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Published Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Local

McIntosh descendant to be in Whitesburg on Monday

By Winston Skinner

The Times-Herald

Billie Jane McIntosh's updated schedule calls for her to be in neighboring Carroll County on Monday and taking a trip to north Alabama on Tuesday.

An article in Monday's issue of The Times-Herald had those dates reversed. Ms. McIntosh, an Arizona author, is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Chief William McIntosh. Coweta County was named in honor of William McIntosh as chief of the Cowetas.

Ms. McIntosh's latest book, "From Georgia Tragedy To Oklahoma Frontier: A Biography of Scots Creek Indian Chief Chilly McIntosh," is about the chief's son, who was a leader in the move of the Creeks to Oklahoma.

Billie Jane McIntosh will be at McIntosh Reserve -- in Carroll County south of Whitesburg off Highway 5 -- for a picnic at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. She will give a talk at the McIntosh Reserve Amphitheater after the picnic.

The McIntosh Reserve events are sponsored by the Friends of McIntosh and the Carroll County Historical Society. Also on Monday, Ms. McIntosh will share children's stories at the Whitesburg Public Library at 2 p.m.

On Tuesday, she will travel to Tuscumbia, Ala., to sign books at Coldwater Bookstore. The Tennessee Valley Historic Society will be a co-sponsor of that event.

Other events during her visit include:

*a visit to Columbus today. The Muscogee Genealogical Society is sponsoring a free lunch-and-learn program at 11:30 a.m. at the Center for International Education on the Columbus State University campus. After her talk, Ms. McIntosh plans to visit Fort Mitchell in Alabama, which began as a trading center between Creeks and settlers.

*a talk at the meeting of the Carrollton Kiwanis Club on Friday.

*a visit to Indian Springs on Saturday. Chief McIntosh built the Indian Spring Hotel, which still stands and where he signed the Treaty of Indian Springs, in 1825. Ms. McIntosh will give a talk at Generations Gallery in the Village of Indian Springs at 10 a.m. followed by lunch at Pinkie's Parlor and Cafe. She will be joined by her publisher, David Kane, in Indian Springs and will sign books on the spacious porch of the Indian Spring Hotel from 1-4 p.m.

*a talk at the Neva Lomason Library in Carrollton on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

*a booksigning at Scott's Bookstore in downtown Newnan on July 1 from 3-4:30 p.m.

*a talk about Chilly McIntosh's service as a Baptist minister at Mt. Zion Baptist Church near Alvaton in Meriwether County on July 1 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served afterward, and Ms. McIntosh will be autographing copies of "From Georgia Tragedy To Oklahoma Frontier."

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