A Tennessee woman was captured by Creek Indians & taken to Black Warrior town in Alabama
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There is a similar story in our family tree that remains unsolved in the same general vicinity, but as far as I can tell no documents to help with solving it. I am wondering if there are any resources that may have documented some of these events?
In what county and state was Thomas Nations living?
Thank you.
Don, you always provide the most memorable information. Thanks.
Man,I love our history so much.thank you Alabama pioneers
I love about thirty miles from the mouth of Duck River where she was captured. I can’t imagine what she went through from there to Tuscaloosa. Amazing story!
The site of the town was not in Tuscaloosa but was located at the confluence of the Sipsey and Mulberry Forks (in present day Walker County). There is now a historical marker in the area.
Tandy Walker was my GGGGrandfather. So glad to see this account on your site.
Hart Townsend, Ronnie Townsend, this is about Tandy Walker,,,Mama’s gggrandfather
Another interesting tidbit of history. TY!
The original Thomas Nations owned land on Muddy Creek of Surry Co. NC in the 1770s but later (1788) moved to Paw Creek in Mecklenburg Co. NC and then to TN, where most of his children followed him and migrated down into north Alabama. Hiram Nations, of Blount County, Alabama, was his grandson and had been born to the 2nd Thomas Nations in Tennessee. Hiram Nations was married to Louisa Thompson, the daughter of Joshua Thompson and Mary Morton Thompson of Pendleton SC. Joshua Thompson was murdered while “longhunting” into the Chickasaw Nation along with at least one of his son’s and others on the trip before 1827, somewhere in north Alabama.
Tamara Copsy-Black
She was rescued by our ancestor, Tandy Walker.
Hart Townsend, Ronnie Townsend
Hello, Black Warrior Town was not located on the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa County. Historical maps and written accounts place it on the eastern side of the confluence of the Sipsey and Mulberry Forks (in present day Walker County) near the present town of Sipsey. A historical marker was placed in the area in 2018. Gen. Coffee burned the town during his campaign under Gen. Jackson during the Creek War in 1814 .