Lincoyer
and The Battle of Tallasehatchee
At this site, on Nov. 3, 1813, after the Battle of
Tallasehatchee, known then as Talluschatches,
during the Creek Indian War,
Gen. Andrew Jackson found a dead
Creek Indian woman embracing her living
infant son. Gen. Jackson, upon hearing that the
other Creek Indian women were planning to kill
the infant, as was their custom when all relations
were dead, became himself the protector
and guardian of the child.
Because of his compassion, Gen. Jackson took
the infant to Fort Struther, in present day
Ohatchee, where he nursed him back to health.
Gen. Jackson then took the baby to his family
home, the Hermitage, in Nashville, Tenn., where
he and his wife Rachel named the child Lincoyer
and adopted, raised, loved and educated him as
their son.
Lincoyer fell ill and died of Tuberculosis
at home with his family, when he was 16 years old.
The General and his wife mourned the loss of
their son for the rest of their lives.
Dedicated August 2000
(Back):
This memorial marks the site
where Lincoyer was found and
saved by Gen. Andrew Jackson
after the Battle of
Talluschatches, during the
Creek Indian War.
Through the special efforts
of and by Commissioner Eli
Henderson and the Calhoun
County Commission, to preserve,
save and commemorate the
History of Calhoun County,
this monument was erected.
Calhoun County Commission
James Eli Henderson - Chairman
James A. “Pappy” Dunn
Robert W. Downing
Randy Wood
Lea Fite
Marker is on McCullars Lane west of County Road 73, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
