Individual Details

Never sure that she was a Weatherford. However, there is a letter from daughter Sarah that mentions "uncle Weatherford".

There are persistent theories of Indian heritage. Here is one story:
Ursula Weatherford was born about 1755/60 in Lunenburg Co., VA to Wilkerson Weatherford born circa 1726. Ursula Weatherford may have been of Cherokee or Creek Indian blood or heritage. Her sister, Agnes Weatherford was said to be of Cherokee orgin either by birth or marriage. There may be a link between Ursula and the great Creek Indian War Chief William "Red Eagle" Weatherford, who was the leader of the Creeks who attacked Ft. Mims, Alabama and said to be one of three Creek War Chiefs who fought in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama. After the Creeks defeat at Horseshoe Bend, "Red Eagle" rode into Gen. Andrew Jackson's camp alone to surrender. "Old Hickory" was impressed with such display of bravery that he befriended "Red Eagle" and then sent him home to live out his remaining life in peace. Note below that Red Eagle was actually a generation younger than Ursula and his history would seem to eliminate any kinship to Ursula.

From Wikipedia:
William Weatherford, known as Red Eagle (Lamochattee in Creek, was born in 1781, near the Upper Creek towns of Coosauda. It is near the current Coosada, Alabama, and was then a Koasati Indian town, near Hickory Ground (current Wetumpka, Alabama). His mother was Sehoy III, a "daughter of a Tabacha chieftain" and from "the most powerful and privileged of all the Creek clans," the Wind Clan. His father, Charles Weatherford, was a red-haired Scots trader and friend of the chieftain, and had married Sehoy III after the death of her first husband, Tory Col. John Tate, in the summer of 1780. Sehoy III was of mixed Creek, French and possibly Scottish descent. As the Creek had a matrilineal kinship system, Sehoy III's children were considered born into her clan. Charles Weatherford had a trading post near the Creek village, built a plantation, raised thoroughbred horses for racing, and contributed to his family as a trader.
Red Eagle was the great-grandson of Captain Jean Marchand, the French commanding officer of Fort Toulouse, and Sehoy, a Creek of the Wind clan. On his mother's side, he was a nephew of the mixed-race Creek chief, Alexander McGillivray, who was prominent in the Upper Creek towns.
Through his mother's family, Weatherford was a cousin of William McIntosh, who became a chief of the Lower Creek towns. The Lower Creek, who comprised the majority of population, lived closer to the European Americans and had intermarried with them, adopting more of their ways, as well as connecting to the market economy.
In late August 1813, with Peter McQueen and other Red Sticks, Weatherford participated in a retaliatory attack on Fort Mims. It was a hastily built civilian stockade on the lower Alabama River, about 35 miles north of Mobile. Frontier American families and Lower Creek had retreated to the fort, which was ineptly guarded. The Red Sticks gained entry into the fort and massacred the Lower Creek, as well as European-American settlers, including women and children. Estimates are that they killed up to 500 persons. Some 35 individuals survived. As a prominent leader, Weatherford was held responsible for the massacre, although there are reports he tried to prevent it.
An Alabama militia followed up with another Ranger unit and maneuvered the Red Sticks into battle at the Battle of Holy Ground. Red Eagle (Weatherford) barely escaped capture, jumping from a bluff into the Alabama River while on horseback. Having repelled the Red Stick invasion in a number of skirmishes and forced them on the defensive, the Americans regrouped for a final offensive.
The federal government did not have forces to spare. Major General Andrew Jackson led a combined army of state militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Jackson's army finally isolated the main Red Stick Army along with hundreds of American hostages. Red Eagle played a decisive role in rallying his forces and trying to save the hostages from death. In the finale of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Red Eagle's rapid responses allowed various small bands of Red Sticks to regroup and fight a rear guard action, but the remainder of the Red Sticks were destroyed. Although the majority of the American hostages were saved, the retreating Red Sticks killed dozens of them.
Meanwhile, Red Eagle and some other 200 Red Sticks escaped. Most of the Red Sticks retreated to Florida, where they joined the Seminole people, who had developed from Creek migrants and remnants of other tribes in the 18th century. Red Eagle surrendered at Fort Jackson (formerly Fort Toulouse). Jackson spared Weatherford's life and used his influence and knowledge of Creek language to bring the other Upper Creek chiefs to a peace conference.

Birth	1758	Montgomery County, North Carolina
Marriage	1773	Anson County, North Carolina - David Franklin Burleson
Death	27 Feb 1835	Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee

Spouse	David Franklin Burleson (1753 - 1832)
Child	John Washington Burleson (1775 - 1845)
Child	Moses Burleson (1777 - 1836)
Child	Sarah Burleson (1778 - )
Child	Mary Burleson (1785 - 1852)
Child	William Burleson (1786 - 1850)
Child	Hilkiah Burleson (1786 - 1856)
Child	David Franklin Burleson (1786 - 1856)
Child	Eleanor "Nellie" Burleson (1789 - 1870)
Child	Margaret "Peggy" Burleson (1791 - 1839)
Child	Ursula Burleson (1793 - 1861)
Child	Isaac Burleson (1795 - 1865)