SOPHIA DURANT [LINDER, Dr. JOHN McCOMBS]

Sophia Durant

From Woodrow Wallace:
Deed Record Book “A” Tallapoosa County, AL Page #5:
Yargee, son of Big Warrior, deeded the estates of his father and mother to Sophia McCombs on August 7, 1835.

The document reads: “State of Alabama: Know all men by these presents, that in Tallapoosa County, Yargi an Indian of the Creek .. of Creek.. in the State of Alabama and County of Tallapoosa and this day.. and in consideration o the sum of five thousand dollars to me in hand paid the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, grants delivered and sold, afirmed and conveyed , and by these presents for and in consideration of the sum aforesaid, do grant bargain and ..convey unto Sophia McComb of the County and State aforesaid all my rights, title, interest and claims in said County and to all and every part of my Father’s, The Big Warrior’s estate, both real and personal, and of the said Yarge‘s, an Indian, as aforesaid for the consideration, for the consideration the sum aforesaid , do grant, bargain and sell, ..and convey unto the said Sophia McComb all my rights, titles, interests and claims in and to all ..every part of my mother’s YE? for her..estate both real and personal, to have and to hold unto her, the said Sophia McComb and unto her heirs & assigns forever, the above granted, bargained and sold interests in the above named estates together, with the tenements and aforementioned thereto belonging of in any way ..to the said estates whether in real or paperform and I the ?? Yargi, the above-mentioned estates together with all and everything thereunto belonging whether in real or paper form unto her, the said Sophia McComb and unto her heirs and assigns.. and will truly warrant and ..defend by these presents against the claim or claims of all and every person or persons whatever.

In testimony whereof and of all and .. for the premises aforesaid. I, the
said Yargi‘s that hereunto subscribed my name and afixed my seal this the seventh day of August a.d. 1835.
YarXgi
Signed and sealed and witnessed
before us

Thos M. Coker
William Bardin
Hubert (his mark) Proctor

State of Alabama | Personally appeared before me E. Garby and Peter Haus, justices of the peace in and for the County of Tallapoosa the said Yargi, the within signed who says that he signed and sealed (faded out)

 ~~~~YarXgi

Vramid Garby JP
Peter Haus JP
Recorded 15 Oct 1835
Samuel T Nawin – clerk (Transcribed to the best of my ability W W Wallace Sr)

Born: about 1797, now Upper Creek Nation; Married 2nd: about 1805 now Upper Creek Nation; Died: after 1860 Tallapoosa Co., AL
Parents: Sophie McGillivray and Benjamin Durant

Dr. John McCombs

LifeNotes: Sold land in Tallapoosa Co., AL to Henry S. Spencer on 14 Dec 1841; Sophia signed the document

Born, Married: about 1805 now Upper Creek Nation; Died,
Parents:

Their children were:

• Malinda McCombes, born about 1813, now Upper Creek Nation. Married on 6 June 1836 , Tallapoosa Co., AL, to William Jasper Mastin (b. 1811 Greenville Co., SC; was an engineer; d. Feb 1899, Wetumpka, AL). Malinda died July 1838, Tallapoosa Co., AL.
• Mary Sophia McCombes, born about 1815. Married on 21 July 1838 to William Jasper Mastin (same as married her sister). Their children were: Texana Mastin (b. 1841 Coosa Co. now Elmore Co., AL; listed in 1850 cenusus in AL), John B Mastin (b. 1844, Wetumka, Elmore Co. AL; captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, d. of pneumonia Feb 13, 1865, Fort Delaware, DE as PW in Civil War, buried at Finns Point National Cemetery, Salem, NJ), Oregon McCombe Mastin (b. August 14, 1845, Wetumka, Elmore Co., AL; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, enlisting 8 Sept 1863, Tallassee, AL, serving in Company G, 53d, Alabama Cavalry Partisan Rangers, which was commanded by his cousin, Captain Peter Blackwell Mastin; m. Josephine S. Norris on 18 Dec 1879, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL; removed to Oklahoma Indian Territory about 1890; died of pneumonia on January 22, 1902, Wetumpka, Hughes Co., OK, IT, buried in the “Old” Wetumka Cemetery— this information from William LaPorte), James Mastin (b. 1852, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL), Mary “Mollie” C. Mastin ( b. Aug 1845 in Wetumka Alabama; m. Edmond Daniel Stockton; d. 1923 in Little Rock AR; .this is Mecklyn O. Stockton‘s line), Catherine “Kate Mastin (b. 16 Sept 1853, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL; m. William L. Reeder about 1874; d. 8 Oct 1884, Atlanta GA), Jennie Mastin (b. 12 July 1855, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL; m. 1st-Thomas W. Marston on 10 Oct 1885, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL; m. 2nd. John Cobane Laport about 1895, Hughes Co., OK IT; d. 21 Dec 1885), B. Mastin (b. 1856 Coosa, now Elmore Co., AL), Thomas Mastin (b. 1859, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., AL; went with brother Oregon to TX in 1876 and stayed there, whereas Oregon returned to AL)
• Cornelia McCombes, born about 1817.
• Angeline McCombes, born about 1812.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Durant, born about 1765. Twin of Rachel. Married Peter McQueen. . Their children were: James McQueen (b. about 1790), Millie McQueen (b. about 1792; m. Checartha Yargee, son of “Big Warrior; their daughter was: Muscogee Yargee (m. Joshua Ross; went to OK; their children – Louise Ross and Josua Ross), Nancy McQueen (b. about 1794; m. Checartha Yargee, son of Big Warrior; went to OK), Tallassee McQueen (m. Checartha Yargee, son of Big Warrior; went to OK). Married 2nd-Willy McQueen. Their children were: Sophia McQueen, Muscogee McQueen (b. about 1842).

taken from: Some Creek Families & Friends

Sophie [McGillivray] Sophie and Benjamin remained at Durant’s Bend until the Creek War of 1814. Then they fled to safety among the Seminoles and Spanish in Pensacola, FL. Nonsense