3. Celia² Colbert (James Logan¹)⁽²³⁾ (#21515) birth date unknown.⁽²⁴⁾

She married John McLish before 1824.⁽²⁵⁾ (John McLish is #1348.) John was born in TN. John⁽²⁶⁾ was the son of William McLish and Chickasaw Mother. John died 1838 in IT.⁽²⁷⁾ He was listed as a resident in the census report in Chickasaw Census, MS TER, 1818.

John McLish was born in Tennessee before 1822. He resided for some time in Lewis Co., TN. Sometime before 1826, he moved to Pontotoc Co., MS. In 1837, he removed to Indian Territory.

He was a halfbreed raised and educated in Tennessee. He was evidently a son of Chickasaw interpreter William McLish, who is last mentioned in 1805. John is first mentioned in May, 1815, when Andrew Jackson wrote that he was staying at "McLish'es" on the Buffalo River. By the Chickasaw treaty of September 20, 1816, he was the receipient of a tract of land on the north bank of the Buffalo, and lived there until 1822, when he sold part of the reservation and moved to a site six miles northeast of the Chickasaw agency. He moved to Indian Territory in the fall of 1837 and died there in January or February, 1838.

Celia Colbert and John McLish had the following children:

18 i. William³ McLish (II)⁽²⁸⁾ (#1579).

19 ii. David McLish⁽²⁹⁾ (#1582).

20 iii. Sampson McLish (#1583).

21 iv. Martin Colbert McLish⁽³⁰⁾ (#18827).

+ 22 v. George Frazier McLish was born 1824.

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