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Hopothla, Menawa (Monahwee) Yoholo

Male Abt 1766 - 1843  (~ 77 years)


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  • Name Hopothla  
    Suffix Menawa (Monahwee) Yoholo 
    Born Abt 1766  Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Elected 26 Apr 1826  Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died 1843  Creek Nation West Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4935  MyTree
    Last Modified 19 Jul 2010 

    Father Menewa-Estechako (?),   b. Abt 1740, TN Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Tucabatchee, Creek Nation Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F4493  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah Cornell,   b. Abt 1767, Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1880, AL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 113 years) 
    Married Bef 1785  Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Little Warrior Cornell-Monahwee,   b. 1785, Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Between 1810 and 1819, AL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 25 years)
    +2. Katee Ann Cornell-Monahwee,   b. 1786, AL Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1865, AL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    +3. Kurn Chartee Cornell-Yoholo,   b. Abt 1790, Creek Territory, now Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1872, Bibb Co., (Chilton Co.) AL Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F2812  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Hopothla means "Crazy War Hunter".

      The Muscogees- we call them Creeks to identify them from other Native groups of the area -- the Southeastern United States -- the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw-- were really a group of tribes. Kashitas, Koasati, Yammassee, Tuckabatchee, Coosa, Coweta, Alibamo are some tribes associated with Creeks. They mainly lived along waterways of (now) Alabama and Georgia, in villages connected by paths-- trading paths. And threaded among the trading paths were hunting paths. Crisscrossing the trading and hunting paths were war paths. A telling pattern.

      Menewa's (1765 - 1843) boyhood name was Yoholo; the name given to him
      by his father was Othlepoya Yoholo. When the Creeks chose him as chief
      in 1820, he became known as Menewa. On April 26, 1826, he was chosen
      as the principle chief of the Creek Indian tribes. (This information
      is from a letter written by Mary Ann Campbell Peigh of Bessemer,
      Alabama, on December 28, 1970, to her uncle, Joshua Banks Campbell.)
      Menewa married Hannah Cornell, also a Creek. They had two children,
      Katee Ann (1786 - 1865) and Little Warrior (1785 - 181?). Katee Ann
      married Reuben Weed (Creek, ? - 1814; died in Battle of Horseshoe
      Bend), and they had Katee (1804 - 1890), Hannah (died 1880), and
      Charity Yoholo (died 1872). Charity, Menewa's grandaughter, married
      Robert David Campbell (1767 - 1835), and they had twins Asa and
      Nathan, and two girls and another son who seem to have disappeared
      with their mother. Asa and Nace were raised by their father's brother,
      Calvin, upon their father's death. (Source: Amanda Givens. Ancestry
      Post 4 May 2005)
      (Note: His name given by his peers was "Hopothla". His parents are not known. MCM-2005)

      In 1835 he sent his oldest son to serve against the Seminoles in Florida.