richland Creek, west of the city between Bells Bend In-depth reports and what is now Belle Meade. Learn Nashville Lottery results John's residence also may have been nearby, but that remains unclear. John did sell 10 Newcomers' Guide acres in that same area in 1796, the year of Tennessee's statehood. Reader Forums School Report Card Leflore's education here 1812-17 was probably with tutors arranged by the Donnelly Traffic family, since formal schooling was not as commonplace in that period. Travel Directory Weather Tribute page: Alvin C. Photos of the Donnelly home of that time are not likely to exist because it predated York commonplace photography by several decades. Customer Services (615) 242-SALE Next week: The Choctaw chief confronts President Andrew Jackson. Who wins? (800) 342-8237 Home Delivery GOT A QUESTION ABOUT NASHVILLE? Subscribe Online Services Help with Multimedia Write to Learn Nashville, 1100 Broadway, Nashville, Tenn. 37203. E-mail About The Tennessean [email protected]. Fax (615) 259-8093. Reader Services Other Services George Zepp writes about the people, places and things that make Nashville unique. Newspaper in Edu. Sources: Tennessee State Library and Archives; Nashville Room, Metro Public Our History Library; Internet resources; www.vaiden.net/malmaison.html. SITE SEARCH TOP | HOME | LOCAL NEWS | CUSTOMER SERVICES

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