her
grandparents were Alice Emma McClain and Cecil Earl
Fenn Carter/
and
Luella Ellen Coonfield
and Frank
Delbert Cochran.
Grandpa Cecil was a Cherokee. and Grandma Luella said she
was Cherokee mix.
parents of
Frank Delbert Cochran were Clora Jane Miller (
daughter of Mary Clara Parker and James Madison
Miller) and
Jacob Benjamin
Cochran ( son of Martha Henderson and Alexander
Cochran)
Parents of
John
Wright Little were Catherine G Wright and Hiram
Lucius Little born in Kentucky. Parents
of Catherine were Catherine Weatherford and John C
Wright. Parents of Hiram were Betsy
Douglass and Jonas Little. Parents of
Betsy
were Mary Handley and Alexander
Douglass - parents of Jonas were Mary and George Little of Scotland.
John Wright
Little had married Mary Catherine Crigler, a daughter of
Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler. Catherine was
the daughter of Reason Roby
and Kitty Simmons. Kitty was the
daughter of Rachel Wells and Jesse
Simmons.
It is told
that the families of John Little refused a land allotment
in Indian Territory Oklahoma. He claimed to be white
and moved to Arkansas, where he is buried on some unknown
mountaintop. His daughter Lattie Cedonia told her children
and my granny Luella that they were mixed Cherokee
from Kentucky
Ben
Coonfield's parents were Isaac
and Lydia Epperson Coonfield
It is told that
Miss Stephens' grandfather John was in the American Revolution
and then married a full blood Cherokee in SC and gave her a
Biblical name, before migrating to Ramer
AL
Parents of
Josiah were
"Anna" and James
McClain
who descends from Elizabeth
Moon
and Charles McClain. This unknown Anna may have
been born in Creek Nation. Parents of James were Nancy
Wood and Josiah McClain of Spartanburg
SC
William
Henry was the son of American Rev War Soldier
Peter
Bozeman and
Sarah
Brown
Lavinia's
parents were Levinia
Anderson and William
C Sellers, while Levinia's parents were Lavinia Brack and
Elisha Anderson - a
brother of Elijah Anderson - parents of Lavinia Brack were
Hester Doty and George
Brack.
parents of Mary
Clara Parker were Rosanna Lemmon and Wanton Horatio Parker (
son of Sarah Tefft and Archelaus
Parker)
parents of James
Miller were Sarah Boyd and James T Miller ( son of Sarah
Crawford and Reverend Alexander Miller
)
parents of Sarah Tefft were the Reverend
Edmond Tefft and Mary Mercy Sweet - one of their elder cousins
Joshua Tefft was hanged and quartered by King Phillip. One of
their elder Sweet cousins was exiled from England for being a
Roman Catholic Priest.
parents of Martha
Henderson Cochran were Nancy
Clendenning and William Henderson ( son of Martha Long and
John Henderson)
Nancy Clendennings parents were Sarah
Sturgeon and John Clendennin
Parents of Bessie Mae Hood were Ella
Olivia Baxley ( daughter of Maranda and James H Baxley) and L
Wesley Hood
Parents of Milton
Elijah Thornton were Mary Angeline Partridge and
George Thornton. Partridge were indians from
Georgia.
( daughter of James Cal Ballard and Willie
Eudora Craig) and John
Brooks
(son of
John Brooke and
Roxanna
Permilia Smith) John Brookes father came from
Holland to Pennsylvania with a french
wife.
"Dora" Craig's
parents were Rebecca Carolina Pennington and William M
Craig while the parents of her husband James Ballard were Rowena Densy Baxter and
Larkin Francis Ballard.
Parents of Roxanna
Smith Brooks were Carolina Bond ( daughter of
John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone)
and Thomas Smith ( son of Siniah Evans and Henry Smith
)
Father of Charles Weatherford
married Mary Half Blood and Charles fathered Chief Red Eagle (
Wm Weatherford )
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.
