Milly Francis's name is sometimes thought to be an Anglicization of the Creek name "Malee", but the most recent thinking is that "Milly" was her birth name.
13 Facts About Milly Francis
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Milly Francis was a member of the Red Stick faction of the Creek tribe.
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Milly Francis had gotten lost on a day out fishing.
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Milly Francis was captured by two Creek warriors, and tied naked to a tree in preparation for his execution.
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Milly Francis was arguably, after Sacagawea, the most famous Native American woman of the nineteenth century.
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Milly Francis presumably witnessed the 1818 execution by hanging of her father by Andrew Jackson, after McCrinnon told Jackson where her father was.
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Milly Francis was already "something of a celebrity" when she arrived at Fort Gadsden, which is where McCrimmon found her.
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Milly Francis was among those relocated on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.
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Milly Francis built a small cabin on what is the grounds of Bacone College.
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Milly Francis had heard of her and, on the pretext of investigating "her claim for eight slaves then living among the Seminoles", sought her out.
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Milly Francis was to receive a pension of $96 per year, retroactive to September 1843, and a medal, the cost of which was not to exceed $20.
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Milly Francis did not even hear of this until just before her death in poverty in 1848, and received nothing.
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The site of Milly Francis's grave is unknown, though presumably on the grounds of Bacone College, where her cabin was.