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Working with family stories of the old days, tales of medicine women, and their beloved soldiers of the many wars in our country, I may not be able to prove or officially document
our Native American ancestry, yet knowing it is in my heart and in my spirit, is all that is really important.

The stories consist of one great granny who was a well known healer in Dublin, Alabama; one who could read the ashes after smoking her pipe; one aunt born with a veil over her face ( which was removed three times) which was the sign of a seer. The amazing intuition of my father, who left work immediately when it thundered, knowing that his baby was about to be born, and yes, I was born that day, in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Then we are told of Mr Ward, working in his field, as a strong
thunderstorm approached, he slammed his axe into the ground,
and the skies cleared.

Our families pass on many interesting stories but they all
spoke the English language, yet practiced good survival skills.


I would love to learn more about their culture and language, and teach our children to respect these and the ways of our elders. Yet we have the stories to pass on and the love, truth and respect that were taught to me.


When Indians learned about Christianity, they welcomed new knowledge of GOD and the afterlife with their elders. They were in awe, learning of Jesus, and of course we were told the Mormons believe that Jesus appeared to the Old America, so perhaps this faith was quite welcomed by most the tribes when the Europeans arrived.

So when they were Baptized, many were given new names to use and they are almost impossible to trace now. Some Indians changed their name more than once during their lifetime.

Our Stephens line in 1760 married an unknown full blood Cherokee woman in NC and gave her a Biblical Name.

Due to Indian unrest and the Trail of Tears, many Eastern Band Cherokee fled south or up into the mountains (OverHill) to escape the laws and disease of the white man. Our family believes that Charles Weatherford "may" have fathered our Kitty Weatherford in Virgina before moving to Alabama and fathering Chief Red Eagle. We also might connect our Cochran, Little, Wright lines to Cleopatra, sister of Pocahontas. Many of this line came from South Carolina and Virginia into Tennesee and Kentucky before moving to the Midwest.

Mother's line in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina came into Alabama for quite some time before some moved west.
(Moon, McClain, Bozeman,Anderson, Stephens)

Census takers were very prejudiced and would not recognize Indians owning property so they put most down as blacks or mulatto - in some cases the Indian feared the government finding them so they called them selves blacks or whites.

After the Trail of Tears, they believed that no Indians existed in other areas, so no Indians appeared on census records, and had to be found on the Indian Nation Rolls in Oklahoma.

Thus we hope to find our ancestors registered on the Indian Rolls, somehow, but it sure seems to be an endless journey.

Wa do

  • Carter/Cochran/Bozeman/McClain/Fenn/Stone/Little/Coonfield
  • COONFIELD DESCENDANTS/Miller/Cochran/Clark/Savage
  • LOTTIE CEDONIA/SADONIA LITTLE-COONFIELD
  • GEORGE LITTLE DESCENDANTS 2 John & Mary Catherine Crigler
  • Charlie McClain weds Emma Lorena Bozeman 1901 in Ramer?
  • Cecil Earl Carter born in Thompson AL ABT 1904? Fenn father?
  • FENN FAMILY MESSAGE BOARD
  • Alabama Divorces 1831-1846
  • TRACE YOUR ALABAMA ROOTS
  • ALABAMA CENSUS FINDER
  • Josiah Marion McCLAIN/McLain? ABT 1800
  • Cecil Earl Carter children's photos
  • Funeral Memorial Pages/Charlie McClain/relatives signed in
  • Chester Coonfield Photo
  • MOON surnames
  • My Girls
  • Indian Rolls.......Find Your Ancestors!
  • Descendants of Pocahontas?
  • Cherokee Querie Boards
  • Type in your last name and find your families!!!!
  • Search at Gen Web
  • Search at LDS Family Search
  • 1835 Cherokee Census East of the Mississippi
  • 1623 Virginia Census
  • 1851 Census of Cherokee East of Mississippi
  • Chapman Roll
  • 11-8-2003 Family Surnames to Date
  • Mom's Maternal Cherokee Stephens Family
  • Page Two
  • Harrell Cherokee Search Message Board
  • Page Three
  • 1810 census Ohio County Kentucky, Little families and more
  • 1930 my daddy's Cochran family on census Kansas
  • more notes and links
  • more notes
  • Charles Weatherford
  • Found more census records:Bozeman,Little,Young,Cochran,Coonf
  • Brooks, Smith, Bond, Cochran connections
    • Ancestors and Descendents of.....

    Luella was born 2/8/1897 in Benton County Arkansas
    and died 5/11/1945 in a Kansas City Missouri Hospital
    after an 80 day stay that we were told was cancer related;
    some say she died from surgical mistakes made at a previous hospital.

    She was married to Frank Delbert Cochran

    Her parents were Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and Lattie Cedonia Little.

    I never knew my grandma Luella but heard many wonderful stories about her. Dad talked of watching her sit in the fields for hours filling her apron with herbs, polk, whatever was good for the family. She was a strong, loving lady who came from a long line of pioneers and soldiers and worked hard to care for her loved ones and teach them honor and respect. Dad also said her long black hair reached the floor when she brushed it out. Luella was very spiritual and kept many handwritten notes in her Bible, which was handed down to her by her mother.

    Possibly some of those notes were written by her parents.

    Luella was one quarter Cherokee plus some Creek. It's been said that some of her Wright cousins were offered land allotments in the Oklahoma Indian Territory, but this author has not yet recovered any documentation of it.

    Many of the surnames in this family are found on the Indian Rolls in Oklahoma, yet a direct connection to this line has not been found.
  • Luella's distant cousin Laura Little (1 KB)
    Laura Little and the DAR
  • This Author's Lineage (181 KB)
    in my own humble opinion
  • Ancestry file (92 KB)
    the many ancestors of Luella's children
  • Coonfield Research Notes (121 KB)
    We find Isaac on the 1800 Kentucky Tax list in Jefferson County and go from there. His wife appears to be widowed in 1830.
  • Cochran Ancestry (67 KB)
    My view of the Cochran Family Tree.
  • Little Lineage (35 KB)
    Our Scottish connection After Captain Little was widowed, he married his son's mother in law and moved thru Tennessee into Kentucky
  • Coonfield Families (42 KB)
    Holland
  • History of George Little (11 KB)
    Luella's great great grandfather, Captain George Little was injured in the American Revolution.
  • Luella's Coonfield Ancestors (165 KB)
    Lineage and research notes
  • Family Webpages
  • Family Photo Album
  • Luella's Mother, Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield
  • Luella had many grandfathers, this one settled in Kentucky
  • Luella's great great grandparents Roby/Crigler
  • Luella's Weatherford, Wright, Little connection
  • Laura Little's Indian Blood inquiry
  • Luella's grandpa John Little's Civil War Registration Card
  • Luella's father in law J B Cochran's draft card Ohio Infantr
  • Luella's Mother is age 7 on this census record
  • Luella's mother in law stayed often after becoming a widow
  • Luella's in- laws photos
  • To be continued.............................
  • Photo medley - many Cochran faces
  • Coonfield Headstones
  • Luella's son went to Alabama
  • Another Coonfield cousin asking about Indian Blood
  • message board about Cherokee Coonfield research
  • message board about indian blood in the Little family
  • message board about indian blood in the Cochran family
    • Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield ( daughter of civil war soldier John Wright Little) handed her Family Bible down to her daughter,
    Luella Coonfield Cochran and it was full of handwritten notes and a list of family birthdays.

    Emma Lorena Bozeman McClain kept several notations in her Bible; her marriage to Charles Allen McClain, showing who their parents were and names of their children.
  • DESCENDANCY (45 KB)
    Luella's family tree
  • Lorena Bozeman McClain's Family Bible (1 KB)
    daughter of John Thomas Bozeman and Alice Lorena Stephens of Ramer, Alabama
  • McClain Ancestry (26 KB)
    Ancestors of McClain family
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    Barbour County was created on 18 Dec. 1832, from former Creek Indian territory and a portion of Pike County. Its boundaries were altered in 1866 and 1868. The county was named for Virginia Governor James Barbour...Barbour County is located in the southeastern section of the state, bounded on the east by the Chattahoochee River and the State of Georgia. The county seat was established in Louisville in 1833, and moved to Clayton in 1834. Today Barbour County contains two courthouses - one in Clayton and one in Eufaula...."Macon was established by an act approved December 18, 1832, and carved out of the capacious region ceded by the Muscogees in that year. Large and valuable portions have been set apart to Lee and Bullock – to the former 180 square miles, to the latter about 125." 1 "It lies in the east centre of the State, south of Tallapoosa, and Lee, west of Russell, north of Bullock, and east of Montgomery and Elmore. Its name perpetuates the memory of Nathaniel Macon, the North Carolina statesman." 2 Macon County received its present dimensions in 1866. The county seat is located at Tuskegee, which means "warrior" in the Muskhogean dialect of the Creek Indian language.

    http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathy36110/CatherineGWright.html
     
    http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/e/n/Anna-S-Fenn/
    Had six children with William Franklin Fenn during her seven years of marriage. She left him in Barbour County Alabama with the children, taking only the baby and moved to join her family of Stone in Macon City, Bibb, Georgia. There she remarried and gave the baby the name of Carter. Little baby Carter told his family that his grandfather was a full blood Cherokee Chief. Of course young Carter was a tall handsome dark man like his siblings, but he did drink too much, so the chief part may or may not have been fantasy. The Fenn boys were tall, over 6' and very dark.

    The Carters, Stones, Fenns were all in 1700s Georgia in Creek Indian Lands. Elijah Fenn was the son of Travis and "Mary" and the grandson of Zachariah Fann - Elijah married Martha Rich, daughter of Stephen and "Abiah" Rich. Elijah's son John married Emeline Harrell and Elijah's daughter Letitia married Thomas Rich.

    Emeline named a son William Franklin Fenn in 1855. His wife Anna was called Annie. Annie's parents were Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus Marvin Stone. Parents of Augustus were Sarah Davies and Benjamin Wilburn Stone. Ben was the son of Mary Polly Wells and Michael Stone who lived in Captain John Stones District of Putnam County Georgia. Parents of Mary Ann were Mary Ann Winters and C C Hendrick. Winters' parents were Amelia Lyle and Albert Winters, who married in 1816 Jackson County Georgia which was then Cherokee Nation East. During this era it was quite common to marry a native american and give them a Christian name.

    Anna Lou's baby was named Cecil Earl and he is only found in Texas census records for 1920 and 1930 during his military service first at San Antonio and then at Fort Bliss in El Paso. On the 1900 census Anna's son Robert is not listed so she may have been pregnant at the time and she may have also raised him but I have been unable to locate her on a census after she married or lived with Mr. Carter - she was very young and may have had more children with Carter. There are some possibilites with the census records but the woman is listed as black and widowed - then there is one Arnie Carter which could be Annie in Macon GA and she is alone, a laundress. Even so, in 1910 and 1920 there is no Robert listed as her son and the family knew him personally and he did exist and I found his tombstone by his brother Frank Jr. Then her son Arthur is not found after 1910 even though family says he married, had children, and died in his 20s.
  • Land Grant (31 KB)
    Fenn in Laurens Georgia
  • My Fenn Folder
  • 1910 Macon City, Bibb, GA-Augustus and Mary Ann Stone
  • 1850 Macon AL Augustus, Benjamin W, Michael, William T Stone
  • Fenns of Creek Indian Territory, Georgia to Alabama
  • Anna Stone and William Fenn on Rootsweb Family Trees
  • Georgia Counties and history
  • Alabama Counties and history
  • Indians and Gypsies
  • Oklahoma Indian Territory
  • American Indian Records
  • Tracing the ancestors of William Franklin Fenn
  • Stone Message Board
  • Fenn Message Board
  • Fenn Cousin
  • Family History
  • My Alabama Family
    • http://www.genealogy.com/users/l/a/v/Frankie-Lavern/
     
  • Ruth Coonfield (27 KB)
    1915 daughter of Ben and Lattie
  • Family Tree of Powhatan Little (1443 KB)
    in his own handwriting Lucius Powhatan Little wrote down his lineage - his mother Martha Wright Little had a sister named Catherine and another sister named Mary. Catherine married Hiram Little and Mary married a Waltrip.
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    Find A Grave Contributor: Kathy Lorena
    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=46775484&