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Welcome!
My family tree
has nearly 18,000 members so one can certainly
get lost in the midst of the many names involved
but the searchbox will help locate almost any
name or location that I have
researched..
I managed to locate my dad's
parents Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert
Cochran on a few census images, the one in 1930
included my daddy at age 3 and then the four
great grandparents were also traced back a ways.
Frank Delbert's parents were Clora Jane Miller,
a pipe smoker who could read the ashes and Jacob
Benjamin Cochran, a Civil War Vet who had moved
his family to Kansas in 1882 from Iowa..
Jacob had been married and had six
daughters before he was widowed and met Clora. I
had heard that he had joined in the California
Gold Rush and sure enough, found him and his
brother in the California census, while I also
found his wife remaining in Ohio with the
children on another census, right next to his
brother Alexander Cochran. Most of them migrated
into Iowa Territory by 1870
Luella's
parents were Lattie Cedonia Little born in
Kentucky and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of
Indiana, but his parents had migrated to
Arkansas many years before..
I had found
that Jacob Cochran was born in 1822 Ohio to
parents from Pennsylvania, Martha Henderson and
William Cochran, a son of Alexander. Apparently
William and Alexander were the only two Cochrans
in Guernsey Ohio at that time. Clora Jane's
parents were Mary Clara Parker and James Madison
Miller of Illinois, while Mary's father was a
Doctor Wanton Horatio Parker, so the story is
told that Mary would help the Indians with
medicine needs.
Benjamin's family of
Indiana were Benjamin Wylie Coonfield, another
Civil War Vet and Martha Frances Young and the
photos of this family indicate they could be of
mixed indian blood. The Youngs and Coonfields go
way back into 1800 Kentucky, where I did find
Isaac Coonfield on the 1800 Tax List of Kentucky
and he appears to be born about 1760 but I
cannot find any record of any Coonfield serving
in the American Revolution, like so many other
Grandfathers in my lineage...............
Lattie Little's parents were Mary
Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, a
Civil War Vet, both having family in early
Kentucky history books, pages I have copied into
my webpages. Catherine's parents were Nancy
Catherine Roby, (daughter of Reason Roby) and
Abraham Crigler. John's parents were Catherine
G. Wright ( daughter of Catherine Weatherford)
and Doctor Hiram Lucius Little.
Hiram's
parents were Betsy Douglass and Jonas Little who
were married in 1798 Union County South
Carolina. Hiram was widowed young and moved to
Texas with a very young teen bride ( 14 !! ) and
started a new family in Bosque County. Hiram's
tombstone is found at Meridian Cemetery among
several of his children's tombstones, including
his son Hiram Jr that many of the Littles who
remained in Kentucky never knew about.
While the Criglers connect to the
historical Germanna Colony of Virginia and the
Millers connect to 1700 Rockingham Virginia
where Reverend Alexander Miller is written about
( in Milo Custers book) and buried, I find the
story of Captain George
Little born 1733 Scotland so very awesome,
as he settled into Union County South Carolina,
( with several brothers ) served in the American
Revolution, had ten children, and moved into
Kentucky in 1802 where he is mentioned in
several pages of the Kentucky Bios and Kentucky
History Books
Most of these families also
had a great grandfather who served in the
American Revolution.
My mother's side was
a little difficult to trace at first, since she
was orphaned at age 4, but it soon came to
light. Her parents were Alice Emma McClain and
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter but he did not use the
name Fenn, since his mother Anna Lou Stone had
remarried a few times. Cecil's death certificate
was signed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn who
added the parents names of Annie Stone and
William Franklin Fenn, so I ordered William's
death certificate and found his parents were
Emily Harrell and John F. Fenn of Tuskegee,
Macon County, Alabama, and census records show
they were born in Georgia in 1829.
Anna
Stone's family also came out of Georgia into
Macon, Alabama on the 1850 census, Augustus
Marvin Fenn and Mary Ann
Hendrick.
Parents of Alice McClain were
Lorena Emma Bozeman born 1890 Ramer, Alabama and
Charles Allen McClain born 1886 Ramer. His
parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah
Marion McClain, a Civil War Vet, but I never
found a marriage record. Elizabeth's parents
were Mary Susan Stephens and Abner Broadway.
Lorena's parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and
John Thomas Bozeman of Ramer, Alabama. The
Bozeman lineage has been a fascinating study of
our ancestors in 1700 North Carolina, living
among the indians and fighting in our War of
Indiependence, before Peter sold his Land Grant
in 1826 and migrated into Hope Hull, Montgomery
County Alabama and beginning this new legacy,
where he lived amongst some of the most
historical families of our state.
Elizabeth Broadway had a sister, Rebecca
Lou Broadway who married Clopton Gibson and had
a son named Jason Gibson.
Jason Gibson
married Lorena's sister Ethel Mae Bozeman, and
had a daughter named Ruby Gibson.
When I
talked with Ruby and her sister Peggy, on the
phone years ago, she told me that Charlie
McClain and Jason Gibson had talked about being
first cousins so this gives a better
confirmation to this research.
When I
began researching my husband's family tree, his
cousin Clarence helped out a lot, sending old
photos and letters. Clarence had studied a
cemetery in Hope Hull where one of their
grandfathers was buried but it was also on
property once owned by my Bozeman ancestors.
My husband's parents were Mary Ella
Thornton and James Edgar Brooks, Jr. Mary's
parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah
Thornton. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline
Partridge and Charles Thornton of Georgia.
Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L.
Wesley Hood of Holtville Alabama and Ella's
mother was a Holt. The parents of James were
Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar Brooks of
Montgomery. Susie's parents were Sarah Elizabeth
Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Hope Hull,
Alabama.
Sarah's parents were Mary
Josephine Hereford of Virginia and Thomas
Randolph Carter, a Civil War Vet, but he had
been widowed from his first marriage to Lacy
Jane Bozeman. Parents of Levi were Sarah F. Lee
and Charner P. Cooper, both from Chambers County
Alabama until he moved after serving in the
Civil War.
Parents of James Brooks came
from Tennessee, Annie Clark Ballard and John E.
Brooks. John's parents were Roxanna Permilia
Smith and John Brooks. Parents of Annie were
Dora Craig and James C. Ballard, all with rich
Tennessee History of the early 1800s.
All of these families are linked within
this webpage
where I have a little study on each of them and
on this
page and for a much longer list of documents
that I have collected click
here and the memorial I made for my husband
is here and
of course the Family Tree
Maker page.
Credits:
My
children and my sister.
My daughter's mother
in law
My dad's sisters and cousin
Stanley.
My Gibson and Bozeman cousins in
Montgomery AL
My cousin Jimmy Ray
Bozeman
My cousin Wayne Bozeman who is
married to my husband's cousin.
LDS
USGenWeb
My
cousins Dick and Connie
Rootsweb
Charlie's
cousin Glenda Baxley who introduced us to Coosa
River and the many patriotic men in this
line.
Charlie's cousin Clarence who
introduced me to Hope Hull and his article in
Alabama Cemetery Preservation and their cousin
D.J. Smith who has the nice webpage on
Rootsweb.
And many more who corresponded
by email when they viewed my family tree
webpages!
Family
History
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