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Ordering my grandfather
Cecil Carter's death certificate I learned who
his parents were and began to call around
some local cousins to learn more about them.
Then I ordered his dad's death
certificate which was a big help in my research.
Cecil was my mom's father and she knew
nothing about him since she was orphaned at the
age of 4. He had told her family stories
about being indian , drank too much they say,
and even talked about having a great
grandfather indian chief, which I have thusfar
been unable to locate. His mother
had married three times, first to Fenn, then
Dasher, and lastly to a Carter so any of them
could connect to a tribe or perhaps one of their
mothers or even more likely to his
mother's lineage way back to 1700s Georgia.
There are many new paths to follow to learn
the truth.
His parents divorced
after having six children between 1893 and 1900
and remarried so the trace became
complicated. He might have been adopted
but surely took on a new last name. My
mother was indian and when I started looking up
census records I found Cecil's mother Anna Lou
Stone as a child in one record and then I found
her Uncle Charles Stone in Alabama
and he had named his sons Osceola and Tecumseh,
so perhaps I am on the
right track, but which tribe? They were
all living in former Creek Territory but Cecil said
he was Cherokee, perhaps they were mixed blood.
Cecil and his brother
Emmett were tall, large men, dark complexion
while their brother Frank Jr had smaller
facial features and black eyes and black hair.
Frank's granddaughter Martha met
with me and she was at least 6' tall and copper
skinned, lovely
lady.
When Cecil was born his
mother decided to leave them all and go back to
her family in Macon City, Bibb County,
Georgia. Cecil was in his father's arms
crying so Wiliam told Anna "here you might as
well take this one" and she did. Then he
told the other children that Cecil was
only their "half" sibling. Cecil was found
on the 1920 and 1930 census of Fort Bliss in El Paso
Texas but apparently he visited his family in
Alabama now and then, and they said he
was very mean and drank too much. I only
found a few of his pictures and aparently a time
book for a job he was working in Oak Park before
he died in 1939. The only thing I can
remember about Oak Park was the hospital on
Forest Avenue so maybe he worked
there.
Frank Jr even told his
children that his sister Carrie was only his
half sister and she was the firstborn to Anna
and William Fenn so perhaps the kids just did
not get along or perhaps she looked more
like an indian than the others and was
mistreated.
Cecil's father was
William Franklin Fenn born in 1855 Tuskegee,
Macon County Alabama and Wm's parents were
Emeline Harrell and John Fann of Early County
Georgia which was also former indian
territory. John had served in the Civil
War and his father Elijah Fann born 1788 had drawn
in the Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia.
Elijah had married Martha Rich and her
mother was only known as "Abiah". Elijah's
father was Travis Fann of Virginia, possibly an
indian trader, who married a lady known only as
"Mary". The history of Georgia
listed on usgenweb.com has many stories about
the indian traders, the tribes, the loss
of their lands, and the gold rush of
Georgia.
Travis may have been a
mixed blood himself, parents were Alecy McCoy
and Zachariah Fann of Virginia, and I
found some land records on them and their
service in the American Revolution and
started putting those documents on a
webpage to view later or
to share with
family
Elijah's brother Matthew
was probably the first of the Fenn family to
move into Alabama buying up several
hundred acres of land, employing indians to work
the plantation which was fine but
illegal in the state of Georgia. Matthew
Fenn is mentioned in a book
"Early Settlers of
Barbour County".
It was on that
plantation where William Franklin Fenn became
the Farm Manager. Many Fenns may be
buried on that old plantation and a recently
found descendant of Matthew told me that she
had to go to court with the present day owner of
that land to protect the graves of her
family.
Anna Stone's parents
were Mary Ann Hendrick, daughter of Christopher
Columbus Hendrick and Augustus
Marvin Stone. Augustus was the son of
Sarah Daviess and Benjamin Wilburne Stone
of Georgia. Ben's parents were Polly Wells
of Putnam Georgia and Michael
Stone of Maryland - they lived in Captain John
Stone's District. Michael and his sons
Benjamin and William Stone were in Macon County
Alabama on the 1850 census with
many returning to Georgia after that but
Augustus remained in Alabama until
1900.
Maybe that is when Anna
decided to go back to Georgia herself and take
care of her mother. The census
records showed that William Fenn was twenty
years older than Anna. His second
wife was even younger.
William and Anna's
children were Carrie/Carolyn, Emmett Marvin,
William Franklin, Robert Lee known as
Uncle Lee, Arthur Lee and Cecil Earl Fenn.
Emmett was a very big man who worked for the
railroad and he lived in downtown Montgomery
near the Union Station. He would
stop off in New York to buy his ver large
clothing and that is where he died of a heart attack.
His nephew Bob Fenn of Millbrook fetched his
body back to Montgomery for burial.
Bob was the son of Frank Jr and principal
of Robinson Springs Elementary School.
My mom put me in touch with him once to
discuss our family. Bob also put me in touch
with his sister Martha. Bob said that he
remembered Cecil being close to a Wm Fenn and
Mattie Mae Adkins Fenn in Georgia but wasn't
sure of the connection. He
also told me that they rememberd Grandma Carter
sending pictures home and gifts.
One picture was of a baseball player, Tige
Stone, that they placed in the living room.
Tige was the son of Anna's brother and
played one season in 1923 for the
St Louis Cardinals.
Bob siad they had a house fire in Coosada
and lost everything though.
Martha remembered the
death of Grandma Carter and her family taking
the train to Macon. I found
grandma listed as Annie Dasher in 1920 living
with her mother Mary in Macon so she must have
married Carter later.
Cecils's military
discharge shows he received travel pay to his
"bonafide" home in Macon.
His sister Carolyn
married later in life to a Ben Johnson from
Choctaw Territory Texas and they had moved to
Creek Nation in Oklahoma on the 1930
census.
This is so ironic since
I found a nephew listed on the Dublin census
living with my great great grandfather
John Thomas
Bozeman and wonder if there
were any connection.
Cecil's wife Ellie died
in 1935 after birthing William Lawrence, her
third child, and Cecil remined drunk until he
fell dead in 1939 walking down Columbus Street.
The children, my mom and her two
brothers, lived with the McClains from then on.
Some teased them about being Indian, they
were poor and had a rough life. They
attended Capital Heights School on Federal Drive.
"Billy" stayed in trouble, Cecil was quiet and
Annie married at a young age to Donald
Robinson for a brief time. Cecil Jr
married Christine of North Carolina and spent many
years there, having a son named Mark, but
also had a brief first marriage to Jean
McNeil having one child named Victoria. Cecil's
third wife was Jerri in Atlana and she
had Michael and Jeffrey Earl Carter, before he
left. Billy had no children but married
several times and spent most of his life in
Oklahoma. Annie met Frank Cochran in 1949
and married.
Cecil Jr died a few
months after a rattlesnake bit his leg twice and
he refused amputation. Billy
died in car accident. Anne had heart
bypass surgery in 1980 and several infections
including flu and pneumonia before she passed in
1992, being buried close to her brothers in
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anna's son Victor loved
the firewater and died of cirrhosis in 2007
being buried by his mother.
Cecil had married Alice
Emma McClain and she was listed as Ellie on his
death certificate which had
been signed by his brother Emmett Marvin
Fenn.
I called around the
local cemeteries to find their graves.
Emmett was buried by their
father William in
Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery. The
caretaker showed me the space next to William
with no headstone was recorded as the grave of
Mat Fenn - lo and behold on the census
records, William had a brother named Madison and
family had mentioned that William
was buried by Uncle Mat. I have taken tons
of pictures of tombstones and saved
many of the census images on another
webpage.
Running out of space
quickly I had to start using and abusing other
web designers to get
my research "out there"
and have received tons of emails and packages in
my home mail to add new
information to this labor of love
and have met many new
family members.
The list
is below but I need to
say that the parents of Alice McClain Carter
was Charles Allen
McClain born 1886 Ramer Alabama and Lorena Emma
Bozeman born 1892 Dublin Alabama.
One cousin who contacted me regarding his
research linking to mine regarding Lorena's
mother, Alice Stephens being a Cherokee, told me
that I was on the right track, saying that
our ancestor John Stephens served in the
American Revolution and married a full blood
indian and migrated to Alabama. Another writes
that Lorena's great great Uncle John
Bozeman married an indian in Darlington SC
and moved to Mississippi in 1823.
Then of course we do not know much at all about
the widow Sarah Brown that Lorena's
great great grandfather Peter
Bozeman married in 1786 and had
served in the
War.
One trip to Dublin
revealed the first home that Ethel Bozeman and
her husband Jace Gibson built while they
and the children lived in a tent. I was there
after talking with some of her daughters,
Ruby and Peggy, who have now passed on and given
directions and stories. Then
I found the tombstones of Ethel and Jace in
Hills Chapel Cemetery. On the way out I
stopped at a small church cemetery where I saw
the tombstone of Herman and "OOTCHA" Broadway
who were our cousins through Charlie McClain's
mother Elizabeth Broadway who
was born 1853. Then it seems that
Elizabeth's sister Rebecca Broadway was the mother
of Jace Gibson.
Elizabeth Broadways'
mother was Mary Stephens, a daughter of
Benjamin. Elizabeth had married Josiah
Marion McClain after the Civil War, but I found
no marriage record because he had deserted
his first wife Julia King in Georgia and his
several children. Julie had filed to
joined the Cherokee Rolls and also filed for
divorce in 1872. Josiah was wounded in the war
and his wife Elizabeth filed for his pension so
maybe he had no memory of his other
family. Josiah's mother is only known as
"Anna" and was married to James McClain and
they are buried in Indian Creek Cemetery in
GA.
When I had gone to
Greenwood Cemetery to find the graves of my
husband's grandparents
Susie Mae Cooper and James
Edgar Brooks Sr., I found his mother
Annie Clark Ballard beside
them and on my way towards the exit I discovered
a Bozeman family plot and pulled
over immediately. There close to the gate was
Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman's
tombstone, the grandmother of my Lorena.
Buried beside her were two of her sons,
Meady and Robert, their wives and
children.
Uncle Robert is the one
who owned a large piece of land near Maxwell AFB
and donated a portion to
create the Memorial Cemetery where Lorena and
her children are buried and my parents.
The road is named Bozeman Drive and for
many years I just hoped for a connection
until recently did I learn the story. He was a
contractor and each of his six daughters
received a piece of land and street name when
they married. Now I can certainly understand
Lorena's connection to this
place.
The story and others
were told to me by a new found cousin Dora
Stubbs, the granddaughter of Dora
Dillard and Uncle Peter James Bozeman. I
met Dora in May 2007 on a road trip back to
Dublin with my oldest daughter, where we met
many new Bozeman cousins,
children of Uncle Bob actually, and the Gibson
children, quite an exciting day. We
met at Hills Chapel Church which is across the
street from Hills Chapel Cemetery. We were
led around the block to another road which runs
behind the church to an old family
cemetery, a small burial ground encased with
barbed wire, and many fallen branches and
years of neglect.
I like to call it
Bozeman Hill.....it needed a
name.
There we found our great
great great grandfather's tombstone of Peter
Edward Bozeman born 1834 who had
served in the Civil War. Near his was a
grave of R L Hill who must have been his cousin and
nearby was the most precious tombstone I have
ever seen - My Darling ALB -
Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman was Peter's
daughter in law, the wife of John Thomas Bozeman.
Alice was the great granddaughter of John
Stephens and his cherokee wife. There was
a small clover type design drawn upon the
tombstone and the dates worn very thin.
Family says she died a few months after
delivering Little John and her husband married
again right away to have help with the
children.
John Thomas Bozeman is
buried at the Hills Chapel Cemetery with his
other wife Sarah Ellen Bean, near his
brother, Peter James and Dora. Dora Dillard's
ancetor Nat Dillard had a large plantation
in Dublin beofre moving on to Troy. Ellen
Bean told the children she was kin to the
hanging Judge Roy Bean.
Dora Stubbs also told me
that several years back we could have seen about
50 other tombstones in that old
family plot behind the church. When I
researched the area I found it was once owned
by a John Hill who was most likely the uncle to
Peter. Peter's mother was always listed
as Martha H. so she was possibly the sister of
John Hill. Reading back into
Darlington SC I found a John Hill served in the
American Revolution. Darlington is where
Peter's father william Henry Bozeman married
Martha H. - nothing is known about Martha's
mother.
My List of Ancestors'
Names
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page46.html
2 1847 Will of
Abraham Crigler leaving all to wife
Lydia.
3 1848 Slave
Appraisal of Abraham Crigler
4 1817 Laurence
and William Roby Wills
6 Will of Reason
Roby and Lawrence Roby 1817
7 William Roby
Estate Sale 1834
8 1819 Will of our
grandfather Jesse Simmons leaving land to
Catherine Roby
9 George Little
Memorial placed by great granddaughter
Laura
10 Lydia Carpenter
marries Abraham Crigler in 1795
11 Handley Mason and
Worthington of Ireland to Kentucky 1800
12 Slave Owners in
Bullitt Kentucky
15 Frankie Lavern
Cochran
16 Mary Ella Thornton
and James Edgar Brooks Jr.
17 Frankie Cochran
with Kathy in Arizona
18 Charles Allen
McClain born 1886 - his funeral memorial book
and many names of visitors.
19 Anne Alice
Carter Cochran
20 My pictures of
Coosada and Montgomery Indian Historical
Markers
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page21.html
22 Thomas Randolph
Carter, Lacy and Jesse Bozeman, Tombstones
24 Letter by
Aunt Ethel Bozeman, Lorena's
sister
25 Peter
Bozeman -my research links
26 Bozemans from
Darlington SC to Montgomery Alabama
30 Frankie Cochran
and Anne by the cactus in 1953
Arizona
32 Wedding of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran, parents of
Frankie and Freelon, Jay and Cleo,
Darrell
33 Freelon
Cochran's final letter from
Korea
39 Census Records
1790 1800 1810
40 Brooks and
Thornton of Elmore County
Alabama
41 Kathy discovers
grave of Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834
42 Jacob cochran and
Mariah White Genealogy
43 Hans
Brooke of Holland and son John to Tennessee and
the connection to Elijah Lee born 1777 and
Andrew Cooper of SC, Carter,
Ballard...
44 My Alabama
Genealogy and Research - Lee, Cooper, Ballard,
Hereford, Hood, Thornton, Partridge,
Baxley, Brack, Sellers, Anderson,
Brooks.
46 My many
ancestors listed with spouse
51 American
Genealogy background with links
52 Dream Catcher
background with links
54
Tige Stone,
nephew of Anna
55 Civil War Pension of
Grandfather John Wright Little
56 Tombstone of
Grandfather W F Fenn
58 Charles and his
children
59
Tombstone of Charles
Brooks
Cecil and Alice married
about 1931, had Cecil Jr in 1932 , my mother
Anne in 1934 and William Lawrence in
1935, with Alice dying immediately after giving
birth - Cecil died in 1939 so the children
were raised by the McClain grandparents in
Montgomery Alabama. Cecil Jr married
several times and had several chiclren.
Anne married Frankie
Cochran in 1951 having me
in 1953 in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
William had no children.
When I started tracing
the Cochran lineage I found he had a cousin nmed
Powhatan and grandmothers who smoke
pipes and made their own medicine, living on the
prairie among the indians .
One of Frank's many grandfathers had
refused land in indian territory, just a family
story, but where would I find
proof.
My dad talked about
Luella sitting in the field for hours filling
her apron with roots and herbs. He said her
long black hair touched the floor when she sat
down. She had told her children that she
was one quarter Cherokee. They talked
about Luella's mother, Lattie, cooking
skunk meat; that it was the best tasting meat
ever. I cannot begin to imagine how she caught
the little critter.
Lattie was a beautiful
petite dark featured lady from Kentucky and her
mother Mary Catherine Crigler Little
was positively gorgeous in the photos with a
long dark braid hanging over her
shoulder. Lattie's father, John Wright
Little, was another handsome dark featured man, even
so described in his civil war pension papers.
His grandmother was Catherine G.
Weatherford out of Charlotte VA as so written in
the internet's Virginia history records.
Those records state that her father was
Charles Weatherford and I find only one Charles on
census during that particular time. His
mother is recorded as Mary Half Blood and he ended
up in Alabama married to Sehoy. His father
Martin Weatherford was a wealthy
plantation owner with slaves in Georgia, a very
outspoken Loyalist who was kicked out of the
State and resided in the Bahamas where he
married a second time and this wife also
named a son Charles.
Georgia became a name
for some of the women in that lineage and I
would also suspect it was the middle
name of Catherine, giving us a clue to her
father's whereabouts.
The Criglers came from
Germanny, residing in Virginia 1700s in a colony
called Germanna so we should
focus our research on the many wives of those
men wo eventually migrated into
Kentucky in 1800 with the Carpenters, Duvals,
Simmon,s Wells, and Roby families.
Many had served in the War and received
Land Grants.
I find it so ironic that
grandpa John Wright Little left Kentucky when
his wife died and took a homestead in
Little Rock Arkansas. He is buried on some
unknown mountatntop there. He was a
cherokee, a blacksmith and a farmer. My
dad's sister Bernice has a few pieces of his work.
Bernice was a twin to Eunice and their
mother also had another set of twin boys who did not
survive. Twins are quite common in that
lineage; I have discovered
several.
I have found several in
my lineage who served in the Civil War and in
the American Revolution, learned that
much of our Alabama families lost everything
during the Civil War and then many more
served in the other wars of our nation and
collected quite a bit of documentation within
this maize of genealogy pages.
I went back into
researching a grandmother of Lorena, a Lavinia
Jane Sellers, and found one of her cousins
had married a Schrimpshire, and another
Schrimpshire had married an indian Chief Dennis
Bushyhead. Others tracing the Sellers,
Anderson, Brack, Doty lineage through the
Carolinas into Alabama are also claiming indian
blood. My husband's Brooks,
Ballard, Bond, Baxter, Smith, Craig, Connelly
lineage of 1800 Tennessee resided in
Indian Territory there long before the Trail of
Tears and the Tennessee website has an
exciting history uploaded to enjoy at
usgenweb.com - Enjoy reading about Sequoyah
and Nancy Ward and Joe Vann during this same
time in history along with Rogers, Starr
and Ross, they all lived so close
together.
Lorena's husband's line
came out of Virginia in 1750 when a Charles
McClain married Elizabeth Moon and moved
to Spartanburg South Carolina, mixed with Stone,
Lynch, Wood, Hildebrand
and many other interesting names who
migrated into Georgia's Indian Territory about
1800.
This journey will never
be complete; I just try to follow their
path, gather the census records, marriage
licenses, land records, and military records,
maps, attempting to piece our history
together. One difficult item is they used
nicknames quite often, even on the
documents. Anna
Stone's son William Franklin Fenn Jr. was called
Will on his WWI registration; her
nephew William Arthur Stone was called Tige ;
Anna's son, Cecil liked to go by Earl or
even Nick, his mother was called Annie, his son
William was Billy or even Larry and then
my mother was named Annie but she preferred Anne
when she became Mrs. Cochran.
One photo of Frank Cochran's mother Luella
has Rue written on it but I would think
Lue, not Rue and they called my dad Bud.
Lorena was called Rena even on a census record
in 1900 but I could not find her anywhere in
1920 or 1930. Annie Ballard Brooks
called one son Bubba and one daughter Sissy.
Bubba was my husband's father and Sissy
is the one helping me trace their lineage,
sharing many beautiful photos.
My search box above will
reveal most anything I have documented on any of
our surnames.
Happy Hunting
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Ordering my grandfather
Cecil Carter's death certificate I learned who
his parents were and began to call around
some local cousins to learn more about them.
Then I ordered his dad's death
certificate which was a big help in my research.
Cecil was my mom's father and she knew
nothing about him since she was orphaned at the
age of 4. He had told her family stories
about being indian , drank too much they say,
and even talked about having a great
grandfather indian chief, which I have thusfar
been unable to locate. His mother
had married three times, first to Fenn, then
Dasher, and lastly to a Carter so any of them
could connect to a tribe or perhaps one of their
mothers or even more likely to his
mother's lineage way back to 1700s Georgia.
There are many new paths to follow to learn
the truth.
His parents divorced
after having six children between 1893 and 1900
and remarried so the trace became
complicated.( Cecil was mean and abusive and his
father was probably the same way ) ( Anna was
young and Cecil was an infant so did she have
more children with her second husband Mr Carter?
Who were they? Were they of Indian Blood? )
Cecil Earl might have been adopted but
surely took on a new last name, from Fenn to
Carter. His mother Anna had married a Carter and
then a Dasher. She was apparently called Annie
Lee instead of Anna Lou but rarely did these
people go by their legal names and often times
on census records the entire family would be
listed by initials
only.....................Cecil went by Earl and
sometimes Nick.........his son Cecil Jr went by
Junior and his son William Lawrence went by
Larry........... My mother was indian and
when I started looking up census records I found
Cecil's mother Anna Lou
Stone as a child in one record and then I found
her Uncle Charles Stone in Alabama
and he had named his sons Osceola and Tecumseh,
so perhaps I am on the
right track, but which tribe? They were
all living in former Creek Territory but Cecil said
he was Cherokee, perhaps they were mixed blood.
Cecil and his brother
Emmett were tall, large men, dark complexion
while their brother Frank Jr had smaller
facial features and black eyes and black hair.
Frank's granddaughter Martha met
with me and she was at least 6' tall and copper
skinned, lovely
lady.
When Cecil was born his
mother decided to leave them all and go back to
her family in Macon City, Bibb County,
Georgia. Cecil was in his father's arms
crying so Wiliam told Anna "here you might as
well take this one" and she did. Then he
told the other children that Cecil was
only their "half" sibling. Cecil was found
on the 1920 and 1930 census of Fort Bliss in El Paso
Texas but apparently he visited his family in
Alabama now and then, and they said he
was very mean and drank too much. I only
found a few of his pictures and aparently a time
book for a job he was working in Oak Park before
he died in 1939. The only thing I can
remember about Oak Park was the hospital on
Forest Avenue so maybe he worked
there.
Frank Jr even told his
children that his sister Carrie was only his
half sister and she was the firstborn to Anna
and William Fenn so perhaps the kids just did
not get along or perhaps she looked more
like an indian than the others and was
mistreated.
Cecil's father was
William Franklin Fenn born in 1855 Tuskegee,
Macon County Alabama and Wm's parents were
Emeline Harrell and John Fann of Early County
Georgia which was also former indian
territory. John had served in the Civil
War and his father Elijah Fann born 1788 had drawn
in the Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia.
Elijah had married Martha Rich and her
mother was only known as "Abiah". Elijah's
father was Travis Fann of Virginia, possibly an
indian trader, who married a lady known only as
"Mary". The history of Georgia
listed on usgenweb.com has many stories about
the indian traders, the tribes, the loss
of their lands, and the gold rush of
Georgia.
Travis may have been a
mixed blood himself, parents were Alecy McCoy
and Zachariah Fann of Virginia, and I
found some land records on them and their
service in the American Revolution and
started putting those documents on a
webpage to view later or
to share with
family
Elijah's brother Matthew
was probably the first of the Fenn family to
move into Alabama buying up several
hundred acres of land, employing indians to work
the plantation which was fine but
illegal in the state of Georgia. Matthew
Fenn is mentioned in a book
"Early Settlers of
Barbour County".
It was on that
plantation where William Franklin Fenn became
the Farm Manager. Many Fenns may be
buried on that old plantation and a recently
found descendant of Matthew told me that she
had to go to court with the present day owner of
that land to protect the graves of her
family.
Anna Stone's parents
were Mary Ann Hendrick, daughter of Christopher
Columbus Hendrick and Augustus
Marvin Stone. Augustus was the son of
Sarah Daviess and Benjamin Wilburne Stone
of Georgia. Ben's parents were Polly Wells
of Putnam Georgia and Michael
Stone of Maryland - they lived in Captain John
Stone's District. Michael and his sons
Benjamin and William Stone were in Macon County
Alabama on the 1850 census with
many returning to Georgia after that but
Augustus remained in Alabama until
1900.
Maybe that is when Anna
decided to go back to Georgia herself and take
care of her mother. The census
records showed that William Fenn was twenty
years older than Anna. His second
wife was even younger.
William and Anna's
children were Carrie/Carolyn, Emmett Marvin,
William Franklin, Robert Lee known as
Uncle Lee, Arthur Lee and Cecil Earl Fenn.
Emmett was a very big man who worked for the
railroad and he lived in downtown Montgomery
near the Union Station. He would
stop off in New York to buy his ver large
clothing and that is where he died of a heart attack.
His nephew Bob Fenn of Millbrook fetched his
body back to Montgomery for burial.
Bob was the son of Frank Jr and principal
of Robinson Springs Elementary School.
My mom put me in touch with him once to
discuss our family. Bob also put me in touch
with his sister Martha. Bob said that he
remembered Cecil being close to a Wm Fenn and
Mattie Mae Adkins Fenn in Georgia but wasn't
sure of the connection. He
also told me that they rememberd Grandma Carter
sending pictures home and gifts.
One picture was of a baseball player, Tige
Stone, that they placed in the living room.
Tige was the son of Anna's brother and
played one season in 1923 for the
St Louis Cardinals.
Bob siad they had a house fire in Coosada
and lost everything though.
Martha remembered the
death of Grandma Carter and her family taking
the train to Macon. I found
grandma listed as Annie Dasher in 1920 living
with her mother Mary in Macon so she must have
married Carter later.
Cecils's military
discharge shows he received travel pay to his
"bonafide" home in Macon.
His sister Carolyn
married later in life to a Ben Johnson from
Choctaw Territory Texas and they had moved to
Creek Nation in Oklahoma on the 1930
census.
This is so ironic since
I found a nephew listed on the Dublin census
living with my great great grandfather
John Thomas
Bozeman and wonder if there
were any connection.
Cecil's wife Ellie died
in 1935 after birthing William Lawrence, her
third child, and Cecil remined drunk until he
fell dead in 1939 walking down Columbus Street.
The children, my mom and her two
brothers, lived with the McClains from then on.
Some teased them about being Indian, they
were poor and had a rough life. They
attended Capital Heights School on Federal Drive.
"Billy" stayed in trouble, Cecil was quiet and
Annie married at a young age to Donald
Robinson for a brief time. Cecil Jr
married Christine of North Carolina and spent many
years there, having a son named Mark, but
also had a brief first marriage to Jean
McNeil having one child named Victoria. Cecil's
third wife was Jerri in Atlana and she
had Michael and Jeffrey Earl Carter, before he
left. Billy had no children but married
several times and spent most of his life in
Oklahoma. Annie met Frank Cochran in 1949
and married.
Cecil Jr died a few
months after a rattlesnake bit his leg twice and
he refused amputation. Billy
died in car accident. Anne had heart
bypass surgery in 1980 and several infections
including flu and pneumonia before she passed in
1992, being buried close to her brothers in
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anna's son Victor loved
the firewater and died of cirrhosis in 2007
being buried by his mother.
Cecil had married Alice
Emma or Emily Alice McClain and she was listed
as Ellie on his death certificate which had
been signed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn.
Also learned that Cecil's nickname was Nick -
which is puzzling..
I called around the
local cemeteries to find their graves.
Emmett was buried by their
father William in
Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery. The
caretaker showed me the space next to William
with no headstone was recorded as the grave of
Mat Fenn - lo and behold on the census
records, William had a brother named Madison and
family had mentioned that William
was buried by Uncle Mat. I have taken tons
of pictures of tombstones and saved
many of the census images on another
webpage.
Running out of space
quickly I had to start using and abusing other
web designers to get
my research "out there"
and have received tons of emails and packages in
my home mail to add new
information to this labor of love
and have met many new
family members.
The list
is below but I need to
say that the parents of Alice McClain Carter
was Charles Allen
McClain born 1886 Ramer Alabama and Lorena Emma
Bozeman born 1892 Dublin Alabama.
One cousin who contacted me regarding his
research linking to mine regarding Lorena's
mother, Alice Stephens being a Cherokee, told me
that I was on the right track, saying that
our ancestor John Stephens served in the
American Revolution and married a full blood
indian and migrated to Alabama. Another writes
that Lorena's great great Uncle John
Bozeman married an indian in Darlington SC
and moved to Mississippi in 1823.
Then of course we do not know much at all about
the widow Sarah Brown that Lorena's
great great grandfather Peter
Bozeman married in 1786 and had
served in the
War.
One trip to Dublin
revealed the first home that Ethel Bozeman and
her husband Jace Gibson built while they
and the children lived in a tent. I was there
after talking with some of her daughters,
Ruby and Peggy, who have now passed on and given
directions and stories. Then
I found the tombstones of Ethel and Jace in
Hills Chapel Cemetery. On the way out I
stopped at a small church cemetery where I saw
the tombstone of Herman and "OOTCHA" Broadway
who were our cousins through Charlie McClain's
mother Elizabeth Broadway who
was born 1853. Then it seems that
Elizabeth's sister Rebecca Broadway was the mother
of Jace Gibson.
Elizabeth Broadways'
mother was Mary Stephens, a daughter of
Benjamin. Elizabeth had married Josiah
Marion McClain after the Civil War, but I found
no marriage record because he had deserted
his first wife Julia King in Georgia and his
several children. Julie had filed to
joined the Cherokee Rolls and also filed for
divorce in 1872. Josiah was wounded in the war
and his wife Elizabeth filed for his pension so
maybe he had no memory of his other
family. Josiah's mother is only known as
"Anna" and was married to James McClain and
they are buried in Indian Creek Cemetery in
GA.
When I had gone to
Greenwood Cemetery to find the graves of my
husband's grandparents
Susie Mae Cooper and James
Edgar Brooks Sr., I found his mother
Annie Clark Ballard beside
them and on my way towards the exit I discovered
a Bozeman family plot and pulled
over immediately. There close to the gate was
Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman's
tombstone, the grandmother of my Lorena.
Buried beside her were two of her sons,
Meady and Robert, their wives and
children.
Uncle Robert is the one
who owned a large piece of land near Maxwell AFB
and donated a portion to
create the Memorial Cemetery where Lorena and
her children are buried and my parents.
The road is named Bozeman Drive and for
many years I just hoped for a connection
until recently did I learn the story. He was a
contractor and each of his six daughters
received a piece of land and street name when
they married. Now I can certainly understand
Lorena's connection to this
place.
The story and others
were told to me by a new found cousin Dora
Stubbs, the granddaughter of Dora
Dillard and Uncle Peter James Bozeman. I
met Dora in May 2007 on a road trip back to
Dublin with my oldest daughter, where we met
many new Bozeman cousins,
children of Uncle Bob actually, and the Gibson
children, quite an exciting day. We
met at Hills Chapel Church which is across the
street from Hills Chapel Cemetery. We were
led around the block to another road which runs
behind the church to an old family
cemetery, a small burial ground encased with
barbed wire, and many fallen branches and
years of neglect.
I like to call it
Bozeman Hill.....it needed a
name.
There we found our great
great great grandfather's tombstone of Peter
Edward Bozeman born 1834 who had
served in the Civil War. Near his was a
grave of R L Hill who must have been his cousin and
nearby was the most precious tombstone I have
ever seen - My Darling ALB -
Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman was Peter's
daughter in law, the wife of John Thomas Bozeman.
Alice was the great granddaughter of John
Stephens and his cherokee wife. There was
a small clover type design drawn upon the
tombstone and the dates worn very thin.
Family says she died a few months after
delivering Little John and her husband married
again right away to have help with the
children.
John Thomas Bozeman is
buried at the Hills Chapel Cemetery with his
other wife Sarah Ellen Bean, near his
brother, Peter James and Dora. Dora Dillard's
ancetor Nat Dillard had a large plantation
in Dublin beofre moving on to Troy. Ellen
Bean told the children she was kin to the
hanging Judge Roy Bean.
Dora Stubbs also told me
that several years back we could have seen about
50 other tombstones in that old
family plot behind the church. When I
researched the area I found it was once owned
by a John Hill who was most likely the uncle to
Peter. Peter's mother was always listed
as Martha H. so she was possibly the sister of
John Hill. Reading back into
Darlington SC I found a John Hill served in the
American Revolution. Darlington is where
Peter's father william Henry Bozeman married
Martha H. - nothing is known about Martha's
mother.
My List of Ancestors'
Names
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page46.html
2 1847 Will of
Abraham Crigler leaving all to wife
Lydia.
3 1848 Slave
Appraisal of Abraham Crigler
4 1817 Laurence
and William Roby Wills
6 Will of Reason
Roby and Lawrence Roby 1817
7 William Roby
Estate Sale 1834
8 1819 Will of our
grandfather Jesse Simmons leaving land to
Catherine Roby
9 George Little
Memorial placed by great granddaughter
Laura
10 Lydia Carpenter
marries Abraham Crigler in 1795
11 Handley Mason and
Worthington of Ireland to Kentucky 1800
12 Slave Owners in
Bullitt Kentucky
15 Frankie Lavern
Cochran
16 Mary Ella Thornton
and James Edgar Brooks Jr.
17 Frankie Cochran
with Kathy in Arizona
18 Charles Allen
McClain born 1886 - his funeral memorial book
and many names of visitors.
19 Anne Alice
Carter Cochran
20 My pictures of
Coosada and Montgomery Indian Historical
Markers
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page21.html
22 Thomas Randolph
Carter, Lacy and Jesse Bozeman, Tombstones
24 Letter by
Aunt Ethel Bozeman, Lorena's
sister
25 Peter
Bozeman -my research links
26 Bozemans from
Darlington SC to Montgomery Alabama
30 Frankie Cochran
and Anne by the cactus in 1953
Arizona
32 Wedding of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran, parents of
Frankie and Freelon, Jay and Cleo,
Darrell
33 Freelon
Cochran's final letter from
Korea
39 Census Records
1790 1800 1810
40 Brooks and
Thornton of Elmore County
Alabama
41 Kathy discovers
grave of Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834
42 Jacob cochran and
Mariah White Genealogy
43 Hans
Brooke of Holland and son John to Tennessee and
the connection to Elijah Lee born 1777 and
Andrew Cooper of SC, Carter,
Ballard...
44 My Alabama
Genealogy and Research - Lee, Cooper, Ballard,
Hereford, Hood, Thornton, Partridge,
Baxley, Brack, Sellers, Anderson,
Brooks.
46 My many
ancestors listed with spouse
51 American
Genealogy background with links
52 Dream Catcher
background with links
54
Tige Stone,
nephew of Anna
55 Civil War Pension of
Grandfather John Wright Little
56 Tombstone of
Grandfather W F Fenn
58 Charles and his
children
59
Tombstone of Charles
Brooks
Cecil and Alice married
about 1931, had Cecil Jr in 1932 , my mother
Anne in 1934 and William Lawrence in
1935, with Alice dying immediately after giving
birth - Cecil died in 1939 so the children
were raised by the McClain grandparents in
Montgomery Alabama. Cecil Jr married
several times and had several chiclren.
Anne married Frankie
Cochran in 1951 having me
in 1953 in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
William had no children.
When I started tracing
the Cochran lineage I found he had a cousin nmed
Powhatan and grandmothers who smoke
pipes and made their own medicine, living on the
prairie among the indians .
One of Frank's many grandfathers had
refused land in indian territory, just a family
story, but where would I find
proof.
My dad talked about
Luella sitting in the field for hours filling
her apron with roots and herbs. He said her
long black hair touched the floor when she sat
down. She had told her children that she
was one quarter Cherokee. They talked
about Luella's mother, Lattie, cooking
skunk meat; that it was the best tasting meat
ever. I cannot begin to imagine how she caught
the little critter.
Lattie was a beautiful
petite dark featured lady from Kentucky and her
mother Mary Catherine Crigler Little
was positively gorgeous in the photos with a
long dark braid hanging over her
shoulder. Lattie's father, John Wright
Little, was another handsome dark featured man, even
so described in his civil war pension papers.
His grandmother was Catherine G.
Weatherford out of Charlotte VA as so written in
the internet's Virginia history records.
Those records state that her father was
Charles Weatherford and I find only one Charles on
census during that particular time. His
mother is recorded as Mary Half Blood and he ended
up in Alabama married to Sehoy. His father
Martin Weatherford was a wealthy
plantation owner with slaves in Georgia, a very
outspoken Loyalist who was kicked out of the
State and resided in the Bahamas where he
married a second time and this wife also
named a son Charles.
Georgia became a name
for some of the women in that lineage and I
would also suspect it was the middle
name of Catherine, giving us a clue to her
father's whereabouts.
The Criglers came from
Germanny, residing in Virginia 1700s in a colony
called Germanna so we should
focus our research on the many wives of those
men wo eventually migrated into
Kentucky in 1800 with the Carpenters, Duvals,
Simmon,s Wells, and Roby families.
Many had served in the War and received
Land Grants.
I find it so ironic that
grandpa John Wright Little left Kentucky when
his wife died and took a homestead in
Little Rock Arkansas. He is buried on some
unknown mountatntop there. He was a
cherokee, a blacksmith and a farmer. My
dad's sister Bernice has a few pieces of his work.
Bernice was a twin to Eunice and their
mother also had another set of twin boys who did not
survive. Twins are quite common in that
lineage; I have discovered
several.
I have found several in
my lineage who served in the Civil War and in
the American Revolution, learned that
much of our Alabama families lost everything
during the Civil War and then many more
served in the other wars of our nation and
collected quite a bit of documentation within
this maize of genealogy pages.
I went back into
researching a grandmother of Lorena, a Lavinia
Jane Sellers, and found one of her cousins
had married a Schrimpshire, and another
Schrimpshire had married an indian Chief Dennis
Bushyhead. Others tracing the Sellers,
Anderson, Brack, Doty lineage through the
Carolinas into Alabama are also claiming indian
blood. My husband's Brooks,
Ballard, Bond, Baxter, Smith, Craig, Connelly
lineage of 1800 Tennessee resided in
Indian Territory there long before the Trail of
Tears and the Tennessee website has an
exciting history uploaded to enjoy at
usgenweb.com - Enjoy reading about Sequoyah
and Nancy Ward and Joe Vann during this same
time in history along with Rogers, Starr
and Ross, they all lived so close
together.
Lorena's husband's line
came out of Virginia in 1750 when a Charles
McClain married Elizabeth Moon and moved
to Spartanburg South Carolina, mixed with Stone,
Lynch, Wood, Hildebrand
and many other interesting names who
migrated into Georgia's Indian Territory about
1800.
This journey will never
be complete; I just try to follow their
path, gather the census records, marriage
licenses, land records, and military records,
maps, attempting to piece our history
together. One difficult item is they used
nicknames quite often, even on the
documents. Anna
Stone's son William Franklin Fenn Jr. was called
Will on his WWI registration; her
nephew William Arthur Stone was called Tige ;
Anna's son, Cecil liked to go by Earl or
even Nick, his mother was called Annie, his son
William was Billy or even Larry and then
my mother was named Annie but she preferred Anne
when she became Mrs. Cochran.
One photo of Frank Cochran's mother Luella
has Rue written on it but I would think
Lue, not Rue and they called my dad Bud.
Lorena was called Rena even on a census record
in 1900 but I could not find her anywhere in
1920 or 1930. Annie Ballard Brooks
called one son Bubba and one daughter Sissy.
Bubba was my husband's father and Sissy
is the one helping me trace their lineage,
sharing many beautiful photos.
My search box above will
reveal most anything I have documented on any of
our surnames.
Happy Hunting
!!!
A few trips to
cemeteries finding tombstones of relatives
Charlie and I knew nothing about, I have saved
several photos of those headstones on webpages
and tried to write a little bit about those new
discoveries.
My mother
didn't know much about her parents since she was
orphaned at the age of 4 and raised by her
mother's McClain parents.
Once I had my
family tree up and looking fabulous, I began on
my late husband's family and found one of his
cousins, Clarence Bearden, posting on the
internet, doing the same thing with the Brooks
lineage. I phoned Clarence and he sent me
some research papers on John Brooks born 1837
and some pictures of Thomas Randolph Carter
family. Clarence's mother is my
husband's Aunt Sissy, actually named Elizabeth
Brooks and she had called my husband's daddy,
Bubba.
I never knew
that before.
I called
Charlie's cousin, Sue Carol, about Mary Ella's
lineage and found that her husband, Wayne
Bozeman, was also my cousin, WOW !!
Sue Carol drove
me and Beverly up to Central one day to see the
tombstones of Mary Partridge and George
Thornton, a couple of there great grandparents
from Georgia, buried behind an old Primitive
Baptist Church.
Wayne and Sue
Carol had dug deeply into his lineage and they
were amazed with my Bozeman research. They
had been to the graves at Hope Hull, but so had
Clarence Bearden and he had also published an
article about his findings there on the Alabama
Cemetery Preservation
webpage.
Beverly took me
to Hope Hull and our findings were extremely
fascinating and we took many
pictures
Then we went to
Dublin to further our reearch and to Elmore
County and I have many other pictures
within.
Beverly gave me
a new computer for Christmas 2006 with a free
subscription to ancestry.com and I have saved
hundreds of old documents, and census images
showing the tracks of our
ancestors.
Wayne loaned me
his copy of a book written about the Bozemans
and I have also scanned those pages into my
research.
I have posted
my huge family tree on the internet to share at
rootsweb.com and there is another relative
online researching the Brooks lineage of
Tennessee and Alabama
New relatives
write to me all the time, I have dozens and
dozens of emails from people asking for
information, sharing their lineage, letting me
know that we are related.
I joined
several genealogy mailing lists and message
boards online and once tried to contact a Donna
Burdette but her mother wrote back to me, being
from the Bozeman line - Elizabeth is the
granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman, the sister
of my great granny Lorena.
Jimmy Ray
Bozeman wrote to me and met me and Elizabeth at
Dublin in May 2007, my daughter Beverly drove us
there and we met a lot of Ethel Mae's family
there and some elderly children of Uncle Bob
Bozeman's family. We explored the old
family cemetery way behind Hills Chapel Church,
out in the woods and found the grave of Peter
Edward Bozeman and his daughter in law Alice
Lorena Stephens Bozeman.
Peter's son
John had been married to Alice. Alice was
our great great granny, rich with Cherokee
blood.
I can see how
she named my great granny Emma Lorena Bozeman
but where did she get the name for Ethel
Mae. Aunt Ethel had written a story about
her parents, published in the Montgomery
Advertiser around 1970.
I asked these
people at Dublin if they knew anything about
Lorena 's husband Charlie McClain and they said
he was a good man, cross eyed, and never had a
tombstone.
December 2007 a
new cousin, Glenda, sends an email. Cousin
to my mother in law, she is a wonderful new
friend. We are researching Ella Olivia
Baxley Hood and her parents of Holtville.
Beverly takes me to Coosa River Primitive
Baptist Church cemetery where we find several
family graves, Louisa Miranda Holt and James
Hardie Baxley, of the Civil War and down the
road at Cains Chapel Cemetery we find the grave
of Ella and her husband L W Hood and their
children, including "Bubber" Bessie Mae
Hood Thornton ( the mother of Mary Ella Thornton
Brooks ).
My mother was
an indian and my father had some indian blood so
I am certainly interested in all native american
history, finding a lot being uploaded to
usgenweb.com
My Dad's
sisters are near 90 and well Bernice is 92 and
they sent me information and pictures of the old
ones and copies of their own genealogy
worksheets, which have been very helpful with my
Cochran lineage. My grandpa Cochran was
married to a Coonfield which has much indian
history coming out of 1800s Kentucky, Civil War
and travels across the
nation.
Several of my
ancestors served in the American Revolution and
the Civil War and I find it amazing to cross
their names in our nation's
history.
Many books are
written including a portion of our family;
Grandpa Coonfield being listed in the history of
Morgan County Indiana; Grandpa Little in
the DAR books and Kentucky History;
Sketches of Bozeman published in 1885 mentions
Peter Bozeman moving to Alabama; Stephens
Ancestors book at Ramer Library written by a
cousin Clyde Stephens who wrote to me a few
years ago and sent a package of papers to my
home for my research; Fenn families in
Georgia history and in the Early Settlers of
Barbour County Alabama.
Jimmy Ray
Bozeman's daughter is currently working to get
our Peter Bozeman recognized at the DAR which
will open doors for many many Alabama Bozeman
researchers. Peter's son William Henry
Bozeman has a large lineage
here.
Peter's son
Jesse is the one found buried at Hope
Hull.
Everything I
find is printed to my notebook and also saved on
a webpage,
Kathy Cochran
Brooks
Dream
Catcher background with lots of my
links
Brooks of
Tennessee
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Charles Brooks' great
grandmother, Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton,
was from Cherokee Territory
in Georgia.
Elijah LEE married
Malinda Phillips in Georgia and they bought land
in Chambers County and had
Sarah. Sarah married Charner P Cooper and
he served in the
Civil War - they had Levi Benjamin Cooper who
married Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth
Carter in Hope Hull Alabama. Their
daughter was Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
LEE and Cooper had come into Chambers
County about 1830 while
it was still Creek Territory and must have had
quite an adventure
living in this wilderness.
Sallie was the daughter
of Mary Josephine Hereferd and Thomas Randolph
Carter and he must had a
large plantation until the Civil War ruined the
lands in Alabama.
His father was John Wise Carter of
Edgefield SC who had settled in Talladega
with a wife known only as "Mary" and several
children.
Mary J Hereford had
beautiful black eyes and black hair and she was
born in
Virginia.
John's father served in
the American Revolution along with his father in
law, and some
researchers think that John had a brother named
Thomas Carter who also served
in the War.
Charles Wayne Brooks m
Kathy Cochran
His parents were James
Edgar Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton of
Montgomery Alabama -
Kathy's parents were Anne Carter and Frank
Cochran. Frank's
parents were Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert
Cochran of Arkansas and
Kansas. Anne Carter's parents were Alice
Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn
Carter who claimed to be Cherokee. Cecil's
father was born in Tuskegee, Macon
County Alabama which was also Creek Territory.
His mother Anna Stone's
ancestors were in Georgia 1800s, and her Uncle
Charles Stone named his
sons Osceola and Tecumseh. Frank Cochran
had a 3rd cousin named
Powhatan Little and the Little families are
researching their connection to
Pocahontas as well as Chief Red Eagle through
the Weatherford lineage.
Luella's Coonfield family were in Kentucky
for the 1800 tax lists and my
granny Luella said that she was
Cherokee.
Charlie's
grandparents were James E Brooks Sr and
Susie Mae Cooper/ and Bessie Mae Hood and
Milton Elijah Thornton.
1910 Elmore Co, AL,
Central - pct 6, page 92, ED 76, sht
2A............ (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Willie Thornton 37 M1
farmer, * Milton Elijah's
uncle??
married 17
yrs,shown as Wm J in 1900
Sallie (wife) 30
M1 married 17 yrs, 7 kids, 6 living,
shown as Sallie E. in
1900
Elijah (son) 16
laborer-home farm
Mary (dau) 13 Judain?
May (dau) 10
Earnest (son) 8
Early (son) 6
Jewell (dau)
3............ W. J. Thornton married C. S. A. E.
Woodall on Nov 9, 1893 in Elmore Co, AL
..................
1930 Montgomery Co, AL,
Pole Bridge, ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown
as AL) Milton Thornton
36 auto mechanic, married 14 yrs Bessie (wife)
30 married 14
yrs
Loraine (dau) 10 Nellie
(dau) 9
James (son) 7
Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
.................
.......... There is a
draft registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore
Co dated 6/5/1917. Milton's
birthdate is shown as 5/11/1894.
He is married and
working for the Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co near
Wetumpka............
There is a family tree for Milton and Bessie at
rootsweb.
Shows their children but
not their parents.............. Milton died on
either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953
in Montgomery Co. DC # 25766. Looks like another
death certificate needs
to be ordered for confirmation............. 1900
Elmore Co, AL, Cold Springs, ED
63, sht 13B (all birthplaces shown as Alabama)
L. W. Hood 41 farmer
married 14 yrs
Ella O. (wife) 29
married 14 yrs, 3 kids, 3 living
Stewart (son) 10 farm
laborer
Minnie Lee (dau) 8
Allen W. (son) 2
.....................
Milton 's sister Lucy
Ann married Mr. Gross and had a son named
Charlie who currently lives in
Robinson Springs.
Mary Ella's sister
Lorraine, "Tutor", says that Mary Angeline
Partridge was their indian granny.
Tutor's daughter Sue Carol is married to
Wayne Bozeman and they are
also working on this lineage. Sue took me
to the graves of Mary Angeline
and George Thornton in Central, just past
Santuck, at the Primitive Baptist
Church. She and Wayne also had been to the
Bozeman's graves in Hope
Hull. My genealogy connects my children to
both Wayne and Sue
Carol.
The grave of Jesse
Bozeman born 1793 we all found in Hope Hull, his
wife, his children and his
daughter Lacy who was the first wife of T R
Carter, out in a huge cow pasture on
land once owned by these families from South
Carolina. Jesse was the
son of Peter Bozeman who was born around 1750
in Bladen NC to
Mordecai and his unknown wife possibly of the
Cherokee Nation. Peter
married a widowed Sarah Brown in 1786, adopted
her two girls and named their
first son Meady and another one William Henry
and one named Peter.
They all migrated to Alabama about 1826.
Mordecai also had a son named
John who married a full blood Cherokee and moved
to Mississippi. Mordecai
and his sons John and Peter all served in the
American Revolution and
received Land Grants in Darlington SC in the
1780s and payment for
their services.
Then we find John Brooke
born 1837 in Holland but raised in Pennsylvania,
with his father, Hans
Brooke, from Holland and mother from
France.......
.............Hans had three boys and
one girl...........Henry, Edward, John and
Lula Christine....They
settled in Reading PA. The parents died leaving
minor children, and the
little girl was adopted.........John, our
grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to
learn that trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away, arriving in
Columbia TN about 1860 and we find him on the
Giles County 1860 census in TN
working as a tailor but as John
Brooks............That year he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up
with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon
Smith and fell in love with
John Brooks.................John and RP had
Walter and Nora before joining a
wagon train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod
and Tom were born......
...John died in 1882 of
tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna
went back to TN to marry
Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He actually heard
she was widowed and went to
Texas to marry her and bring her back to TN.
They lived and died in
Sandy Hook, Tennessee.
Still researching the
Brooks lineage, learning that Milton Elijah
Thornton's mother was an indian -
Mary Angeline Partridge married George Thornton.
These families were
found in 1800 Georgia, long before the Trail of
Tears of 1835.
Both of George
Thornton's parents were born around 1830 in
Georgia: Nancy Catherine
Culpepper and Charles W. Thornton. Nancy's
mother was Martha Blackstone born
about 1814 in Georgia. The Culpeppers were
in 1700s South Carolina
when the counties were just beginning to form
along the east coast.
While very little is yet found on the
Thornton families I did run across an indian
family
Family Data Collection -
Individual Records
about Delilah Amelia
Vann
Name: Delilah Amelia
Vann
Spouse: David McNair
Parents: James Clement
Chief Vann , Elizabeth Betsy Go Sa Du I Sga
Thornton
Birth Place: Spring
Place, GA - Murry County
Birth Date: 30 Jun 1795
Marriage Date: 1807
Death Place: Charleston,
Bradley, TN
Death Date: 30 Nov 1838
All quite interesting
since I was researching the Brooks and Smith
lineage in Murry County and the
Ballards next to them in Lawrence County .... As
well as James Ballard's
mother Rowena Densy Baxter being born in Maury
County 1831 and her
mother was Hester Ward of North
Carolina
One can only wonder if
Hester had some connection to the famous indian
woman named Nanyei
Ward.
Census records show some
of our families in 1700s Carolinas near a Gist
family, later finding
them in Tennessee and Alabama.
The Brooks married into
the Carter/ Cooper/ Lee families which were
found in 1850 Chambers County
AL census records that indicate they all came
from South Carolina.
We find that Mrs Andrew
Cooper was named Alsey and had no last name
so shall we suspect
that she was an indian born about 1800 in South
Carolina...
and she was a great
great granny to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks ( Mamaw
)
John Brooks of PA was
found in 1860 census of Giles, TN and he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith
that year. Her mother was Caroline Bond,
daughter of a John Baptist
Bond of North Carolina. The father of John
Brooks came from Holland.
Parents of Caroline Bond
( who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond
and Kitty Stone.
Many researchers are looking into the
Stone name as being of Cherokee
Blood.
Permilia named her first
son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no
Walter in the lineage,so why
use this name? and another son JOHN Edwin but
the census looks like his
middle initial was H., and JOHN married
Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they
moved to Alabama being transferred with the
railroad and then lived
on Adams Avenue near the train station.
Annie had only one child, James
Edgar Brooks, who became a bookkeeper with the
State, and later married
Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son
James Edgar Brooks Jr.,
a daughter Christine and another girl named
Sissy.
Annie's photo shows dark
black hair and coal black eyes. Annie's
parents were both born in
Tennessee, James Calvin Ballard and Willie
Eudora Craig but their
ancestors migrated from the Carolinas.
"Dora's" mother was Rebecca Caroline
Pennington and she married William Craig in
1860. Rebecca's mother
was only known as "Gracy" who married
William Pennington, and his
mother was only known as "Kezziah" born about
1750 in South
Carolina.
Charles Brooks' great
grandmother, Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton,
was from Cherokee Territory and I found her
grave near Santuck in Central, Elmore County
Alabama behind a tiny church.Her family was born in
1800s Georgia.
Charles Wayne Brooks m
Kathy Cochran
His parents were James
Edgar Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton of
Montgomery Alabama
His grandparents were
James E Brooks Sr and Susie Mae Cooper/ and
Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah
Thornton.
1910 Elmore Co, AL,
Central - pct 6, page 92, ED 76, sht
2A............ (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Willie Thornton 37 M1
farmer,
married 17
yrs,shown as Wm J in 1900
Sallie (wife) 30
M1 married 17 yrs, 7 kids, 6 living,
shown as Sallie E. in
1900
Elijah (son) 16
laborer-home farm
Mary (dau) 13 Judain?
May (dau) 10
Earnest (son) 8
Early (son) 6
Jewell (dau)
3............ W. J. Thornton married C. S. A. E.
Woodall on Nov 9, 1893 in Elmore Co, AL
..................
1930 Montgomery Co, AL,
Pole Bridge, ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown
as AL) Milton Thornton 36 auto mechanic, married
14 yrs Bessie (wife) 30 married 14
yrs
Loraine (dau) 10 Nellie
(dau) 9
James (son) 7
Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
.................
.......... There is a
draft registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore
Co dated 6/5/1917. Milton's birthdate
is shown as 5/11/1894.
He is married and
working for the Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co near
Wetumpka............ There is a family tree for Milton
and Bessie at rootsweb.
Shows their children but
not their parents.............. Milton died on
either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953 in
Montgomery Co. DC #
25766. Looks like another death certificate
needs to be ordered for confirmation............. 1900 Elmore
Co, AL, Cold Springs, ED 63, sht 13B (all
birthplaces shown as Alabama)
L. W. Hood 41 farmer
married 14 yrs
Ella O. (wife) 29
married 14 yrs, 3 kids, 3 living
Stewart (son) 10 farm
laborer
Minnie Lee (dau) 8
Allen W. (son) 2
.....................
Milton 's sister Lucy
Ann married Mr. Gross and had a son named
Charlie who currently lives in Robinson
Springs.
Mary Ella's sister
Lorraine, "Tutor", says that Mary Angeline
Partridge was their indian granny.
Tutor's daughter Sue
Carol is married to Wayne Bozeman and they are
also working on this lineage. Sue took me to the
graves of Mary Angeline and George Thornton in
Central, just past Santuck, at the Primitive Baptist
Church. She and Wayne also had been to the
Bozeman's graves in Hope Hull.
Then we find John Brooke
born 1837 in Holland but raised in Pennsylvania,
with his father, Hans Brooke, from Holland and
mother from France.......
.............Hans had three boys and
one girl...........Henry, Edward, John and Lula
Christine....They settled in Reading PA.
The parents died leaving minor children, and the
little girl was adopted.........John,
our grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to
learn that trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away,
arriving in Columbia TN about 1860 and we find
him on the Giles County 1860 census in TN
working as a tailor but as John
Brooks............That year he married Roxanna
Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up
with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon
Smith and fell in love with John Brooks.................John and
RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon
train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and
Tom were born......
...John died in 1882 of
tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna
went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry Crittendon
Smith. He actually heard she was widowed and
went to Texas to marry her and bring her back to
TN. They lived and died in Sandy Hook,
Tennessee.
Still researching the
Brooks lineage, learning that Milton Elijah
Thornton's mother was an indian -
Mary Angeline Partridge
married George Thornton.
These families were
found in 1800 Georgia, long before the Trail of
Tears of 1835.
The Brooks married into
the Carter/ Cooper/ Lee families which were
found in 1850 Chambers County AL census records
that indicate they all came from South Carolina.
We find that Mrs Andrew
Cooper was named Alsey and had no last name so
shall we suspect that she was an indian born
about 1800 in South Carolina...
and she was a great
great granny to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks ( Mamaw
)
John Brooks of PA was
found in 1860 census of Giles, TN and he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith that year. Her mother
was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist
Bond of North Carolina. The father of John Brooks
came from Holland.
Parents of Caroline Bond
( who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond
and Kitty Stone. Many researchers are looking
into the Stone name as being of Cherokee
Blood.
Permilia named her first
son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no
Walter in the lineage,so why use this name? and
another son JOHN Edwin but the census looks like
his middle initial was H., and
JOHN married Annie Clark
Ballard in TN and they moved to Alabama being
transferred with the railroad and then lived
on Adams Avenue near the train station.
Annie had only one child, James
Edgar Brooks, who became
a bookkeeper with the State, and later married
Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son
James Edgar Brooks Jr., a daughter Christine and
another girl named Sissy.
Annie's photo shows dark
black hair and coal black eyes.
J E Brooks Jr and Mary
Ella Thornton lived on Hull Street in downtown
Montgomery Alabama, having sons Johnny,
Tommy, and Charlie. Your author was
married to Charlie and consults Aunt Sissy for
background information
on the family, but also studies census records,
and other documents for verification.
Visiting Jesse Bozeman's
grave in Hope Hull and his son in law Thomas R
Carter who was a great great grandfather to
Charles Brooks. Thomas Carter was the
Grandfather of the above mentioned
Susie Mae Cooper.
Thomas had married twice, first to Jesse
Bozeman's daughter, Lacy Jane and
secondly to Mary
Josephine Hereferd.
While Charlie Brooks was
growing up on Hull Street, his future wife
Kathy's family was residing
nearby on Highland
Avenue, Yougene Street and Maryland Avenue and
they were descendants of the Bozeman family,
actually to a brother of Jesse, William Henry
Bozeman.
Most of these families
migrated around 1800 - 1820 from South Carolina.
Some lived in Georgia for a
while, moving on into
Alabama or Tennessee.
Whatever I locate, or
document is placed on a webpage to share with
others
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