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Mordecai Bozeman's son Peter Bozeman, born 1758, moved to Montgomery Alabama around 1826 - Mordecai's son John moved to Mississippi while the other son James remained in Darlington.... 



CARTER- Captain John to Thomas Randolph Carter - Thomas left Talladega about 1840 and moved to Montgomery County and married Peter Bozemans' grand-daughter Lacy Jane, who was the daughter of Jesse. Peter's other son William Henry Bozeman married Martha Hill and is my connection. 
 
 
Our Grandmother Sarah Brown Bozeman married Peter in December 1786 and died in Montgomery in 1838 but this document dated 1829 shows her "mark" regarding Peter's Estate when he passed away. This document found in the Montgomery County Archives is absolutely priceless.....................
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The above mentioned Thomas Randolph Carter had married Lacy Jane Bozeman, served in the Civil War, and lost his wife and some children to an epidemic.  He remarried to Mary Josephine Hereferd and they had a daughter named Sarah Elizabeth Carter.  
 
Sarah married one of his farm workers, Levi Benjamin Cooper and they had Susie Mae Cooper who we all knew as Mamaw.  Mamaw had married James Edgar Brooks Sr and their child was James E Brooks Jr. who was married to Mary Ella Thornton.
 
Mamaw's husband was the only child born to Annie Clark Ballard and John Edwin Brooks of Tennessee.
 
Mamaw's daughter Sissy helps me with the story about the Carters, saying that when Thomas died, his wife Mary, had him buried beside his first family then she went to live with her daughter.
 
Then later on census I found the widows Annie and Sarah living with Mamaw in the Oak Park area.   Families usually took care of the widowed, took them in and loved them.
 
That would seem the case with the above mentioned Martha Hill Bozeman.  While she had the writ of dower to protect her home, she probably felt very much alone living beside Jesse and had to move away to be near her own family to raise her children.

Kathy Cochran's ancestors in Kentucky in 1800 began migrating after the Civil War into Arkansas and Kansas ... http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Kentucky/Little-Handley-Douglass-Crigler-Roby-Wright-Weatherford.html


 

Father of Peter who also joined him in serving in the American Revolution as told and confirmed from the book Sketches - along with Mordecai's son John.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Peter's bounty land in Darlington South Carolina was surveyed in 1826 as he began the long journey to the new lands in Alabama.Peter's only known daughter with Sarah Brown was named Lucy. Lucy married Sterling Campbell and is found on the 1830 Montgomery Census.

Peter Bozeman and families were settled in a community named Hope Hull in Montgomery County Alabama, actually named by Abner McGee who lived nearby. The Bozeman Plantation consisted of 160 acres, according to official land records, but Peter Bozeman probably homesteaded much much more than that in Hope Hull and hopefully those deeds will surface someday - but McGee had purchased much more. The lots were sold at two dollars an acre in lots of 80 acres. McGeHee named the town after an evangelist who visited and you can read about him in the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Assn. webpage. Flinn was involved with both McGeHee and Bozeman according to the book about our early settlers. There was a Rachel McGeHee Thompson buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman Carter and near Jesse. Jesse began to buy more land in 1834 and 1837 and paid cash so farming must have been very good for them. Jesse's brother Meady bought land in Dallas County near other Bozemans who may or may not be related. Jesse's brother William Henry died in 1847 and by 1850 his widow had moved across town. Jesse's brother Peter moved away with his wife Gilly. Did they not like Jesse's control? Later we find a David Campbell involved in some of the documents and also other Bozemans marrying a Campbell

  His brother John had already migrated to Mississippi with his indian bride.  Peter had married a widowed Sarah Brown and adopted her two little girls, and having more children. 

 
By 1826 all were grown and married with children of their own and they all loaded their wagons, every one of them but Peter's younger brother James, who remained in Darlington.
 
The South Carolina Archives on the web has many articles and documents regarding these families and the Alabama Probate Office records began in 1828 where Peter is having a dispute with the Treasury Office demanding his Bounty Land in Montgomery. One of the documents was signed by E Stephens.
 
Peter died in 1829.  His estate sale includes the names of his wife and children and many other names who came with him from Darlington SC.
 
There was a John Stacie listed and he might have been the husband of Sarah Bozeman, the step daughter of Peter.  The other step daughter might have married Vincent Joiner.
 
Peter Bozeman and families were settled in a community named Hope Hull in Montgomery County Alabama, actually named by Abner McGee who lived nearby.
The Bozeman Plantation consisted of 160 acres but McGee had purchased much more. The lots were sold at two dollars an acre in lots of 80 acres
 
Peter's son Jesse M  takes over the family business handling all documents which can be found in Alabama Probate Office because his parents could not read nor write and only signed their X mark when needed. 
 
 In the 1830 census of Alabama, all of Peter's children  are found and their spouses. In 1840 William Henry lived next to Jesse but William died in 1848 and the paper trail of his estate began.  In 1830 young Peter is found living next to Anderson and brother Meady had moved to Dallas County - then Peter goes on into Mississippi perhaps to live near his Uncle John.
 
 
Jesse's siblings are found further apart, perhaps trouble is brewing from Jesse's control.
 
Jesse's wife died and he married the widow of James Freeman, named Frances and he adopted her children and they had more.  The grave of James Freeman Bozeman was found beside Lacy's.  Jesse's son with his first wife was named Jesse A and he steps in  to take control when his father died.   Jesse A married Missouri Flinn and the Alabama History mentions her Flinn family moving into Alabama, living in a wilderness full of wild beasts and several tribes of indians.
 

The lands of Montgomery County were put up for auction at the Federal Land Office in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1816. Larger parcels were sold to developers who subdivided the land into lots for urban commercial and residential use, predetermining a major city on the banks of the Alabama River at Montgomery. A hardy and superior class of people penetrated the wilderness. Settlements and towns sprang into existence everywhere. The City of Montgomery, which became the county seat in 1822, was built on the side of the Indian town Ikanatchati (Econachatee), which means red ground, and Towasa on a high red bluff known to Alibamu Indians as Chunnaanaauga Chatty.

                                                    
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In 1848 Jesse petitions the court on behalf of William's orphaned children and asks for a Writ of Dower for land and the home to remain with the widow, Martha Hill Bozeman. He asks for everything else to be sold and divided equally among the children, some grown and some minors, but he also begans to purchase some items for himself.
 
 
 
 
Tombstones of Jesse Bozeman, Lacy Jane Bozeman and her husband T R Carter were found recently on the property they once owned in Hope Hull - the property which Thomas Carter bought from William Henry Bozeman's estate, which was once owned by William's father, Peter Bozeman,the American Revolutionary Soldier.

Plus knowing most of these fine young men served in the Civil War; and knowing that my great great great grandfather Peter Edward Bozeman was born on this piece of land is overwhelming.

 
In 1850 Martha is gone from the home place.  She has moved to another part of Montgomery which seems to be among her own siblings.  Her sons Peter Edward and John Thomas stay with her, and her daughter Martha M.
 
She is listed on the census as Mrs. Martha Bozeman so she is hard to locate so it might be easier for researchers to search for whom I believe is her sister's husband next to her, Moses Rushton.  Note that all of the women listed on this census page were born in South Carolina and could be more of her family.
 
 
Martha's sons served in the Civil War.  Peter Edward Bozeman married Nancy Jane Anderson and their son John Thomas Bozeman married Alice Lorena Stephens.
Martha's daughter married Norman Campbell and her other son, Meady married a widowed Sarah Brewer, adopted her children and moved to Birmingham Alabama.
Martha's son John Thomas Bozeman married Nancy Kizar Hill - yes another Hill in the family tree.  The wives applied for confederate pensions in Montgomery.
 
There was a witness John A Hill on the application of Nancy Jane - yes another Hill.
 
 
 
 
 
In fact Peter Edward Bozeman's grave has been found on the property previously owned by John A Hill.    John's son R L Hill is buried beside Peter along with Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman nearby.
 
 
 
John Hill founded the Hills Chapel Church in 1872 and provided a public cemetery in front of it away from his own private family cemetery behind the church.
All along the Meriweather Trail.

 



My recent visit in May 2007 to Hills Chapel to join other descendants of Peter Edward Bozeman revealed they knew nothing about his father William Henry nor Martha Hill Bozeman.  They never knew they were related to the Bozemans of Hope Hull which was only a few miles down the road.  Maybe Martha never told her children because she left Jesse and his controlling behavior behind her when she moved.
 
They knew that Peter Edward was the father of John Thomas Bozeman but did not realize Alice Lorena Stephens ( John's first wife and our grandmother ) was buried on this Hill property.   Finding her tombstone was so exciting !  She was the indian in our family tree.   Alice had named two of her daughters Lorena and Ethel, to whom we all connected.  However, John's second wife was Sarah Ellen Bean ( yes kin to the hanging Judge Roy Bean )  and her son was Bob, and some of Uncle Bob's children were there with us.
 
 
 
Ethel
 
 
 
 
 
Peter Edward also had a son named Peter James Bozeman who married Dora Ann Dillard, who came from the nearby Dillard Plantation - their granddaughter Dora also attended our gathering and we enjoyed her family stories.
 
Peter James and John Thomas are buried with their wives in the public cemetery out in front of the Hills Chapel Church, as well as Ethel's family.  Ethel Mae had married Jace Gibson, son of Clopton Gibson and Rebecca Broadway, a daughter of Abner.
 
 
Ethel's sister Lorena had married Charles Allen McClain in 1908 in Ramer and they lived along Hickory Grove.  Charles was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain who's ancestors came from Spartanburg, SC.  Parents of Elizabeth were Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway who also had grandfathers in the War.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Abner's parents were "Mary" and Abner Broadway of Sumter South Carolina and bought land in Alabama in 1837.  Grandfather William Pool Broadway served in the American Revolution.
 
 
Lorena Bozeman McClain's daughter, Alice Emma, married Cecil Earl Fenn Carter in Montgomery Alabama about 1931.  They had a daughter named Anne Alice Carter who married Frankie Lavern Cochran.  Their daughter Kathy Lorena married Charles Brooks.  The Cochrans were found on the 1920 census of Chelsea, Rogers, Oklahoma living near Will Rogers.  They had come out of Kentucky to Arkansas to OK.
 
 
 
 
 
Charles is buried at the Dublin Church of Christ Cemetery but Lorena is buried at Memorial Cemetery along the Bozeman Drive in Montgomery, Alabama just off Mobile Road ( Mobile Road goes back to Hope Hull ).  Lorena's uncle Robert Bozeman owned all that land along Bozeman Drive and donated some for that cemetery.  Robert also named a street after each of his daughters when they got married. 
 
Uncle Robert was another son of Peter Edward and his full name was Robert Henry Bozeman.
 
Peter Edward's son George M. died young of yellow fever. Walter "Wattie" was a streetcar motorman who Lorena wrote about, died during cotton pickin time. 
 
Millard Milton, another son of Peter, married Nettie Barrow and named a son "Clyde"
< go figure>
 
The name George has not been in the family lineage thus far, however, there was a George Hill, large plantation owner, who could possibly have a part in this work later on.
 
Peter's daughter Alice Lucy married W S Wilson and moved to Jefferson County, taking along her mentally disabled sister Martha Jane Francis Bozeman.
 
Peter's son Mead married Leila Campbell ( cousin? ) but he died in 1920 and is buried by his mother Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman in a large Bozeman family plot at Greenwood Cemetery, close to the entrance on the left.
 
 
The Andersons also came from the Carolinas and connect to Edward Doty of the Mayflower and our first Thanksgiving.
 
 
Nancy Jane's parents were Lavinia Jane Sellers ( of the Carolinas ) and Seaborn Anderson.  Seaborne Montgomery Anderson served in the Civil War while his great grandfathers had served in the American Revolution.
 
 
Elisha Anderson's Will was probated in Montgomery Alabama.  His mother was Lavinia Brack.  She was the daughter of Eleazor Brack and Hester Doty - Eleazor had served in the American Revolution and the Doty family had native american blood
 
 
 
 
Lavinia Sellers' parents were William Calvin Sellers Jr and Levinia Anderson, a sister of Seaborn ( cousins married cousins ) . Calvin had served in the War of 1812 and his father had served in the American Revolution.  Calvin's brother Alfred Sellers had married Elizabeth Anderson, another sister of Seaborn.
 
Calvin's great grandparents were Elisha Sellers ( Am Rev Soldier ) and Sarah Jane Peeples of the Cherokee Nation East.  Elisha's mother was also native american, Mary Willis born 1710 in North Carolina.
 
Many of our cousins and ancestors played a part in the growth of the east coast in the 1600s and 1700s among many nationalities and tribes who also existed there and they fought to protect our country.
 
They also learned the English Language !  Indians were overwhelmed with the Bible stories about the Creator.  Many took on Biblical names when baptized.
 
Storytelling has been a fascinating part of our heritage and it must continue.
 
 
When I try to research the possible parents of Mordecai Bozeman, it is logical to think of Mary White,  who married Samuel Bozeman, and she also had a brother named Mordecai White, so she would be my first choice.  Yet we may never know the name of Mordecai Bozeman's wife, perhaps she was also native american.
 
Very few others before us have attempted to research this family tree in Alabama.  Jimmy Ray was kind enough to help me realize which Peter Bozeman connected to Ramer.  Wayne Bozeman found records on our family in Hope Hull and Wayne is married to my husband's cousin.   The Gibsons assisted with the lineage of Ethel Mae and joined us at Dublin when we discovered the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman.  Visits, interviews, phone calls, letters, emails, have brought us all together.  I really hope that the younger generation of the Bozeman Clan will carry on with our labor of love.    Jimmy Ray's daughter is currently working with DAR to get the name of Peter Bozeman established in their book, so the rest of us can join or at least appreciate his history.
 
 
Made in America!
From Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma to Montgomery Alabama.
 
 
Cousin Dora told us there were once at least 50 or so tombstones behind Hills Chapel and here is one small stone being uncovered
 
 
 
Perhaps the family could not locate the original headstone of Peter so they ordered another
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
John Stephens had served in the American Revolution in South Carolina and married a full blood Cherokee and they migrated to Ramer Alabama.
Kathy Cochran in Alabama.
Frank Cochran of Kansas in Alabama.
Cochran and Coonfield descendants inAlabama.




 

Article written by his daughter Elzira Cochran:
 
 
 
 
Mom:  Anne Carter Cochran
Her grandfather MOON
Her grandfather Stone
 
Her grandfather McClain
 
 
Dad:  Frankie Lavern Cochran
 
His grandmother Douglass
 
His Grandfather Charles Weatherford
 
His mother's Mom
 and her great great grandfather George Little
 
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Mamaw Susie Cooper Brooks' grandfather
 
 
Mary Ella Thornton Brooks' grandmother Partridge
 
 
 



http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/JohnBROOKES.html 

John Brooks of Holland descendents in Alabama.

 

 

 

My grandfather Frank Delbert Cochran's parents were Jacob Benjamin Cochran born in 1822,  and Clora Jane Miller who had married in Iowa after Jacob's first wife Mariah White had died.  Both had children by their previous marriage.

Jacob's parents were Martha Henderson and William Cochran, a son of Alexander.

Jacob Cochran was one of the very first families to homestead in
Hill City, Kansas after they left Iowa.  His daughter Clora kept my Aunt Bernice
informed of their history.  The Cochrans had some awesome sky blue eyes and the men never went bald like we see some families like the Brooks men who had lost their hair before the age of 30.

Alexander Cochran raised his family in Pennsylvania and soon settled into Ohio, possibly Quakers, with several sons joining the Civil War and even living in California during the Gold Rush.  Later these young men moved to Iowa to farm the new land, and after several years, Jacob Benjamin Cochran moved to Kansas with second wife Clora Jane Miller, a daughter of Mary Clara Parker and James Madison Miller.  The Millers were Irish from Rockingham Virginia.


Many of these mixed migrations were referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch.

 Family lore is that Mary Parker shared medicine with the indians and research shows that her ancestors were in the 1600s and 1700s New York Indian Country as well as Mass  and Rhode Island, with one cousin, Joshua Tefft was killed by King Phillip.  One Mr Sweete was banned from England as a Catholic Priest and lived in exile in

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