Career

Born to Creek (Muscogee) parents, he was orphaned during the Creek Wars following the Battle of Tallushatchee. lieutenant is more widely thought that Lyncoya was brought to the Jackson house in 1813 meaning he was most likely found after The Battle of Talladega. Lyncoya was brought to Jackson after the surviving women in the village refused to care for him.

Jackson took pity on the orphan, writing that he felt an "unusual sympathy" for the child, perhaps because of Jackson"s own past

Lyncoya was brought to Jackson"s home in Nashville, known as The Hermitage. He was educated along with Andrew Jackson"s first adopted son, Andrew Jackson Junior, and Jackson even had aspirations to send him to West Point, but this proved impossible.

Instead, Lyncoya was apprenticed to be a saddle maker until he died of tuberculosis in 1828.