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SITE NAVIGATION
Files large list of records plus census
images
Records
- Grandmothers include Elizabeth
Grauer Westbrook
Luella
- many names in her line
Land Records (40 KB)George Grauer and his
father in law Mark Porter buying land in Marengo
County and then the daughter of George,
Elizabeth Westbrook buying 160 acres of her own
in 1860 for herself.
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Named after my great grandmother
Lorena Bozeman McClain who was born in 1890
Ramer, Montgomery, Alabama, I have thoroughly
enjoyed writing about this great lady and her
heritage.
After my
parents passed away and my husband died of
cancer, I began to write about them and their
family trees when I was unable to
sleep.
Our families have traveled many
miles and intertwined in the same
communities, some knowing each other,
many moons ago.
Lorena was named after
her mother Alice Lorena Stephens and the story
was that Alice's great grandfather was in the
American Revolution and married to a full blood
Cherokee, giving her a Biblical name. Indian
unrest was so bad in the Carolinas, they packed
up and moved to Dublin and Ramer in Alabama.
Records indicate there were several Stephens
Plantations in that area once, near many other
migrating families like Broadway, Bozeman,
Gibson, Timmons, Dillard, Money, Hill, Gardener,
McClain, Anderson, Sellers, with most of their
children intermarrying.
Colonial
Records
Alabama Migrations and mine were right in
the midst of it.
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/settle.html
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
Me (238 KB)
My grandson is made
up of all of genes.
Marriage Record
(524 KB)
Annie Ballard
wed John Brooks in Tennessee
Marriage Record
(1122 KB)
John Brooks Sr
married Roxanna "Annie" "Roxie" Permilia Smith
in Tennessee and had son John who married Annie
Ballard
- FILES (5 KB)
RELATED WEBPAGES
- Family (25 KB)
My Many Grandfathers
- Documents (791 KB)
Records found on many
of our relatives, Baxley, Ballard, Bond,
Bozeman, Carter, Cooper, Coonfield, Cochran,
Fenn, McClain, Stone, Little, Parker, Stephens,
Tefft, Wright, Weatherford, Young
- Documents 2 (94 KB)
Records found on many
of our relatives, Baxley, Ballard, Bond,
Bozeman, Carter, Cooper, Coonfield, Cochran,
Fenn, McClain, Stone, Little, Parker, Stephens,
Tefft, Wright, Weatherford, Young
- 1830 census (12 KB)
Montgomery Alabama
- Dallas County (18 KB)
My Census records
saved from my own subscription for future
reference.
- Lowndes County
(14 KB)
Census Records
- 1 (1206 KB)
1
- 2 (1207 KB)
2
- 1990s (62 KB)
Victor D
- 1851 (1352 KB)
Aunt Gilly to Uncle
Jesse signed by Stephens after the death of
Gilly's husband Peter.
- 1890s (26 KB)
Siblings of Frank D
- 1838 (173 KB)
William Henry
- 1913 (192 KB)
Marriage License
- 1930 (1512 KB)
Susie Mae and James
- 1950s (447 KB)
Arizona
- 1900 (435 KB)
Grandfather George
Partridge
- 1911 (307 KB)
Nancy Kizar Hill
- 1930 (1097 KB)
Luella and Frank
- Anderson (76 KB)
Montgomery AL
- 1840 (360 KB)
John Carter moved
from SC to Talladega AL
- 1850 Martha Hill
(647 KB)
Montgomery AL
- 1765 (207 KB)
Map of the South
- Ben (31 KB)
abt 1900
- Isaac (142 KB)
1800 Ky tax list
Alabama Territory 1819...
The lands of
Montgomery County were put up for auction at the
Federal Land Office in Milledgeville, Georgia in
1816. Larger parcels were sold to developers who
subdivided the land into lots for urban
commercial and residential use, predetermining a
major city on the banks of the Alabama River at
Montgomery. A hardy and superior class of people
penetrated the wilderness. Settlements and towns
sprang into existence everywhere. The City of
Montgomery, which became the county seat in
1822, was built on the side of the Indian town
Ikanatchati (Econachatee), which means red
ground, and Towasa on a high red bluff known to
Alibamu Indians as Chunnaanaauga
Chatty.
I have taken pictures of the
historical markers found downtown about the
former Indians who lived here along the Alabama
River and near the train station, but keep in
mind there was another train station in Ramer on
the east side of Montgomery County where the
First Little White House of the Confederacy was
placed and Ramer was the home of many large
plantations in this research.
Hundreds of
families began their journey into the state with
many settling in Montgomery County long before
it became civilized and left a legacy for us all
to be proud of.
John Hill, John
Stephens, Benjamin Lewis, Howell and Richard
Mason, Peter Bozeman, John Stacie, Abner
McGehee, Abner Broadway, John Stephens, Elisha
Anderson, William and Alfred Sellers, David
Campbell, Matthew Stokes, John McQueen, George
Gibson, William Chisholm, George Bush, Bunberry
Flinn, James Moon, Deer, Norman, Hampton
Hilliard, Henry Graves, etc.
Dozens of my
ancestors served in the Civil War and many lost
their crops or farms but they bounced back. Some
even tried the new land in Texas after the Alamo
but most returned to their native home in
Montgomery.
When the train finally came
through down by the river, families loaded their
wagons and hauled their crops down the old dirt
road called Dexter Avenue to sell or ship
out.
Aunt Ethel's Home
(128 KB)
This tiny home
was built by Aunt Ethel and her husband Jace
Gibson and my picture was taken when my sister
Pam and I visited the area around 2005 after
hearing the story from her daughter Peggy whom
we lost not long afterward to kidney cancer.
Peggy's story was that Ethel and Jason had
several children at the time, all living in a
tent on this farm, while they built their new
home around 1930. It seemed to be one of the
oldest homes still standing in 2005. Ethel and
Jace are buried down the road at Hills Chapel
Cemetery on the Long Road close to her father
John Thomas Bozeman and his 4th wife Sara Ellen
Bean. Sara raised these children after their
mother died young and told them stories, like
she was related to the hanging Judge Roy Bean.
She was a wonderful stepmother who also gave
them four more siblings before she passed away.
Many of these descendants still remain in
Dublin, Ramer, Grady, and Hickory Grove.
Pam's husband Larry Fuller passed
away in 2008 (75
KB)
His mother was Hazel Richards,
buried at his foot.
Confederate Pension
Application (869
KB)
April 1896 Grandmother Nancy
applies for Peter's pension the first
time.
- Aunt Ethel Notes
(68 KB)
Since her sister
was my great grandmother and Ethel had many
surviving but elderly children in the Dublin and
Ramer Communities, I located and contacted a few
for information. I managed to meet several of
Ethel's descendants in May 2007 at Hills Chapel
Church which was a marvelous gathering of
cousins. We exchanged research and took many
photos.
- Meeting New Cousins
(1 KB)
Locating Lost
Family Graves
- Aunt Ethel's
Granddaughter (41
KB)
Elizabeth and her daughter
researching our ancestry of Grandpa John Thomas
Bozeman.
- 1830 (214 KB)
Study of my families
in Montgomery 1830
- Anne (123 KB)
Tracing our roots and
branches.
- Elisha Anderson of NC died in
1834 (51
KB)
His will is found probated in
Montgomery, mentions his wife, daughters and son
Elijah - Elijah had our Seaborne Montgomery
Anderson who had Nancy Jane. Seaborne had a
brother named Elijah who died in the Civil War
1861 and home was listed as Hickory Grove.
Hickory Grove is also where our Grandpa McClain
lived. Some researchers think that Elisha
Anderson was the son of Elmore Anderson and a
full blood indian all born in 1700s North
Carolina, near the Sellers and Pool families who
were also of mixed blood.
- 1880 (366 KB)
Study of my families
in Montgomery 1830
- Anne (160 KB)
Tracing our roots and
branches.
- Meet The Folks
(38 KB)
Relatives and
Research
- 1850 (23 KB)
Following my
ancestor's path.
- Charles (155 KB)
Roots and Branches.
- My Family (323 KB)
Documents
- Wares Ferry Road A Shawnee
Village (16
KB)
1821 Several indian villages were
found like Sawonagi and indian burial mounds
still exist in that area.
- Westbrook (223 KB)
Grauer, Holt, Glass,
Brasswell, Holly, Penton, Jones, Johnson
- Our Ancestors Speak
(521 KB)
One clue after
another as we follow their trails.
- Yellow Fever (9 KB)
yes it also struck
Montgomery and some of our kin
- 1840 (74 KB)
Montgomery
Transcription has my Abner Broadway, John
Carter, Daniel McQueen, Lewis, Stokes, Ross,
Gunter, Hill, Bozeman, Graves, Anderson,
Sellers, Johnson, Mills, and many others,
including George Bush and a John Booth, of
course the John Wilkes Booth you've heard of
actually performed in a theatre downtown
Montgomery. There are actually some old fish
ponds in south Montgomery County where you know
who George Bush comes to go fishing with old
friends..........So very many of their children
and grandchildren were intermarried, that we may
all be cousins way back when.
- Our Ancestors Speak
(15 KB)
Continuing with
the Carters
- Dublin, Ramer, and Hope
Hull (23
KB)
All up and down these old country
roads, were once our family plantations and some
graves were recently found.
- Meeting New Cousins
(100 KB)
Tracing Our
Roots in the early days of Montgomery
- DNA of Jimmy (111 KB)
Jimmy Ray and Alan's
DNA test to the local Bozeman family is a
perfect match.
- Uncle Meady Sells Share of
Plantation (41
KB)
Our connection to cousin Wayne
Bozeman through Grandpa William Henry's son
Meade. Meade was the brother of our Peter Edward
whom we found buried at Dublin.
- 1786 (62 KB)
Marriages before the
migration to Montgomery include Lacklan
McIntosh, Peter Bozeman
- Census Notes (138 KB)
Montgomery Bozeman
Families
- Uncle Meady
Descendant (31
KB)
Richard and William researching
the Montgomery families is also cousin to Wayne
of Elmore.
- Bio of Aunt Ethel
(18 KB)
Ethel Bozeman
married J Gibson, the son of Clopton Gibson and
Rebecca Lou Broadway ( Grandma's sister) they
lived in Dublin/ Ramer Community, after you
leave Hwy 231 which is known as Warrior Hill
Road.
- Census Notes
Updated (138
KB)
Montgomery Bozeman Families
- Uncle Meady's brother
Peter (35
KB)
Sharon is researching William
Henry's other brother who married Gilly and
moved to Louisiana and died in 1851 of the
cholera.
- Graveyards (9 KB)
Taking photos of old
tombstones
- Maps and Old
Records
- Sellers, Brack, Anderson, Doty,
Bushyhead, Scrimpshire
- Stone, Harrell, Fenn,
Davies
- Cemeteries in Alabama, search
Montgomery County
- Notes
- Digging Up Our 1700s Carolina
Roots
- Photo Album
- Carter baby
- Indian Roots
- Frank came from the
midwest
- Guestbook
- Links
- Rena's files
- Search feature
- Our Southern Roots
- The Family Tree
- Images
- Headstones
- Elisha Anderson's Will dated 1834
and son Elija
- Mother
- 1847 Estate of Grandfather William
Henry
- Research
- McClain, Broadway, Carter,
Stephens
- Research
- Search My Files
- History by John Leeds
Bozman
- Southern Branches
- N J 1
- N J 2 with John
Hill
- Political Graveyard
- Shiloh Church
- Josiah McLain
- P E B 1834
- J M B 1793 - 1855
- McClain funeral book
1949
- Cemeteries - Tombstone
Photos
- Family Home Pages
- Broadway, Cooper,
Carter
- Carter in the Alabama Infantry
1861
- Caroline Stephens and Mary
Broadway in Ramer
- Thornton from GA to Cold Springs
Elmore to Hull Street
- 1829 Inventory of Peter's
Estate
- Great links about our
ancestors
- Who Were My
Ancestors
- My Alabama Ancestors
Page
- Southern
Connections
- Access Genealogy
- Hill City Cemetery
- Elijah Lee
- Nancy Anderson
- Footprints in Time
- Lorena McClain
- Annie, Earl and Billy Carter
Research
- Research
- Marengo County Kin
- My Alabama
Genealogy
- My Alabama Webpages
- From Kansas and
Arkansas
- From South Carolina
- From Kentucky
- Indian Blessing
- 1830 census
- Indian Flute
- My Families
- Tracking our Roots
- Ancient Faces
- Little in 1810
- Alamo Little and
Lindley
- From Tennessee some migrated into
Montgomery Alabama
- Iowa Community Family
Trees
- Charles Wayne's
ancestors
- History of Indiana at
usgenweb.com
- Indiana Family Trees
Online
- LaBette County
Surnames
- Madison County Families of
Little
- Little in Bullitt, Daviess,
McLean, Muhlenburg Ohio Counties
- Luella's grandparents, Catherine
and John Little
- Miscellaneous
Research
- Daddy raised in Chetopa - Cochran
Research
- Native American Research Books
online
- Pink Border
- Maryland Archives
- Cochran in Korean
Casualties
- Our Family Jewels
- Photo Page
- My parents in Mesa
Arizona
- Chart of my
Ancestors
- Memorial Page
- Montgomery 1840 census
transcription
- Journey of my
ancestors
- Colonial Records
- Several Related Webpages of
Alabama Ancestors
- Brooks Relations in the
South
- Alabama Counties and Information
on usgenweb
- Our Family Files
- Morgan County Family
Trees
- Lee, Cooper, Craig, Baxter
migrations into Alabama
- Storytelling
- Contents
- Migrations of Grandpa
Coonfield
- .
- Carter's G great great great
grandmother Elizabeth Westbrook
- Roadtrips -
Cemeteries
- Alabama and Cherokee
Connections
- Covington County
Cousins
- Search Box
- Book 1885 Sketches
- Southern Roots And
Branches
- Wiki We Relate
- Wiki We Relate
- Resources
- Leo Little's dna
project
- Bits And Pieces of my
Genealogy
- 1700s Georgia Land
Deeds
- Tracing Alice Lorena and John
Thomas
- Webring
- Family Group Sheets
- Frank's parents
- 1840 - 1850 - 1860
- Find A Grave
- Census 1830
- Old Maps and Files
- KentuckyGenWeb
- Alabama Kin and Grandma
Ellie
- Family Group Sheets
- Grandmother Luella's
ancestors
- Genealogy Resources
- Grandfathers
- Grandfather George
1733
- Grandfather John
1843
- My Space
- Alabama Families that I am
studying
- Grandfathers
- Alabama Relatives, Tombstones,
Documents, Records,
- List
- William Stone
- Darlington Surnames
List
- Roots to Buds - Martha
Rich
- Family Tree Circles
- Anne's father Cecil
- Grandfather Jacob and daughter
Elzira
- Kathy Lorena's
ancestors
- How To Order Military
Records
- 1914 Letter from
Alonzo
- L P Letter
- L P Letter 1916
- Sellers
- Coonfield Interview
- Charlie's Ancestors, Baxter, Hood,
Smith, Lee
- Charlie 1976
- Frankie Haraughy 1956, Eunice,
Anne, Kathy
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- My Dad's Cochran
Lineage
- My Grandma Rena
- My Cherokee
Connection
- My Husband's Thornton, Baxley,
Hood, Holt and Brooks lineage
- Broken Arrow is where I was born -
My Surnames
- Grandma Clora Jane smoked a pipe
and read the ashes
- Photos
- Search Land
Documents
- MySpace
- My Mom's family
- Isaac Hicks and a Baxley
Connection
- The Lost Colony
- My Family Tree
- 1834 Elisha Anderson's son Elijah
in Will -Montgomery Ala
- 1790 Edgefield SC-Guist Stephens
Broadway Carter Phillips
- S C Rebels and
Loyalists
- Surnames on Rootsweb Family
Pages
- 1784 -100 acres given to my GGGG
grandpa for Rev War service
- He served in Richard Mason Company
of Am Rev in Darlington
- My Alabama
Connections
- Various Search
Features
- Links to my
webpages
- Some free stuff and some not
free
- 1847 Grandpa William Henry Bozeman
Estate Administrator
- 1793 Brother of W.
H.
- Cherokees went to
Texas
- The Search Thingy
- Edgefield County S C
Archives
- My Webring
- 1730 North Carolina
Notes
- Aunt Nancy Kizar Hill in
Montgomery Alabama
- 1664 Isle of Wight
- 1803 Records
- My webpages and my
family
- McClain and Bozeman
Connections
- My Lineage and Search
Box
- Midwest Cochran
FamilyConnections
- My Kentucky Kin
- My Darlington S C
family
- Search the Archives
- Tombstones
- Cherokee - Hicks and
Vann
- Choctaw - McClain
- Images of Land
Records
- Puzzled by
Genealogy
- Shelby County
Reserve
- Cousin Virginia talked with me on
the phone -family history
- Georgia Records
- Tribalpages
- Tribalpages
- AlaGenWeb
- Rootsweb Family
Tree
- Victor Daniel
- Montgomery Alabama
Genealogy
- Alabama Genealogy
- My Children
- Cochran Genealogy
- Cherokee Genealogy
- Coonfield Mailing List and
Archives
- 1810 Abe Crigler of
Kentucky
- 1830 Michael Stone of Maryland in
AL
- Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman Family
Plot
- South Carolina
Census
- South Carolina
Roster
- Early marriages of Dallas County
Alabama
- 1820 census of Dallas
County
- My Parents in
Arizona
- Vincent M. Joiner 1829 married
Aunt Ellen Bozeman
- 1838 Sterling Campbell married
Aunt Lucy Bozeman
- Aunt Ethel Gibson
- Anna Roxanna Roxie P Smith Brooks
Smith of Tennessee
- Continued
- My Grandpa Cochran
- My Census
Collection
- Next
- Ramer's early settlers Broadway,
Hill, Stephens, Anderson
- Martha Hill Bozeman, daughter of
John Hill of Darlington
- Books
- Martha Hill's descendant Jimmy
Ray's daughter joins DAR
- John Hill in Ramer came from
Darlington SC
- John Hill in Darlington SC before
the great migration.
- Boseman, Bozman,
etc. (27
KB)
Most could not read nor write so
the spelling varies through time.
- Helpful Links (4 KB)
Followup
- Weatherford Indians
(134 KB)
Census study
shows them as native americans in Alabama.
- Names (343 KB)
Names and tales of
family members
- Cousin (21 KB)
Helpful Links
- Land Records (308 KB)
Deeds
- Coonfield of 1760
(85
KB)
Interview of a descendant
- Cousins and
Relations (257
KB)
Helpful Links
- Tales and Lore
(610 KB)
Family stories
- 1811 Catherine
Weatherford (52
KB)
Item 76 states she is the daughter
of Charles but he is not making her marriage
bond so he must have been in Alabama.
- Documents (191 KB)
Some old images in my
collection.
- Bits and Pieces
(44 KB)
Parts of the
Genealogy
- Catherine Weatherford Wright's
daughter Catherine (254 KB)
Go to Little and see
Catherine who married Hiram Little - She is the
daughter of Catherine G. Weatherford and John
Wright. Hiram was a physician and the son of
Jonas, and the grandson of George. Hiram and
Catherine had a son named John who is listed
below their article. John's granddaughter
married Frank D. Cochran.
- Notes (119 KB)
Old Research notes
- Ellie McClain (1 KB)
Broadway and McClain
- D A R (189 KB)
Most of these had
fathers in the American Revolution - so many
connect to me.
- Search Box (39 KB)
1
- Search Files (124 KB)
Images and Folders
- D N A (111 KB)
DNA results to Jimmy
Ray
- Notes (102 KB)
Some records
- Martha Hill in
census (137
KB)
Her families and descendants in
census notes.
- 1820s and 1830s
(40 KB)
Studying the
past
- Martha Hill Bozeman in Montgomery
County (39
KB)
By 1850 she had settled near the
other Hills in Dublin and some families in Ramer
who connected to her vast lineage.
- Grandmother Annie
Lee (1
KB)
Anna Lou Stone married Fenn and
Carter and Dasher and died around 1933 or 1934.
Her father was born in Macon County AL and moved
back to Macon GA before he died. She followed.
The death certificates of both of her parents
are found in the Georgia Archives and Annie
signed as a witness to her mother's.
- Elders of Martha Hill's
husband (23
KB)
Study of William Henry Bozeman
born 1802 Darlington and their trails into Hope
Hull.
- Captain Little
(450 KB)
My dad's GGG
grandfather from Scotland along with several
possible brothers, in Union County South
Carolina 1790 and 1800 census but in Kentucky
1810 after the brother of Mrs. Mary Handley
Douglass Little explored, surveyed and offered
them land in Vienna Kentucky and more along the
Green River which is included in the books
History of Kentucky and mentions these familis
and is included in the Kentucky Genealogy
Webpages.
- The Captain's great
grandson (144
KB)
Military Record 1863 Kentucky
Infantry, then Bullitt County Kentucky and later
in Madison Arkansas. Also John's father was a
surgeon in the Civil War....many of this family
served.
- 1838 Lucy Campbell
(173 KB)
Sterling
Campbell married one of the daughters of Peter
Bozeman in Darlington SC and followed the
families to Montgomery and later bought land
near Talladega.
- 1829 Vincent Joiner
(265 KB)
Sarah's
X mark - Vincent married Ellen Bozeman, a
daughter of Peter, and later bought land in
South Alabama. Vincent also signed documents for
Peter in 1822 and 1824 as his child Julius
received a gift of land from Grandpa Peter.
Back and forth they traveled,
settling here and there, looking for work or
looking for rich soil to grow their crops, I
trace my elders through history, by census
records, tax lists, military documents, and I
visit old lost cemeteries to photograph their
tombstones to learn more about them.
They are included in many old books
about a states' history or early pioneers and
other family books like Wagon Tracks by Fenn,
Stephens Ancestry by Clyde, Sketches by Reverend
Bozeman, Milo's Custer's stories of Miller in
Rockingham, Green River KY Families, Cochran
Clan, Indiana History included Coonfield and
Clark, Barbour County History includes Fenn and
the Indians,
History of Muhlenburg included
Little and Handley, on and on there is
documentation, which can be followed by census
record study which gives names and ages of
family members, and church records of the old
days and archives of courthouses reveal
important data.
Much is written and
speculated about our Martin Weatherford and his
wife Mary half blood leaving Virginia to own a
huge plantation in Georgia, but he had fought
for the British, and was very outspoken and soon
banned from the State and moved to the Bahamas,
but their son Charles, also left his family in
VA to marry Sehoy in Alabama and have a son who
led the Redsticks in the Creek War. Charles may
have left 4 children behind in VA including
Catherine Weatherford who married John Wright in
1811.
Charles Brooks had dozens and dozens of
ancestors migrating into Alabama in the early
1800s. Joseph Baxley born 1815 Georgia or
possibly as some speculate, in SC., married Mary
Evans and named a son James H. - the tombstone
of James has the middle name as Hardie. James
served in the Civil War and married Louisa
Miranda Holt and resided in "Holtville". Their
daughter Ella Olivia Baxley married L. W. Hood
and had Bessie Mae Hood who married Milton
Elijah Thornton. Elijah's parents were Mary
Angeline Partridge, an indian, and George
Thornton, a mixed blood from Georgia, who had
settled in Central, Elmore County, Alabama.
Elijah's daughter, Mary Ella Thornton married
James Edgar Brooks Jr. Parents of James were
Susie Mae Cooper and James E Brooks Sr. James
and Susie are listed on the 1930 census with
both their widowed mothers. Susie's ancestors
were in Chambers County about 1830: Andrew
Cooper and "Alsey" from SC living near Malinda
Phillips and Elijah Lee born 1777 SC. Their
children Sarah F. Lee married Charner P. Cooper,
a soldier from the Civil War, and had a son
named Levi who moved to Hope Hull working on a
farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter, where he
fell in love with the daughter, Sarah Elizabeth
Carter. Parents of Thomas were "Mary" and John
Wise Carter of SC who had migrated to Talledega.
Thomas is buried in Hope Hull on his old
plantation by his first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
Her name was Lucy on census but Lacy on her
tombstone. Thomas served in the Civil War and
his grandfather Captain John Carter served in
the American Revolution, along with his own
father in law, John Wise of South
Carolina....The second wife of Thomas Carter was
Mary Josephine Hereferd of Virginia and she was
the mother of Sarah Elizabeth Carter...Mary was
not very happy with this marriage and had only
the one child. She buried Thomas by his first
wife. Some of Mary's family settled in Alabama
and some moved on to Texas. Mary's mother was
Jemima Ramsey of Virginia.
Parents of
James Brooks were Annie Ballard and John Brooks
of Tennesse and they are all buried at Greenwood
Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. John was a
railroad man, born to Roxanna Permilia Smith of
TN and a John Brooks born 1837
Pennsylvania.
John 1837 died of tuberculosis
in Texas. Parents of Roxanna were Caroline Bond
and Thomas Smith. Parents of Annie Ballard were
Dora Craig and James Ballard of TN. Some of
these families migrated into Tennessee about
1800 from the Carolinas living amongst the
Cherokee Indians and Chickasaw so they could
have been mixed blood. Annie's picture shows she
was a dark lady with black eyes and black hair
and so was her husband's features very dark but
I would suspect his from the Smith side of the
family.
Charles Brooks wed Kathy Cochran
in Montgomery Alabama. She was at least one
eighth Cherokee blood. Her parents were Anne
Carter and Frank Cochran. Anne's parents were
Alice Emily McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.
Emily was called Emma,Ellie, and Emmer by her
parents Lorena Bozeman and Charles McClain
Lorena's parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and
John Thomas Bozeman. Charlie's parents were
Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion
McClain.
The father of John Bozeman was
Peter Edward Bozeman, a Civil War Soldier who
married Nancy Jane Anderson, and her father was
Seaborn Montgomery Anderson, another Civil War
soldier. Seaborn had married Lavinia Jane
Sellers.
Cecil Carter's parents were Anna
Lou Stone and William Franklin Fenn. Frank was
born in Tuskegee to Emeline Harrell and John
Fenn a Civil War soldier of Georgia. Anna's
parents were Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus
Marvin Stone of Georgia. Anna divorced Frank
Fenn about 1901/1902 and remarried to a Carter,
then to a Dasher, as found in Georgia census
records.
Studying Marengo County finding
Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook in 1850 back home
with her parents and baby William, she is
obviously pregnant with George, and
divorced.
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- 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.
- 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. Franks' features are very
much like those of Billy Carter and of Mark
Carter.
- Anne Carter and Frank
Cochran (54
KB)
1953 by the cactus in Arizona -
They married in 1951 and moved to Tulsa Oklahoma
for a while, then to Arizona, and then back
through Mena Arkansas and Chetopa Kansas before
returning to Alabama.
- Frank Cochran (212 KB)
Family photo about
1937 with Frank on the left
- Mary Angeline Partridge
Thornton (300
KB)
Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton
in Elmore County Alabama and the granny of Mary
Ella Thornton Brooks.
- Frank Cochran and Son Frank Jr and
son (30
KB)
Family in Montgomery about 1993
- 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. It has been such
a joy hearing from my new found cousins.
- Frank Cochran's father as a child
with Jacob (108
KB)
Family in Kansas - "Pop" Frank
Delbert Cochran was a handsome little lad with
much resemblence to the pictures of his many
grandsons, born to parents Clora Jane Miller and
Jacob Benjamin Cochran - both had become widowed
in Iowa 1870s and married there before migrating
to Hill City of Graham County Kansas in 1882 .
- Sam Little (984 KB)
Uncle Sam was the son
of John Wright Little and a brother to Lattie.
Lattie told her children stories of their Indian
Heritage while Uncle Sam would deny them all -
he didn't want to be indian.
- Frank Cochran's mother
Luella (119
KB)
Luella was the daughter of Lattie
Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas.
Lattie was born in Kentucky and Ben's family had
been born in Indiana both with ancestors
mentioned in those states' history books .
- 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.
- 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.
- Home (105 KB)
kids
- 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.
- Home (131 KB)
kids
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