Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee)1

M, #16846, b. 1811
Pedigree
Name Variation  Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee) was also known as Okah Tubbee (aka Warner "William" McCary). 
Birth*1811 He was born in 1811 at Alabama. 
Marriage*before February 1846 He married Lucy Celesta Stanton aka Laah Ciel Manatoi, daughter of Daniel Stanton and Clarinda Graves, before February 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, An act of imposture of the same kind was practiced in this city about a year before the time referred to by you. A friend of mine told me that he knew the impostor in St. Louis, and said that he was a Ventriloquist and a Mesmerizer, and that he left his colored wife, (he being a colored man) and said he was going to Nauvoo to gull the people. There, it is said, he went, in the garb of, and professing to be, an Indian Chief, and that a great parade was made over him, and that you married him to a white sister, and told him to go forth among the Gentiles to deceive them. In that garb he came to this city, and said he was Adam, Ancient of days, Jesus, and the Lamanite prophet. Under his tuition, then, Charles B. Thomson was instructed in the doctrine of transmigration, which he afterwards connected with his Baneemy doctrines. By magic arts, Mr. Williams [sic - William McCary], the imposter, deceived many for a few days or weeks. (True LDS Herald, March 1861 – Cincinnati OH; Isaac Sheen.)1,2 
Event-Misc26 February 1847  On 26 February 1847 at Winter Quarters (now North Omaha), Douglas Co., Nebraska, Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee) had the following misc event: …in the evening I met in Council with the Twelve [Apostles] whare a number of subjects was spoken of.
     And we received a visit from A man from New orleans formally. He professed to be an Indian. Most of persons believed him to be a descendant of Ham. Br Hyde baptized him in Nauvoo. He was an eccentric character. He was the most perfect natural musician I ever saw on a flute or fife, sauce pan, ratler, whistle &c. He was invited into the Council spent a few moments & returned to Br Youngs. He married Br Stantons daughter for a wife. He went to Br Bensons to spend the night. We want to hear him make some music but he was some disappointed angry & sullen & would not make any music. His name was Wm Carey. (Wilford Woodruff Journal, vol. 3, p. 139)
     Isaac Morley came into the Council & appointed a meeting of the Captains & Presidency of the 1st. Div. to be held in the council House tomorrow morning at 9 oclock. a W. McCarry – a professed Spaniard – with Lucy his Wife formerly Lucy Stanton, & a Stranger, came into the meeting – they stated that at Columbia [sic – Columbus] it was reported that the “Mormons” were gone to California last fall, & some who had stayed behind had been in battle, & were all killed off by the Indians. about 5 adjd. to meet again at Early Candlelight.[p. 2]…the Council separated about 9 – many going to hear the Nigger Indian play on his Flute – Dr. [Richards] went to hear the Fluter. (Willard Richards Journal, pp. 1 and 2 [in Thomas Bullock’s hand as Richards's secretary].)2 
Event-Misc1 March 1847  On 1 March 1847 at Winter Quarters (now North Omaha), Douglas Co., Nebraska, Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee) had the following misc event: Mond. 1st Pleasant morning, Cold South wind - about 12 noon Sun Shining W. McCarey a Choctaw Indian married to a white woman named Lucy Stanton - a sister - he being baptized in Nauvoo by O Hyde ^last year^ A great fluter + player ^on instr^, came to Camp last Friday. I heard him remark in Bro. Brigham's when the family of children were playing around him "he wondered how people could talk easy when other's were talking & playing in same room." Amongst Indians he said "Children were not allowed to talk or make noice, you may be amongst 100 Indians from 1 year old to 10, or from 10 to 15 or from 15 to 20, & you will not hear a word, neither any noise, but you may hear a Cambrie Needle drop on the ground.(Willard Richards Journal. [in Thomas Bullock’s hand as Richards's secretary])2 
Event-Misc*8 November 1848  On 8 November 1848 at Tremont Temple, Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts, Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee) had the following misc event: They were entertaining there per the Boston Daily Atlas (last 3 paragraphs)
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Census1850*1850 He appeared on the 1850 census as the head of household, pg 579 #833-833, Blue Twnshp, Jackson Co., Missouri, along with Lucy Celesta Stanton aka Laah Ciel Manatoi, Ann C Seraphine Bassett, Semira LaCelestine Rosalin Bassett and Bruce "Mashola" McCary aka Tubbee . His info on the census included Tubee, Okah 39 b.AL, physician. 
Biography* Warner "William" McCary (aka Okah Tubbee) had a biography: that was made up for his alias, and is available online. The Life of Okah Tubbee was written by Indian scholar Daniel Littlefield in 1988. Littlefield believed throughout his book that Lucy was in fact a Delaware Indian, as she claimed!3 

Family

Lucy Celesta Stanton aka Laah Ciel Manatoi b. 8 Dec 1816, d. 4 Mar 1878
Marriage*before February 1846 He married Lucy Celesta Stanton aka Laah Ciel Manatoi, daughter of Daniel Stanton and Clarinda Graves, before February 1846 at Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois, An act of imposture of the same kind was practiced in this city about a year before the time referred to by you. A friend of mine told me that he knew the impostor in St. Louis, and said that he was a Ventriloquist and a Mesmerizer, and that he left his colored wife, (he being a colored man) and said he was going to Nauvoo to gull the people. There, it is said, he went, in the garb of, and professing to be, an Indian Chief, and that a great parade was made over him, and that you married him to a white sister, and told him to go forth among the Gentiles to deceive them. In that garb he came to this city, and said he was Adam, Ancient of days, Jesus, and the Lamanite prophet. Under his tuition, then, Charles B. Thomson was instructed in the doctrine of transmigration, which he afterwards connected with his Baneemy doctrines. By magic arts, Mr. Williams [sic - William McCary], the imposter, deceived many for a few days or weeks. (True LDS Herald, March 1861 – Cincinnati OH; Isaac Sheen.)1,2 
Child
Last Edited3 Mar 2012

Citations

  1. [S1762] Boston Mormons, Connell O'Donovan, volume J-Z, pgs 103 and 223.
  2. [S1763] "Emails between Connell and Kathryn," e-mail message from Connell O'Donovan, e-mail address to Kathryn Bassett, Nov 2011+.
  3. [S1764] A sketch of the life of Okah Tubbee: alias, William Chubbee.