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Carter - McClain -Bozeman - Cochran Relations
In January 2008 the DAR has finally listed Peter Bozeman.

Mordecai Bozeman born 1735 NC, while there were only a few colonies on the coast, while it was still Indian Nation and his son Peter born 1758 served in the American Revolution. Documents show that both were paid 4 pounds for their service. Nothing more is found on Mordecai but his son Peter moved his family to Montgomery Alabama about 1826 - 1827. His son William Henry is my connection.
However, we must note that Peter's second son was named Jesse in 1793. There was another Jesse in the Revolutionary War who lived by Peter on the 1800 Darlington Census so there is a strong possibility they were brothers. Or that Mordecai went by another name, middle name, and could have been there. Peter's first son was named Meade so that might have some connection to his mother or his mother in law - perhaps their maiden names....
William and Martha Hill ( daughter of John Hill of South Carolina) had Peter Edward Bozeman who married Nancy Jane Anderson ( daughter of Lavinia Jane Sellers, who's mother was Lavinia Brack) and had John Thomas - John married Alice Lorena Stephens and had Lorena Emma Bozeman - Lorena married Charles Allen McClain, the only son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Their daughter Alice Emma McClain married a dark handsome Cherokee named Cecil Earl Fenn Carter about 1931 and had Anne Alice Carter in 1934. Cecil's parents were Anna Stone and Wm Franklin Fenn. Anne was orphaned at the age of 5 and lived with her McClain Grandparents. Anne Carter married Frankie Lavern Cochran in 1951.

Frank was the son of Luella Ellen Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran of Chetopa Kansas and Frank had one eighth Cherokee blood. Luella's parents were mixed Cherokee, Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of Arkansas. Frank Delbert's parents were Clora Jane Miller of Illinois and Jacob Benjamin Cochran of Ohio. Clora's parents were Mary Clara Parker of New York and James Miller of Rockingham Virginia. Parents of Mary Clara were Rosannah Lemmon and Archelaus Parker, a son of Sarah Tefft and Archelaus Richardson Parker of Massachusetts and New York Indian Country 1600s.

Anne Carter Cochran's daughter Kathy married Charles Wayne Brooks of Montgomery Alabama. His parents were Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks. Mary Ella's parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E Brooks Sr. Parents of Susie were Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper. Parents of Milton were George Thornton and a native american named Mary Angeline Partridge out of Georgia.
Parents of James Sr were Annie Clark Ballard and John Edwin Brooks from Maury County TN. John's parents were Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and John Brookes of PA and his family came from Holland. The Ballards were from North Carolina 1700s.

Thus all of the Brooks children descend from many surnames including the Bozemans and Carters.
  • Berryhill (32 KB)
    Interesting reading
  • Lorena Bozeman McClain (19 KB)
    Great grandma was the daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman, born 1892.
  • Family Research (105 KB)
    List of my webpages and documents
  • 1922 Fenn (7 KB)
    Interesting reading
  • Peter Bozeman payment (4 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings
  • James and Josiah (78 KB)
    Boozman 1790
  • 1812 North Carolina (365 KB)
    Roll
  • 1922 Fenn and Adkins (7 KB)
    Interesting reading - I had been told that a Wm Fenn married a Mattie Mae Adkins and my grandpa Cecil was close friends with them.
  • Bozeman 1782 (1 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings
  • Luke (9 KB)
    Luke Bozeman
  • Kathy's granny (703 KB)
    and a few more
  • 1850 Grandma Martha Rich Fenn (70 KB)
    Interesting reading - living with her daughter Melvina Dukes, my aunt....
  • Bozeman 1779 (2 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings
  • Ralph (12 KB)
    1713
  • Peter Bozeman (9 KB)
    added to South Carolina History
  • 1831 Henry Fenn and John Bozeman (2 KB)
    Interesting reading
  • Traitors in the American Revolution (15 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings, saving other's who share a connection to mine
  • Meedy (24 KB)
    1777
  • Bozeman Land Records (31 KB)
    Alabama
  • 1830-1860 Alabama Census and Taxation (67 KB)
    Interesting reading
  • Indian Raid (2 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings, saving other's who share a connection to mine
  • Peter Bozeman (36 KB)
    The son of Mordecai born around 1755-1758 had sons named Jesse M, Peter E, William Henry and a daughter Lucy Campbell. They moved to Montgomery Alabama around 1827 and Peter died around 1829. Peter had been paid for his service in the SC Continental Line of the American Revolution but thought he had earned something more when he moved, perhaps the Land Grant, but was possibly rejected because of a dead line setup by the government, but he did write about having a certificate, one that we have not yet discovered.
  • Peter Edward Bozeman in Civil War (10 KB)
    Shelby County Reserve
  • 1802 Indian Raid - Mr Craig (2 KB)
    Interesting reading ...could be in our Brooks-Smith=Ballard-Craig lineage
  • Fenn and Feagin (11 KB)
    Transcribing and contributing my findings, saving other's who share a connection to mine
  • Bozemans (17 KB)
    Several generations about Mordecai
  • North Carolina Bozemans in the Rev War (1013 KB)
    Medeah, Britan, Jesse, Meedy, Sha, Ethedred, Josiah and Samuel - look also at Bosmand
  • 1794 Fenn in Burke GA (1 KB)
    Interesting reading ...
  • Darlington South Carolina (5 KB)
    Bozeman Sketches transcription
  • Southern Connections (1 KB)
    Relatives in the South
  • Lacy Bozeman Carter (50 KB)
    Research Notes
  • 1774 (2 KB)
    Interesting reading ...
  • Creek Indian Wars (45 KB)
    Interesting reading
  • My Census Files (3 KB)
    Records of my ancestor's migrations into Alabama before the Civil War
  • Martha Hill Bozeman (2 KB)
    Researching wife of William Henry Bozeman
  • Grandma Alice Lorena Stephens (16 KB)
    wife of John Thomas Bozeman
  • Martha Hill Bozeman (533 KB)
    Researching wife of William Henry Bozeman
    • Hill City, Graham County, Kansas 1882
    The first Home Steaders of the City, arriving from Iowa Territory after many years in Guernsey Ohio.

    Jacob and his first wife with six daughters appeared on the 1870 census of Iowa, then his second wife on the 1880, as they prepared for the long journey south.

    Much of their families lived near them and some even followed Jacob to Kansas.

    Some of his children and grandchildren and great grands remain in Kansas while some ventured elsewhere and began a vast lineage of their own in Arizona, California, Colorado,Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama.

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  • Jacob and Frank
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    Ancestors of Samantha
    My parents were married in Montgomery Alabama
    his parents were Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr
    her parents were Anne Alice Carter and Frankie Lavern Cochran
    his grandparents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton/ and Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar Brooks Sr.
    her grandparents were Alice Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter/ and Luella Ellen Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran

    parents of Frank Delbert Cochran were Clora Jane Miller ( daughter of Mary Clara Parker and James Madison Miller) and Jacob Benjamin Cochran ( son of Martha Henderson and Alexander Cochran)

    Parents of Luella Coonfield were Lattie Cedonia Little ( daughter of John Wright Little and Catherine Crigler ) and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield ( son of Martha Frances Young and Benjamin Wylie Coonfield )

    Parents of Alice McClain were Lorena Bozeman ( daughter of John Thomas Bozeman and Alice Lorena Stephens ) and Charles Allen McClain ( son of Josiah Marion McClain and Elizabeth Broadway )

    Parents of Cecil Earl Fenn Carter were Anna Lou Stone ( daughter of Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus Marvin Stone) and William Franklin Fenn ( son of John Fenn and Emeline Harrell )

    Parents of Bessie Mae Hood were Ella Olivia Baxley ( daughter of Maranda and James H Baxley) and L Wesley Hood

    Parents of Milton Elijah Thornton were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton.

    Parents of James Brooks were Annie Clark Ballard ( daughter of James Cal Ballard and Willie Eudora Craig) and John Brooks (son of John Brooke and Roxanna Permilia Smith)

    Parents of Susie Mae Cooper were Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Carter


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  • John Little (479 KB)
    Civil War Papers describes him as dark - he said that he was a Cherokee indian by blood, but was that through both of his parents......
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran family (44 KB)
    Anne Carter Cochran and children about 1965
  • headstone of Tige Stone (48 KB)
    William Arthur Stone, our cousin from Macon Georgia, played one season with the St Louis Cardinals.
  • Isaac Coonfield b 1827 Indiana (83 KB)
    Indiana history
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran family (27 KB)
    Anne Carter Cochran and children about 1968 - my Cherokee grandmother
  • Grandpa Levi Benjamin Cooper (50 KB)
    Son of Sarah F Lee and Charner P. Cooper of Chambers County - Levi worked the farm of Thomas Randolph Carter and Mary Josephine Hereford and married their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Carter in Hope Hull, Montgomery, Alabama. - Levi fathered Susie Mae Cooper - Brooks( Mamaw )
  • 1880 granny Anna Stone (124 KB)
    on census with parents Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus Marvin Stone, has a brother Arthur.
  • Isaac Coonfield b 1827 Indiana (83 KB)
    Indiana history
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's daughters (36 KB)
    2004 out tracing our roots
  • Grandma Susie Mae Cooper and James Brooks (40 KB)
    Daughter of Levi
  • Freelon Cochran (19 KB)
    Military - died in Korea
  • Isaac Coonfield and Archibald Clark (147 KB)
    Indiana history about the Kentucky families settling in IN
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's mother's headstone (27 KB)
    Luella Ellen Coonfield Cochran
  • Grandma Mary Ella Thornton (6 KB)
    Daughter of "Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton and wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr. - His mom was Susie Mae Cooper Brooks
  • Martin Weatherford (178 KB)
    Early Georgia History
  • Isaac Coonfield and the Clarks (195 KB)
    Indiana history, better copy///
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's brother died in Korean Wa (33 KB)
    Freelon Cochran, son of Luella and Frank Delbert Cochran
  • Grandma Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper (68 KB)
    Daughter of Mary and Thomas R Carter - mom of Susie Mae Cooper shown standing.
  • Cochran, Aunt Eunice with Kathy (22 KB)
    Mesa AZ 1954
  • Isaac Coonfield photo (17 KB)
    Indiana history to Arkansas, nice picture of grandpa Isaac
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's great uncle Sam Little (29 KB)
    Sam Little was brother of Luella's mom, Lattie Little
  • Grandma Mary Josephine Hereferd Carter of Virginia (58 KB)
    married Thomas Carter and had Sarah
  • 1887 Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield (309 KB)
    Arkansas
  • Isaac Coonfield photo (17 KB)
    Indiana history to Arkansas, nice picture of grandpa Isaac
  • 1842 IRWINTON Ala stampless letter FENN, GEORGIA (21 KB)
    The letter reads: "I give to Adaline Griffin thirteen head of stock Cattle and mark and brand mark crop and half cross in the left year [sic] and two under betts [?] in the side Recorded by me and brand A G." Apparently, Fenn was out of town, and so addressed this letter to himself, and the Post Master at the General Store (or such) in Bainbridge had probably been told to open his mail in Fenn's absence, and the Post Master took this to the courthouse, where the county clerk signed noted it "recorded" and signed it "A.D. Smart, Clk." Decatur county. It's a quarter of a full lettersheet. Maybe there was a shortage of paper, or there was other writing that was torn off and long gone, who knows. Postal marking cover is all there.
  • Grandma Annie Ballard Brooks (21 KB)
    She married John Edwin Brooks in Murray County Tennessee and may have Indian Heritage - She has a strong line of Carolina ancestors migrating into Tennessee about 1800 - John's father was from Pennsylvania and had a Dutch background
  • Jacob Cochran photo with Clora Jane (113 KB)
    Arkansas
  • Coonfield families (26 KB)
    1918
  • Headstone of George W Thornton (542 KB)
    spouse of Mary Angeline Partridge, found in Central, Elmore County, AL at the Mt Hebron East Baptist Church about 5 miles from the caution light.
  • Grandpa Thomas Carter with his first wife (35 KB)
    Another with a strong South Carolina ancestry - and his mother was unknown - his father died in Talledega Alabama - Thomas lost most of this family in Hope Hull during an epidemic and then served in the Civil War - was hospitalized in Virginia - then met Mary of Virginia and married her - they had Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Carter Cooper
  • Aunt Nancy Bozeman (765 KB)
    sister of Lorena, daughter of John
  • Anne Carter Cochran (18 KB)
    1953 with Kathy
  • Headstone of Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton (300 KB)
    spouse of George W Thornton, found in Central, Elmore County, AL at the Mt Hebron East Baptist Church about 5 miles from the caution light............Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton who had married Bessie Mae Hood - Grandma Partridge was an Indian from Georgia - possibly Creek indian by blood.
  • Marriage License (16 KB)
    Coonfield and Lattie Little
  • Charles Weatherford and Sehoy (153 KB)
    Early Alabama History
  • COONFIELD (142 KB)
    Isaac Coonfield on the 1800 Kentucky Tax List
    • Most of these families migrated around 1800 - 1820 from South Carolina.  Some lived in Georgia for a while, moving on into Alabama or Tennessee.

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    Family History-
     
  • Draft Card Cochran (197 KB)
    Benjamin Harrison
  • 1860 census Wm Little (52 KB)
    Saline Missouri
  • census Coonfield (697 KB)
    great great great great grandpa Isaac Coonfield
  • Draft Card McClain (193 KB)
    Great grandpa Charles Allen McClain was born 1886 and died 1949 in Montgomery Alabama
  • 1800 census Charles McClain (19 KB)
    Spartanburg SC
  • Michael Stone in Tennessee (584 KB)
    1840 census image
  • 1860 census YOUNG (35 KB)
    Boone, Harrison Indiana shows Martha Young as a child
  • Draft Card Cochran (25 KB)
    Great grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran
  • 1850 census John C Wright (25 KB)
    Kentucky
  • 1870 census Hiram Lucius Little and Rebecca (927 KB)
    Texas - new family, 6 new children plus two more from Kentucky - Brooks family nearby - Hiram's baby is named Brooks.
  • census 1860 Young (776 KB)
    complete image to see the neighbors and I wonder who the parents were of Martha's mom
  • 1850 census Hiram Little (46 KB)
    moved to Texas as widowed and remarried
  • 1820 census Charles McClain (29 KB)
    South Carolina
  • census 1840 Georgia McLain families (703 KB)
    Josiah and his son J.W.McLain families are here in 1840
  • James and Wesley Little (59 KB)
    census image
  • 1860 census Jacob Cochran (66 KB)
    California
  • census 1860 GA Josiah McClain is 70 (586 KB)
    with wife Ann on census image
  • John Abraham Little draft card (176 KB)
    census image
  • Michell Stone from Maryland (16 KB)
    Alabama census
  • 1850 census Cochran from Ireland (749 KB)
    Alexander is 86 and living with another family
  • John Wright Little draft card (29 KB)
    census image
  • 1870 census Douglas Little (29 KB)
    Kentucky
  • 18570 census Cochran brothers living together (691 KB)
    Alexander living with William
  • census 1790 Peter Bozeman (50 KB)
    South Carolina
  • 1850 census Catherine Little (17 KB)
    Kentucky
  • 1900 census Jacob Cochran (985 KB)
    with family
  • census 1840 Kentucky (547 KB)
    Little
  • Charley Little (211 KB)
    Kentucky
  • 1860 census B Stone (803 KB)
    Benjamin Stone in Alabama
  • census Lousiana (38 KB)
    great great great grandpa Peter Bozeman died of Cholera
  • Michael Stone in Putnam Georgia (661 KB)
    1830 census image NOTE Captain John Stone's District !!
  • Family 2005 (25 KB)
    Cherokee by blood
  • Family 2003 (2 KB)
    Cherokee by blood
    • Alabama Connections!
     
    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.

    Many of them married young Native Americans and that is one fact which is very difficult to prove since it was rarely ever acknowledged on census records. Then the census officials often could not spell names correctly! Everyone was black or white in the 1800s and mostly whites were allowed to purchase our land and profit from it. Now we have to prove a direct blood line to our Indian families or the government will not recognize us as Native Americans. Can you find any other race asked to prove themselves?

    If you take a moment to think about it, we ALL probably have Indian blood in our family tree.

    It's no big deal and nothing to hide, but certainly something we can be very proud of because the Indian were a very proud people who cherished this country and all their Creator provided within it. They prayed daily to the Creator and had high respect for everyone in their peaceful land.


    Clues are found in several areas, yet we continue to search
    for the true answer to our past. Listen to the stories of your Elders and look around for clues.

    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!

    Many of the branches in my family tree lead to another Indian Chief and I am still looking for the Indian Princess in my direct blood line.

    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.

    One great grandmother married at the age of 12 and had six children by the age of 19, according to the census records but I do believe they have her age posted incorrectly. I am still anxious to know about her life, but she vanished about 1900 and hopefully to a better life! Her family may have been laborers on the Fenn Plantation in Eufaula, and we certainly read where Indians worked the farm. 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!


     

    My Family Tree

    Frank Delbert Cochran left Kansas and went to Arkansas to look for work. There he met Luella Ellen Coonfield and married in 1914. Her parents were Lattie Cedonia Little of Shepherdsville Kentucky and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of Indiana. Each had fathers who had served in the Civil War.

    Luella named a son Frankie in 1927 and he married Anne Carter in 1951 Montgomery Alabama.

    Parents of Anne were Emily Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.

     
    

    In Montgomery there was a Susie 
Mae Cooper who married James Edgar Brooks. She was the daughter of Sarah 
Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper; both had fathers who had served in 
the Civil War. Susie Mae named a son James Jr. in 1925 and he married Mary Ella 
Thornton. 
    

    Parents of Mary Ella were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah 
Thornton. 
    These are the family histories that I am 
researching.
    

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  • Ruth 
Coonfield (27 KB)
    1915 daughter of Ben and 
Lattie 

  • Family 
Tree of Powhatan Little (1443 KB)
    in his own 
handwriting Lucius Powhatan Little wrote down his lineage - his mother Martha 
Wright Little had a sister named Catherine and another sister named Mary. 
Catherine married Hiram Little and Mary married a Waltrip
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    • Cochran 
  and Brooks file (202 KB)
      Family tree links and 
  notes 
  
    • Cochran 
  to Coonfield and Captain George Little (223 
  KB)
      Family tree links and notes 
  
    • Surnames 
  (44 KB)
      Names in our family tree with links to their 
  photos or documents. 
  
    • Old 
  Records - Preserving the Past (39 KB)
      Names in 
  our family tree with links to their photos or documents. 
  
    • Brooks 
  Lineage (136 KB)
      Brooks, Cooper, Ballard, 
  Carter, Bozeman, Lee, Phillips to Cochran 
  
    • Carter 
  Lineage (24 KB)
      Grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter 
  to Anne Cochran 
  
    • Anderson 
  Lineage (27 KB)
      Grandpa Elisha Anderson to 
  granny Lorena Bozeman McClain 
  
    • Brooks 
  Lineage in Tennessee (36 KB)
      Grandpa John 
  Brookes of Holland in Pennsylvania while his son went to Tennessee working as 
  a tailor and married Roxanna Permilia Smith - they went to Texas and that is 
  where he is buried - she came back to TN and remarried a Doctor Smith. 
  
    • Fenn 
  and Stone Lineage in Alabama (26 KB)
      Grandpa 
  Cecil Earl Fenn Carter families from Georgia into Alabama - in Macon, Barbour, 
  Bullock, and Montgomery counties - his mother Anna Stone went back to Macon, 
  Georgia and died there because our cousin Tibb remembers her father going to 
  the funeral about 1934 
    


    Stepping 
Stones 
    

    Barbour County was created on 18 Dec. 1832, from former Creek Indian 
territory and a portion of Pike County. Its boundaries were altered in 1866 and 
1868. The county was named for Virginia Governor James Barbour...Barbour County 
is located in the southeastern section of the state, bounded on the east by the 
Chattahoochee River and the State of Georgia. The county seat was established in 
Louisville in 1833, and moved to Clayton in 1834. Today Barbour County contains 
two courthouses - one in Clayton and one in Eufaula...."Macon was established by 
an act approved December 18, 1832, and carved out of the capacious region ceded 
by the Muscogees in that year. Large and valuable portions have been set apart 
to Lee and Bullock – to the former 180 square miles, to the latter about 125." 1 
"It lies in the east centre of the State, south of Tallapoosa, and Lee, west of 
Russell, north of Bullock, and east of Montgomery and Elmore. Its name 
perpetuates the memory of Nathaniel Macon, the North Carolina statesman." 2 
Macon County received its present dimensions in 1866. The 
county seat is located at Tuskegee, which means "warrior" in the Muskhogean 
dialect of the Creek Indian language
    

     
    



    

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Coonfield Research 

  • Peter Bozeman Rev 
War 

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  • Our 
Family Genealogy 

  • Our Family 
Genealogy 2 

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Family Genealogy 3 

  • Family Tree 
Research 

  • Family Tree 
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  • Family Tree 
Research 3 

  • Family Tree Research 
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  • Family Tree 
Research 5 

  • Carter Family 
Ancestry 

  • ROOTSWEB FAMILY 
TREE 11/30/2005 

  • A Few More Stepping 
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    Genealogy.com: 
Luella Coonfield Family Research 
    

    Luella was born 2/8/1897 in Benton County Arkansas
    and died 5/11/1945 in 
a Kansas City Missouri Hospital
    after an 80 day stay that we were told was 
cancer related;
    some say she died from surgical mistakes made at a previous 
hospital.

    She was married to Frank Delbert Cochran 

    Her parents 
were Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and Lattie Cedonia Little. 

    I never knew 
my grandma Luella but heard many wonderful stories about her. Dad talked of 
watching her sit in the fields for hours filling her apron with herbs, polk, 
whatever was good for the family. She was a strong, loving lady who came from a 
long line of pioneers and soldiers and worked hard to care for her loved ones 
and teach them honor and respect. Dad also said her long black hair reached the 
floor when she brushed it out. Luella was very spiritual and kept many 
handwritten notes in her Bible, which was handed down to her by her 
mother.

    Possibly some of those notes were written by her parents. 


    Luella was one quarter Cherokee plus some Creek. It's been said that 
some of her Wright cousins were offered land allotments in the Oklahoma Indian 
Territory, but this author has not yet recovered any documentation of it. 


    Many of the surnames in this family are found on the Indian Rolls in 
Oklahoma, yet a direct connection to this line has not been found.
    

     
    




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  • Introduction 
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  • My 
great great grandfather Josiah Marion McClain (3 
KB)
    Civil War 

  • My 
great great grandfather Josiah Marion McClain (5 
KB)
    Civil War Injuries and Pension Claim by his widow Elizabeth 
Broadway 

  • Updating 
my research notes (1052 KB)
    From whence they 
came.... 
    • 


    Brooks Families of the South. 

    ......Hans Brooke 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.

    Their son John married Annie Clark Ballard and had only 
one child, James Edgar Brooks - soon they moved to Montgomery 
Alabama.

    The Smith and Ballard families came out of North Carolina about 
1800 migrating into Tennessee's Indian Territory.

    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 . Susie was the daughter of 
Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Chambers County 
AL.

    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.

    Her mother 
was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of North Carolina. 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.

    In Georgia was Joseph Baxley born 1815 married to Mary Evans and 
making their way into Alabama. Their son James married Louisa Miranda Holt and 
they resided in "Holtville" in Elmore County AL. Also in Elmore County was L. W. 
Hood who married their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley. Ella's daughter Bessie 
married a Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County. Elijah's parents also came 
out of Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge amd George Thornton. Elijah's daughter 
Mary Ella married James Brooks.



    

    
  
  
    
    
      
      
        
    • Sarah 
        (143 KB)
      Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper with 
        her children including Susie Mae 
        
    • Carter 
        , John Wise (35 KB)
      1821 Land Record 
        
    • Gilly 
        Bozeman (114 KB)
      Wife Of Peter born 1807 

        
    • Thomas 
        Randolph Carter (46 KB)
      With first wife 
        Lacy Jane Bozeman. 
        
    • Thornton, 
        George (56 KB)
      1839 Land Record 
        
    • James 
        E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton (6 
        KB)
      Her parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah 
        Thornton. Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. 
        Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton. 
        
    • Partridge, 
        George (51 KB)
      1858 Land Record 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (483 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service 
        
    • Yours 
        truly (368 KB)
      author 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (64 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service1 
        
    • 1888 
        James H. Baxley (56 KB)
      Land Record - 
        Homestead 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (351 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service2 
        
    • 1930 
        census of Brooks and Cooper (1512 
        KB)
      Both their widowed mothers live in this household which 
        includes James E Brooks Jr who later married Mary Ella Thornton and had 
        Charlie in 1953. 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (618 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service3 
        
    • 1930 
        census Milton Elijah Thornton (446 
        KB)
      Bessie Mae Hood his wife with children include Mary Ella 
        Thornton who married James E Brooks Jr 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (398 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service4-Judge Smith 
        
    • 1840 
        John Wise Carter (360 KB)
      Talladega 
        Alabama census, father of Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of 
        Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper - great grandfather of Mamaw 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (796 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service-Pension Application 
        
    • 1914 
        (72 KB)
      John Edward Brooks with Annie Clark 
        Ballard, parents of James Edgar Brooks, of Tennessee. James married 
        Susie Mae " Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. - Jr married 
        Mary Ella Thornton. 
        
    • Baxley 
        James H (451 KB)
      Certificate of 
        Confederate Service-Pension Application 2 
    
  
    
     
    

      
  
    • INTRODUCTION 
  (1 KB)
      My Genealogy 
  
    • Ramsey 
  to Herriford and Carter (29 KB)
      Mary Josephine 
  Hereferd's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia. 
  
    • Brooks 
  Family (89 KB)
      So many other names in our 
  genealogy, so many other locations to research. 
  
    • Thornton 
  - Partridge (54 KB)
      Research on Mary Ella 
  Thornton - Brooks' ancestors on her father's side. 
  
    • Brooks 
  Family Tree (79 KB)
      A nice view of our 
  ancestors and their children. 
  
    • Westbrook 
  (161 KB)
      Beverly's inlaws 
  
    • Baxley, 
  Grandmother Ella Olivia (11 KB)
      A visit to the 
  Cain's Chapel cemetery to locate the tombstones of Ella and her husband L W 
  Hood plus her parents buried down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in 
  "Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa Miranda Holt. These were ancestors 
  of Mary Ella Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother of Bessie Mae Hood - 
  Thornton. 
  
    • Carter 
  in South Carolina (99 KB)
      father of Thomas was 
  John Wise Carter and his dad was Captain John Carter of the American 
  Revolution who married Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John 
  Wise. 
  
    • Mary 
  Ella Thornton, wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr (258 
  KB)
      Her father was Milton Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie 
  Mae Hood. This focus on the Thorntons as they migrated out of Georgia into 
  Elmore County Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline Partridge. 
  
    • Hood 
  - Thornton - Brooks - Smith (29 KB)
      Tracking 
  family from North Carolina to Alabama through Tennesssee 
  
    • Hans 
  Brooks of Holland 1800 (25 KB)
      John Brooks 
  born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found 
  on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County 
  Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named 
  John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar 
  Brooks. 
  
    • Brooks 
  Genealogy Memo (5 KB)
      My research and a few 
  extra notes 
  
    • Brooks 
  - followup (5 KB)
      John Brooks born 1837 to a 
  father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 
  census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where 
  he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married 
  Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks. Annie's 
  father was James Cal Ballard. Roxanna's father was Thomas Smith and her mother 
  was Caroline Bond...............James Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper, 
  the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper........Susie 
  named her son James Edgar Brooks Jr. in 1927. 
  
    • Stokes 
  Cemetery on Bozeman Land- Hope Hull (39 
  KB)
      Jesse Bozeman's daughter Lacy is buried here near her husband 
  Thomas Randolph Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of Am Rev 
  Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's father was Peter Bozeman a soldier in 
  the American Revolution. Lacy and some of the children died in an epidemic. 
  Jesse and his wife's tombstones have been separated by a large tree and the 
  stones are broken. The top of Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but 
  Lacy's monument stands tall. The Carters and Bozemans once owned large 
  plantations here. Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In fact Jesse's 
  brother William Henry Bozeman was Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is not 
  found ( yet ) 
  
    • Ballard, 
  James Cal of Tennessee (80 KB)
      Father of Annie 
  Clark Ballard Brooks was married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee. Parents of 
  James Ballard were Rowena Densy Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about 
  1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears began. 
  
    • Brooks 
  and Smith of Tennessee (150 KB)
      Another family 
  researcher has a beautiful webpage to share. 
  
    • Bond, 
  John Baptist (80 KB)
      Father of Caroline Bond 
  Smith was married to Catherine Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times 
  in Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith was the father of Roxanna 
  Smith - Brooks. Notes on this page include Henry Smith, father of Thomas and 
  then the Ballards of North Carolina - Larken Ballard's mother was Kizziah 
  Dickens. 
  
    • Tombstones 
  (2 KB)
      Baxley, Holt, Hood, Thornton in Elmore County 
  
    • Pictures 
  and Letters (55 KB)
      James Brooks letter of 
  WWI, pictures and letters 
  
    • Lee 
  and Cooper in 1840 Chambers County AL (107 
  KB)
      Elijah Lee born 1777 married Malinda Phillips and their daughter 
  Sarah F. Lee married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County. Charner's parents 
  were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Charner's son was Levi 
  Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope Hull on a farm owned by Thomas 
  Randolph Carter and married the man's daughter. 
  
    • John 
  and Roxanna Brooks families (155 KB)
      listing 
  
    • Carter, 
  Thomas Randolph (47 KB)
      Hope Hull visit to 
  find the tombstone of the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks and he was 
  the great grandfather of James Edgar Brooks Jr. 
  
    • Tombstones 
  (41 KB)
      Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, 
  Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama 
  
    • Photos 
  (4 KB)
      Scanned photos of people and their tombstones 
  
    • Tombstones 
  (1 KB)
      Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, 
  Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama 
  
    • Baxter, 
  Rowena Densy (20 KB)
      Grandmother of Annie 
  Clark Ballard Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie 
  
    • Kathy 
  Brooks Kin (38 KB)
      Cochran and Carter, Bozeman 
  and McClain notes 
  
    • Thomas 
  Randolph Carter born 1820 SC (6 KB)
      Civil War 
  Records............father of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper 
  ..........grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks. 
  
    • 1786 
  Marriages (66 KB)
      Peter Bozeman and Sarah 
  Brown were the parents of Jesse and William Henry Bozeman, plus another son 
  named Peter E. Bozeman who married Gilly 
  
    • Partridge, 
  Mary Angeline (4 KB)
      Parents of Angeline were 
  Mildred Smith and George Partridge of Georgia. Her husband was George Thornton 
  of Georgia and his parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and Charles 
  Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha Blackstone born 1814 Georgia, long before 
  the Trail of Tears. 
  
    • File 
  (4 KB)
      Files 
  
    • Miscellaneous 
  (22 KB)
      Research Notes 
  
    • Joe 
  Stephens -Civil War (4 KB)
      Joe and Sarah Mills 
  Stephens of Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John T Bozeman but she 
  died soon after giving birth to their 4th child. 
  
    • Cooper 
  and Lee (49 KB)
      Chambers County Records 
  
    • Colonial 
  Records (3 KB)
      Saving a few documents relating 
  to my ancestors. 
  
    • Herriford 
  of Virginia (50 KB)
      Mary Josephine Hereferd 
  was the second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their daughter was Sarah 
  Elizabeth Carter - Cooper ( mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died, Mary had him 
  buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their children. 
  
    • Cooper 
  in Civil War (86 KB)
      Father of Levi Cooper 
  
    • Anderson 
  in Civil War (30 KB)
      Father of Nancy 
  
    • Carter 
  in Civil War (9 KB)
      T. R. Carter father of 
  Sarah 
    


    Researching Brooks, Ballard, Baxter, Ward out of the 1700s Carolinas into 
Tennessee and Alabama along with the Fenn families of Alabama into Texas and 
back again. 

    When the land in Texas was offered to the whites at two 
dollars an acre, many families moved to try it out but eventually returned to 
their home land 

    *****
    Lawrence County is located in Middle Tennessee, 
one of the state's three "grand divisions."
    Lawrence County was formed mostly 
from Indian territory as a result of the Treaty of 1816 with the Chickasaw 
Indians, and Hickman County and a small portion of Giles County.***
    One of 
the first commissioners and justices of the peace from Lawrence County was David 
Crockett. He ran a water-powered grist mill, powder mill and distillery in the 
area of the county that is now David Crockett State Park. Although he was only 
here for four or five years, David Crockett had a tremendous impact on the 
county and is a main attraction for tourists.


    In addition to the 
county seat of Lawrenceburg, other primary communities are presently Summertown, 
Henryville, Ethridge, Leoma, Loretto, St. Joe, West Point, and Iron City. Most 
of these were once major towns and their existence came about either because of 
Jackson's Military Road or due to iron ore mining. 

    Several people have 
influenced Lawrence County's history. Colonel George Henry Nixon was Colonel 
during the Civil War, a politician, and the person most responsible for the 
railroad coming to Lawrence County. James Jackson Pennington was our most famous 
inventor having invented and patented a working model of an "Aerial Bird" -- 
similar to a zeppelin -- in 1877. Thomas Paine was a lawyer, politician, and 
teacher, but most important, he was appointed the first Commissioner of 
Education in Tennessee in the 1880's by the Governor. During this time he helped 
develop the public education system. In 1899 Paine was appointed Commissioner of 
Agriculture. James D. Vaughan transformed Lawrenceburg into the undisputed 
capital of Gospel Music in America. People came from all over the south to 
attend his school of music. Vaughan Publishing Company printed gospel music 
books and had branch offices in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas.

    

  • 1920 
John Brooks in Alabama (768 KB)
    John Brooks and 
Annie Ballard in Montgomery Alabama 

  • Ballard 
and Baxter in 1850 Lewis Tennesee (770 
KB)
    Finding Larkin Ballard and his inlaws appear on the same page. It 
is Larkins' granddaughter Anna thru James Ballard who married John Brooks in TN 
and had our James Edgar Brooks later found in Montgomery Alabama 

  • 1860 
R P Smith in Mt Pleasant, Maury TN (613 
KB)
    Caroline Bond Smith has remarried to John Cox....it shows her 
children living in this household as Smith before Roxanna Permilia married John 
Brooks. 

  • 1910 
Montague Texas Thomas Fenn (617 KB)
    Thomas of 
Alabama with wife Lula. Thomas was son of John and Emeline Fenn, born in 
Tuskegee AL 

  • WWI 
draft card registration (24 KB)
    James Edgar 
Brooks 

  • 1900 
Emily Fenn (782 KB)
    mother of Thomas and William 
Fenn, wife of John, she is found in Russell Alabama living with her grandson by 
Ida, young W O Murry and his wife Annie Fletcher Murry. Emily was known as 
Emiline Harrell born in Macon Georgia where she married John Fann and they later 
moved into Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama having William, Madison, Thomas, Ida 
in the 1850s. 

  • 1930 
James Brooks in Montgomery AL (1086 KB)
    with 
wife Susie Mae Cooper and James Jr 

  • 1880 
David Craig (966 KB)
    Lawrence Tennessee - this 
family connects to Annie Ballard Brooks 

  • Rebecca 
Caroline Pennington (587 KB)
    1860 Lawrence 
Tennessee - She married Wm Craig and they had Willie Eudora Craig who married 
James Ballard. The Ballards had Anna Ballard who married John Brooks and Anna 
had James Edgar Brooks who went to Montgomery Alabama and then married Susie Mae 
Cooper ( Mamaw ) 

  • 1880 
Anna Ballard (1002 KB)
    Lawrence Tennessee with 
many relatives living around them. 

  • 1900 
Anna Ballard Brooks (885 KB)
    Lawrence Tennessee 
- with husband and baby Edgar. Her father James Ballard is at the bottom of this 
page. 

  • 1860 
John Brooks (643 KB)
    Giles Tennessee, working as 
a tailor, John is from Pennsylvania 

  • 1880 
John Brooks in Texas (833 KB)
    shows his father 
from Holland 
    • 

     
    


    

    
  
  
    
    
      
    James Edgar BROOKS was born 13 DEC 1895, and died 19 APR 1965. He was 
      buried in Greenwood Cem., Molntgomery, AL. He was the son of 2. John 
      Edward BROOKS and 3. Annie Clark Ballard. He married Susie Mae Cooper 10 
      MAR 1923 in Montgomery, AL. She was born DEC 1902, and died 12 FEB 1977. 
      She was buried in Greenwood Cem., Montgomery, AL. 
    Ahnentafel, 
      Generation No. 2
    2. John Edward BROOKS was born 5 JUN 1872, and died 5 
      OCT 1929. He was buried in Greenwood Cem, Montgomery, AL. He was the son 
      of 4. John Brooks and 5. Roxanna Permelia SMITH. 
    3. Annie Clark 
      Ballard was born 2 OCT 1877 in Maury Co., TN, and died 1 OCT 1963. She was 
      buried in Greenwood Cem., Montgomery. 
    Child of Annie Clark Ballard and 
      John Edward BROOKS is:1. i. James Edgar BROOKS was born 13 DEC 1895, and 
      died 19 APR 1965. He married Susie Mae Cooper 10 MAR 1923 in Montgomery, 
      AL. She was born DEC 1902, and died 12 FEB 1977. 
    Ahnentafel, 
      Generation No. 3
    4. John Brooks was born ABT 1837 in PENN, and died 
      1882; his father from Holland and mother from France. 
    5. Roxanna 
      Permelia SMITH was born 25 JAN 1841, and died 19 JAN 1925. She was buried 
      in Arlington Cem., Mt. Pleasant. She was the daughter of 10. Thomas S. 
      SMITH and 11. Caroline M. Bond. 
    Children of Roxanna Permelia SMITH and 
      John Brooks are: i. Nora Caroline BROOKS was born 14 DEC 1861, and died 
      1937. 
    ii. Walter Henry BROOKS was born 21 MAY 1866, and died 1953. He 
      married Lena Gray ABT 1892 in Decatur, AL ?. She was born JAN 1874. 
      
    iii. M.B. BROOKS was born JUL 1870. 
    2. iv. John Edward BROOKS was 
      born 5 JUN 1872, and died 5 OCT 1929. He married Annie Clark Ballard 12 
      DEC 1894. She was born 2 OCT 1877 in Maury Co., TN, and died 1 OCT 1963. 
      
    v. Lula Christine BROOKS was born 4 NOV 1874, and died 24 JAN 1971. 
      She married Edmond Lee Wiltshire. He was born 23 DEC 1868 in TN?, and died 
      5 MAR 1927. 
    vi. Nimrod William BROOKS was born 25 APR 1877, and died 
      30 MAR 1962. He married Mattie Josephine Rollins JUL 1907 in Montgomery, 
      AL. She was born 1886, and died 15 NOV 1975. 
    vii. Thomas Smith BROOKS 
      was born 13 JUN 1882, and died 16 MAR 1907. 
    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 
      4
    10. Thomas S. SMITH was born 20 SEP 1820, and died ABT 1890. He was 
      the son of 20. Henry SMITH and 21. Sinia (Sina) Evans. 
    11. Caroline M. 
      Bond. 
    Children of Caroline M. Bond and Thomas S. SMITH are:5. i. 
      Roxanna Permelia SMITH was born 25 JAN 1841, and died 19 JAN 1925. She 
      married John Brooks 26 FEB 1861 in Maury Co., TN. He was born ABT 1837 in 
      Holland, and died 1882. She married Terry (Dr.) Crittendon Smith APR 1882 
      in Maury Co., TN. He died 28 NOV 1928. 
    ii. John Henry SMITH was born 
      21 DEC 1844. 
    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 5
    20. Henry SMITH was born 
      24 MAR 1791, and died 3 SEP 1843 in nr. Mt. Pleasant, TN. He was buried in 
      Hunter's Cem. He was the son of 40. Thomas SMITH and 41. Elizabeth Haynes. 
      
    21. Sinia (Sina) Evans. 
    Children of Sinia (Sina) Evans and Henry 
      SMITH are:10. i. Thomas S. SMITH was born 20 SEP 1820, and died ABT 1890. 
      He married Caroline M. Bond 31 DEC 1840 in Maury Co., TN. 
    ii. Robert 
      SMITH was born 18 NOV 1822, and died 1888. He married Mary Williams ABT 
      1845 in Madison Co., MS. She was born ABT 1825. 
    iii. girl ? was born 
      ABT 1830. 
    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 6
    40. Thomas SMITH was born 7 
      AUG 1732/61 in Goochland Co., VA, and died ABT 1814 in Bedford Co., VA. He 
      was the son of 80. JOHN Col. SMITH and 81. SUSANNA RANSON. 
    41. 
      Elizabeth Haynes was born ABT 1769. 
    Children of Elizabeth Haynes and 
      Thomas SMITH are:20. i. Henry SMITH was born 24 MAR 1791, and died 3 SEP 
      1843 in nr. Mt. Pleasant, TN. He married Sinia (Sina) Evans ABT 1819 in 
      Maury Co., TN. 
    ii. John H. SMITH was born ABT 1793. 
    iii. Susanna 
      SMITH was born ABT 1799. She married Thoms Leftwich 1822 in Bedford Co., 
      VA. 
    iv. Francis SMITH was born ABT 1801. 
    v. Thomas J. SMITH was 
      born ABT 1791/1805, and died AFT 1814. He married Elizabeth D. ABT 
    
    
  
    
     
    


      
  
    • 1920 
  Madison Fenn on Commerce Street, Montg, AL (817 
  KB)
      he is Carrie's Uncle Mat or our great grandfather Wm F Fenn's 
  brother who died in 1927 and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery by Wm F Fenn and 
  near Emmett Fenn. Whomever buried Uncle Mat listed him as Matthew A Fenn, so 
  they did not know much about the family's real names. Madison was a night 
  watchman at a grocery store, according to this census, being widowed as his 
  wife had died in Texas, prompting his return to Alabama. There is also a Rewis 
  family on this census which we later find connected with Emmett Fenn. 
  
    • 1930 
  James Brooks and Susie Mae Cooper (1086 
  KB)
      Montgomery Alabama census... John BROOKS Self M Male W 42 PA 
  Farmer HOLLAND FRANCE P. R. BROOKS Wife M Female W 38 TN Keeping House TN TN 
  Nora C. BROOKS Dau S Female W 18 TN At Home PA TN Walter H. BROOKS Son S Male 
  W 13 TN At Home PA TN John H. BROOKS Son S Male W 7 TX PA TN Lula C. BROOKS 
  Dau S Female W 5 TX PA TN ... W. BROOKS Son S Male W 3 TX PA TN 
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  ------ Source Information: Census Place Precinct 1, Lamar, Texas. 
  
    • 1930 
  Uncle Wm Frank Fenn near Highland Avenue (998 
  KB)
      Carrie's brother, also brother of our grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn 
  Carter. Uncle Frank, his wife Neva Mae Walraven, and her mother are living 
  between Panama Street and Highland Avenue. He works on the railroad, like his 
  brother Emmett. Uncle Frank later buys land in Coosada on Airport Road and has 
  a family cemetery which includes his brother Robert's grave. The land later 
  becomes Coosada Elementary School. Some is donated to the church for a 
  cemetery. This is where cousin Martha remembered her mom, Neva, boiling 
  Frank's workclothes in a pot outside from his job on the railroad. There was 
  once a housefire where they lost many of their family photos and mementos, but 
  one son remembered Frank having a photo of a guy in baseball uniform signed by 
  Wm Arthur "Tige" Stone. 
  
    • 1920 
  Susie Mae Cooper (763 KB)
      Montgomery Alabama 
  census with her mother Sallie E Carter, widow of Thomas R Carter and his first 
  marriage was to Lacy Bozeman 
  
    • 1930 
  Eva Dakota Fenn on McDonough Stree (21 KB)
      She 
  is now alone. At some point she moved in with her stepson Wm Frank Fenn Jr 
  because my mother in law Mary Ella Brooks knew her and actually took her in 
  when Eva and Frank did not get along. This might have happened in Montgomery 
  before they all moved to Elmore County but yes, Mary Ella took care of the 
  lady !! What a small world we live in < smiles > 
  
    • WWI 
  Draft Registration Card (24 KB)
      James Edgar 
  Brooks is in Forsyth Georgia so is he in our line? 
  
    • 1820 
  Elijah Fann/ Fenn in Laurens Georgia (407 
  KB)
      One of our great great grandfathers....married to Martha Rich 
  and had John who ended up in Tuskegee Alabama and had a son named William 
  Frank Fenn . Elijah's ancestors came down through the Carolinas and the wars 
  and some were listed on the Georgia land lottery - such amazing history here 
  !! 
  
    • 1910 
  James E Brooks in Montgomery AL (384 KB)
      on 
  Hull Street with father in law listed as Crawford, children John and 
  Dorothy....?W. P. BROOKS Self M Male W 55 TN Farmer NC VA Carrie BROOKS Wife M 
  Female W 33 TN Keeps House TN TN John D. BROOKS Son M Male W 25 TN Mule Trader 
  TN TN Roxanna BROOKS DauL M Female W 22 TN At Home TN TN Walter BROOKS Son S 
  Male W 19 TN Farm Laborer TN TN Rolla BROOKS Son S Male W 5 TN TN TN Lilly 
  BROOKS Dau S Female W 3 TN TN TN Kate JONES Other D Female B 35 TN Dom. 
  Servant TN TN Oscar JONES Other S Male B 3 TN TN TN 
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  ------ Source Information: Census Place District 16, Maury, Tennessee 
  
    • 1930 
  Mary Ella Thornton ( married J E Brooks ) (855 
  KB)
      age 3 with her parents Milton Elijah and Bessie Thornton on Park 
  Avenue in Chisholm, Montgomery County Alabama 
  
    • 1850 
  Cooper (93 KB)
      Chambers Alabama Alsey Cooper 
  is widowed with children in Chambers.. 
  
    • 1910 
  Wesley Allan Hood, father of Bessie Thornton (342 
  KB)
      Elmore County Census shows Mary Ella's grandfather but Bessie is 
  listed on page two with her two brothers 
  
    • John 
  Thomas Bozeman photo (386 KB)
      father of 
  Lorena, husband of Alice Stephens... Peter E. BOZEMAN Self M Male W 46 AL 
  Farmer SC SC Nancy J. BOZEMAN Wife M Female W 34 AL Keeping House AL GA John 
  Thos. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 14 AL Field Hand AL AL Peter J. BOZEMAN Son S Male 
  W 12 AL Field Hand AL AL Corintha BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 10 AL AL AL Robt. H. 
  BOZEMAN Son S Male W 8 AL AL AL Martha J. F. BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 5 AL AL AL 
  Allie Lucie BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 2 AL AL AL George M. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 1 
  AL AL AL 
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  ------ Source Information: Census Place Dublin, Montgomery, Alabama 
  
    • 1910 
  Wesley Allan Hood's children listed on PAGE 2 (19 
  KB)
      Elmore County Census shows Mary Ella's grandfather but Bessie is 
  listed on page two with her two brothers 
  
    • 1930 
  Creek County, Oklahoma, Carrie Fenn Johnson (993 
  KB)
      Cousin Martha said that Aunt Carrie married a Ben Johnson and 
  moved to Oklahoma where they had one daughter named Jean and they lived a very 
  poor life and probably died there. Ben is shown to have been born in Texas. 
  
    • John 
  Brooks of Pennsylvania in Texas 1880 census (833 
  KB)
      Shows his father is from Holland and his mother is from France 
  and his wife is from Tennessee. John is 42 on this document and his children 
  are born in Texas so they have been here nearly 20 years apparently. Roxanna 
  Permilia Smith is using P R for her name on this. 
  
    • 1900 
  Choctaw Nation Texas, Ben Johnson (927 
  KB)
      some of Ben's siblings are born in Indian Territory but he shows 
  born in Texas - all citizens are listed as white. There is another Johnson 
  family living next to them. Ben's mother is born in Alabama. They must have 
  returned later to Alabama when he met Carrie Fenn and married her and then 
  they moved on to Oklahoma. 
  
    • 1860 
  John Brooks in Giles County TENN from PENN (643 
  KB)
      young man is a boarder in this household, just before he married 
  Ms Smith and then they moved on to Texas. 
  
    • 1920 
  Carrie Fenn in Alabama with her father (701 
  KB)
      on Commerce Street with her stepmother Eva, we do not know why 
  Carrie/ Carolyn never lived with her own mother, but her father was ill and 
  she stayed. Her brother Emmett is also there but we do not know why they show 
  his middle initial as J when his middle name was Marvin, but census officials 
  were not perfect and if Eva was the person giving out the information, she 
  probably had no clue. Eva Dakota Fenn was very young too !! 
    


      
  
    • Allen 
  Wesley Hood (109 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , 
  brother of Bessie and Barnie - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley 
  Hood........could be husband of Jessie Swindall 
  
    • Annie 
  Clark Ballard Brooks (89 KB)
      wife of John, 
  mother of James; the daughter of Eudora Craig and James Ballard of Lawrence TN 
  plus her four grandparents were all born in Tennessee. 
  
    • Brooks 
  - Cooper headstone (69 KB)
      Greenwood Cemetery, 
  behind the Last Supper monument; all the way to the back road of the cemetery. 

  
    • Barnie 
  or Buster Hood (88 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , 
  brother of Bessie and Allen - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley Hood 
  
    • Luther 
  Vernon Ballard (72 KB)
      must have been brother 
  to Annie as all are buried near each other in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery 
  AL 
  
    • R 
  E Thornton (74 KB)
      Cains Chapel, Slapout 
  Alabama 
  
    • L 
  W Hood - great great grandpa (115 KB)
      buried 
  in Slapout AL , husband of Ella Mae O Hood and father of Bessie Mae " Bubber" 
  Hood Thornton............Bessie named her sons Lister and James........... 
  
    • James 
  Edgar Brooks SR (106 KB)
      buried by his wife 
  Susie Cooper and near his mother Annie...........we found his father JOHN 
  buried in a different section of the cemetery; yet this section had a large 
  marker named Cooper-Brooks located in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery AL 
  
    • BROOKS 
  - Mary Ella Thornton (87 KB)
      wife of James 
  Edgar Brooks, mother of Charles Wayne Brooks; buried in Prattville Cemetery 
  beside James and their other son John 
  
    • Barnie 
  Hood's wife (98 KB)
      Augusta Hood 
  
    • Susie 
  Mae Cooper Brooks (73 KB)
      buried by husband 
  James Edgar Brooks Sr - Susie was known as Mamaw 
  
    • BROOKS 
  - James Edgar Jr (68 KB)
      beside wife Mary Ella 
  Thornton and their son John in Prattville Cemetery - father of Charles Wayne 
  Brooks, John Milton and Thomas Earl Brooks 
  
    • Dorothy 
  Hood (89 KB)
      Hood family in Slapout/ 
  Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama - this cemetery is behind Cains Chapel 
  Methodist Church on the corner of the intersection of Hwy 111 
  
    • Zona 
  Cooper (97 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks 
  plot 
  
    • BROOKS 
  - John Milton (73 KB)
      Johnny died young, 
  buried by his parents James and Mary Brooks in Prattville AL 
  
    • Jessie 
  Swindall Hood (110 KB)
      Hood family in Slapout 
  
    • Walter 
  Cooper (80 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks 
  plot 
  
    • BROOKS 
  - Charles Wayne born 1953 (57 KB)
      son of Mary 
  Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks; buried in Millbrook Alabama at Brookside 
  Memorial. 
  
    • J 
  William Thornton (83 KB)
      Thornton and Hood 
  family in Slapout 
  
    • Mollie 
  Cooper (99 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks 
  plot 
  
    • John 
  Brooks 1880 Texas census (833 KB)
      shows his 
  father from Holland and mother from France....married Permilia Roxanna Smith 
  in Tennessee and had their son, John Brooks who married Annie Ballard and came 
  to Montgomery AL 
  
    • Lela 
  Thornton is beside J Wm Thornton (90 
  KB)
      Thornton and Hood family in Slapout 
  
    • Bessie 
  Mae HOOD Thornton (80 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL 
  wife of Milton Elijah Thornton, and she was mother of Mary Ella Thornton who 
  married James Edgar Brooks JR 
  
    • Wesley 
  Hood on 1910 census (342 KB)
      census image 
  shows him as head of household with ELLA as his wife, so it leaves confusion 
  as to the L W Hood headstone 
  
    • Marlon 
  Thornton (119 KB)
      Slapout 
  
    • Milton 
  Thornton (52 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , he 
  married Bessie Mae Hood and he is father of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks 
  
    • Bessie 
  Hood on census (19 KB)
      census image 
  
    • Minnie 
  Hood (79 KB)
      Slapout 
  
    • James 
  and Susie Brooks on census (1086 KB)
      1930 
  census image 
    

      
  
    • Cemetery 
  (213 KB)
      Mt Hebron Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery 
  is very small. George Thornton and wife Mary Angeline Partridge graves are 
  found here. 
  
    • Grandpa 
  McClain (62 KB)
      Emily Alice McClain's father 
  stands with her brother. Charles McClain's parents and grandparents spent many 
  years in Creek Territory. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (52 KB)
      Stokes-Carter Cemetery has no official name, 
  no Stokes buried here, mostly Carters and Bozemans. Tombstones being trampled 
  and damaged by the cattle and falling trees. 
  
    • Charles 
  McClain in 1908 (12 KB)
      Married Lorena Bozeman 

  
    • Cemetery 
  (816 KB)
      Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church has some 
  of the original settlers of Holtville born about 1800. 
  
    • Uncle 
  John Coonfield (39 KB)
      Uncle to Frankie 
  
    • Cecil 
  Carter (230 KB)
      Anne's father was born around 
  1900 - nobody is really certain - at Thompson Station in Bullock County - born 
  to a Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his mother remarried in Macon 
  Georgia. His father was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from former 
  Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in 
  the Army about 1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Found his 
  father living in Montgomery Alabama and returned about 1931. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (865 KB)
      Cain's Chapel in Slapout has many Thornton 
  and Hood families from the early days of Cold Springs, Elmore County, Alabama 
  
    • Clora 
  Jane Miller Cochran (15 KB)
      Frankie's 
  grandmother 
  
    • Cecil 
  Carter (15 KB)
      Anne's father was born around 
  1900 - nobody is really certain - at Thompson Station in Bullock County - born 
  to a Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his mother remarried in Macon 
  Georgia. His father was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from former 
  Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in 
  the Army about 1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Found his 
  father living in Montgomery Alabama and returned about 1931. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (308 KB)
      Dublins' old cemetery behind Hills Chapel 
  hidden far off into the woods. 
  
    • Clora 
  Jane Miller (327 KB)
      Cochran Family 
  
    • Cecil 
  Carter's brother Frank Fenn (51 KB)
      born 1896 
  at Thompson Station in Bullock County - died in Coosada on his farm at Airport 
  Road where the school now sits. His grave is on that land he had donated to 
  the church for a cemetery. Frank worked for the railroad, his wife boiled his 
  dirty clothes in a pot outside - he was in WWI and hauled POWs on the train. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (97 KB)
      Dublins'new cemetery for the public is across 
  the street from the front of Hills Chapel. 
  
    • Bill 
  Carter (38 KB)
      about 1970 - he was Anne's 
  brother 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (88 KB)
      Dublin - old gravestone being cleaned with 
  water and a brush 
  
    • John 
  and Annie Brooks (72 KB)
      Moved into Montgomery 
  Alabama after 1900 and their son James married Susie Mae Cooper. They have a 
  strong lineage into 1800 TN 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (64 KB)
      Greenwood in Montgomery, very large cemetery 
  has graves of many of the Brooks, Cooper, Bozeman, Fenn families 
  
    • Jacob 
  and Clora Cochran (34 KB)
      Left Iowa for Kansas 
  Territory after 1880 with son Frank Delbert Cochran on the left. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (18 KB)
      Memorial has many of my relatives' resting 
  places - land donated by Lorena Bozeman's Uncle Robert Henry Bozeman - located 
  between Maxwell AFB and Hope Hull and Pine Level. 
  
    • Luella 
  Coonfield (119 KB)
      Arkansas - she is in the 
  center of this photo just before she married Frank Delbert Cochran. She is 
  Cherokee by blood. Her mother was Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky. 
  
    • Luella 
  Coonfield's mother was indian (63 
  KB)
      Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky - Lattie Little was 
  born to Mary Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (275 KB)
      Dublin Old Cemetery has tiny tombstone 
  markers with no names 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (78 KB)
      Dublin Old Cemetery behind the church - Alice 
  Lorena Stephens Bozeman, the Cherokee in grandma's lineage. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (1456 KB)
      Dublin Old Cemetery behind the church - 
  Peter Edward Bozeman of the Civil War - the clover design is a separate layer 
  added to this homemade tombstone with penciled PEB our father added. 
  
    • Powhatan 
  (40 KB)
      Lucius Powhatan Little was Lattie's cousin in 
  Kentucky - he was a lawyer, a judge, a writer, and a genealogist. They all had 
  one common grandmother from Virginia, Catherine Weatherford. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (78 KB)
      Indian Creek Cemetery in Georgia where James 
  McClain born 1810 is buried - the father of Josiah is also the son of the 
  elder Josiah 
  
    • Ben 
  Coonfield's parents (68 KB)
      Martha Frances 
  Young of Kentucky married Benjamin Wylie Coonfield in Indiana. Their hair was 
  so black that it looked blue in the sunshine. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (14 KB)
      Hill City Cemetery in Graham Kansas is where 
  my dad's grandparents are buried 
  
    • Mary 
  Catherine Crigler (323 KB)
      Born in Kentucky to 
  Nancy Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler, she married John Little and had 
  Lattie and Sadona in this picture. 
  
    • Cemetery 
  (28 KB)
      Old Harmony Primitive Church Cemetery has few 
  graves but includes Elijah Lee born 1777 and his wife Malinda Phillips who 
  came to Chambers County before 1830 buying land from an old Creek Indian and 
  they are the great great grandparents of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks. 
  
    • Cochrans 
  (106 KB)
      Chetopa Kansas, the Cochran family includes 
  Frankie, Freelon and Darrell 
  
    • Carter 
  photo (46 KB)
      T R Carter with his first wife 
  and family - he is great grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks. 
  
    • Cochrans 
  (26 KB)
      Frank Delbert's brothers and sisters. 
  
    • Susie 
  Mae Cooper Brooks (40 KB)
      grandmother to 
  Charles Wayne Brooks known as Mamaw. Her mother was Sarah Elizabeth Carter who 
  married Levi Benjamin Cooper, a son of Charner P. Cooper of Chambers County. 
  
    • Frank 
  Delbert Cochran (13 KB)
      Funeral Home Receipt 
  
    • Anne 
  Carter (28 KB)
      On the left she stands by her 
  granny Lorena, and Lorena's daughter Katie Bell McClain. They raised her after 
  her mom Alice McClain Carter died. All buried at Memorial 
  
    • Frank 
  Delbert Cochran wed Luella Ellen Coonfield (199 
  KB)
      Married in Arkansas, moved to Missouri, then Oklahoma, then back 
  to Chetopa Kansas where they had Frankie in 1927 
  
    • Anne 
  Carter's mother (16 KB)
      Emily Alice McClain 
  was married to Cecil Carter and she died at the age of 19 after giving birth 
  to her third child. 
  
    • Luella's 
  father Ben (39 KB)
      Those Cochran boys sure 
  look a lot like their grandfather Ben Coonfield 
  
    • John 
  Lewis Bozeman (1305 KB)
      Buried in Covington 
  County, may connect to Philemon 
  
    • Frank 
  D. Cochran (50 KB)
      Father of Frankie and Cleo 
  and JB 
    

      
  
    • Files 
  (14 KB)
      Various related webpages 
  
    • Links 
  (2 KB)
      Various related webpages 
  
    • Names 
  (9 KB)
      Those I am studying 
  
    • Contacts 
  (27 KB)
      Others involved in this research. 
    


    Tracking our roots, cross country. Many records or legal documents were 
lost when courthouses were burned, during the war, yet there were many adoptions 
or marriages that were never legalized as people simply changed their last name. 
Alabama didn't even start recording birth certificates until about 1908 and 
Kansas had a lot of errors on the birth certificates of my family...Nicknames 
confuse the process and back then there were many Buds, Marys, Pollys, Dolly, 
Sallys, Kitty, Bettie, and usually these nicknames had nothing to do with their 
legal name, and often times the legal name was totally forgotten by relatives 
and friends. Mom heard that her dad was often called Nick. His mother's name was 
Anna Lou yet called Annie Lee. This causes many errors on legal documents such 
as their death certificate...Cecil's death certificate shows his wife was Ellie 
McLain but she was legally named Alice Emma McClain and her mom called her by 
Emmer. Her great grandpa James McClain married a woman only known as Anna and we 
ask why didn't anyone ask about her maiden name or did she have an indian name 
before she got married....My Uncle Mat Fenn is listed as Mathew at the cemetery 
yet his real name was Madison and his mother Emeline was shown as Emily on the 
census records plus his sister Ida Fenn was listed as Ida Fennel; Fenn was 
actually Fann in the 1700s. Then I believe that my grandpa William Frank Fenn 
was really named Franklin... My Dad was Frank but was mostly known as Bud. My 
Uncle Cecil was mainly known as Junior. My grandmother Luella was called Lue or 
Rue while her sister Amy Marie was known as Aunt Mae. Luella's death certificate 
shows her mother's name was Gladys but it was Lattie Cedonia. My grandpa 
Carter's death certificate shows his wife's name as Ellie but it was Alice Emma 
and I always heard that her name was Emily. My husband's Aunt Billie was legally 
named Glennie Thornton and her sister Tutor was legally named Loraine, so I 
guess very few knew.
    Then some liked to use their middle name, like my Uncle 
Billy preferred to be called Larry...Another issue we deal with is when those 
native americans were baptised, they were given an English name, so if you were 
searching the indian rolls, which name would be used? Some just married an 
indian and "gave" them a Christian name...Indians also liked hearing new names 
and simply switched names on their own. Plus we had other families who enjoyed 
changing the spelling of their name like McClain became McLain/McLean/Mc Lane, 
or the Cochran became Cochrane and Boseman became Bozeman or Boozman or even 
Bosman and once found on a census looking like Bogeman and then Brooke became 
Brooks.
    Think about Pocahontas - she was called Rebekah. Sequoyah's real name 
was George Guess, which was derived from Guest or Guist and we find Gist among 
our relatives in the Carolinas about 1800. Chief Red Eagle was really William 
Weatherford, the son of Charles, yet some say previous generations spelled it as 
Whitherford. Then about Chief Powhatan, nobody will ever know the many names of 
his wives and children, nor where they migrated and the Little/ Weatherford 
research of Kentucky had focused on a young indian bride named Cleopatra.Few had 
education, could not read nor write, did not know their date of birth and many 
did not know their parents nor where they came from. My granny Lorena, known as 
Aunt Rena, had her numbers mixed up on several papers, but much of her time was 
spent out on the farm and not in a classroom. Her son Charles Henderson could 
not read nor write, signed his name with an X mark and he is buried in an indian 
cemetery near Fort Mitchell. Then we have the prejudiced census takers who wrote 
down only what they heard instead of the official spelling of names or even the 
racial problems they had, like the only races were black or white, and anything 
other than that would be called Mulatto, which really is not fair to the Native 
Americans that we are seeking. Indians 
    





     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    


     
    

    

  • John 
Little (791 KB)
    Family Photo 

  • Hiram 
Lucius Little Sketch (73 KB)
    son of Jonas, 
father of John Wright Little 

  • 1909 
Lane County (86 KB)
    Gray family 

  • William 
Little (84 KB)
    Uncle Bill 

  • Molley 
Douglass 1800 South Carolina (283 KB)
    Apparently 
if this is our Mary Handley Douglass, she has not yet married Captain George 
Little. 

  • Lucius 
Powhatan Little (30 KB)
    son of Douglas, grandson 
of Jonas 

  • Little 
photos (32 KB)
    Hiram, John, Lattie, Luella 

  • John 
Little (1505 KB)
    son of Hiram, grandson of 
Jonas, Civil War paper 

  • 1830 
Jonas Little (56 KB)
    census record shows them 
next to Handley and Hunt 

  • Obituary 
(781 KB)
    Myrtle Brandon 

  • Lucius 
Powhatan Little's Notes (481 KB)
    says that 
George was 21 when he came to America - to Charleston SC - did he bring a wife? 
did he arrive with brothers, sisters and parents? we need to locate the ships 
list to get more answers.... 

  • L 
P Little (32 KB)
    Lucius Powhatan photo 

  • Dorline's 
Info (260 KB)
    Some of her research notes on the 
Little family 

  • Catherine 
Crigler Little (38 KB)
    Beautiful photo of her 
and Lattie and Sadonia 

  • Dorline's 
Info 2 (452 KB)
    Some of her research notes on 
the Little family TREE 

  • Indian 
Inquiry (390 KB)
    Another indian blood theory 

  • Dorline's 
Info 3 (73 KB)
    Some of her research - A Letter 

  • Gray 
girls (61 KB)
    photo 

  • John 
Little was in Civil War (29 KB)
    His registration 
card 

  • Iron 
pieces made by John Little from Civil War (160 
KB)
    with a photo of John 
    • 

    

  • George 
Little Descendants (44 KB)
    Family Tree 

  • Little 
Notes with possible Boseman connection (23 
KB)
    all in the Carolinas, both my parent's ancestors were in the 
American Revolution 
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  • Remember 
Our Elders (281 KB)
    all in one place 

  • Charles 
Brooks (89 KB)
    Lineage 

  • Kathy 
Brooks (417 KB)
    Lineage 
    • 

    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.
    

     
    

      
  
    • Charles 
  Weatherford (153 KB)
      as mentioned in history 
  book 
  
    • census 
  1910 Uncle Meady Bozeman and Nancy (1071 
  KB)
      with his mother in Montgomery Alabama She was our great great 
  granny Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman, widow of Peter Edward Bozeman. 
  
    • James 
  H Baxley born 1846 (871 KB)
      Beverly took me to 
  Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, about 3 miles from Holtville 
  School and another mile from the Cains Chapel Church Cemetery where other 
  relatives are buried. James was the father of Ella Olivia Baxley Hood and he 
  was the great great great grandfather of Charlie Brooks. 
  
    • Freelon 
  Cochran died in Korea 1953 (19 KB)
      military - 
  brother of Frankie Lavern Cochran 
  
    • census 
  Peter E Bozeman from Mississippi to Alabama (700 
  KB)
      this is not our great great great grandfather Peter Edward 
  Bozeman but most likely a cousin to him and to us 
  
    • Martin 
  Weatherford in Georgia History (178 
  KB)
      finally some evidence of Martin is recorded in history 
  
    • census 
  1920 Labette Kansas (454 KB)
      Cochrans this 
  Frank M Cochran from Indiana may or may not be related to our Cochran family 
  in Chetopa Kansas 
  
    • 1860 
  James McClain of GA is in Coffee Alabama (123 
  KB)
      father of Josiah Marion McClain with second wife and children so 
  this migration might be the reason our great great grandfather Josiah came to 
  Alabama and he joined the Civil War at Greenville and never went back home to 
  his first wife. 
  
    • census 
  1910 Montgomery AL, Brooks family (1012 KB)
      on 
  Hull Street , Sami's great grandfather James E Brooks family and his father in 
  law. 
  
    • Coonfield 
  and Clarks in Indiana History (148 KB)
      refers 
  to Archibald Clark and Isaac Coonfield who was married to Barsheba Clark. 
  
    • census 
  Alexander Cochran born 1850 (343 KB)
      wife 
  Nancy, both from Ireland in Missouri 1910 
  
    • 1860 
  Clopton Gibson (104 KB)
      Family in Alabama 
  
    • census 
  with my daddy on it (96 KB)
      Frankie Lavern 
  Cochran born 1927 Kansas 
  
    • William 
  Arthur Stone "Tige" (48 KB)
      grandma Anna Stone 
  sent his picture to the family so he must be the son of her brother Arthur 
  Augustus Stone. Tige played in 1923 for the St Louis Cardinals before moving 
  on to Florida where he is buried.l He also attended Mercer University in 
  Georgia and played baseball there before moving on. 
  
    • John 
  (479 KB)
      Little 
  
    • Coonfield 
  Families in 1918 (26 KB)
      great grandmother 
  Lattie Cedonia Little was married to Benjamin Wallace Coonfield in Arkansas 
  
    • ALB 
  (94 KB)
      tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman, 
  wife of John Thomas Bozeman in Dublin AL 
  
    • Coonfield 
  (17 KB)
      great great grandfather Isaac 
  Coonfield 
  
    • PEB 
  (99 KB)
      tombstone of Peter Edward Bozeman, father of 
  John Thomas Bozeman in Dublin AL - son of William Henry and Martha H Bozeman. 
  
    

    

  • Remember 
Our Elders (337 KB)
    all links in one messy page 
:) 

  • My 
Family (706 KB)
    Webpage Collection 

  • Family 
History Webpages (198 KB)
    backup 

  • Notes 
and Research (1052 KB)
    My Alabama Genealogy 

  • Quick 
Links (2 KB)
    Enjoy!
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    Osiyo

    Working with family stories of the old days, tales of medicine 
women, and their beloved soldiers of the many wars in our country, I may not be 
able to prove or officially document
    our Native American ancestry, yet 
knowing it is in my heart and in my spirit, is all that is really 
important.

    The stories consist of one great granny who was a well known 
healer in Dublin, Alabama; one who could read the ashes after smoking her pipe; 
one aunt born with a veil over her face ( which was removed three times) which 
was the sign of a seer. The amazing intuition of my father, who left work 
immediately when it thundered, knowing that his baby was about to be born, and 
yes, I was born that day, in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

    Then we are 
told of Mr Ward, working in his field, as a strong 
    thunderstorm approached, 
he slammed his axe into the ground,
    and the skies cleared.

    Our 
families pass on many interesting stories but they all 
    spoke the English 
language, yet practiced good survival skills.


    I would love to learn 
more about their culture and language, and teach our children to respect these 
and the ways of our elders. Yet we have the stories to pass on and the love, 
truth and respect that were taught to me. 


    When Indians learned about 
Christianity, they welcomed new knowledge of GOD and the afterlife with their 
elders. They were in awe, learning of Jesus, and of course we were told the 
Mormons believe that Jesus appeared to the Old America, so perhaps this faith 
was quite welcomed by most the tribes when the Europeans arrived.

    So when 
they were Baptized, many were given new names to use and they are almost 
impossible to trace now. Some Indians changed their name more than once during 
their lifetime.

    Our Stephens line in 1760 married an unknown full blood 
Cherokee woman in NC and gave her a Biblical Name.

    Due to Indian unrest 
and the Trail of Tears, many Eastern Band Cherokee fled south or up into the 
mountains (OverHill) to escape the laws and disease of the white man. Our family 
believes that Charles Weatherford "may" have fathered our Kitty Weatherford in 
Virgina before moving to Alabama and fathering Chief Red Eagle. We also might 
connect our Cochran, Little, Wright lines to Cleopatra, sister of Pocahontas. 
Many of this line came from South Carolina and Virginia into Tennesee and 
Kentucky before moving to the Midwest.

    Mother's line in Virginia, North 
Carolina, South Carolina came into Alabama for quite some time before some moved 
west.
    (Moon, McClain, Bozeman,Anderson, Stephens)

    Census takers were 
very prejudiced and would not recognize Indians owning property so they put most 
down as blacks or mulatto - in some cases the Indian feared the government 
finding them so they called them selves blacks or whites.

    After the Trail 
of Tears, they believed that no Indians existed in other areas, so no Indians 
appeared on census records, and had to be found on the Indian Nation Rolls in 
Oklahoma.

    Thus we hope to find our ancestors registered on the Indian 
Rolls, somehow, but it sure seems to be an endless journey.

    Wa do 


    




    Includes many Native American ancestors. 

    "I have Cherokee blood in 
me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!"Will 
Rogers


    With so many families in former Creek Nation Alabama, it is 
quite possible we are mixed. 

    Frankie was honest, hard working and 
faithful, grew up on a farm, some education until he joined the Air Force. 
Baptised in a creek in Chetopa Kansas and read his Bible every day. His word was 
law and his friends knew that he always had a place at the dinner table for them 
or an extra chair by the fish pond.

    He served in Korea as a copilot of a 
bomber plane and was wounded and sent back to Maxwell AFB in Alabama where he 
then told his brother Freelon that it was too hot for him to go there and 
Freelon went to Korea anyway and died in a truck incident.

    Several in my 
family have had special gifts, the gift of knowing and seeing, the gift of 
healing or the ability to stop bleeding. Dad had several true premonitions and 
the night before he passed away, he held me in his arms saying I love you more 
than you will ever know and he was gone on that Christmas morning.

    His 
sister was born with a veil over her face. His aunt heard ticking in the wall 
before a loved one died. His granny Clora smoked a pipe and could read the 
ashes. He witnessed many healings by my mom's granny and he was very close to 
her. Most made their own medicines. He spoke of his mother spending hours in the 
field gathering herbs.

    He found peace at the fish pond, that is where he 
could be found on the weekends and I feel now that he is at peace with his 
elders and loved ones while guiding me along this journey of 
love.


    


    

  • My 
Family Tree (552 KB)
    A tree house full of 
relatives. 

  • Introduction 
(8 KB)
    Who and Where were our Ancestors 

  • Alabama 
Families (13 KB)
    Who and Where were our 
Ancestors, so many came thru and settled into Alabama 

  • Grandmother 
Betsy Douglass Little (55 KB)
    her parents were 
Mary Handley and Alexander Douglass of Pennsylvania. 

  • Memorial 
to Grandpa George Little (3 KB)
    Event by cousin 
Laura Little 
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    Parker families came from Worcestor Massachusetts, while Miller 
      families from Rockingham Virginia, into the midwest.

    Mary Clara 
      Parker married James Miller in 1850 Bloomington, McLean County, Illinois. 
      Their daughter Clora Jane Miller became my great grandmother. She smoked a 
      corn cob pipe,and one was made of clay; she learned about making her own 
      medicine from her mother. Family story is that her mother shared medicine 
      with the Indians. Clora's grandchildren spoke of her staying with them 
      after becoming widowed an