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Many of our ancestors have at some point in their journeys, spent time residing in Alabama. They crossed the Atlantic and ventured south for many reasons and on through the midwest.
Some came through Georgia down the Old Federal Road towards Montgomery, some settled in Pike County and others in Chambers County or other areas near it.
Tracing our roots can be very time consuming, and extremely addictive: each day we find a new name to add to the list
of cousins. Each day we find a new story to share and possibly a shocking fact!
Our Little family has been researching a link to the sister of Pocahontas, named Cleopatra, while some researchers say there is no documentation proving she ever existed, they cannot prove she didn't.
Grandma Anna Stone's husband managed the Fenn Plantation in Eufaula, and we certainly read where Indians worked the farm that was owned by Uncle Matthew Fenn They shared every day together and intermarried. Some of the slaves on that plantation adopted the last name of FENN.
My mother grew up as white but learned very early in her childhood that she was different. She was taught to run
hide whenever the KKK came down the road. Her uncle was told to sit in the back of the bus during the days of prejudice.
Now I search for the answers Mom was seeking - who gave her this Cherokee heritage.
Names I am now searching are: Clora Jane Miller Cochran, Lottie Sadonia Little, Luella Coonfield, Peter Edward Bozeman (Bosman), Josiah Marion McClain (McLain), Annie Lee Stone Fenn Carter, William Frank Fenn, Cecil Earl Carter, John Fann and Emeline Harrel, Nancy Jane Anderson, Sara Mills with Joseph Stephens, Mordicai Bozeman of 1700, Martha Young Coonfield, Mary Epperson Coonfield, Barsheba Clark Coonfield, and several Moons as well.
We all connect thru our old ones and find we are all cousins!
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- James Stephens, Half Blood (197 KB)
So easy to see his Cherokee features.
- Robert Lee Fenn (13 KB)
William Fenns' son never appeared on census yet he was known as Uncle LEE and was buried beside his brother Frank Jr in Elmore County AL
- Joe McClain (22 KB)
So easy to see his Cherokee features. Uncle Joe was told to sit in the back of the bus !!!
- Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman b 1843 (19 KB)
wife of Peter Edward Bozeman buried in Greenwood Cemetery
- W E Stephens (72 KB)
So easy to see his Cherokee features. They all ventured from the Carolinas and settled into Ramer Alabama
- Charles Wayne Brooks b 1981 (19 KB)
1-4-2003
- death certificate of Wm Fenn b 1855 Tuskegee (449 KB)
parents John and Emeline Fenn from Georgia to Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama
- Alice McClain (21 KB)
had Cherokee grandmother
- Frankie Lavern Cochran (58 KB)
1-4-2003
- Obituary 1939 Cecil Earl Carter (30 KB)
Who is Walter Stone listed as pall bearer and the others??
- Charles Allen McClain with son Walton (25 KB)
Farmers in Ramer Alabama, Charlie is buried at Dublin Church of Christ cemetery
- Frankie Lavern Cochran jr (58 KB)
6-29-1956 born in Mesa AZ
- Uncle William Little (874 KB)
brother to Lottie Cedonia Little
- William Lawrence Carter b 1935 in Oklahoma (42 KB)
Played harmonica, had Carter Roofing Company in Enid Oklahoma
- Charles Wayne Brooks weds Kathy Cochran in 1972 (36 KB)
Montgomery Alabama
- Georgia Alice Little Nelson b 1853 (169 KB)
sister of John Wright Little, daughter of Hiram Lucius Little
- 1934 Walton McClain holding Annie Carter (16 KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery Alabama where they moved to Highland Avenue
- Matthew Cochran b 1998 (13 KB)
with his great Aunt Pamela Anne Cochran Fuller b 1961
- Lattie Cedonia Little b 1871 (32 KB)
surrounded by photos of her family and husband Ben Coonfield
- 1940 Charlie McClain behind granddaughter Annie (13 KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery Alabama where they moved to Highland Avenue...Annie Carter was raised by her grandparents
- Kathy Cochran 1970 (56 KB)
with cousin Linda on Dexter Avenue in front of the capitol in Montgomery Alabama
- Lucius Powhatan Little (47 KB)
grandson of Hiram Lucius Little, in Kentucky
- 1940 Charlie McClain with wife Lorena Bozeman (10 KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery Alabama where they moved to Highland Avenue...Annie Carter was raised by her grandparents
- Kathy Cochran finds great great grandpa's grave (34 KB)
W F Fenn buried in Montgomery, was born in Tuskegee and his line traces to John FANN of NC who came from England and married Mary STone
- John Wright Little Family (195 KB)
with his children
- Kathy Cochran with sis and family (56 KB)
Frankie Cochrans girls and grands
- Mary Ella Coonfield b 1871 (2 KB)
sister of our Benjamin Wallace Coonfield
- Cochran Twins (24 KB)
There are many twins in our Coonfield - Cochran line
- Cochran Family, Frank and Anne (19 KB)
with her brothers at the bottom
- Annie Carter on left about 1940 (5 KB)
with Ethel Coley, who was raised by Katie McClain Coley
- Charles Wayne Brooks b 1953 d 1998 (28 KB)
married Kathy Cochran in 1972
- Victoria Carter d 2000 (23 KB)
daughter of Cecil Earl Carter Jr b 1932
- Martha Ann Wright Little b about 1810 (13 KB)
married Douglas Little and had son Powhatan
- Grandpa Cecil Earl Carter - "Fenn"adoptedbyCarter (15 KB)
son of Wm Fenn and Ann Stone was born 1899 or 1900 was in USArmy and died on Columbus Street in Montgomery Alabama at age 39
- Marriage License (232 KB)
Luella Ellen Coonfield married Frank D Cochran
- Billy Carter and Victor Cochran (45 KB)
in Montgomery AL
- My flutist child (38 KB)
Musicians are abundant in our family and ancestry
- Frankie Lavern Cochran 1968 (39 KB)
family
- Cochran Guys (41 KB)
in Montgomery AL
- Mama Annie Carter Cochran by Darrell Cochran (27 KB)
Broken Arrow, Tulsa Oklahoma
- Frank Delbert Cochran (8 KB)
wedding day
- Cochran Girls (45 KB)
in Montgomery AL
- Mark (5 KB)
son of Uncle Cecil Carter in North Carolina
- Frankie Lavern Cochran (10 KB)
1952
- Cochran Grands (8 KB)
Frankie Lavern Cochran's Grandson and great grandson
- Annie Carter b 3/14/1934 (16 KB)
Mom
- Lattie Coonfield and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield (402 KB)
headstone
- 1930 census Labette Kansas (1097 KB)
my dad and his family
- Indians in Barbour County History on Fenn Farm (116 KB)
Evidence they were here! They worked together and died together.
- Chester Coonfield headstone (41 KB)
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- Dec 1786 (42 KB)
Married in SC Peter Bozman left in 1826 for Alabama.
- Cecil Carter death cerificate Proves his parentage (216 KB)
Now we know his real parents !
- Lavern Coonfield headstone (16 KB)
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- DAR Peter (500 KB)
Jimmy Ray's daughter in the DAR - finally in Jan 2008 they recognized our Grandfather who settled in Hope Hull by 1827
- Cook School Class Photo (90 KB)
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- Charles Wayne Brooks b 1953 (13 KB)
died on 6-1-1998
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