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Winchester Daugherty COLBERT2,1,3,4

18101 - 18801

Life History

1810

Born in Monroe County, Mississippi.1

1880

Died in Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory.1

1880

Buried in Family homestead, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1

Other facts

 

Married Annica KEMP

Notes

  • Most genealogies have his name as Winchester Daugherty Colbert, but the memorial on Find a Grave has reversed the name order.  Wikipedia reports his name from Chickasaw Nation sources as simply Daugherty.  Various records refer to him also as simply Daugherty or Dougherty.  Annica's grave, however, styles here as "Annica Wife of W Colbert."  A history, however, which reports he was adopted by Levi, refers to Daugherty (originally Darrity) as his first name (see below).  We are told he adopted the name Winchester later in life.

    Note that Annica is reported here as the mother of Daugherty's son George.  Most, if not all, genealogies also report Annica Kemp as the mother of all or most of his children, even though they also report that Annica and Daugherty did not marry until 1875.

    This, plus other anomalies, multiple mothers for the same children, and wild variations of birth and death dates for the same children, even in the multiple entries for the same children in the same genealogy, along with the lack of sources and documentation, make a huge number of the posted genealogies unreliable as witnesses we can use here.  There is a smaller set of documented and well-presented genealogies.

    Analysis of the birth dates indicates that Annica was the last wife and mother of none of Daugherty's children.  This is verified by the small set of carefully constructed genealogies that do report a consistent and documented picture of Daugherty's family.

    Mississippi, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908
    Dougherty Colbert
    Land Office: Pontotoc
    Document #619
    Issued 6 Oct 1840
    1598.88 Acres
    Chickasaw Treaty: October 20, 1832
    Land Description:
    1 CHICKASAW No 16S 5E 1; 2 CHICKASAW No 16S 5E 15; 3 W CHICKASAW No 16S 5E 14

    U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
    Annica Kemp
    Spouse Name Winchester Colbert
    [no date in this compiled record, married in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory]

    Daugherty Winchester Colbert
    Birth 1810 Monroe County, Mississippi
    Death 1880 Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma
    [it was Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory at that time, Atoka County was not formed until 1907]
    Second Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. He is buried beside his wife Annica Kemp Colbert (____ - 1884)
    Children George Colbert (1857 - 1911)
    [George's mother was likely Silsey Ibbahfoquatubby1810 -, this birth and death date also differs from most sources, reporting 1836-1917]
    Burial Non-Cemetery Burial, Family homestead, Johnson [Should be Johnston] Co, Oklahoma
    Created by MillieBelle Sep 20, 2008
    --  Find A Grave Memorial #29951336, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29951336

    The area where Daugherty lived and was buried is now part of Johnston County, Oklahoma, which is in the current Choctaw Nation.  The Chickasaws were originally part of the Choctaw Nation, and the area was part of the Chickasaw settlement area in Indian Territory.  Johnston County was established in 1907 at the founding of the state of Oklahoma, created from a merger of the Indian Territory with the Oklahoma Territory and parts of Texas and other land.  The county was named for Douglas H. Johnston, a governor of the Chickasaw Nation.  It seems odd that a former governor of the Chickasaw Nation was living in Choctaw Nation at the time of his death.

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    Johnston County, Oklahoma
    Website:  www.johnstoncountyok.org

    Johnston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of 2010, the population was 10,957. Its county seat is Tishomingo. It was established at statehood on November 16, 1907 and named for Douglas H. Johnston, a governor of the Chickasaw Nation.

    In 1820, the U.S. government granted the land now known as Johnston County to the Choctaw tribe. Many of the Choctaws began moving to the new land in Indian Territory in 1830. The rest followed the Chickasaw tribe, who were closely related to the Choctaw , formally separated from the Choctaw Nation in the late 1830s, relocating to the western part of the Choctaw Nation. The Chickasaw Nation named the town of Tishomingo as its capital and built a brick capitol building there in 1856.

    Several educational institutions were established in the Chickasaw Nation before the Civil War. The Pleasant Grove Mission School and the Chickasaw Academy were founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. The Presbyterians, in partnership with the Chickasaw Nation, opened the Wapanucka Female Manual Labour School in 1852.

    The Chickasaw government joined the Confederate States of America after the outbreak of the Civil War. The Union army ordered its troops to evacuate Fort Washita, Fort Cobb and Fort Arbuckle. When Confederate troops occupied the area, they used the stone building at Wapanucka as a hospital and a prison.
    --  "Johnston County, Oklahoma," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_County,_Oklahoma
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    Daughtery's life and service to hte Chickasaw Nation is told on the Chickasaw Nation website, where his name is spelled Daughtery. has a

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    Final resting place of former Chickasaw Gov. Winchester Colbert still a question

    Release Date: February 10, 2014
    by Dana Lance

    Governor Winchester Colbert
    Note: This is the second in a series of articles highlighting the burial place of Chickasaw Governors since removal to Indian Territory.

    The exact burial place of the second governor of the Chickasaw Nation, Governor Daugherty (Winchester) Colbert, is somewhat of a mystery.

    Former Gov. Winchester Colbert served the Chickasaw Nation for three terms - 1858-1860, 1862-1864 and 1864-1866. He led the tribe through tumultuous times that included the runup to Civil War and the actual War Between the States.

    While his leadership during this difficult time is certain, there appears to be some question about the precise burial place of the distinguished governor, whose appearance and fashion is often compared to Abraham Lincoln.

    A 1940 biography of Winchester Colbert tells how the former Governor in 1866 sold his home near Oil Springs in the Chickasaw Nation and moved to Atoka County, Choctaw Nation.

    Gov. Colbert and his wife, Annica (Kemp) Colbert, later returned to the Chickasaw Nation and made their home with their son Humphrey Colbert on property located about 2 miles west of “the present town of Frisco, Johnston County.”

    The article, written by John Bartlett Meserve, went on to say when the Governor died in 1880, he was buried in a family cemetery in a crudely marked grave on the property near Frisco.

    His widow, Annica, returned to the home in Oil Springs. She died in 1884 and was buried in the family graveyard at Oil Springs.

    Information about Colbert Cemetery published by the Pontotoc County Historical and Genealogical Society fixes the grave of son Humphrey Colbert. The account includes a story of the son who asked to be buried next to his father, and of his father’s grave being subsequently bulldozed and covered with cement.

    Other accounts on geology websites, such as deancrocker.com, lists Gov. Colbert’s place of death as Atoka County.

    Pontotoc County Connection

    Other evidence suggests Gov. Colbert’s grave was actually located in Pontotoc County, Okla.

    Writing about the first oil produced in Oklahoma, historian and Choctaw Muriel H. Wright (1889-1975) describes an 1872 meeting at Gov. Colbert’s home.  Excerpts of the 1926 article describe a meeting among certain citizens of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations at Gov. Colbert’s home, in old Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation in February 1872.

    Other accounts seem to indicate the town of Frisco was located between Fittstown and Stonewall in Pontotoc County, and was the original Stonewall townsite. It was renamed Frisco when the present town of Stonewall was moved about 3 miles directly east to its present location, according to the 1942 article “Reminiscences of Old Stonewall” by George W. Burris.

    Beyond that, there is some question regarding Humphrey Colbert’s tombstone and whether it actually marks his grave, since the headstones and possibly the bodies, were moved from their original position prior to the construction of a reservoir.
    Although the exact burial place of Gov. Colbert may remain a mystery, his legacy as an important Chickasaw leader is well documented.

    Winchester Colbert’s legacy as a leader began long before he became Governor.

    Born in the Chickasaw homelands in 1810, Winchester Colbert was the youngest member of the Levi Colbert family. He was fluent in Chickasaw, Choctaw and English.

    Like his cousin, the Chickasaw Nation’s first Governor Cyrus Harris, he served as a diplomat for the Chickasaw Nation.

    At the age of 16, he served as a Chickasaw representative in Washington, D.C.

    After relocating to Indian Territory, Winchester Colbert worked diligently as a diplomat to establish the Chickasaw tribe’s sovereignty.

    He died in 1880 at age 70.

    Gov. Colbert was inducted into the Chickasaw Hall of Fame in 2008.  His Hall of Fame marker can be found at the Chickasaw Honor Garden, located at the Chickasaw Cultural Center in Sulphur, Okla.
    --  The Chickasaw Nation, https://www.chickasaw.net/News/Press-Releases/Release/Final-resting-place-of-former-Chickasaw-Gov-Winche-1533.aspx
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    The following collection of quotes from history sources provide important information for understanding DaughertY's genetic and social identify.

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    RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: FAMILY TIES
    accessed at Ancestry.com, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/7660732/person/5049511149/storyx/1?pg=32817&pgpl=pid&ftm=1

    Winchester's will was probated in Pontotoc Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT, 17 F EB 1897.

    From Kerry Armstrong's site:
    "Daugherty (Winchester) Colbert although listed as a son of the large family of Levi Colbert, 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 be the natural son of an itinerant, adventurous white man by the name of Darrity. His mother was a Chickasaw woman. He was received by adoption in to the family of Levi Colbert.

    "He was invested with the family name of Colbert, his own father's name being employed as his first name. But Darrity Colbert soon became Daugherty Colbert, occasioned not only by a similarity in the names but also probably influenced by the fact that a near relative of Levi Colbert bore the name of Daugherty Colbert. The name Winchester Colbert was adopted by the young man some years later and so through life he sometimes was recognized as Daugherty Colbert and at other times as Winchester Colbert." (Memserve, John Bartlett, Chronicals of Oklahoma, "Governor Daugherty (Winchester) Colbert", vol.XVIII, p.348).

    Recent "Colbert" Scholars believe that he was the son of Samuel and Nancy (Frazier) Colbert, (a younger son of James Logan Colbert), and upon Samuel's early death, he was adopted by Levi Colbert. (See, Martini "Chickasaw Empire").

    He removed to Indian Territory in 1837 and settled with his family near where Canadian, Oklahoma is located today. The Colbert home was on the south side of the Canadian River near North Fork, a community of the Creek Nation. Later in life he moved to Pontotoc Co., Indian Territory. In August of 1858, he became the second Governor of the Chickasaw Indian Nation. He was re-elected in August of 1862, and again in August of 1864. He was the Chickasaw Governor during the period of the Civil War.

    Death: 1880 in Atoka, Atoka County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory

    Name: Winchester (Daugherty) Colbert
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