My genealogy has led
me to many new places, meeting many new faces, and taking me on a long
journey through time; a worthwhile journey that I hope my children
will someday treasure.
My
Mother: Anne Alice Carter born 1934
My Father: Frankie Lavern
Cochran born 1927
My Spouse: Charles Wayne Brooks
born 1953
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James Edgar BROOKS
Sex: M
Birth: 1925 in Montgomery, Alabama
Death: JAN 1992 in Prattville
Cemetery
Father: James Edgar BROOKS b: 1895 in he was their only child, was in WWI , was born
in TN Mother: Susie Mae COOPER b: 12 DEC 1902 in Alabama
Marriage 1
Mary Ella THORNTON b: 1 MAR 1927 in Montgomery, Alabama
Children
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Kathy
Ahnentafel, Generation No.
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3. |
Anne Alice
CARTER was born 14 MAR 1934
in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 27 JAN 1992
in Montgomery AL .... She was buried in Memorial Cemetery. She was
Cherokee by blood. She was the daughter of 6. Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER and
7. Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN. |
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Children of Anne Alice CARTER and Frankie
Lavern COCHRAN are:
1. |
i. |
Living
LORENA. She married
Charles Wayne
BROOKS, son of James
Edgar BROOKS and Mary Ella THORNTON. He was born 1 JUL 1953 in
Montgomery, Alabama, and died 1 JUN 1998 in Brookside
Cemetery.. Kathy has three children and two
grands. |
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ii. |
Living
COCHRAN. He married
Living
WARD, daughter of
Living WARD and Virginia Marie HENDERSON. Frankie Jr has
three children and several grands. Jr. looks a lot like
Grandpa Ben Coonfield. |
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iii. |
Victor Daniel
COCHRAN was born 20
OCT 1957 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Az, and died 17 JUL 2007 in
VA Hospital, Birmingham, AL, burial at Memorial Cemetery,
Montgomery Alabama. He married Living
DEAVERS and had
only one child. |
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iv. |
Living
COCHRAN. She married
Larry
FULLER, son of John
Edward FULLER and Hazel Elizabeth RICHARDS. He was born 28 FEB
1952 in Jefferson County, Alabama, and died 4 OCT 2008 in
Montgomery Alabama. Pam now resides in our parents' home
where Dad's family used to come visit
often. | |
Ahnentafel, Generation No.
3
5. |
Luella Ellen
COONFIELD was born 8 FEB
1897 - one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton County, Arkansas, and died
11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO Med Hospital. She was buried in Oak
Hill Cemetery, Chetopa Kansas. She was the daughter of 10.
Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD
and 11. Lattie Cedonia LITTLE.
Luella said they had other indian blood mixed in but she didn't know
from which tribe so she could have been half
blood. |
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Children of Luella Ellen COONFIELD and Frank
Delbert COCHRAN are:
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i. |
Bernice Pauline
COCHRAN was born 24
JUL 1915 in Mason Valley, Benton, Arkansas. She married
Homer
CLARK. He died in
Grandby MO. She married Homer Gordon
CLARK 16 OCT 1934 in
Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, son of Bert CLARK and Bessie Jane SMITH.
He was born 1912 in Prosperty Jasper Missouri, and died 1979
in Mesa AZ. |
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ii. |
Eunice Irene
COCHRAN was born 24
JUL 1915 - Twin, born Mason Valley, Benton County,
Arkansas, and died 19 MAR 2004 - had alzheimers. She
married Charles Thomas
HARAUGHTY, son of
Stephen HARAUGHTY and Ida Frances FIZER. He was born ABT 1900.
She married Malloy Thomas
ROSS. He was born
1917 in Oklahoma, and died 1981 in Phoenix AZ. She married
Charles Thomas
HARAUGHTY 6 MAR 1933
in Oswego Kansas, son of Jack EDWARDS and Ida Francis FIZER.
He was born 1913 in Labette KS, and died 1956 in Mesa AZ.
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iii. |
Cleo Stanley
COCHRAN was born 7
JUL 1917 in Prosperity, Jasper, Missouri, and died 1 FEB 1992
in Parsons, Lebette, Ka. He married Lucretia
SHORT 25 FEB 1949 in
Bentonville, Arkansas, Usa. |
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iv. |
Frances
COCHRAN was born 25
NOV 1919 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas, and died 25 NOV
1919. |
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v. |
Fran
COCHRAN was born 4
JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas, and died
4 JUL 1920 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas. |
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vi. |
Harley
COCHRAN was born 4
JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died 4 JUL
1920. |
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vii. |
Irmajean Cedona
COCHRAN was born 19
SEP 1921 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas. She married
Frank Charles
MILES 1940 in
Chetopa. He was born 1917 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas, and
died in unknown. |
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viii. |
Joy Benjamin
COCHRAN was born 12
NOV 1923 in enlisted WWII 1946, Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died
26 JUN 1998 in , Chetopa, Labette, Kansas. He married
Living
JARMAN. He married
Vida Marie
JARMAN 1940 in
Kansas. She was born 1925, and died 2004.
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ix. |
Bonnie Mae
COCHRAN was born 4
MAY 1925 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark. She married
George Lemuel
KNOTTS 1948 in yates
Center KS. He was born 8 OCT 1924, and died 1967 in Wichita
Kansas. She married Living
MATTHEWS. She
had Regal Eagle. |
2. |
x. |
, daughter of Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER
and Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN. She was born 14 MAR 1934 in
Montgomery, Alabama, and died 27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL
.... |
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xi. |
Mary Lou Ruby
COCHRAN was born 1
NOV 1929 in Chetopa, Labett County, Kansas, and died 27 JAN
2006. She married James F
MOUNT 1953 in
Bentonville, Arkansas. He was born 1931 in Welch, Craig,
Oklahoma, and died in unknown. |
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xii. |
Freelon Larraine Coonfield
COCHRAN was born 3
NOV 1932 in Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, and died 4 JUN 1953 in
Korean War Fatality. |
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xiii. |
Darrell Dean
COCHRAN was born 12
OCT 1936 in Chetopa KS, and died in Alive and well. He married
Living
WALBEE.
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xiv. |
Wanda Deloris
COCHRAN was born 20
DEC 1938 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas. She married
Howard Lee
RIDDLE in Nowata
Oklahoma, son of Ernest Paul RIDDLE and Jimmie Grace MOORE. He
was born 3 OCT 1934 in Chetopa KS, and died in unknown.
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7. |
Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN was born 27 MAR
1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street,
Montgomery, AL. She was buried in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL.
She was the daughter of 14. Charles Allen MCCLAIN and
15. Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN. |
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Children of Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN and
Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER are:
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i. |
Cecil Earl
CARTER was born 22
NOV 1932 in Montgomery, AL, and died in Montgomery AL. He
married Jean
MCNEIL. She died in
Montgomery AL. He married Living
CHRISTINE, daughter
of DAD. He married Living
JERRI.
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3. |
ii. |
, son of Frank Delbert COCHRAN and
Luella Ellen COONFIELD. He was born 7 MAY 1927 in Chetopa,
Labette, Kansas ( one eighth Cherokee), and died 25 DEC 1996
in Montgomery, Alabama. |
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iii. |
William Lawrence
CARTER was born 9 OCT
1935 in Montgomery, AL, and died 1975 in spent most of his
life in Enid OK, Montgomery AL. He married Living
WIVES.
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Ahnentafel, Generation No.
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8. |
Jacob Benjamin
COCHRAN was born 22 FEB
1822 in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, and died 24 NOV 1902 in
Civil War Vet Ohio Infantry, and First Homesteader of Hill City, in
1882 Graham, KS. Miner and farmer, he was was buried in Hill
City Cemetery. He was the son of 16. William COCHRAN and 17.
Martha Patty
HENDERSON. |
9. |
Clora Jane
MILLER was born 12 OCT 1852
in Bloomington, McLean, Ilinois, and died 6 DEC 1931 in Hill City,
Graham County, Kansas. She was buried in hill City Cemetery. She was
the daughter of 18. James Madison MILLER and
19. Mary Clara PARKER.
Clora Jane smoked a pipe and read the ashes. She taught her
grandchildren how to make popcorn by the fire. |
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Children of Clora Jane MILLER and Jacob
Benjamin COCHRAN are:
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i. |
Clora Ann Doll
COCHRAN was born 13
MAR 1880 in Meringo, Scott, Iowa, Usa, and died 1970 in
Colorado. She married John
OSMAN. She married
Williiam
HETZEL 30 JAN 1898 in
Hill City, Graham, Kansas, Usa. He was born ABT 1880 in Hill
City, Graham, Kansas, Usa, and died 1921 in unknown.
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ii. |
Jacob Madison
COCHRAN was born 17
DEC 1881 in Maringo, Iowa, and died 26 JUL 1954 in Corvillis,
Benton, Oregon. He married Nancy Ellen
COOK 1907 in Hill
City, Graham County, KS, daughter of Isaac Newton COOK and
Mary Belle PERSONETT. She was born 7 JUL 1890 in Benkleman,
Dundy Co, Nebraska, and died 1954 in Corvallis, OR.
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iii. |
Ky
COCHRAN was born 15
NOV 1883 in Partis, Smith, Kansas, Usa, and died 6 MAR 1973 in
Plainsville, Rook, Kansas, Usa. He married Sophia Madeline DE
MURRY 1907 in Partis,
Smith, Kansas. She was born 10 SEP 1892 in Palco Rook KS, and
died 1959 in Plainville, Rook, Kansas. |
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iv. |
Mary Jane Emmaline
COCHRAN was born 20
SEP 1885 in Hillcity, Graham, Kansas, and died 2 DEC 1989 in
Vancouver, Clark, Washington. She married Gustave
BERTRAND 16 APR 1902.
He was born 1870 in Hill City KS. She married
Edward
WALKER 1921. He was
born 1881, and died 1962 in Mich. |
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v. |
Dasie Violetta
COCHRAN was born 19
APR 1887 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, and died 19 APR 1890 in
Hill City, Graham, Kansas. |
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vi. |
Benjamin Harrison
COCHRAN was born 18
FEB 1889 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, was christened in Mesa,
Az, and died 14 JUN 1963 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. He
married Clara Ann
PENTICO 1913 in
Goodland, Graham, KS, daughter of John Edward PENTICO and
Annie RYMAN. She was born 1891 in Agenda, Republic, KS, and
died 1956 in Mesa. He married Ina
MORGANSIN 20 DEC 1913
in Goodland, Graham, Kansas, Usa. |
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vii. |
Della Floydell
COCHRAN was born 10
FEB 1891 in Lenora, Morton, Kansas, and died OCT 1920 in
Hillcity, Graham, Kansas. She married George F
HETZEL 13 JUL 1905 in
Hill City, Graham County, KS. He was born ABT 1887 in Hill
City, Graham, Kansas. She married Robert Henry
WALLACE 1909 in Hill
City, Graham County, KS. He was born ABT 1888 in New Zealand.
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viii. |
Frank Delbert
COCHRAN was born 20
JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and died 20 DEC
1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas. He married Luella Ellen
COONFIELD 2 SEP 1914
in Arkansas, daughter of Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD and Lattie
Cedonia LITTLE. She was born 8 FEB 1897 in one quarter
Cherokee blood, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945
in Kansas City MO Med Hospital.
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11. |
Lattie Cedonia
LITTLE was born 14 JAN 1872
in Bardstown Junction, Kentucky, and died 23 JAN 1933 in Vaughn,
Benton County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of 22. John Wright LITTLE and 23.
Mary Catherine
CRIGLER. |
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Children of Lattie Cedonia LITTLE and
Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD are:
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i. |
Benjamin Harrison
COONFIELD was born 9
SEP 1892 in Benton AR - World War I, and died 21 MAR 1971 in
Vaughn, Benton, Ark. He married Inez Violet
GRAY, daughter of
John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie" Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT.
She was born 1895 in Kansas, and died 1985.
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ii. |
Amy Marie
COONFIELD was born 30
JAN 1895 in Hawasser, Benton, AR, and died 15 FEB 1952 in Los
Angeles, CAlifornia. She married Joseph Monroe
GRAY 1911, son of
John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie" Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT.
He was born 19 APR 1890 in Barnes Kansas, and died 28 JUN 1967
in Eureka KS. |
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iii. |
Luella Ellen
COONFIELD was born 8
FEB 1897 in one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton County,
Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO Med Hospital.
She married Frank Delbert
COCHRAN 2 SEP 1914 in
Arkansas, son of Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN and Clora Jane MILLER.
He was born 20 JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and
died 20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas.
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iv. |
Ruthe
COONFIELD was born
1900, and died 1957 in Chetopa KS. She married
George
BATES 1922, son of
Peyton BATES and Mabel HENRY. He was born 1902, and died in
Car accident. |
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v. |
Eula
COONFIELD was born
1902. She married WILLIAMS. |
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vi. |
Carl Newton
COONFIELD was born
1906 in 1930 census shows him still at home with parents, and
died 1972. He married Mary
RENO.
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vii. |
Jewel( Virginia)
COONFIELD was born 14
JUN 1907 in had Alzheimers disease. She married
George Lee
SAVAGE. She married
Ruel Taft
MILLER 1949 in Los
Angeles CA. He was born 10 JAN 1909 in Gainesville, ozark
Missouri, and died 9 SEP 1972. |
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viii. |
Eva Irene
COONFIELD was born
1908, and died 1911. |
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ix. |
John Chester
COONFIELD was born
1912 in 1930 census shows him still at home with parents, and
died 2003. He married Thelma
WRIGHT.
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13. |
Anna Lou STONE was born NOV 1871 in Alabama, and died ABT 1933
in Macon, Bibb, Georgia. She was the daughter of 26. Augustus Marvin STONE and
27. Mary Ann HENDRICK. Known
as Annie, she divorced Fenn and married Carter, then widowed, she
married Dasher and signed as witness to her mother's death
certificate. |
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Children of Anna Lou STONE and William
Franklin FENN are:
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i. |
, daughter of Paul WALRAVEN. She was
born 1896 in GA, and died 1972 in Coosada Alabama.
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ii. |
Carolyn Lee
FENN was born SEP
1894 in Thompson Station, Greenwood Township, Bullock AL, and
died ABT 1934 in on 1930 census in Creek County, Oklahoma. She
married Benjamin Franklin
JOHNSON, son of
Nathaniel B. JOHNSON and Nancy America Emmaline MILLS. He was
born 1887 in 1900 census shows his family in Choctaw Nation
Texas, and died in oklahoma. Ben signed the affidavit
stating his mother was Full Blood and he was born in Choctaw
Nation. |
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iii. |
Robert Lee
FENN was born 16 MAR
1896 in Thompson, Bullock County AL - found in 1920 census of
US Navy Hospital, and died 1 JUL 1974 in Coosada, Elmore Co.,
AL. He married MARY. She died in unknown. |
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iv. |
Arthur Lee
FENN was born ABT
1897, and died ABT 1925. He married UNKNOWN. |
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v. |
Emmett Marvin
FENN was born 26 SEP
1898 in WWI Vet born in Thompson Station, Bullock County AL,
and died 10 MAY 1959 in New York. He married
NONE. |
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vi. |
Cecil Earl Fenn
CARTER was born 1901
in Thompson Station, Bullock, Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in
Montgomery AL. He married Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN APR 1932 in
Montgomery County AL, daughter of Charles Allen MCCLAIN and
Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN. She was born 27 MAR 1916 in
Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street,
Montgomery, AL. Cecil and Alice died very young and the
children went to
Lorena. | |
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Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN was born 11 JAN
1892 in Ramer Alabama, and died 12 JUN 1982 in Memorial Cemetery off
Bozeman Drive, Montgomery AL. She was buried in Memorial Cemetery,
Montgomery, AL. She was the daughter of 30. John Thomas BOZEMAN and
31. Alice Lorena
STEPHENS. |
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Children of Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN and
Charles Allen MCCLAIN are:
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i. |
Mary Ruth
MCCLAIN was born in
Montgomery AL, and died ABT 1975 in Montgomery AL. She married
Walter B
CURLEE. He died in
Montgomery AL. |
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ii. |
Charles Henderson "Buddy"
MCCLAIN was born in
Could not read nor write; had only one daughter, and died 11
JAN 2002 in Ft Mitchell Military Cemetery, near Ft Sill,
Alabama. He married Lena
HAINEY. She died
1991. |
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iii. |
Lillie Mae
MCCLAIN was born 18
OCT 1909 in Ramer Alabama, and died 28 JUN 1985 in Dublin AL
Church Of Christ Cemetery. She married Hubbert
DUNCAN, son of D C ?
DUNCAN and LIZZIE. He died in Dublin AL.
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v. |
Jimmie Lee
MCCLAIN was born 17
SEP 1913 in Dublin AL, and died 1932 in Dublin AL. She married
HAYES. He died in unknown. |
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vi. |
Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN was born 27
MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus
Street, Montgomery, AL. She married Cecil Earl Fenn
CARTER APR 1932 in
Montgomery County AL, son of William Franklin FENN and Anna
Lou STONE. He was born 1901 in Thompson Station, Bullock,
Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL.
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Dr. William Walton MCCLAIN ,
PhD was born 20 APR
1920 in Ramer Alabama, and died ABT 1972 in Arlington
Cemetery. |
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Joseph Edward
MCCLAIN was born 24
MAY 1926 in Ramer AL, and died ABT 1975 in USNavy, Pearl
Harbor, Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. He married
Living
DORTHY. He married
Living
BROADWAY, daughter of
John W BROADWAY and Jessie MAE.
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My daddy always
called mom his little 5'2" indian squaw and spoke of his mother being part
indian as well. He spoke of his mother sitting in the fields digging up
roots and picking herbs to fill her apron and that she smoked a pipe but
his daddy's mother also smoked a pipe, taught them how to make pop corn,
and then that one's mother helped the indians make medicine. His line has
some fascinating stories throughout Rhode Island 1600s history and
into New York Indian Country before migrating into Ohio and Kentucky by
1800. Daddy's great great great grandmother descended from the line
of Tefft families involved with King Phillip, an indian, who hanged Joshua
Tefft and the Parker families involved with indians kidnapping a Cindy
Parker who became the bride of an Indian Chief having his son Quanna
Parker.
I found Alexander and
William Cochran in 1790 in Pennsylvania and then in 1810 Ohio where Jacob
was born in 1822. He was a miner and a farmer and went to California to
search for gold, returned and moved his family to Iowa Territory.
His second wife Clora Jane Miller said she was born in Illinoy.........to
Mary Clara Parker and James Miller. There are stories of Jacob Cochran's
grandparents helping the indians in Ohio and starting a
school.
In 1800 Kentucky
I found records of Isaac Coonfield, who's great great granddaughter Luella
would later marry Frank Cochran. Isaac war born about 1770 in Pennsylvania
to a Dutch, Christopher Confeldt. It is not known how many sons
Christopher had but suspect one was John as I found him listed near Isaac,
then Isaac named a son John and a son Isaac Jr. in 1808. The
Coonfields were still in Kentucky census in 1820 but in 1830 found in
Indiana. In 1856 Isaac Jr. bought land in Arkansas and had a son
Benjamin Wylie Coonfield. Isaac had married Lydia Epperson of
Kentucky and she had Ben and died so Isaac married her sister Mary
Epperson. Ben married Martha Frances Young of Indiana and her family
had come from Kentucky. Martha named a son Benjamin Wallace "Wally"
Coonfield and he married Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky, while in
Arkansas.
Most of these men
served in the Civil War. I have Ben Coonfield's registration and
Lattie's father's, John Little, and also Jacob Cochran I have found
a land deed where John Little took a homestead in 1900 Arkansas and do not
know why he left Kentucky but in 1910 his father in law Abraham Crigler
had followed them. John's father Hiram Little had moved to Texas and
married a young 14 yr old Rebecca and started a second
family.
My mother's lineage
goes back to the Mayflower to Edward Doty, since his descendant married an
Anderson in North Carolina, where I then researched Anderson, Bozeman,
Stephens, Fann, Stone, McClain, Moon as they journeyed into Alabama
Territory by 1820. In Virginia and Maryland 1600s the Bozemans were given
more land by the King of England when they "transported" new families into
America and there is a story of one of the Bozemans there being the son of
an Indian Princess. In 1790 I began to find them in North Carolina
and in South Carolina as a few of the colonies began to develop amongst
many indian tribes which are very interesting to read about. Peter
Bozeman was born about 1758 to Mordecai and "wife" and Peter's brother
married a full blood and migrated into Mississippi in 1823 while Peter
moved his family to Hope Hull.
So while
studying the Carolinas I also found my daddy's ancestor, Captain George
Little in Union County SC who moved to Kentucky in 1802. His
grandson Hiram Little married Catherine Wright, a daughter of Catherine
Weatherford, whom I traced into Charlotte Virginia records, to a Patsy
Weatherford found in 1810 with three daughters. Patsy must have been
the former wife of Charles Weatherford who moved into Wetumpka, Alabama
and married Sehoy, the Creek Indian mother of Chief Red Eagle.
Picketts History of the Creeks along the Alabama River shares much detail
about the Weatherfords.
Hiram Little's nephew,
Lucius Powhatan Little had a daughter, Laura, who did extensive family
research and tried to connect us to a daughter of Chief Powhatan of
Virginia, so we can suspect that Patsy Weatherford was of Indian
Blood.
There is more
written about the father of Charles Weatherford, Martin. Martin left
Virginia and was a loyalist, on the side of the British, and received a
lot of land in Georgia, where it is written that he was a wealthy planter
who employed indians to work his crops, but was so very outspoken for the
British, that the State of Georgia kicked him out and he moved to the
Bahamas.
It is just hard to
imagine that one of my daddys grandfathers was here in Alabama in 1800 so
close to my mother's ancestors. After the American Revolution, there was a
land office in Georgia, able to sell the new lands available in Alabama
Territory and many of her ancestors did just that, since the lands were so
good for planting crops like cotton and corn. They hauled their
crops to Dexter Avenue to sell, back when it was a nasty bumpy dirt
road.
The crops could be
shipped out by steamboats along the Alabama River and then the Train
Station was developed. Her daddy Cecil Carter was adopted around
1905, by the unknown Carter in Macon Georgia. His mother Annie Lou
Stone had married his father William Franklin Fenn in 1893, divorced about
1901, married a Carter and then a Dasher, but probably never returned to
Alabama. Annie Lou's great grandfather was Michael Stone of Maryland 1700s
and I tried to connect him to Thomas Stone who signed the Declaration of
Independence but have not been able to trace that far back. However I was
able to trace the Fenn family back to Virginia where John Fann married a
Mary Stone in 1698.
My husband's line also
has Stone, a MaryCatherine Stone in Tennessee, who married
John Baptist Bond about 1800. She had a daughter Caroline Bond who
married several times, but her daughter Roxanna is the one who married
John Brooks in 1860. Roxanna's son John married Annie Clark Ballard, and
these women have a long history from the Carolinas into Tennessee about
1800, where many indian tribes existed. There are many grandmothers
included, with names only known as Kezziah or Gracey, that we may never
know anything about. There was one named Hester Ward and while I do not
find the parents' names I do know there was a famous indian called Nannie
Ward and wonder if there was any connection. Annie's son James Edgar
Brooks would be related to all of these found in early Tennessee
history, but his family moved to Montgomery Alabama with the work on the
railroad and he married Susie Mae Cooper in 1923. Susie's
families also had come out of South Carolina, some settling in Chambers
County and some in Montgomery but her granny Mary Josephine Hereford
Carter was born in Virginia in 1844. Mary was the second wife of
Thomas Randolph Carter and had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth Carter who
married Levi Benjamin Cooper. Levi's parents were born in Chambers
County, Charner P. Cooper and Sarah F. Lee but their parents were from
South Carolina also. Thomas Carter was born in 1820 SC to John Wise
Carter and unknown wife ( here we go again ) and the first wife of Thomas
was Lacy Bozeman of Hope Hull. Often I have wondered if Thomas was
somehow kin to my grandfather Cecil Carter.
James Brooks Jr.
married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie. Mary's grandmother Mary
Angeline Partridge was an indian out of Georgia, according to Lorraine
"Tutor" and her daughter Sue Carol Bozeman.
When I go back and
study those old records, I find many of our families residing very close
to several famous indian names, like my Cochrans living near Will Rogers
in Rogers County Oklahoma and his ancestors Rogers living by my Peter
Bozeman in Darlington long before that. Even found Sequoyah's
ancestors, Gist, Guist, Guess in South Carolina as well, along with
McQueen, Hildebrand, McGillvary, McIntosh, and many others who
married an indian bride.
When my grandmother
Lorena Bozeman's "Grandma Sellers" migrated to Alabama, there was a
connection to Nathan Sellers who married one of the indian Schrimpshire
girls and another Schrimpshire girl married Chief Dennis Bushyhead and
another Schrimpshire girl was the mother of Will Rogers, all quite
fascinating history. Our grandma Lavinia Sellers married Seaborn
Anderson in Montgomery Alabama and his great great grandfather Anderson is
listed as full blood Cherokee on the Latter Day Saints research
page. Other researchers online are looking into the indian heritage
of the Sellers family of North Carolina as well. Lavinia Janes'
daughter Nancy Jane Anderson married Peter Edward Bozeman in Dublin and
had John Thomas Bozeman in 1865, and John married Alice Lorena
Stephens. The Stephens great grandfather had married a full blood
Cherokee in the Carolinas during his service with the American Revolution
and then migrated into Dublin. There were several Stephens
plantations found in Dublin and Ramer in the 1800s. John and Alice
had Lorena Emma Bozeman in 1890, my great granny. Lorena was a very
special, gifted, Christian lady. She could touch, pray and heal
those in need. My daddy once talked about a man hurt and bleeding
from a car accident, and daddy carried the man to Lorena, who touched the
man and prayed for him, and my daddy witnessed the healing, the bleeding
stopped immediately. There was a day when I was about 20 and found a
lump in my chest that needed surgery,and Lorena said show me, so she
placed a hand on my chest and prayed, and my surgeon said the lump came
out benign and I do believe she helped me. There were many special
moments in our lives, and those with premonitions who helped many, and my
daddys sister Irma being born with a veil over her face was an amazing
story. The doctor removed it and it came right back, then he removed
it again and it came back, but the third veil was taken by Irma's mother
and placed in the Family Bible, where it still remains. Whenever
something was wrong, the veil would "sweat".
I have gathered
stories and letters and names to get this family tree growing, and then
collected census records, death certificates, marriage licenses, military
documents, and other things to verify the branches and continue to add to
it every so often. Some send me emails after reading the family tree
on rootsweb.com and let me know how they connect to us and share whatever
stories they have found. One was about my grandpa Cecil Carter's
sister, Carolyn / Carrie Fenn who married an indian named Ben Johnson and
moved to Oklahoma. Ben had signed an affidavit stating his mother
America Mills was born a full blood indian in Alabama, but his daddy
Nathaniel Johnson would not allow them to register on the indian
rolls. Mills is an important name in my Stephens line as well.
However, Johnson, sometimes spelled as Johnston, is also in my son in
law's lineage in Macon County. Nathaniel's line was back to a David
Johnston married to Mary Macon, of the family this county was named
after.
In my husband's
line there is Holtville Community or Town named after one of his
grandfathers, where James H. Baxley married Louisa Miranda Holt in Elmore
County and we found their graves at Coosa River Primitive Church by an
elder J. Holt born 1806 who must have been her father.Miranda's daughter
Ella Olivia Baxley married L. W. Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood who
married Milton Eligah Thornton. Bessie's daughters were Mary Ella
Brooks, Tutor Lorraine Jeffcoat and Olivia Angeline Cox. There is a
Glenda Baxley who emailed me with her findings on James at Coosa River and
sent me his Civil War papers.
Clarence Bearden
is the son of Aunt Sissy Elizabeth Brooks and sent me a package of
records found on the Brooks side, including some beautiful pictures. His
article and research of the cemetery at Hope Hull is posted online at the
Alabama Cemetery Preservation page. That page has other information
that a Benjamin Lewis once owned that plantation around 1820 and it was
sold a couple of times before Peter Bozeman arrived. I also
speculate that Benjamin Lewis or his son married one of the daughters of
Peter Bozeman. Most of these people are listed in the South Carolina
Archives, some in North Carolina in the 1700s but then again in Montgomery
Alabama in the 1820s and 1830s. Peter died in 1829 and his estate
sale lists many of these people attending. In 1848 Peter's son
William died and his articles are also found in the Montgomery Archives,
estate sale, and writ of dower for the widow. The marriage licenses of
William's children are also found, including his son Peter Edward
Bozeman born 1834, served in the Civil War and married Nancy Jane
Anderson.
Elisha
Anderson's will is found in 1834 Montgomery.
So many of these
elders are found in the DAR records where they were in the American
Revolution, that it will take forever to get it all organized, and am
greatful that cousin Jimmy Ray Bozeman's daughter joined the DAR based on
Peter Bozeman's record. Jimmy joined the Sons of the Revolution and
now cousin Hazel Bozeman has joined the DAR. I find it so rewarding
meeting these new cousins, Hazel met us at Dublin where we found the grave
of Peter Edward Bozeman and his daughter in law Alice Lorena. Hazel
is the daughter of Uncle Bob Bozeman and we met cousin Elizabeth,
the granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson. Ethel's son Buster
said that my grandpa Charlie McClain had no tombstone ever at Dublin's
Church of Christ, which seems odd since he served in WW1. Charlie's
daddy was Josiah Marion McClain of Georgia who served in the Civil War,
got wounded and forgot that he had a wife and children in Georgia so he
married Elizabeth Broadway of Dublin and had Charlie. Elizabeth was
born in 1853 to Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway - ironic since Charlie
married Lorena Bozeman and her mother was also a Stephens. When
Josiah McClain died, his widow filed for his military pension and when
Peter Edward Bozeman died, his widow also filed for a pension and it was
signed by Peter's Uncle John Hill.
So much to do and so little
time.
SITE NAVIGATION
Our ancestors met before the Civil War. They came together
in Montgomery sharing cotton plantations in the fields you now see when
passing through Montgomery on I-65. Yet after the war
this land was worthless, being destroyed as Wilsons Raiders burned a path
through the state but these families struggled to revive as much as they
could. I found an old cemetery with some tombstones dating back to 1793 on
this property and then tried to trace their descendants across town. In
1900 I find them again in downtown Montgomery near the train station as
many others had migrated into our lineage and they once again worked
together. In fact my mother in law in 1950 had taken in the widow of my
great grandfather when she had no place to go. My husband's cousin
Sue Carol on his mother's side married one of my mother's Bozeman Cousins
and his father's great grandpa Thomas Carter was once married to another
of our Bozeman Cousins in Hope Hull. Our families were
always close, we just did not realize how very close. My father came
from Kansas and married my mom in Montgomery in 1951, while he was
stationed at Maxwell AFB after injuries from being shot in the Korean War
- his lineage was partly in Pennsylvania and South Carolina before
migrating into Kentucky and Ohio and then on into the midwest.
Together we have dozens of grandfathers in the American Revolution and the
Civil War.
1700s Georgia DocumentsMeet The Folks!!!
Home 1830 Research Stuff
Brooks and Ballard and Smith
Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook Lawson .
- Pike, Dallas, Lowndes, Mtgy Counties (11 KB)
1830
- Surnames (1
KB)
Names in the Family Tree
- Records (1 KB)
Land
Records and Civil War Search
- Introduction (7
KB)
To My Many Files and Documents
- 1840 (1
KB)
Transcription
- Grandmothers (1
KB)
Many Files and Documents
- Various family records (1
KB)
Grandpa McClain's ex wife Julia filed to the Indian Rolls
in 1896
- Grandmothers (1
KB)
Many Files and Documents
- Notes and Links (687
KB)
Research
- Research (1
KB)
Many Files and Documents
- Research (102
KB)
Links
- Frankie (1 KB)
Many
Files and Documents
- Research2 (24
KB)
Links
- Annie (1 KB)
Many
Files and Documents
- Documentation (39
KB)
Tracing Our Roots.
- 1820s 1830s (1
KB)
Many Files and Documents
- Bozemans (27
KB)
Tracing their branches
- Grandpa Wm Fenn's Aunt Letitia and Indian
Rolls (1 KB)
Many Files and
Documents
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More
of Kathy's grandfathers
Early Settlers . Baby Carter . Family History Album
Search Box . FILE/0017page.html . Family Connections
pioneers . Notes.. .
Brooks and Cochran Family
.Notes . Websites Of Interest .
files . Coonfield Interview . Webpages . My Family . Enjoy!! .
Webpages of Interest . Resources . Bits And Pieces . Links .
Weatherford . Charlotte County Miscellany . Ancestors . DAR
Bullitt Co. KY Genweb: Quick Notes SA-SN . Kathy's Genealogy
FILE/0003page.html . Bozeman in Alabama . DNA of Jimmy Ray to Peter and Mordecai Bozeman
. Census Notes of Peter's Children
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- Civil War - Bozeman (16
KB)
Peter Edward Bozeman married Nancy Jane Anderson
- Civil War - Seaborne Anderson (16 KB)
Nancy Jane's father served along with his
brothers and father - some of this family died in the War - Seaborne was
the great grandfather to Lorena Bozeman McClain - Seaborne's great
grandfathers served in the American Revolution.
- Civil War - Josiah Marion McClain (70 KB)
Lorena Bozeman McClain's father in law was
married to Elizabeth Broadway - He had deserted his first wife Julia
King in Georgia and joined the Civil War in Alabama. He was wounded. He
married or lived with Elizabeth having two girls around 1870 who died
but had Charles Allen McClain in 1886 . Josiah died soon after. Josiah's
mother was known as Anna and his father was James McClain who might have
also served in the Civil War. It is believed that Josiah's mother was
native american - Charlie McClain was a very dark tiny man and very
spiritual and faithful. Julia filed for divorce, based upon desertion,
and then sent her application to Indian Nation to join the Rolls.
- Civil War - Thomas Randolph Carter (9 KB)
son of John Wise Carter and "Elizabeth", Thomas
married Lacy Jane Bozeman first and Mary Josephine Hereferd second. Mary
had a daughter named Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin
Cooper. Grandfathers of Thomas served in the American Revolution.
- Grandpa Abner Broadway (123
KB)
father of Elizabeth B McClain - he had married Mary
Stephens. Abner was born in Montgomery and his parents had come from
South Carolina, another Abner Broadway and "Nancy unknown"
- Grandpa Elijah Lee and Andrew Cooper (101 KB)
Chambers County census shows how close they
lived together. Charner Cooper married Sarah Lee and had Levi Benjamin
Cooper. Levi married Sarah Carter and had a daughter Susie Mae Cooper
Brooks.
- Grandpa Anderson married Lavinia Brack
(91 KB)
from the Carolinas to Montgomery Alabama
- Soldiers of the American Revolution, received Land Grants and migrated
into Georgia, then to Montgomery County Alabama.
- McClain, Josiah Marion - Civil War Record
(3 KB)
My great great grandfather married
Elizabeth Broadway and had Charles Allen McClain
- Grandpa Brooks and Bond (27
KB)
from the Carolinas to Tennessee to Texas and then Alabama
- Indians in Virginia (10
KB)
Wm G Bozeman
- Grandpa John Stephens -Am Rev War Soldier
(16 KB)
from Florida to the Carolinas, he fought
for Independence, married a full blood indian and migrated to Alabama
- Bozeman - Shawnee Tribe (4
KB)
Reid married Bozeman
- Some of the other Bozemans in Georgia sent applications to join the
Indian Nation.
- Westbrook (144
KB)
Cemeteries in Alabama
- Grandpa Cecil Carter's ancestors (36 KB)
Fenn of Virginia and Stone of Maryland, all
migrating south through the Carolinas during the War and into Georgia's
Land Lottery and then to Montgomery Alabama where the land was two
dollars an acre. The Fenns were Indian Traders in very early Georgia,
1700s, and their wives were likely native americans.
- Cherokee Bozeman (3
KB)
- and Much More!!
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Pioneers of Montgomery County .
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Genealogy of Baby Carter Includes Brooks, Cochran, Grauer, Westbrook, Penton,
Holley
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Ancestors of Jimmy Ray
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