The following webpage collection shares some of
the family stories and pictures of my relatives, along with census images
to follow their trail and military documents of several wonderful
grandfathers in my lineage.
Some of my dad's grandfathers were Isaac
Coonfield who may be the son of Christopher Coonfield of Holland who
settled in Pennsylvania - Isaac may have been born there about 1760.
From Scotland came George Little born 1735 who was a Captain wounded in
the American Revolution in South Carolina, then he settled in Kentucky
about 1802. Isaac Coonfield was found on an 1800
Kentucky Tax List. These two brought about a marriage of their
descendents in Arkansas in the 1800s, a Little and Coonfield union.
But they had many ancestors from Virginia and New York and other places
who also migrated into Kentucky including Crigler, Carpenter, Roby,
Handley, Douglass, Duval, Simmons, Swearengin. Our families are
found in many books written about Early Settlers, the one in Kentucky
includes Captain Little, another one in Indiana about Isaac Coonfield
states that he migrated to Perry Township in 1824.
Ohio is where I found the Cochrans of
Pennsylvania, with their Henderson, Sturgeon, Long, White connections, who
migrated to Iowa Territory after 1860 and joined the Miller / Parker
families which extend to Reverend Alexander Miller of Ireland who settled
and is buried in Rockingham Virginia with his wife, Sarah Crawford.
The Parker families of New York intermarried with Tefft and Sweet of
England who had settled in 1600s Rhode Island with a very interesting
history. The daughter of Reverend Edmund Tefft and Mary Sweet was
Sarah Tefft who married Archelaus Parker; their daughter Mary
married James Miller and had Clora Jane Miller
Cochran.
My mother's lineage was also out of Virginia and
Maryland into North and South Carolina from the 1600s and
1700s. Several names of Stone which may connect someday, along with Fann
which became Fenn, Moon, McClain, Bozeman, Brown, Sellers, Stephens,
Anderson, Brack and Doty.
The Bozeman Trail evens fits in there
somewhere.
Lorena's daughter Alice (19 KB) Alice Emma McClain married Cecil Carter
and she died at the age of 19 giving birth to their third
child. She's been called Ellie and Emily and Cecil was
called Nick.
Document1 (26
KB) Peter in the South Carolina Line, copied from book -
accepted by the DAR in Jan 2008
Bozeman, Anderson, Brack, Sellers, Doty, McClain, Moon,
Sellers, Stephens, Hill, Goodson, Flinn, Carter, Family
Connections...
Peter Bozeman had 3 daughters in 1810, Lucy married
Sterling Campbell, one might have married Vincent Joiner, or Howell
Mason or Edmund Lewis, but Vincent Joiner is the only one signing
the Estate petition by the widow Sarah. Then we see a David Campbell
as Justice of the Peace on later documents and a John Hill signed
affidavit for Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman to get her husband's Civil
War Pension.
Sarah and Peter's son Jesse may have been an attorney
and filed many court documents as the family members passed
away. He handled his father's estate sale and many familiar
names made purchases. In 1838 he sold his parent's land, land
which I cannot find a deed for, but it was divided among the heirs
which did not include Sarah's son Meady because he might have died
before they made the journey to Alabama or soon after. Meady's
children were raised by Vincent Joiner and Ellen.
Jesse named a daughter Ellen.
Then a
Martha Campbell married Matthew Stokes, after we found a John Stokes
living close to the Bozemans in Darlington. And William Henry's
daughter Martha married Norman Campbell.
Am led to believe that Peter had a brother named Jesse
who also served with him in the American Revolution, thus naming his
own son Jesse M. Bozeman in 1793. Peter's brother John went to
Mississippi while their younger brother James remained in Darlington
to raise his family.
Peter also named a son Peter E Bozeman who married
Gilly. Peter's other son was William Henry Bozeman who
married Martha Hill in Darlington.
Jesse Bozeman handled the estates for both widows Gilly
and Martha.
Many of these died young, perhaps due to the flu
epidemic or other diseases that wreaked havoc upon our
nation.
There are many documents to confirm this
little Bozeman Trail into Alabama.
This creates new trails of new family members and other
relations into the Carter and McClain families of my lineage, which
include Fenn, Fann, Stone, Hendrick, Wells, Lyles, Cochran,
Coonfield, Crigler, Little, Miller, Henderson, Long, Sturgeon,
Parker, Sweet, Tefft,
and then the Brooks lineage of Thornton, Partridge,
Hood, Baxter, Baxley, Smith, Connelly, Craig, Dickson, Bond and
Ballard.
Thus I end up with 16,000 in my family tree and a maize
of webpages in my collection. In 1972 this Bozeman/ McClain
descendant married a Brooks / Carter descendant , and his Carter's
first wife was a daughter of Jesse Bozeman, - but my mother married
one of the Cochran/ Miller/ Coonfield descendants.
Lavinia Sellers - 1880 (528 KB) Mysterious error on census, Lavinia Jane
Sellers Anderson mistakenly listed as Bozeman, but note that she is
the mother in law - she is Corrintha Anderson Barfoot's mother.
Lavinia was the wife of Seaborn Anderson and also the mother of
Nancy Bozeman in the next household. Lavinia's parents were Levinia
Anderson and William Calvin Sellers - all the Andersons being of the
same family of Elisha and the Sellers all being from 1700s North
Carolina.
1830 (76
KB) Grandpa Elisha Anderson in Montgomery Alabama by his
son in law Alfred Sellers and by Jesse and by Captain Benjamin Lewis
- Elisha's will was probated in 1834 mentioned a son named
Elijah. Elijah wa the father of Seaborne Montgomery Anderson
who married Lavinia Sellers.
Laura's Inquiry (563
KB) Owensboro Kentucky - her father was Lucius Powhatan
Little, a well known author, lawyer and judge of Owensboro and
genealogist.
James E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella
Thornton (6 KB) Her parents
were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Bessie's parents
were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. Milton's parents were Mary
Angeline Partridge and George Thornton.
Baxley James H (351
KB) Certificate of Confederate Service2
1930 census of Brooks and Cooper
(1512 KB) Both their widowed mothers live
in this household which includes James E Brooks Jr who later
married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie in 1953.
Baxley James H (618
KB) Certificate of Confederate Service3
1930 census Milton Elijah Thornton
(446 KB) Bessie Mae Hood his wife with
children include Mary Ella Thornton who married James E Brooks Jr
Baxley James H (398
KB) Certificate of Confederate Service4-Judge Smith
1840 John Wise Carter (360 KB) Talladega Alabama census, father of
Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth
Carter Cooper - great grandfather of Mamaw
Baxley James H (796
KB) Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension
Application
1914 (72
KB) John Edward Brooks with Annie Clark Ballard, parents
of James Edgar Brooks, of Tennessee. James married Susie Mae "
Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. - Jr married Mary
Ella Thornton.
Baxley James H (451
KB) Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension
Application 2
Baxley, Grandmother Ella Olivia (11 KB) A visit to the Cain's Chapel cemetery to
locate the tombstones of Ella and her husband L W Hood plus her
parents buried down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in
"Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa Miranda Holt. These
were ancestors of Mary Ella Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother
of Bessie Mae Hood - Thornton.
Carter in South Carolina (99 KB) father of Thomas was John Wise Carter
and his dad was Captain John Carter of the American Revolution who
married Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John Wise.
Mary Ella Thornton, wife of James Edgar Brooks
Jr (258 KB) Her father was
Milton Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie Mae Hood. This
focus on the Thorntons as they migrated out of Georgia into Elmore
County Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline Partridge.
Hans Brooks of Holland 1800 (25 KB) John Brooks born 1837 to a father from
Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860
census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County
Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a
son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then
named a son James Edgar Brooks.
Brooks - followup (5
KB) John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a
mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young
John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he
met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who
married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar
Brooks. Annie's father was James Cal Ballard. Roxanna's father was
Thomas Smith and her mother was Caroline Bond...............James
Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper, the daughter of Sarah
Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper........Susie named her
son James Edgar Brooks Jr. in 1927.
Stokes Cemetery on Bozeman Land- Hope
Hull (39 KB) Jesse
Bozeman's daughter Lacy is buried here near her husband Thomas
Randolph Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of Am Rev
Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's father was Peter Bozeman a
soldier in the American Revolution. Lacy and some of the children
died in an epidemic. Jesse and his wife's tombstones have been
separated by a large tree and the stones are broken. The top of
Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but Lacy's monument stands
tall. The Carters and Bozemans once owned large plantations here.
Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In fact Jesse's brother
William Henry Bozeman was Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is
not found ( yet ) A Matthew Stokes married a Mary Campbell who may
have connections - they even owned this piece of land at some
point.
Ballard, James Cal of Tennessee (80 KB) Father of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks was
married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee. Parents of James Ballard
were Rowena Densy Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about
1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears began.
Bond, John Baptist (80
KB) Father of Caroline Bond Smith was married to
Catherine Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times in
Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith was the father of
Roxanna Smith - Brooks. Notes on this page include Henry Smith,
father of Thomas and then the Ballards of North Carolina - Larken
Ballard's mother was Kizziah Dickens.
Tombstones (2
KB) Baxley, Holt, Hood, Thornton in "Holtville"
Elmore County
Lee and Cooper in 1840 Chambers County
AL (107 KB) Elijah Lee born
1777 married Malinda Phillips and their daughter Sarah F. Lee
married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County. Charner's parents
were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Charner's son
was Levi Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope Hull on a
farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter and married the man's
daughter.
Carter, Thomas Randolph (47 KB) Hope Hull visit to find the tombstone of
the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks and he was the great
grandfather of James Edgar Brooks Jr. Father of Thomas was John
Wise Carter, the son of Elizabeth Wise and John Carter of South
Carolina.
Tombstones (41
KB) Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah
Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama - located in a beautiful
plot behind the Lords Supper at Greenwood.
Nearby I found my grandpa W Fenn's tombstone and some Bozemans
in Greenwood.
Photos (4
KB) Scanned photos of people and their tombstones
Tombstones (1
KB) Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah
Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
Baxter, Rowena Densy (20 KB) Grandmother of Annie Clark Ballard
Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie
Kathy Brooks Kin (38
KB) Cochran and Carter, Bozeman and McClain notes
Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820 SC
(6 KB) Civil War Records............father
of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper ..........grandfather of Susie
Mae Cooper Brooks.
1786 Marriages (66
KB) Peter Bozeman and Sarah Brown were the parents of
Jesse and William Henry Bozeman, plus another son named Peter E.
Bozeman who married Gilly - This marriage record is in the Diaries
of Evan Pugh, a minister found on the 1790 census
of Darlington, same page with Peter B.
Partridge, Mary Angeline (4 KB) Parents of Angeline were Mildred Smith
and George Partridge of Georgia. Her husband was George Thornton
of Georgia and his parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and
Charles Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha Blackstone born 1814
Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears.
Joe Stephens -Civil War (4 KB) Joe and Sarah Mills Stephens of
Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John T Bozeman but she
died soon after giving birth to their 4th child.
Colonial Records (3
KB) Saving a few documents relating to my ancestors.
Herriford of Virginia (50 KB) Mary Josephine Hereferd was the second
wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their daughter was Sarah
Elizabeth Carter - Cooper ( mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died,
Mary had him buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their
children.
Charles Weatherford in Alabama 1780
(140 KB) They fail to mention he was mixed
Scot with Indian Blood and the possibility exists that this man
traveled back and forth visiting family in Georgia or Virginia,
nobody knows the true facts of his entire life, nor the
possibility this man who fathered Red Eagle may also have fathered
Catherine Weatherford who married John Wright.
Fann - Fenn Zachariah (128 KB) Virginia born the Fenns ventured into
Georgia, into the War of Independence and beginning their
plantations.
Mary Catherine Crigler (323 KB) Daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham
Crigler was married to John Wright Little; She was born and died
in Bullitt Kentucky. Afer her death John moved their family to
Arkanas and soon after, her father followed him. They are Cherokee
by blood.
Fann - Fenn Zachariah (41 KB) Virginia born the Fenns ventured into
Georgia, into the War of Independence and beginning their
plantations.
Frankie Cochran's Kansas families
(32 KB) His father served in WWI, his
brother died in Korea, his grandfather served in the Civil War and
some served in the American Revolution. Frankie was one eighth
Cherokee blood.
Kentucky Records (53
KB) George Little living near his grown up children and
their families, and in laws, and Isaac Coonfield near Clark and
Cline
Weatherford Notes (134
KB) Researching my Catherine G. Weatherford of
Charlotte, VA a daughter of Charles, who married John Wright in
1811....her descendants named Georgia, have some similiarity with
some on this list......
1810 census shows Patsey Weatherford
(136 KB) she has children in the home and
could be Catherine's mother - she could also have been a wife of
the famous Charles Weatherford; nearby is a younger Charles
Weatherford who might have been her son.....Patsey Weatherford is
one to be researched.
Many Grandfathers in my line (14 KB) Cochran, Henderson, Long, Clendenning,
Sturgeon of Pennsylvania into Ohio - "Stuff" on my southern
grandfathers
1811 marriage record of Catherine
Weatherford (52
KB) Virginia Documents state that her father was Charles
Weatherford - scroll down to #76 where Benoni Smith was her surety
to marriage - was her father in Alabama with his other family?
Many Grandfathers in my line (75 KB) Cochran, Henderson, Long, Clendenning,
Sturgeon of Pennsylvania into Ohio ; Coonfield and Young,
Epperson, into Indiana and Arkansas, Roby and Crigler of Kentucky
with Simmons and Wells
Coonfield Lineage (13
KB) Finding Isaac Coonfield in Kentucky 1800 so was he
born about 1760 or 1770
My DAR Ancestors (189
KB) Several of my grandfathers served in the American
Revolution and have been acknowledged by the DAR and Peter Bozeman
was just recognized in Jan 2008
Crigler of Kentucky (204 KB) Abraham Crigler and Lydia had Owen.
Owen then named a son Abraham who married Catherine Roby and had
Mary Catherine Crigler who later married John Little.
Hiram Little born 1821 Kentucky (158 KB) The son of Jonas married Catherine
Wright ( daughter of Catherine Weatherford) and named a son John
Wright Little in 1843. John is later found living with Abraham
Crigler because his mother died and Hiram moved to Texas and
remarried.
Reason Roby born Kentucky 1790 (205 KB) Abraham Crigler's wife was Mary
Catherine Roby, the daughter of Reason and Catherine Simmons Roby.
Reason was the son of Lawrence Roby and a lady named "Catherine"
who is shown widowed living by Reason in 1820.
Grandpa McClain (39
KB) Charles married Elizabeth Moon about 1750 in
Virginia and moved to Spartanburg SC. His son Josiah married Nancy
Wood and had James. James married a woman only known as Anna and
they are buried at Indian Creek Cemetery in Georgia. Anna's son
Josiah Marion McClain had a family in GA, left for the Civil War
and never returned. He had a second family in Alabama and one son
named Charles born 1886.
Jacob Benjamin Cochran (88 KB) Joined the California Gold Rush, served
in the Civil War and was married twice
Simmons, Catherine's father Jesse born
1753 (254 KB) Parents of
Catherine Simmons were Jesse and Rachel Wells Simmons from
Maryland into Kentucky. Rachels's father was Jacob Wells. Parents
of Jesse were Elizabeth Swearengin and Johnathon Simmons of
Maryland.
Grandpa Stone (90
KB) Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter
Anne Carter 's Grandpa's Death
Certificate (458
KB) Montgomery Alabama 1922 death certificate of William
Franklin Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee, Macon County Alabama, former
Creek Indian Nation to Emeline Harrell and John Fenn of Georgia -
John had served in the Civil War and moved his family to Alabama in
the 1860s.
Grandma Stone (88
KB) Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter and
his wife was Mary Ann Hendrick of Georgia
Anne Carter 's Uncle Frank Fenn (18 KB) Her daddy's brother born 1895 resided in
Coosada, had a farm on Airport Road, a family cemetery and the
Church Cemetery he donated, and later his land became Coosada
Elementary School. Frank served in WWI and worked for the railroad
and he was the father of Bob Fenn, the principal of Robinson Springs
School around 1987. Frank's tombstone is next to his brother
Robert's in their family graveplot. Robert never appeared on a
census record but was known as Uncle Lee.
Annie (440
KB) Annie Carter was named after her grandmother Anna Lou
Stone. Annie was Kathy's mother. Annie had open heart surgery in
1980 just weeks before Beverly was born but managed to walk into
that hospital to hold her first grand daughter.
Susie Mae Cooper 's grandfather (35 KB) Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R
Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. This picture of Thomas shows
his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their family before the epidemic.
When Thomas died, Mary had him buried near Lacy
Grandpa Charles McClain (1888 KB) Death Certificate - his daughter Alice
married Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, the son of Anna Stone. Charlie
raised the children of Alice and Cecil when they died by 1939.
Charlie was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain.
Census records show the date of birth of Charlie was 1886 and all
other records seem to differ because his wife was not very educated.
James Brooks' mother (72
KB) Annie Clark Ballard of Tennessee married John E Brooks
and had one son named James.
Frank Cochran (212
KB) Family photo about 1937 with Frank on the left
William Marion McClain (1713 KB) Charlie's cousin by his father's first
marriage. They all connect to Josiah Marion McClain born 1838
Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton (300 KB) Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton in
Elmore County Alabama and the granny of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks.
Cemetery at Hope Hull (1
KB) Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's
monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War
and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in
this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the
McLean Road in huge pasture on the right.
Charles McClain's wife Lorena Bozeman
(11 KB) Not sure who posted her as his
mother on his death certificate. Lorena was the daughter of Alice
Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman of the Dublin/ Ramer area in
Montgomery County and she had indian blood.
Minnie Lee Gibson (83
KB) Daughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman's daughter Ruby Gibson -
Minnie's daughter contacted me and sent the picture; please do write
again.
Cemetery at Hope Hull (21
KB) Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's
monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War
and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in
this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the
McLean Road in huge pasture on the right.
Lorena's sister Ethel Mae Bozeman (91 KB) with husband Jace Gibson who was also
first cousin to Charlie McClain because their own mothers were
sisters ( Broadway ) Ruby on horse - Ruby was mother of Elizabeth
who we met in Dublin at the Hills Chapel Church
Sam Little (984
KB) Uncle Sam was the son of John Wright Little and a
brother to Lattie
Tombstone of Jesse Bozeman, father of
Lacy (264 KB) states he was
born 1793 and a tree separates him from one of his wive's graves. He
came from Darlington South Carolina with his father Peter who had
served in the American Revolution and their many families to settle
in Hope Hull in 1826. Jesse bought 160 acres in 1827 while his
father wrote letters found at the Probate Office where he expected
free land for his military service. Peter died in 1829 and is buried
closeby one would expect - his grave is not yet found.
Clopton Gibson (184
KB) Ethel's father in law came from South Carolina
John T. Bozeman (3
KB) Son of Peter and Nancy, married Alice Stephens, having
Ethel Mae and Lorena Emma Bozeman, this photo may have been taken
around 1890. John is buried at Hills Chapel Cemetery in front of the
church at Dublin beside his brother Peter James, who died of
suicide.
Tombstone of Peter Edward Bozeman (1350 KB) Son of Martha Hill and William Henry
Bozeman of Darlington SC who also settled in Hope Hull.....William
was born about 1802 a son of Peter and brother of Jesse. Wm's son
Peter Edward was married to Nancy Jane Anderson and he served in the
Civil War and she got his pension - papers at Probate Office - Nancy
had son named John Thomas Bozeman who married Alice Lorena Stephens.
This tombstone is found in Dublin behind the Hills Chapel Church
while his son John is buried in front of the church.
Frank Cochran's mother Luella's MOM
Lattie (63 KB) Luella was the
daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. This
picture of Lattie shows her indian features quite nicely. Lattie
Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and John
Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War.
James H Baxley (871
KB) Tombstone - Civil War Soldier - married Louisa Holt
and had Ella Olivia Baxley who married L W Hood and had Bessie Mae
Hood
Frank Cochran's great grandmother
Crigler (323 KB) Luella was
the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas.
Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and
John Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War. This picture of
Lattie as a small child with her sister Sadonia and their mother
Catherine Crigler of Kentucky. Catherine was the daughter of
Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler who were of Mixed Blood.
Tombstone Ella Olivia Baxley Hood (94 KB) Mother of Bessie Mae - Ella was daughter
of James Baxley in Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama
Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W.
Little (479 KB) John Wright
Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black
hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in
Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family
refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the
daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as
they married there in 1811.
Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W.
Little (26 KB) John Wright
Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black
hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in
Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family
refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the
daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as
they married there in 1811. This picture of John as he got older and
grey.
1930 James Brooks (1512
KB) Montgomery Alabama - wife Susie Mae Cooper
John W. Little's cousin Lucius Powhatan
Little (40 KB) John Wright
Little's mother had a sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a
brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in honor of their
indian blood. Powhatan was a writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro
Kentucky History books.
Anne Carter Cochran (18
KB) Married to Frank Cochran, she had Kathy in Broken
Arrow Oklahoma and then they moved to Mesa Arizona where her sons
were born
Lucius Powhatan Little's Mother (33 KB) John Wright Little's mother had a sister
Martha who married Douglas Little, a brother of Hiram. Martha named
her son Powhatan in honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a
writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky History books. This
picture of Martha Wright is all we have of that lineage, lovely lady
with indian features died of euthanasia according to old records of
LP and his daughter Laura.
Holt - Baxley (794
KB) Louisa Miranda Holt born 1847 was granny to "Bubber"
Bessie Mae Hood Thornton and great great granny of Charles W. Brooks
John Wright Little Family Photo (39 KB) About 1900 he moved them all to Marble,
Arkansas after his wife died and appeared on the 1900 and 1910
census
Cemetery Survey (213
KB) Beverly photographs tombstones of her great great
grandparents tombstones, Mary Angeline Partridge and George
Thornton, the parent of Milton Elijah Thornton near Santuck, in
Central at the Mount Hebron Primitive Baptist Church.
Kathy Cochran wed Charles W. Brooks
(33 KB) Photo taken about 1995 before he got
sick with colon cancer. Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton
and James Edgar Brooks Jr
Clora Jane Miller (102
KB) Frank Cochran's granny was married to Jacob Cochran
and named a son Frank Delbert Cochran. When Jacob died the widow
made her rounds, spending a few months with each of her grown
children's families. She smoked a pipe, read the ashes and taught
them to pop corn. her ancestors of Ireland had settled in Rockinham
Virginia where we find Rev. Alexander Miller of the 1700s buried at
Cooks Creek Cemetery. Clora's mother was Mary Clara Parker of Ohio,
who some say made medicine with the indians, born to Sara Tefft and
Archelaus Parker of the New York Indian County. Tefft has a
wonderful 1600s history in Rhode Island, where one of the Uncles was
hanged by King Phillip.
Charles W. Brooks' parents (6 KB) Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton
and James Edgar Brooks Jr - Parents of Mary Ella were Bessie Mae
Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae
Cooper and James E. Brooks.
Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman tombstone
(29 KB) Widow of Peter Edward Bozeman, is
buried by two of her sons in this family plot, not far from the
Brooks and Coopers and Fenns who are also buried at Greenwood
Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama.
Susie Mae Cooper's dad (50 KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter
and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the
Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama.
Walton McClain (35
KB) with Charlie McClain on the farm in Ramer about 1930 -
Walton joined the military for most of his life and earned his PHD.
buried at Alexandria VA
Anne Carter 's Daddy's Death
Certificate (230
KB) Montgomery Alabama 1939 death certificate confirms his
parents to be Ann Stone and Wm Frank Fenn as witnessed by his
brother Emmett Marvin Fenn
Susie Mae Cooper (40
KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had
Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the Civil War
and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama. This picture of
Susie Mae with her spouse James E. Brooks.
Frank Delbert Cochran (50
KB) Son of Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran
served in WWI while Jacob was a Civil War soldier of the Ohio
Infantry.
Susie Mae Cooper with her mother Sarah
(68 KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth
Carter and had Susie Mae. Sarah was the daughter of Mary Josephine
Hereford of Virginia and Thomas Randolph Carter of SC who had
settled in Hope Hull.
Uncle Cecil Earl Carter born 1932 (33 KB) Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn
Carter was the father of Victoria Carter, all buried at Memorial
Cemetery except Vickie who was cremated by her half sisters.
Susie Mae Cooper 's granny (58 KB) Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R
Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter.
Uncle William Lawrence Carter born 1935
(25 KB) Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl
Fenn Carter he was the brother of Anne and Cecil Jr. Alice died
giving birth to "Billy". Billy spent most of his life in Indian
Territory Oklahoma.
Peter Edward Bozeman (1
KB) Beverly took me to Dublin to locate these tombstones
- grandfather of Lorena Emma Bozeman McClain and he was the great
great great grandfather of Kathy.
1910 Charles McClain (6
KB) Kathy's great grandfather on census with his mother,
stepfather, his own wife Lorena and baby
Peter Edward Bozeman's Uncle Jesse - Hope
Hull (47 KB) Beverly took
me to Hope Hull to locate these tombstones - plus we found the
grave of T R Carter, a great great grandfather to Charlie Brooks.
Carter's daughter Sarah married Levi Cooper, the son of Charner
Cooper.
Mordecai Bozeman, father of Peter, John,
James. (5 KB) Mordecai
served in the American Revolution with sons Peter and John. Peter
moved to Alabama about 1826 while John moved to Mississippi in
1823. James remained in Darlington County SC.
T R Carter (9
KB) Born 1820 served in Civil War, married Jesse's
daughter Lacy Bozeman who died in an epidemic then married to Mary
Josephine Hereford of Virginia, and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter
Kathy's mom's great great great grandpa
Bozeman (5 KB) Mordecai
Bozeman served in the American Revolution = father of Peter
Bozeman who migrated to Hope Hull who also served along with him
in the War - they were paid for their services and received land
grants in Darlington County South Carolina.
Kathy's mom's great great Grandpa Josiah
McClain (70 KB) Josiah
Marion McClain was born in Georgia to Anna and James McClain.
Josiah married first to Julia King and had a family in Georgia,
then he joined the Civil War in an Alabama Infantry and was with
Elizabeth Broadway by 1870 having a son named Charles Allen
McClain. Charles and his wife Lorena had a daughter named Alice
McClain who married Cecil Carter.
Census images (26
KB) My kin found on census records in 1790, 1800, 1810
and other good stuff
DAR (83
KB) Some of my ancestors are recognized for their
military service
Fann of Virginia became Fenn in
Georgia (76 KB) Military
service in the American Revolution and Land Grants, a vast lineage
migrated into the Mississippi/ Alabama Territory
Elijah Lee and
Andrew Cooper of South
Carolina born 1770s brought their
families to Chambers
County Alabama, former Creek Indian Lands,
before 1840. It has been said that Elijah paid an indian
directly for his land. Elijah had married Malinda Phillips of
Green County
Georgia and some believe the Phillips were of indian blood.
Andrew Cooper may have also married an indian woman named
Alsey
and her last
name had never been discovered. On the 1840 census Alsey
appears to be widowed with children. 1840
shows Elijah Lee living near a John Phillips. The Alabama Land
Records show that Elijah bought land in 1823 so it was long
before the Trail of Tears. ( note
) ( MORE0
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/grpsht.html
The Lees are
buried at the Old Harmony Baptist Church cemetery and the graves of
the Coopers are not yet found. Aunt Sissy
says that
grandpa Levi Cooper
is buried by his
sons at a church cemetery in Cecil, Alabama. They had resided
in Whitehall according to
Aunt Sissy. She and her son Butch have been a great
help!
Charner P
Cooper, son of Andrew, married Sarah F Lee, daughter of Elijah, and
their son Levi Benjamin Cooper married Sarah
Elizabeth
Carter, a
daughter of Thomas Randolph Carter and Mary Josephine
Hereford of Virginia.
Mary
had a beautiful
complexion,
black eyes and black hair. The grave of TRC born 1820 was found in
Hope Hull, Montgomery, Alabama
by his first
wife, Lacy Jane
Bozeman and I really appreciate my daughter driving us through that
cow pasture to find that little cemetery hidden
behind the pond, and it really deserves a historical
marker.
*
The Bozemans
came from
South Carolina
and NC 1700s
moving into Alabama as some of the Indian Tribes moved west in the
early 1800s.
Lacy's father Jesse's headstone shows that he was born 1793.
Apparently Jesse had been married twice . Many legal documents
exist in
Montgomery County regarding the Bozeman families.
Jesse Bozeman
was the brother of William Henry
Bozeman and
administrator of his Estate. Their father was Peter Bozeman of
Darlington South
Carolina who served in the American Revolution along with his own
father, Mordecai
Bozeman.
Peter and his wife Sarah, had
moved their families into Alabama about 1820 and they are probably
buried in Hope Hull, Montgomery County, Alabama.
Several Bozemans
were buying land
in Alabama in the 1820s and 1830s.
Just
imagine the many wagon trains flowing in..
William Henry
named his sons, Meady, Peter
Edward, and John Thomas Bozeman. John's descendant, Jimmy Ray
has assisted with
this research. Meady's descendant Wayne and his wife Sue Carol
have also assisted. Wayne and Jimmy have had many years
of genealogy work before me and were so kind and proud to share with
a new cousin.
*Thomas Carter
was the son of
John Wise Carter
who some say was
buried in Talladega Alabama. John was born 1792 South
Carolina, the
son of Elizabeth Wise and Captain John Carter who may have served in
the War of 1812 and the American Revolution. John
bought land in Alabama in 1821.
*
Susie Mae
Cooper's husband was James Edgar
Brooks Sr and their son
was James Jr. The parents of James came from Tennessee with
the railroad and they resided downtown Montgomery Alabama near the
Union Station.
They were
Annie Clark
Ballard
and
John Brooks, all buried at
Greenwood. John's father
was also named
John, born in
Pennsylvania to Dutch parents.
He was found in
the 1860 census of Giles TN, the same year he met and married
Roxanna
Permilia
Smith.note
Our cousin
Clarence and his
mother Sissy have assisted with this research and contributed to the
Montgomery Cemetery research with his survey of
Carter-Stokes cemetery in Hope Hull, which should be appropriately
named Carter and Bozeman Cemetery.
The Smith
families connect to a Captain John Smith of Virginia.
*
The Ballards
were previously
in the Carolinas, as were the Bond, and Ward families.
*
James Edgar
Brooks Jr married Mary
Ella Thornton and had a son named Charles in Montgomery Alabama.
He also worked a while with the
railroad while living on Hull Street near my grandpa Fenn but the
Brooks soon moved to Millbrook and had a huge garden and seven
boys and one daughter. Mr Brooks became an exterminator for a
few years before he joined the John Deere dealership.
They are buried
in Prattville by
their son Johnny. *letter*
Elijah's parents
came from Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge
and George
Thornton;
we found their
graves behind an old primitive Baptist
Church in Central, Elmore, AL on the way to the Lake.Mary Ella's
sister, Lorraine said that Mary Angeline was an indian and my
daughter took me to the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Central
to locate those headstones.
*
Bessie's parents
were Ella Olivia
Baxley and Allen Wesley
Hood
but his headstone
has an L W on it. His parents are hard to trace and prove.
Hers were James and Marnda Baxley of Cold Spring, Elmore, AL
and thus begins the brick wall in our research.
Frankie Cochran
was born in
Kansas a son of Luella
Coonfield of
Arkansas and Frank Delbert Cochran.
*
Alice McClain's
parents were
Lorena
Emma Bozeman and
Charles
Allen McClain
of Ramer,
Montgomery County, Alabama. The parents of
Charles
were Elizabeth
Broadway and Josiah Marion
McClain ( Civil War
Soldier of GA). Josiah's ancestors were Elizabeth Moon
and Charles McClain of Virginia 1700s. Josiah's father James
was found in Alabama on the 1860 census and had possibly
married an indian named Anna. The Broadways came out of South
Carolina and Elizabeth's father Abner
had married Mary
Susan Stephens of Alabama.
Lorena's parents
were Alice Stephens
and John Thomas
Bozeman.
Alice Stephen's great great grandfather John Stephens had
married a full
blood Cherokee in North Carolina and began a journey to Alabama
where many of his grandchildren settled in Ramer.
Parents of John
Bozeman were Nancy Jane
Anderson and Peter Edward
Bozeman. Peter was the
son of William Henry Bozeman.
Our Bozeman family says that Peter Edward is buried behind the
Hills Chapel Church in the woods where there was once a cemetery
many years ago.
Nancy's parents
were Lavinia Jane Sellers
and Seaborn
Anderson. Lavinia's sister married a Cooper. Seaborn
Anderson's
ancestors and
his father Elijah
had settled in
Lowndes County before moving to Montgomery, Alabama. Elijah's
parents were Lavinia Brack
and Elisha
Anderson who's Will
is located at the
Montgomery County Archives. This line connects to the Mayflower's
Edward
Doty.as Lavinia
Brack's mother was Hester Doty, a daughter of Benajah Doty
and Elizabeth
Farr.
The Cochran and
Coonfield lineage of the midwest. Alexander Cochran
raised his
family in Pennsylvania and soon settled into Ohio, possibly
Quakers, with several sons joining the Civil War and even living in
California during the Gold Rush. Later these young men moved
to Iowa to farm the new land, and after several years, Jacob
Benjamin Cochran
moved to Kansas with second wife
Clora Jane Miller,
a daughter of
Mary Clara Parker.
Family
lore is that Mary shared medicine with the indians and research shows
that her ancestors
were in the
1600s and 1700s New York Indian Country as well as Mass and
Rhode Island, with one cousin,
Joshua Tefft was
killed by King Phillip.
One Mr Sweete
was banned from
England as a Catholic Priest and lived in exile
in France.
As far as
documenting the Cochran lineage, I have none beyond Jacob to prove
the names of his parents or grandparents. Locating a
census record or a will or more would help to prove this
lineage. Perhaps Jacob told his children about his parents
but reading the
census records, I can safely say there were dozens of Williams,
Alexanders, and Jacob Cochrans in Pennsylvania and
Ohio and even those who migrated to Iowa Territory. Apparently
William Cochran married Martha Henderson
in Ohio and had
Jacob.
Fortunately for
many other lineages, those before us have done a lot of research
that I can go back and verify for myself leaving reason to
believe most of what I can see.
Isaac and
Barsheba Clark Coonfield spent many years in early Kentucky and then
moved to Indiana with their grown children. She was found
widowed on the 1830 census. Her son Isaac Benjamin Coonfield moved
his family to Arkansas. This family is mentioned
in the book of the Early History of Morgan County Indiana.
Benjamin Wallace Coonfield married Lattie Cedonia Little and they
had Amy, Ruth and Luella Coonfield. Amy married Joe Gray and I
had corresponded with their daughter Verna, who forwarded
copies of her late sister's research ( Dorline Gray )
who was trying
to connect this lineage to Chief Powhatan.
Dorline
had also been corresponding with our cousin Martha in Arizona, who
also shared a great amount of research with me regarding L P
Little. L P Little had a great way of leaving a trail of his
elders by giving each child a middle name of one of his ancestors and I
am honoring him and his work by writing about him on the Kentucky
webpage.
Arkansas land
records indicate that Isaac Coonfield bought land in
1856.
Hiram Lucius
Little, son of Betsy Douglas
and Jonas Little, had lost his
wife, Catherine Wright, in Kentucky and moved to Texas. His
son John Little served in the Civil War as a blacksmith, married,
had several children, lost his wife and then moved his family into
Arkansas. Our grandma Betsy was found widowed and living with
her daughter Betsy Roberts on the 1850 census.
Hiram Little
married Rebecca Isabella Adams in Bosque County Texas and had more
children including a Hiram jr. Most are buried at the
Meridian Cemetery. Hiram's headstone refers to him as a doctor and a
mason.
Apparently some
of the brothers of grandpa Jonas had already removed to Texas by
1800 and our Hiram had joined them. Our Texas migration
needs further study.
Betsy Douglass
Little had another son named Douglass Little who married Martha Ann
Wright, his sister in law. Martha named her
first son, Powhatan and he was a lawyer, and a judge, who was a
great writer and did a lot of research on his lineage; as
did his
daughter, Laura Simmons
Little. They
traced Mary Handley to parents Martha Mason and George Handley of
Ireland, noting that Mary
was born asea, on the trip over. Mary's brother was Captain John
Handley. Their notes also chart a Thomas Jones settling
in the 1600s on James River in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County,
Virginia and wrote about a Polly Jones who may have been
the wife or companion of Charles Weatherford.
Mother of the
Wright sisters was Catherine
Weatherford, a
daughter of Charles Weatherford in Charlotte VA.
Alabama
land records indicate
land sold to Charles in 1841 if this is his grandson by Red Eagle.
So far records only indicate one Charles Weatherford born
in this time period and it is quite possible that he had more than
one wife than history would like for us to believe and if
he was indian trader, he probably had many children that have not
been noted. History also indicates that the father of Red
Eagle was from Scotland, and a his grandson on the creek indian
mailing list says that Charles fathered many children with
many women and then went back to Scotland but we may never know the
facts. Some family trees indicate that Charles was the
son of Martin Weatherford and an indian woman called Mary in
Charlotte Virginia who migrated to Georgia and I did find
documentation in the Georgia Archives onlne that show Martin was a
wealthy planter and it mentions nothing at all about Scotland.
Martin was a loyalist, very outspoken and the state of Ga
banned him so he moved his family to the Bahamas and more
documentation is found to prove that.
Parents of Betsy
were Mary Handley
and Alexander
Douglass who were married in PA. MMary's brother Captain John
Handley became a
surveyor like Daniel Boone and on one trip to the new land in
Kentucky, before 1800, his brother in law, Alexander Douglass went
with him and never returned. Alexander was murdered by indians
on his way back home. His wife took her girls and moved
into a scottish settlement in South Carolina, where her daughter
married Jonas little. Later the father of Jonas, George
Little, married his
son's mother in law. Both had become widowed but they had no
children together that we know of.
Ironically
there was an older Jonas Little in South Carolina, who's descendants
moved southward and into Alabama and we can only
suspect there may be some connection to George. The 1790
census of Newberry, Union, South Carolina shows George with a
housefull of children but it also shows others around his home named
Jonas, Joseph, William and John who could
also be his Scottish siblings. Some of those came through
Alabama and Texas but it is hard to configure.
Abraham's
parents were Lydia Carpenter
and Owen Crigler. Catherine's
parents were Kitty Simmons and Reason Roby. These families
left Virginia to settle in the new land of Kentucky about 1800 among
friendly indians who were also migrating westward.
John and Mary
were beautiful, dark complected, had black eyes and black hair and
they had Cherokee blood.
The Battle of
Alamo lists a soldier named Hiram Little
and there is a
possible connection to our lineage as some of the decendants are
found in Texas census records. and one receiving a land grant in
Texas.
Much of my
research is being added to usgenweb.com AND PAGE
TWO
Descendant of
all of these was Frankie Lavern Cochran born 1927.and
Kathy Cochran who was born in Broken Arrow,
Tulsa, Oklahoma
later moved to Montgomery Alabama after spendng a few years in
Arizona. Frankie had dark hair and blue eyes like his
father and his younger pictures resemble his father, but as Frankie
aged, he resembled his grandpa Coonfield very much.
Pictures of Catherine Crigler and then those of the Coonfield
women show us they all had long dark hair in braids and dark eyes.
Luella Coonfield and her mother in law Clora Jane both smoked
pipes. The pipes are in the possession of cousin Stanley.
Aunt Irma talked
of granny Clora Jane Miller Cochran being a sweet old lady who
stayed with them for a while when grandpa Jacob
died. Clora stayed with each of her children, taking turns, as
she had no place to go. She taught them about corn and
how to pop it.
She mysteriously read the ashes of her pipe. Aunt Irma
was the child born with a veil over her face. The doctor
removed the veil
twice as it seemed to grow back and on the third veil, her mother
Luella took it and placed it in the Bible where it still
exists to this day.
Annie Carter
as a baby being
held by her Uncle Walton
McClain shows us
how very dark the McClain boys
were just like
their father with
black eyes and black hair so it is
quite possible
that the McClain lineage was of indian blood. Annie 's
school picture
shows that she
had long straight black hair and black eyes,
even though she had it curled up in this photo
of her in 1953
pregnant with Kathy in Tulsa OK.
Looking at
Annie's grandmother, Lorena Bozeman's lineage,
I wondered
repeatedly about her father's name, John Thomas Bozeman, and how
it may have originated. His great grandfather Peter
married a widow, Sarah Brown and she named her first son Meade
so that may have been her maiden name; then a son was named William
Henry and that could have been her father's name;
so looking back at the 1790 census of South Carolina, I do
find a William Meade and a Thomas Meade so this may be another
clue in our mystery of names. We know that William Henry
Bozeman might have been the first to name a son John
Thomas Bozeman and wonder where the name Thomas came into
play.
Digging through
mom's letters and cards, I found an article from the newspaper
of 1956 that listed Lorena McClain having surgery
at Maxwell AFB hospital and later found that grandpa McClain had
served in WWI. The article also listed Anne Cochran and
family were relocating to Mesa Arizona and it listed her cousin
James Duncan was going to San Antonio. These were found in
Anne's old blue diaper bag that she used in Mesa AZ and brought back
with her to Montgomery
Alabama.
Arizana is a
small memory in my mind. We had a lot of burritos and
enchildas that mom cooked, took pictures in the desert and grand
canyon, went swimming in the Verde River, Coonsbluff, and
drove thru well lighted mountain tunnels. Most of our
friends and
neighbors were indian or mexican and we spoke a little spanish that
I have long since forgotten. My cousin Frankie Haraughty
was a daily playmate since his mom Eunice Cochran lived nearby. We
played with, horned toads , strange bugs and
creatures of the land and watched the daily irrigation of the fields
when our front ditches filled with water every afternoon at
4. Frankie's
brother Frances was called Chigger by my dad. Chigger was the
one making home movies of us back then.
One of Lorena
Bozeman 's distant cousins married a Jordan which is a line leading
directly to Pocahontas and some of the Jordans
settled in Elmore County. Lorena's uncle Peter Bozeman married
a Dillard and that line also connects to Pocahontas.
Cousin Elizabeth
helped with the Bozeman lineage as her grandmother Ethel was the
sister of my great granny Lorena. Ruby Gibson
told me that Charles McClain and Jason Gibson were cousins and we
connected their mothers as Broadway children of Abner
Broadway and I verified through census records. One of the Gibsons
had marched in Governor Wallace's inaugural parade.
Ruby also told me that my grandfather Cecil Carter was still
in the military when he married my granny Alice McClain but I have not
been able to verify.
We do not know
if there were any suvivors benefits for Cecil's children as Lorena
Bozeman McClain raised them but do know the
McClains left Ramer and lived on Highland Avenue for a while.
Cecil's adoption records have not been found, but his
children knew of
his Fenn family and I have contacted some of the Fenn
relatives.
Cousin Martha
Fenn had only a few blurred pictures of Cecils' siblings and told me
where Uncle Frank and Uncle Robert were buried in
Coosada, Elmore County, AL.
Her brother, my
cousin Bob Fenn, talked about his family on the farm there is
Coosada.
I found another
cousin, Nancy Fenn, in Montgomery, who connects to the Mathew Fenn
who owned the plantation in Eufaula.
Our great
grandfather William Frank Fenn had married Anna Lou Stone and his
great grandfather Michael Stone came to Alabama
from Maryland. There is a Banister Stone in my McClain / Moon
family of South Carolina but I have not made any connection;
then my husband's lineage in Tennessee has a Catherine Stone
of the Carolinas who married John Baptist Bond.
Michael Stone
had married Polly Wells in Putnam, Georgia and they are found on a
census living in a Captain John Stone's District.
Their son Benjamin Wilburne Stone married Sarah Davies
and had Augustus Marvin Stone. Augustus married Mary
Ann Hendrick, a
daughter of Mary Ann Winters and John Hendrick. The 1850
census of Macon County Alabama shows us Michael
living next to son William and son Benjamin with their children's
names listed.
Anna's brother
was Arthur Augustus Stone and his son was William Arthur Stone,
known as Tige to the St Louis Cardinals of 1923.
The obituary of
grandpa Cecil lists a Walter Stone as a pallbearer. His death
certificate is signed by his brother Emmett Fenn. Cecil is
buried at Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery and Emmett is buried at
Greenwood by their father. Their father's brother Madison is
buried by them without a headstone. Madison was known as Uncle
Mat. Uncle Mat had married and moved to Texas and never
had any children, but came back to Montgomery after his wife died.
Mat's brother Thomas had
also gone to
Texas.
After taking
pictures of their headstones at Greenwood, getting close to the exit
I discovered the Bozeman family plot, with Nancy Jane
Anderson Bozeman buried by her sons Robert and Meady and their
families.
My husband's
great grandparents Annie Clark Ballard and John Brooks of Tennessee
are also buried at Greenwood by Susie Mae
Cooper brooks. I would love to learn more about those TN
families who had migrated from the Carolinas, during a time of
indian removal .
Indian Wars also caused many friendly indians to move
westward..Annie Ballard
was a beautiful dark
featured lady who only
had one child. Mary
Josephine
Hereford was from Virginina and her family all moved into Alabama
and she wa also another
beautiful dark featured lady.
After the
Revolutionary War, the U.S. Government established laws to survey
and sell land gained from Britain. The area that became
Alabama was originally part of the Mississippi Territory from 1798
to 1817. Many settlers arrived in the area before government
lands had been surveyed. Unable to buy, they simply picked a
location, built a cabin, cleared fields, and put in crops. Such
families were called squatters. Land laws were passed to provide
legal title to land for settlers who already lived
on the
land. Some settlers claimed land by British or Spanish land grants,
and others were squatters who claimed land by right
of pre-emption.
Starting in
1804, U. S. Land Offices were established to sell land in the area
which would become Alabama. By law federal land was sold
to the highest bidders at public auctions. Alabama sales attracted
men from all over the nation, many of them speculators.
Groups of speculators bought large tracts, sometimes for as little
as $10 an acre, then resold at $20 to $100 an acre. When an
auction ended, poorer migrants could buy less desirable land for as
little as $2 an acre. The smallest amount one person
could buy was 160 acres. Under the Land Law of 1800 a purchaser
could put one-fourth down and pay the rest off over three
years. But when the price of cotton fell to eighteen cents a pound,
few could meet payments on land bought at inflated
prices. By 1820, Alabama owed the federal government $11
million--more than half of the national land debt. In 1820
and 1821
Congress passed new laws to deal with this problem. The Land Law of
1820 required future buyers to pay the entire amount in
cash but lowered the minimums to $1.25 an acre and 80 acres. Those
already in debt were aided by the Relief Act of 1821 which
permitted them to keep part of their land and return the rest to the
government or buy it all on the installment plan at
reduced rates
Introduction
to the Settlement Unit:
The defeat of
the Creek Indians opened the heartland of Alabama to white
settlement and caused Alabama fever to sweep the nation.
Pioneers by the thousands left Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas,
and Virginia seeking fertile land for growing cotton.
Mississippi
territorial law was in place, but when Mississippi became a state,
Congress created the Alabama Territory in 1817. Congress
designated St. Stephens as capital of the Alabama Territory and
approved a legislature of Alabama delegates already
elected to the old Mississippi territorial legislature. William
Wyatt Bibb, a Georgia physician who had served in the
United States
Congress and had powerful friends in Washington, was named
Territorial governor. He was also elected as the first
governor when Alabama became a state December 14, 1819. He helped
establish the government, pass laws and administer
justice. The following documents deal with cost of government, land
speculation, cotton, and law as settlers poured in the area
during the early settlement of Alabama.
====
At the start
of the 19th century, Indians still held most of present-day Alabama.
War broke out in 1813 between American settlers and
a Creek faction known as the Red Sticks, who were determined to
resist white encroachment. After General Andrew
Jackson and his Tennessee militia crushed the Red Sticks in 1814 at
the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in central Alabama, he
forced the Creek to sign a treaty ceding some 40,000 sq mi (103,600
sq km) of land to the US, thereby opening about
three-fourths of the present state to white
settlement.
From 1814
onward, pioneers, caught up by what was called "Alabama fever,"
poured out of the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee,
and Kentucky into what Andrew Jackson called "the best unsettled
country in America." Wealthy migrants came in covered
wagons, bringing their slaves, cattle, and hogs. But the great
majority of pioneers were ambitious farmers who moved to the
newly opened area in hopes of acquiring fertile land on which to
grow cotton. Cotton's profitability had increased enormously
with the invention of the cotton gin. In 1817, Alabama became a
territory; on 2 August 1819, a state constitution was adopted;
and on the following 14 December, Alabama was admitted to statehood.
Alabama, then as now, was sparsely populated. In
1819, its residents comprised 1.3% of the US population. That
percentage had grown to only 2% in 1980.
During the
antebellum era, 95% of white Alabamians lived and worked in rural
areas, primarily as farmers. Although "Cotton was king" in
19th-century Alabama, farmers also grew corn, sorghum, oats, and
vegetables, as well as razorback hogs and cattle. By
1860, 80% of Alabama farmers owned the land they tilled. Only about
33% of all white Alabamians were slaveowners.
Whereas in 1820 there were 85,451 whites and 41,879 slaves, by 1860
the number of slaves had increased to 435,080,
constituting 45% of the state population. Large planters (owners of
50 slaves or more) made up less than 1% of Alabama's
white population in 1860. However, they owned 28% of the state's
total wealth and occupied 25% of the seats in the legislature.
Although the preponderance of the wealth and the population in
Alabama was located in the north, the success of Black Belt
plantation owners at forging coalitions with industrialists enabled
planters to dominate state politics both before and after
the Civil War. The planters led the secessionist movement, and most
other farmers, fearing the consequences of an end to
slavery, eventually followed suit. However, 2,500 white Alabamians
served in the Union Army, and an estimated 8,000?10,000
others acted as Union scouts, deserted Confederate units, or hid
from conscription agents.
Alabama
seceded from the Union in January 1861 and shortly thereafter joined
the Confederate States of America. The Confederacy
was organized in Alabama's senate chamber in Montgomery, and
Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president on the steps of
the capitol. Montgomery served as capital of the Confederacy until
May, when the seat of government was moved to Richmond,
VA.
Remote from
major theaters of war, Alabama experienced only occasional Union
raids during the first three years of the conflict. In
the summer of 1864, however, Confederate and Union ships fought a
major naval engagement in Mobile Bay, which ended in
surrender by the outnumbered southern forces. During the
Confederacy's dying days in the spring of 1865, federal
troops swept
through Tuscaloosa, Selma, and Montgomery. Their major goal, Selma,
one of the Confederacy's main industrial centers, was
left almost as heavily devastated as Richmond or Atlanta. Estimates
of the number of Alabamians killed in the Civil War
range from 25,000 upward.
During
Reconstruction, Alabama was under military rule until it was
readmitted to the Union in 1868. For the next six years,
Republicans
held most top political positions in the state. With the help of the
Ku Klux Klan, Democrats regained political control of
the state in November 1874.
Cotton
remained the foundation of the Alabama economy in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries. However, with the abolition of slavery it
was now raised by sharecroppers?white and black landless farmers who
paid for the land they rented from planters with
the cotton they harvested. Alabama also attempted to create a "New
South" in which agriculture would be balanced by industry. In
the 1880s and 1890s, at least 20 Alabama towns were touted as
ironworking centers. Birmingham, founded in 1871, became
the New South's leading industrial center. Its promoters invested in
pig iron furnaces, coal mines, steel plants, and real
estate. Small companies merged with bigger ones, which were taken
over, in turn, by giant corporations. In 1907, Birmingham's
Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co. was purchased by the nation's
largest steelmaker, US Steel.
Another major
Alabama enterprise was cotton milling. By 1900, 9,000 men, women,
and children were employed in Alabama mills;
most of these white workers were farm folk who had lost their land
after the Civil War because of mounting debts and low cotton
prices. Wages in mills were so low that entire families had to work
hours as long as those they had endured as farmers.
1. Indian
Territory until:
2.
1798 - Mississippi Territory
3.
1817 - became Alabama Territory
4.
1819: State of Alabama
4.
1819: State of Alabama.
Around
Thanksgiving of 2006 my daughter and I found the Bozeman graves at
Hope Hull by following directions of Jimmy Ray Bozeman and
later contacted cousin Wayne Bozeman in Santuck to read his copy of
Sketches, then in May of 2007 we met Jimmy Ray
in Dublin and another cousin Hazel Bozeman, daughter of Uncle Bob,
plus the grandchildren of Ethel Mae Bozeman
Gibson at Hills Chapel where John T Bozeman is buried; We were
led to the woods way behind the church to find the tombstone of
John's father Peter Edward Bozeman.
A few trips to
cemeteries finding tombstones of relatives Charlie and I
knew nothing about, I have saved several photos of those
headstones on webpages and tried to write a little bit
about those new discoveries.
My mother didn't know
much about her parents since she was orphaned at the age
of 4 and raised by her mother's McClain
parents.
Once I had my family
tree up and looking fabulous, I began on my late
husband's family and found one of his cousins, Clarence
Bearden, posting on the internet, doing the same thing
with the Brooks lineage. I phoned Clarence and he
sent me some research papers on John Brooks born 1837
and some pictures of Thomas Randolph Carter
family. Clarence's mother is my
husband's Aunt Sissy, actually named Elizabeth Brooks
and she had called my husband's daddy,
Bubba.
I never knew that
before.
I called
Charlie's cousin, Sue Carol, about Mary Ella's lineage
and found that her husband, Wayne Bozeman, was also my
cousin, WOW !!
Sue Carol drove me and
Beverly up to Central one day to see the tombstones of
Mary Partridge and George Thornton, a couple of there
great grandparents from Georgia, buried behind an old
Primitive Baptist Church.
Wayne and Sue Carol had
dug deeply into his lineage and they were amazed with my
Bozeman research. They had been to the graves at
Hope Hull, but so had Clarence Bearden and he had also
published an article about his findings there on the
Alabama Cemetery Preservation
webpage.
Beverly took me to Hope
Hull and our findings were extremely fascinating and we
took many pictures
Then we went to Dublin
to further our reearch and to Elmore County and I have
many other pictures within.
Beverly gave me a new
computer for Christmas 2006 with a free subscription to
ancestry.com and I have saved hundreds of old documents,
and census images showing the tracks of our
ancestors.
Wayne loaned me his
copy of a book written about the Bozemans and I have
also scanned those pages into my
research.
I have posted my huge
family tree on the internet to share at rootsweb.com and
there is another relative online researching the Brooks
lineage of Tennessee and Alabama
New relatives write to
me all the time, I have dozens and dozens of emails from
people asking for information, sharing their lineage,
letting me know that we are
related.
I joined several
genealogy mailing lists and message boards online and
once tried to contact a Donna Burdette but her mother
wrote back to me, being from the Bozeman line -
Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman, the
sister of my great granny Lorena.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman wrote
to me and met me and Elizabeth at Dublin in May 2007, my
daughter Beverly drove us there and we met a lot of
Ethel Mae's family there and some elderly children of
Uncle Bob Bozeman's family. We explored the old
family cemetery way behind Hills Chapel Church, out in
the woods and found the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman
and his daughter in law Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman.
Peter's son John had
been married to Alice. Alice was our great great
granny, rich with Cherokee blood.
I can see how she named
my great granny Emma Lorena Bozeman but where did she
get the name for Ethel Mae. Aunt Ethel had written
a story about her parents, published in the Montgomery
Advertiser around 1970.
I asked these people at
Dublin if they knew anything about Lorena 's husband
Charlie McClain and they said he was a good man, cross
eyed, and never had a tombstone.
December 2007 a new
cousin, Glenda, sends an email. Cousin to my
mother in law, she is a wonderful new friend. We
are researching Ella Olivia Baxley Hood and her parents
of Holtville. Beverly takes me to Coosa River
Primitive Baptist Church cemetery where we find several
family graves, Louisa Miranda Holt and James Hardie
Baxley, of the Civil War and down the road at Cains
Chapel Cemetery we find the grave of Ella and her
husband L W Hood and their children, including
"Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton ( the mother of
Mary Ella Thornton Brooks ).
My mother was an indian
and my father had some indian blood so I am certainly
interested in all native american history, finding a lot
being uploaded to usgenweb.com
My Dad's sisters are
near 90 and well Bernice is 92 and they sent me
information and pictures of the old ones and copies of
their own genealogy worksheets, which have been very
helpful with my Cochran lineage. My grandpa
Cochran was married to a Coonfield which has much indian
history coming out of 1800s Kentucky, Civil War and
travels across the nation.
Several of my ancestors
served in the American Revolution and the Civil War and
I find it amazing to cross their names in our nation's
history.
Many books are written
including a portion of our family; Grandpa Coonfield
being listed in the history of Morgan County
Indiana; Grandpa Little in the DAR books and
Kentucky History; Sketches of Bozeman published in
1885 mentions Peter Bozeman moving to Alabama;
Stephens Ancestors book at Ramer Library written by a
cousin Clyde Stephens who wrote to me a few years ago
and sent a package of papers to my home for my
research; Fenn families in Georgia history and in
the Early Settlers of Barbour County
Alabama.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman's
daughter is currently working to get our Peter Bozeman
recognized at the DAR which will open doors for many
many Alabama Bozeman researchers. Peter's son
William Henry Bozeman has a large lineage
here.
Peter's son Jesse is
the one found buried at Hope Hull.
Everything I find is
printed to my notebook and also saved on a
webpage,
Rev War Land Grants (151 KB) Grandpa Brack - descendant Lavinia Jane
Brack Sellers to Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
John's mother Nancy Jane Anderson
(18 KB) Lorena's grandmother kept them for
a while when Alice Stephens Bozeman died, until John married Ellen
Bean. Nancy was married to Peter Edward Bozeman and filed for his
Civil War Pension
Mordecai Bozeman (362
KB) Colonial Soldiers of the South - served in the
Militia
1922 Fenn and Adkins (7 KB) Interesting reading - I had been
told that a Wm Fenn married a Mattie Mae Adkins and my
grandpa Cecil was close friends with them.
Bozeman 1782 (1
KB) Transcribing and contributing my findings
Indian Raid (2
KB) Transcribing and contributing my findings,
saving other's who share a connection to mine
Peter Bozeman (36
KB) The son of Mordecai born around 1755-1758 had
sons named Jesse M, Peter E, William Henry and a daughter
Lucy Campbell. They moved to Montgomery Alabama around 1827
and Peter died around 1829. Peter had been paid for his
service in the SC Continental Line of the American
Revolution but thought he had earned something more when he
moved, perhaps the Land Grant, but was possibly rejected
because of a dead line setup by the government, but he did
write about having a certificate, one that we have not yet
discovered.
Death Certificate of Anne Carter
(440 KB) wife of
Frank Cochran. On that last night with her she told me to go
home to my babies because a "lady in white" had visited her
and told her that she was about to "go home"
Tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman (78 KB) found
in the woods behind Hills Chapel Church by Peter Edward
Bozeman's tombstone on the old John Hill plantation. Alice
was the wife of his son John Thomas Bozeman who was buried
across the street in another cemetery. Stone reads " My
Darling ALB "
Grandma Stone (88
KB) Informant is our great granny Annie L Dasher
who later became Annie Carter, previously a Fenn in 1893.
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter (525 KB) Military Discharge shows dark
ruddy complexion of this handsome Cherokee. There were three
documents where he re-enlisted and served about twenty years
at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas. Cousin Ruby Gibson once told
me that Cecil was still in the Army when he married Alice
McClain.
1920 Annie Stone (133 KB) Shown with Mother - apparently
Annie married 3 times, Fenn, Carter, Dasher but no marriage
record has been located.
Wm Sellers (23
KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa
- also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman - Some researchers say that
Mr Sellers had married an indian woman in South Carolina
before moving to Alabama.
TOMBSTONE - CAPT GEORGE LITTLE
(152 KB) One of my daddy's many
grandfathers on Luella's side - her mother was Lattie
Little.
Broadway (21
KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa
- also grandpa to Charles McClain's mother
Hiram Lucius Little (94 KB) Father of John Wright Little
married first to Catherine Wright and second to Rebecca
Isabella Adams.
Peter Bozeman (173 KB) Jesse petitions the court to sell
or divide the land that his father owned, dated 1838 - Peter
died in 1829 after writing letters to the War Dept and
Bounty Land Office because he knew that he was to receive
that free land grant for his service in the American
Revolution. Obviously he got the land in Hope Hull Alabama
but I have not found any type of Land Deed until this item
shows that Peter did in fact own land in Alabama. Now we
need to go back and find the followup to this document to
see when the land was sold and to whom.
Moon (22
KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa
- also grandpa to Charles McClain's father
Jesse Bozeman born 1793 was
Attorney (1352
KB) When his brother Peter E. Bozeman died, Gilly
asks him to be her lawful attorney regarding this estate in
1851. signed by John Stephens and Gilly's X mark.
Brandon (23
KB) S C Roster shows Brandon, under which many of
our elders served
John Wise - father of Elizabeth Wise
Carter (38 KB) 1700s
South Carolina Militia - Elizabeth named her son John Wise
Carter and he settled into Talladega Alabama about 1820-
1830 and married an unknown woman having a son named Thomas
Randolph Carter.
Lattie Cedonia Little & Ben
Coonfield (177
KB) Ben Coonfield family - Lattie told her
children they were of Cherokee blood and some of another
tribe
Benjamin Coonfield's parents
(28 KB) Husband of Lattie Little,
his parents were Martha Frances Young and Benjamin Wylie
Coonfield of Indiana
Dillard and Stone (33 KB) 1700s Chatham North Carolina
Muster Roll - There is a story online about the Dillards and
Jordans being related to Pocahontas
Flowers and Stone (34 KB) 1700s Edgecombe North Carolina
Muster Roll
Deer and Clark (35 KB) 1700s Granville North Carolina
Militia
Charles Wayne Brooks 1953 -
1998 (63 KB) taken
about 1975 at a friend's wedding reception - handsome son of
Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr. Charlie had
never gone to doctors until that Christmas Eve 1996 when he
got sick with colon cancer.
Charles' Grandpa Carter (40 KB) Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820
with his firt wife Lacy Bozman lived in Hope Hull. He
married secondly to Mary Josephine Hereferd of Virginia and
they had Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin
Cooper - Sarah's baby was named Susie Mae Cooper and she
marrried James Edgar Brooks Sr. ( Thomas Carter's
grandfather served in the American Revolution ) When Thomas
died his wife Mary had him placed by his first family and
then she went to live with her daughter. Thomas and Lacy
have beautiful tall tombstone monuments in Hope Hull where
he purchased land thru her father, Jesse Bozeman, from the
William Henry Bozeman Estate.
Charles' Grandpa Brooks (24 KB) John Brooks and Annie Clark
Ballard of Tennessee had only one son James E Brooks Sr in
Montgomery AL. James married Susie Mae Cooper and named
their son James Jr. James Jr married Mary Ella Thornton and
had Charles. ( The first John Brooks came from Holland and
settled in PA with a french wife and had John in 1837 who
was in Giles TN in 1860 marrying Roxanna Smith and having a
son named John in TN )
Grandpa John Wright Little
(26 KB) Luella Coonfield Cochran's
grandfather was born in Kentucky 1843 and claimed to be
Cherokee. He moved to Arkansas after his wife Catherine
Crigler died. John was the son of Catherine Wright and Hiram
Lucius Little. Catherine Wright's mother was Catherine
Weatherford, a daughter of Charles according to the Virginia
records online. Family legend is that John's family refused
a land allotment in Indian nation Oklahoma
Indians at Fenn Plantation in
Alabama (161
KB) cousin Matthew Fenn employed Indians on his
farm and my grandpa William Fenn was the Manager according
to the census records. They all descend from Travis Fenn and
Elijah Fann but this area was indeed Creek Nation as the
whites began to settle and plant, they all had to work
together to survive.
Kathy's GG granny Mary Catherine Crigler
(53 KB) Married John
Wright Little in Shepherdsville Kentucky and had Lattie
Cedonia Little who married Benjamin Wallace Coonfield.
Lattie named her daughter Luella Ellen. Luella married Frank
Delbert Cochran and had Frankie in 1927. Catherine wore her
long black hair in braids. The Criglers were of German
blood, read the Germanna Colony pages online and how they
lived so close to the indians of that era.
John Thomas Bozeman, son of Peter
Edward (386 KB) Born
1866 in Dublin Alabama, married Alice Stephens and had
Lorena Bozeman - John was the son of Nancy Jane Anderson and
Peter Edward Bozeman. His grandparents were Martha Hill and
William Henry Bozeman who migrated from Darlington South
Carolina about 1826. The Andersons and Bozemans lived next
to each other in Hope Hull 1830 with Peter Edward being born
in 1834. After the Civil War Peter and Nancy bought land in
Ramer/ Dublin area along the Meriweather Trail close to John
Hill. John Hill donated land for their family cemetery which
I visited, and he donated land for the Hills Chapel Church
and another cemetery across from it where John T Bozeman is
buried.
WWI Charles McClain (36 KB) his birth date is wrong, should be
1886 but it shows his wife as Lorena Bozeman. Charles was
the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain's
who's families migrated from South Carolina into Georgia,
then Alabama. Josiah descends from Elizabeth Moon and
Charles McClain of 1750s Virginia. Elizabeth Moon had named
a son Josiah and his son James had married an indian woman
called Anna - Anna had a son named Josiah. I have seen three
different dates of birth for grandpa Charlie but they had
very little education, some could not read nor write at all,
so the numbers are often mixed up.
Uncle John Coonfield (39 KB) brother of Ben - the Coonfields
had very black hair with a blue shine to it
Lucius Powhatan Little (40 KB) cousin to John Wright Little - L P
was an attorney, a judge, a writer and a genealogist. His
daughter Laura Simmons Little tried to prove this line
connected to a sister of Pocahontas, named Cleopatra. Laura
also joined the Owensboro Chapter of the DAR.
Abner Broadway (38 KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of the
South - May have married an indian woman before they began
to migrate into Alabama.
Cook School (134
KB) 1933 photo includes 7 Cochran children
John Stephens (34
KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South - John
married a full blood Cherokee and migrated into Alabama.
Luella Coonfield Cochran (116 KB) Death Certificate - the cancer
was so bad that her husband had to okay they take her off
the machines. Luella had many children, including two sets
of twins
Mordecai 1 (40
KB) Receipt of payment for service in the American
Revolution - he is also listed online in the South Carolina
Archives under the Roster of the Continental Army serving in
the Militia.
Peter Bozeman captured in Am
Rev (107 KB) 1779
article from SC Archives - the surname spelling varies but
these people could not read so it just didn't matter. Peter
and his wife Sarah signed with only an X mark on various
documents.
Grandma Lorena Bozeman McClain
(11 KB) 1941 she was mother of Alice
McClain Carter and raised the children of Alice ( Cecil Jr,
Anne Alice, William Lawrence) Lorena was wonderful to visit,
churning butter, sewing quilts, gardening, and read her
Bible daily, having a very special gift of healing.
Anne Carter and Frankie Cochran
1950 (44 KB) married
in 1951, moved to Broken Arrow in Tulsa Oklahoma and then to
Mesa Arizona, living next to his sister, Eunice Cochran
Haraughty. Both had Cherokee heritage.
Brack Land Grant (151 KB) Eleazor and George Brack served
in the Am Rev along with the Bozemans and Andersons and
Sellers, all of whom eventually migrated from SC to AL - all
being intermarried and becoming our grandfathers and
grandmothers
Uncle Billy Carter (25 KB) Anne's younger brother was killed
in a car accident on hwy 231 - had married several, had no
children. loved living in Oklahoma around the indians
because he was indian and felt at home with them.
LAND RECORD (57
KB) 1859 Grandfather Isaac Coonfield in Arkansas
Frankie Cochran in 1949 (9 KB) left Chetopa Kansas and served in
Korean War, was copilot of a bomber and was shot in the
shoulder, sent to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery. While seeing
the sights in downtown Montgomery he ran into Anne Carter,
and he told her that night that she was the one he wanted to
marry. She was about 17 and working at the old Kress store
on Dexter Avenue, waiting for her bus to take her home.
Confederate Pension Application
(18 KB) Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
filed for widows pension after Peter Edward died. He had
served in the Shelby County Reserve
Uncle Walton McClain (18 KB) about 1936 holding Anne Carter.
Walton was a very dark handsome man, well educated, and
military all his life, now buried at Arlington Cemetery.
Anne Carter in 1940 (37 KB) school days at Capitol Heights,
they moved around, Maryland Avenue, and Yougene Streets,
attending Highland Avenue Church of Christ but some old
letters from the 1950s talk about church on Saturdays so
they must have switched religions at some point.
John Hill in 1754 (64 KB) Lt in North Carolina - this could
be the father of the many Hills who moved into Montgomery
Alabama along with the Bozemans in 1826
John in Mississippi 1830 (43 KB) Rev War Soldier could be the
brother of Peter or the son of Mordecai - Mordecai's lineage
had not been researched until this decade. I see that his
son James remained in Darlington SC but John did not and
Peter did not. John and Peter may have married indian women
and migrated into Alabama and John moved on into Mississippi
which was at that time Choctaw Nation. John and Peter both
had difficulty after their migration proving that they had
served in the American Revolution even though it is recorded
where they got paid in 1785.
Benjamin Dotey (33 KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of the
South - they all trace back to the Mayflower's Edward Doty
and the first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims.
Peter Bozeman (36
KB) Peter had married the widow Sarah Brown and
became father of Meade, William Henry, Jesse M. Peter E, and
Lucy - maybe Lucy was named after one of their mothers??
Sarah's maiden name is unknown, but perhaps it was Meade.
Sarah had two daughters whom Peter would have adopted and
raised as his own. Maybe those two girls married and
followed them to Montgomery Alabama.
Coonfield Indian Blood (85 KB) Other researchers of the family -
Long before I began studying my family tree, there was talk
of indian blood in this line. But even now my 92 year old
aunt tells me that her mother Luella Coonfield was part
indian.
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.
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.
Files (4
KB) Research on John Brooks of Holland, his son's
marriage to Roxanna P Smith of Tennessee, her son's move to
Alabama and descendants in Montgomery
My Webpages (2
KB) Links to much of my research - I save
everything, scan every document or photo, and someday I just
might get it organized and alphabetized
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.
Ancestors (163
KB) The many ancestors of the Brooks children.
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.
Surnames (37
KB) Baxley, Cochran, Crigler, Fenn, Little,
Miller, so many names in my family tree.
1840 census Montgomery AL (32 KB) only half of my transcription,
more to come on page 2 - the pages are quite difficult to
read
Notes and Research (1052 KB) A big thank you to my many
internet found cousins who have shared their lineage and
pictures with me to help verify the journeys of our
ancestors.
Mordecai Bozeman (3 KB) Account being audited for claims of
Am Rev War
Baxley (19
KB) From Joseph to James to Ella Olivia
Mordecai's son Peter Bozeman in
SC (11 KB) Ralph and
Peter received Land Grants - they might have received
several acres each time they re-enlisted - Ralph even got a
land grant in Georgia
Families Settled in Montgomery
AL (1 KB) Several
names listed - this was the capitol city - with land rich
for farming, slaves and indians willing to work the crops,
and the Alabama River used for travel. The railroad also
came through Ramer and into Montgomery - the Union Station
sits along the banks of the Alabama River in downtown
Montgomery where historical signs indicate this was once a
large indian village. Even the parents of Chief Red Eagle (
Sehoy and Charles Weatherford) lived along the Alabama
River.
Brooks in Montgomery (1 KB) Descending from John Brookes of
Holland who settled in Pennsylvania, then his son went to
Tennessee by 1860 where he married R P Smith
Carolina 1700s (19 KB) We were both Quakers and Loyalists
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) John married a Cherokee in SC and
moved to MS
DAR Jesse Bozeman (10 KB) Unknown connection but our Peter
named a son Jesse so this could be a brother to our Peter in
Darlington - there was a Jesse living two doors away from
Peter in 1800 Darlington census. Peter's son was named Jesse
M Bozeman and I can only suppose that M was for Mordecai and
then can suppose it is possible that was also Peter's
father's name.......now go back to the Jesse who served in
the American Revolution and wonder if his middle initial was
also M - could he have really been Peter's father living so
close to him in 1800.............we may never know.
Bozeman in Choctaw Nation (4 KB) James Boozman and Percila White -
this name White takes me back to the mother of Mordecai,
thinking what if she were also indian....we will never know.
Brooks lineage of Pennsylvania into
Tennessee, Texas and Alabama include Ballard,
Bond, Baxter, Carter, Stone, Stephens, Cooper,
Hood, McClain, Thornton, Partridge, Holly,
Westbrook - The Cochran Clan of Pennsylvania
migrated to Ohio and Iowa, ending up in Arkansas
with the Little and Coonfield families who had
migrated from Kentucky.
Captain
George Little and Isaac Coonfield were
grandfathers of the Cochrans who had
migrated into Kentucky about 1800, but this line
also intermarried with the Criglers,
Douglass, Handley, Roby,
Simmons, Wright, Weatherford, Swearengin,
Wells,
Clark, Young, Henderson, Sturgeon, Miller,
Crawford, Parker, Tefft, White, Sweet,
names.
Annie
Carter's
line includes Fann,
Stone,
Anderson, Brack, Doty, Stephens, Bozeman,
Moon, McClain,Harrell,
Sellers, Fenn,Wood,
Broadway, Hill, most of whom
began in Virginia and migrated
south.
The
Brooksline
includes, Thornton, Hood,
Cooper, Baxley, Partridge, Lee,
Culpepper,
Blackstone, Ballard,Smith,
Bond, Craig, Pennington, Baxter, mainly
from
Georgia and Tennessee.
headstone of Jacob Benjamin
Cochran (42
KB) buried in Hill City Cemetery
Kansas, wife of Clora, father of Frank and Joy
Benjamin and several other children
1830 census BARSHEBA
Coonfield (497
KB) Henry Kentucky, Barsheba Clark
Coonfield lives by her brother Archelus Clark,
near brother Obediah Clark who married Susannah
Coonfield. Archelus/Archibald married Lanarah
Coonfield
Bozeman Plot (204 KB) family of Peter
Edward Bozeman
census 1910 Uncle Meady Bozeman
and Nancy (1071
KB) with his mother in Montgomery
Alabama She was our great great granny Nancy
Jane Anderson Bozeman, widow of Peter Edward
Bozeman.
James H Baxley born
1846 (871
KB) Beverly took me to Coosa River
Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, about 3 miles
from Holtville School and another mile from the
Cains Chapel Church Cemetery where other
relatives are buried. James was the father of
Ella Olivia Baxley Hood and he was the great
great great grandfather of Charlie Brooks.
census 1920 Labette
Kansas (454
KB) Cochrans this Frank M Cochran from
Indiana may or may not be related to our Cochran
family in Chetopa Kansas
1860 James McClain of GA is in
Coffee Alabama (123
KB) father of Josiah Marion McClain
with second wife and children so this migration
might be the reason our great great grandfather
Josiah came to Alabama and he joined the Civil
War at Greenville and never went back home to
his first wife.
William Arthur Stone
"Tige" (48
KB) grandma Anna Stone sent his
picture to the family so he must be the son of
her brother Arthur Augustus Stone. Tige played
in 1923 for the St Louis Cardinals before moving
on to Florida where he is buried.l He also
attended Mercer University in Georgia and played
baseball there before moving on.
Anne Carter Cochran
(18 KB) with baby Kathy
in 1954 Mesa Arizona - we had tiny scorpions in
the yard and they even got into the house. One
got into the cookie drawer so Mom bought me a
big blue cookie jar that now sits in my china
cabinet. When Mom was pregnant with Victor she
slapped the top of her leg, after feeling a
sting and a tiny scorpion fell out of her skirt
and she went to the doctor to make sure she was
ok
Jonas Little 4 has
errors (115
KB) Kentucky History, Douglass Little
was the son of Jonas and Betsy Douglass Little -
Jonas was the son of another Mary of Scotland
who died in SC and her husband Captain George
Little. all books have mistakes, we just have to
make note of them.
Tige Stone (48 KB) cousin or uncle,
grandmother Ann Stone Fenn Carter sent him
picture home to her children. He was William
Arthur Stone of the St Louis Cardinals, attended
Mercer University in Macon GA where he played
baseball and later moved to Jacksonville FL
Martin Weatherford was banned from
the state of GA (178 KB) he could have been
the grandfather of our granny Catherine
Weatherford Wright in Charlotte Virginia. Some
of the Weatherfords were Indian Traders and some
moved on to the Bahamas. Martin was the husband
of Mary Half Blood and father of Charles.
BOZEMAN, Mordecai's son
PETER (99
KB) Peter's son William Henry named
his own son Peter Edward Bozeman in
1834...TOMBSTONE found in Montgomery AL
BOZEMAN, Alice Lorena
Stephens (94
KB) Peter's son William Henry named
his own son Peter Edward Bozeman in 1834..PEB
had John Thomas and he married
Alice....TOMBSTONE found in Montgomery AL
