The daughter of John A. Belvin and Miyahoke (Cole) Belvin was born in Cole Creek, Natchez Trace, Mississippi Territory, United States. Mahayia, known more intimately as Amy, died in 1872 at Ft. Coffee, expressed a desire to be buried by the side of her husband but owing to high water in the streams, the effort was abandoned and she rests in an unknown and unmarked grave on the old George Riddle farm between Wilburton and Red Oak, in what is today, Latimer County, Oklahoma.
Mother of six and three were chiefs. Jack, Edmund, and Green McCurtain were mentioned in Oklahoma Historical Society as the McCurtain dynasty as they led their people for over 50 years.
Cenotaph (In Memory Of) for Amy Mahayia McCurtain here
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Verification of burial at https://www.okgenweb.net/~cemeteries/cem-online/latimer/riddle.htm
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https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mahayia_Belvin_%281%29
MESERVE, John Bartlett. THE McCURTAINS , in Oklahoma Historical Society (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). The Chronicles of Oklahoma. (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1921]-)
Volume 13, No. 3, September, 1935.
Details relating to the McCurtain brothers, the massacre of the Shak-chi-homas, the story of Sho-ma-ka and the identification of Mahayia, wife of Cornelius McCurtain as a granddaughter of Sho-ma-ka, are generously furnished the writer by the Hon. Peter J. Hudson of Tuskahoma who obtained the same from Mrs. Jackson F. McCurtain (Jane Austin), who passed away on October 27, 1925 at the advanced age of 82 years. It is recognized that some of these statements are at variance with the oft quoted story that Mahayia was of French extraction, her maiden name being Belvin instead of Nelson. Mrs. Jane Austin McCurtain was a lady of high intelligence, culture and probity and was in a position to acquire dependable information from her distinguished husband and other members of the McCurtain family. (See "Jane McCurtain" by Dr. Anna Lewis, Chronicles; Vol. XI, p. 1027 et seq.) The writer accords authenticity to the information assembled by Mrs. Jane McCurtain.
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From: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/belvin/108/
Info is found in the book " WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 1698 - 1907 ", written by Don Martini
Page 38 shows the following: JOHN BELVIN, possibly a white resident among the Choctaw, was born on June 20, 1781. He married MIYAHOKE COLE, the daughter of SHUMAKA, in 1805. He was the father of:
1 MAHOGIA BELVIN, born 1806, died 1872) ( also called AMY, and there is an alternate spelling of her name, "MEHIGA") She married Cornelius McCurtain.
2 LUCINDA BELVIN, who married CHARLES FARGO
3 CELIA BELVIN, who married Samuel Jacobs
4 JONAS BELVIN
5 JOHN BELVIN JR.
The daughter of John A. Belvin and Miyahoke (Cole) Belvin was born in Cole Creek, Natchez Trace, Mississippi Territory, United States. Mahayia, known more intimately as Amy, died in 1872 at Ft. Coffee, expressed a desire to be buried by the side of her husband but owing to high water in the streams, the effort was abandoned and she rests in an unknown and unmarked grave on the old George Riddle farm between Wilburton and Red Oak, in what is today, Latimer County, Oklahoma.
Mother of six and three were chiefs. Jack, Edmund, and Green McCurtain were mentioned in Oklahoma Historical Society as the McCurtain dynasty as they led their people for over 50 years.
Cenotaph (In Memory Of) for Amy Mahayia McCurtain here
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Verification of burial at https://www.okgenweb.net/~cemeteries/cem-online/latimer/riddle.htm
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https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Mahayia_Belvin_%281%29
MESERVE, John Bartlett. THE McCURTAINS , in Oklahoma Historical Society (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma). The Chronicles of Oklahoma. (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1921]-)
Volume 13, No. 3, September, 1935.
Details relating to the McCurtain brothers, the massacre of the Shak-chi-homas, the story of Sho-ma-ka and the identification of Mahayia, wife of Cornelius McCurtain as a granddaughter of Sho-ma-ka, are generously furnished the writer by the Hon. Peter J. Hudson of Tuskahoma who obtained the same from Mrs. Jackson F. McCurtain (Jane Austin), who passed away on October 27, 1925 at the advanced age of 82 years. It is recognized that some of these statements are at variance with the oft quoted story that Mahayia was of French extraction, her maiden name being Belvin instead of Nelson. Mrs. Jane Austin McCurtain was a lady of high intelligence, culture and probity and was in a position to acquire dependable information from her distinguished husband and other members of the McCurtain family. (See "Jane McCurtain" by Dr. Anna Lewis, Chronicles; Vol. XI, p. 1027 et seq.) The writer accords authenticity to the information assembled by Mrs. Jane McCurtain.
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From: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/belvin/108/
Info is found in the book " WHO WAS WHO AMONG THE SOUTHERN INDIANS 1698 - 1907 ", written by Don Martini
Page 38 shows the following: JOHN BELVIN, possibly a white resident among the Choctaw, was born on June 20, 1781. He married MIYAHOKE COLE, the daughter of SHUMAKA, in 1805. He was the father of:
1 MAHOGIA BELVIN, born 1806, died 1872) ( also called AMY, and there is an alternate spelling of her name, "MEHIGA") She married Cornelius McCurtain.
2 LUCINDA BELVIN, who married CHARLES FARGO
3 CELIA BELVIN, who married Samuel Jacobs
4 JONAS BELVIN
5 JOHN BELVIN JR.
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