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Sam Story, also named Timpoochee Kinnard, was Chief of the Walton County, Florida, band of Euchee (Yuchi) Indians in the early 1800s, who occupied the lands on and to the west of the Choctawhatchee River. Walton County is a County located in the state of Florida. As of 2000 the population was 40601 The Yuchi, also spelled Euchee and Uchee, are a Native American Indian Tribe previously living in the eastern His parents were Timothy Kinnard, a white man of Scottish descent, and an unknown Yuchi woman. The chief was a well known figure in the Florida Panhandle and was highly respected by whites, who migrated to the area in ever-increasing numbers following the acquisition of Florida by the United States from Spain in 1821. The Florida Panhandle is the region of the state of Florida which includes the westernmost 16 counties Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Year 1821 ( MDCCCXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year

In the spring of 1820, Neill McLennan and brother-in-law Daniel Campbell moved their families from Richmond County, North Carolina, to Walton County, Florida, where they were invited by Chief Sam Story to settle on lands adjoining his on Bruce Creek in the Euchee Valley. Richmond County is a County located in the US state of North Carolina. These Scots first camped near Pensacola and met the Chief in town when he was there trading for supplies. Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the County seat of Escambia County. After becoming the first white settlers in Walton County, they were soon joined by other relatives and friends, drawn by the fertility of the soil and the unspoiled wilderness.

However, by 1832, other white people had moved into the area and were wantonly destroying the wildlife as well as starting forest fires. Both the McLennans and old Chief Story decided to depart for better places; the Chief sent his sons to scout for lands to the east, while many of the McLennans and their kin decided to head west by boat, and became prominent early settlers of what later was named McLennan County, Texas. McLennan County is a County located in the US state of Texas.

Chief Sam Story died just before his tribe moved, and is buried south of the fork of Bruce Creek and the Choctawhatchee River. The Choctawhatchee River is a river in the Southern United States. After three weeks of mourning, about 500 Euchees went southward to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, embarking on their canoes at Story's Landing, near the burial site of the chief, southeast of the modern community of Red Bay in Walton County. The Gulf of Mexico ( Spanish: Golfo de México) is the ninth largest Body of water in the world They then traveled eastward, both by land and by water. Nothing further was heard of them. Some may have eventually settled with the Seminole Indians in South Florida. The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida and now residing in Florida and Oklahoma. It is definitely known, however, that the United States Army forced some of the Walton County Euchees and several other small West Florida bands to relocate west of the Mississippi River. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. West Florida was a region on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history Indian Removal was a nineteenth century policy of the government of the United States to ethnically cleanse Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi

Chief Sam Story had three sons, Jim Crow, Swift Hunter and Sleeping Fire, and three daughters, Leaping Water, Quiet Water and Round Water. Jim Crow, and perhaps others of the tribe, left numerous descendants, some of them called Dominickers, in Walton, Holmes, and Washington counties. The Dominickers were a small biracial or Triracial ethnic group that was once centered in the Florida Panhandle county of Holmes, in a corner of the Walton County is a County located in the state of Florida. As of 2000 the population was 40601 Holmes County is a County located in the US state of Florida. Washington County is a County located in the state of Florida. Chief Sam Story also left his throne to his great grandson Sam Story of Independence, Minnesota. He currently rules the Eucecheewoota tribe in the area. Sam has recently took up art as his career and has prospects of one day living in London, England. But for now, Timpoochee II still roams the great plains with his Venecian scribe Gohort.

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