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Ordering my grandfather Cecil
Carter's death certificate I learned who his parents
were and began to call around some
local cousins to learn more about them. Then I
ordered his dad's death certificate
which was a big help in my research. Cecil was my mom's
father and she knew nothing
about him since she was orphaned at the age of 4.
He had told her family stories about
being indian , drank too much they say, and even talked
about having a great grandfather
indian chief, which I have thusfar been unable to
locate. His mother had
married three times, first to Fenn, then Dasher, and
lastly to a Carter so any of them could
connect to a tribe or perhaps one of their mothers or
even more likely to his mother's
lineage way back to 1700s Georgia. There are many
new paths to follow to learn the
truth.
His parents divorced after
having six children between 1893 and 1900 and remarried
so the trace became complicated.(
Cecil was mean and abusive and his father was probably
the same way ) ( Anna was young and Cecil was an infant
so did she have more children with her second husband Mr
Carter? Who were they? Were they of Indian Blood? )
Cecil Earl might have been adopted but surely took
on a new last name, from Fenn to Carter.
His mother Anna had married a Carter and then a Dasher.
She was apparently called Annie Lee instead of Anna Lou
but rarely did these people go by their legal names and
often times on census records the entire family would be
listed by initials only.....................Cecil went
by Earl and sometimes Nick.........his son Cecil Jr went
by Junior and his son William Lawrence went by
Larry........... My mother was indian and when I
started looking up census records I found
Cecil's mother Anna Lou Stone as
a child in one record and then I found her Uncle
Charles Stone in Alabama and he
had named his sons Osceola and Tecumseh, so
perhaps I am on the right track,
but which tribe? They were all living in former
Creek Territory but Cecil said he was
Cherokee, perhaps they were mixed blood.
Cecil and his brother Emmett
were tall, large men, dark complexion while their
brother Frank Jr had smaller facial
features and black eyes and black hair. Frank's
granddaughter Martha met with me
and she was at least 6' tall and copper skinned,
lovely lady.
When Cecil was born his mother
decided to leave them all and go back to her family in
Macon City, Bibb County,
Georgia. Cecil was in his father's arms crying so
Wiliam told Anna "here you might as well
take this one" and she did. Then he told the other
children that Cecil was only their
"half" sibling. Cecil was found on the 1920 and
1930 census of Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas but
apparently he visited his family in Alabama now and
then, and they said he was very
mean and drank too much. I only found a few of his
pictures and aparently a time book for a
job he was working in Oak Park before he died in 1939.
The only thing I can remember
about Oak Park was the hospital on Forest Avenue so
maybe he worked
there.
Frank Jr even told his children
that his sister Carrie was only his half sister and she
was the firstborn to Anna and
William Fenn so perhaps the kids just did not get along
or perhaps she looked more like an
indian than the others and was
mistreated.
Cecil's father was William
Franklin Fenn born in 1855 Tuskegee, Macon
County Alabama and Wm's parents were Emeline
Harrell and John Fann of Early County Georgia which
was also former indian
territory. John had served in the Civil War and
his father Elijah Fann born 1788 had drawn in the
Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia. Elijah had
married Martha Rich and her mother was
only known as "Abiah". Elijah's father was Travis
Fann of Virginia, possibly an indian
trader, who married a lady known only as "Mary".
The history of Georgia listed on
usgenweb.com has many stories about the indian traders,
the tribes, the loss of their
lands, and the gold rush of Georgia.
Travis may have been a mixed
blood himself, parents were Alecy McCoy and Zachariah
Fann of Virginia, and I found
some land records on them and their service in the
American Revolution and started
putting those documents on a webpage to view later or
to share with family
Elijah's brother Matthew was
probably the first of the Fenn family to move into
Alabama buying up several hundred acres
of land, employing indians to work the plantation
which was fine but illegal in
the state of Georgia. Matthew Fenn is mentioned in
a book "Early Settlers of Barbour
County".
It was on that plantation where
William Franklin Fenn became the Farm Manager.
Many Fenns may be buried on
that old plantation and a recently found descendant of
Matthew told me that she had to go
to court with the present day owner of that land to
protect the graves of her family.
Anna Stone's parents were Mary
Ann Hendrick, daughter of Christopher Columbus
Hendrick and Augustus Marvin
Stone. Augustus was the son of Sarah Daviess and
Benjamin Wilburne Stone of
Georgia. Ben's parents were Polly Wells of Putnam
Georgia and Michael Stone of
Maryland - they lived in Captain John Stone's District.
Michael and his sons Benjamin
and William Stone were in Macon County Alabama on
the 1850 census with many
returning to Georgia after that but Augustus remained in
Alabama until
1900.
Maybe that is when Anna decided
to go back to Georgia herself and take care of her
mother. The census records
showed that William Fenn was twenty years older than
Anna. His second wife was
even younger.
William and Anna's children were
Carrie/Carolyn, Emmett Marvin, William Franklin,
Robert Lee known as Uncle Lee,
Arthur Lee and Cecil Earl Fenn. Emmett was a very big
man who worked for the railroad
and he lived in downtown Montgomery near the Union
Station. He would stop off
in New York to buy his ver large clothing and that is
where he died of a heart attack. His
nephew Bob Fenn of Millbrook fetched his body back to
Montgomery for burial. Bob
was the son of Frank Jr and principal of Robinson
Springs Elementary School. My mom
put me in touch with him once to discuss our family.
Bob also put me in touch with his
sister Martha. Bob said that he remembered Cecil
being close to a Wm Fenn and Mattie
Mae Adkins Fenn in Georgia but wasn't sure of the
connection. He also told
me that they rememberd Grandma Carter sending pictures
home and gifts. One
picture was of a baseball player, Tige Stone, that they
placed in the living room. Tige
was the son of Anna's brother and played one season in
1923 for the St Louis Cardinals. Bob
siad they had a house fire in Coosada and lost
everything though.
Martha remembered the death of
Grandma Carter and her family taking the train to
Macon. I found grandma
listed as Annie Dasher in 1920 living with her mother
Mary in Macon so she must have married
Carter later.
Cecils's military discharge
shows he received travel pay to his "bonafide" home in
Macon.
His sister Carolyn married later
in life to a Ben Johnson from Choctaw Territory Texas
and they had moved to Creek
Nation in Oklahoma on the 1930 census.
This is so ironic since I found
a nephew listed on the Dublin census living with my
great great grandfather John Thomas
Bozeman and wonder if there were any
connection.
Cecil's wife Ellie died in 1935
after birthing William Lawrence, her third child, and
Cecil remined drunk until he fell dead
in 1939 walking down Columbus Street. The
children, my mom and her two brothers,
lived with the McClains from then on. Some teased
them about being Indian, they were
poor and had a rough life. They attended Capital
Heights School on Federal Drive. "Billy"
stayed in trouble, Cecil was quiet and Annie married at
a young age to Donald Robinson
for a brief time. Cecil Jr married Christine of
North Carolina and spent many years
there, having a son named Mark, but also had a
brief first marriage to Jean McNeil
having one child named Victoria. Cecil's third wife was
Jerri in Atlana and she had
Michael and Jeffrey Earl Carter, before he left.
Billy had no children but married several
times and spent most of his life in Oklahoma.
Annie met Frank Cochran in 1949 and
married.
Cecil Jr died a few months after
a rattlesnake bit his leg twice and he refused
amputation. Billy died in
car accident. Anne had heart bypass surgery
in 1980 and several infections including flu
and pneumonia before she passed in 1992, being buried
close to her brothers in
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anna's son Victor loved the
firewater and died of cirrhosis in 2007 being buried by
his mother.
Cecil had married Alice Emma or
Emily Alice McClain and she was listed as Ellie on his
death certificate which had been
signed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn. Also learned
that Cecil's nickname was Nick - which is
puzzling..
I called around the local
cemeteries to find their graves. Emmett was buried
by their father William in Greenwood
Cemetery in Montgomery. The caretaker showed me
the space next to William with no
headstone was recorded as the grave of Mat Fenn - lo and
behold on the census records,
William had a brother named Madison and family had
mentioned that William was
buried by Uncle Mat. I have taken tons of pictures
of tombstones and saved many of the
census images on another webpage.
Running out of space quickly I
had to start using and abusing other web designers to get
my research "out there" and have
received tons of emails and packages in my home
mail to add new information to
this labor of love
and have met many new family
members. The list is below but I need to say that
the parents of Alice McClain Carter was Charles Allen McClain born
1886 Ramer Alabama and Lorena Emma Bozeman born
1892 Dublin Alabama. One
cousin who contacted me regarding his research linking
to mine regarding Lorena's mother, Alice
Stephens being a Cherokee, told me that I was on the
right track, saying that our
ancestor John Stephens served in the American Revolution
and married a full blood indian
and migrated to Alabama. Another writes that Lorena's
great great Uncle John Bozeman
married an indian in Darlington SC and moved to
Mississippi in 1823. Then of
course we do not know much at all about the widow Sarah
Brown that Lorena's great great
grandfather Peter Bozeman married in 1786 and had
served in the War.
One trip to Dublin revealed the
first home that Ethel Bozeman and her husband Jace
Gibson built while they and the
children lived in a tent. I was there after talking with
some of her daughters, Ruby and
Peggy, who have now passed on and given directions
and stories. Then I found
the tombstones of Ethel and Jace in Hills Chapel
Cemetery. On the way out I stopped at a
small church cemetery where I saw the tombstone of
Herman and "OOTCHA" Broadway who were
our cousins through Charlie McClain's mother
Elizabeth Broadway who was born
1853. Then it seems that Elizabeth's sister
Rebecca Broadway was the mother of Jace
Gibson.
Elizabeth Broadways' mother was
Mary Stephens, a daughter of Benjamin. Elizabeth
had married Josiah Marion
McClain after the Civil War, but I found no marriage
record because he had deserted his
first wife Julia King in Georgia and his several
children. Julie had filed to joined the
Cherokee Rolls and also filed for divorce in 1872.
Josiah was wounded in the war and his
wife Elizabeth filed for his pension so maybe he had no
memory of his other family.
Josiah's mother is only known as "Anna" and was
married to James McClain and they are
buried in Indian Creek Cemetery in GA.
When I had gone to Greenwood
Cemetery to find the graves of my husband's
grandparents Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar
Brooks Sr., I found his mother Annie
Clark Ballard beside them and on
my way towards the exit I discovered a Bozeman
family plot and pulled over
immediately. There close to the gate was Nancy Jane
Anderson Bozeman's tombstone,
the grandmother of my Lorena. Buried beside her
were two of her sons, Meady and
Robert, their wives and children.
Uncle Robert is the one who
owned a large piece of land near Maxwell AFB and
donated a portion to create the
Memorial Cemetery where Lorena and her children are
buried and my parents. The
road is named Bozeman Drive and for many years I just
hoped for a connection until
recently did I learn the story. He was a contractor and
each of his six daughters received a
piece of land and street name when they married.
Now I can certainly understand
Lorena's connection to this place.
The story and others were told
to me by a new found cousin Dora Stubbs, the
granddaughter of Dora Dillard
and Uncle Peter James Bozeman. I met Dora in May
2007 on a road trip back to Dublin
with my oldest daughter, where we met many new
Bozeman cousins, children of
Uncle Bob actually, and the Gibson children, quite an
exciting day. We met at
Hills Chapel Church which is across the street from
Hills Chapel Cemetery. We were led
around the block to another road which runs behind the
church to an old family cemetery, a
small burial ground encased with barbed wire, and many
fallen branches and years of
neglect.
I like to call it Bozeman
Hill.....it needed a name.
There we found our great great
great grandfather's tombstone of Peter Edward
Bozeman born 1834 who had served
in the Civil War. Near his was a grave of R L Hill
who must have been his cousin and nearby
was the most precious tombstone I have ever seen -
My Darling ALB - Alice Lorena
Stephens Bozeman was Peter's daughter in law, the wife
of John Thomas Bozeman. Alice was
the great granddaughter of John Stephens and his
cherokee wife. There was a small
clover type design drawn upon the tombstone and the
dates worn very thin.
Family says she died a few months after delivering
Little John and her husband married again right
away to have help with the children.
John Thomas Bozeman is buried at
the Hills Chapel Cemetery with his other wife Sarah
Ellen Bean, near his brother,
Peter James and Dora. Dora Dillard's ancetor Nat Dillard
had a large plantation in Dublin
beofre moving on to Troy. Ellen Bean told the
children she was kin to the hanging Judge
Roy Bean.
Dora Stubbs also told me that
several years back we could have seen about 50 other
tombstones in that old family
plot behind the church. When I researched the area
I found it was once owned by a
John Hill who was most likely the uncle to Peter.
Peter's mother was always listed as
Martha H. so she was possibly the sister of John Hill.
Reading back into Darlington SC
I found a John Hill served in the American Revolution.
Darlington is where Peter's
father william Henry Bozeman married Martha H. - nothing
is known about Martha's
mother.
My List of Ancestors'
Names
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page46.html
2 1847 Will of Abraham
Crigler leaving all to wife Lydia.
3 1848 Slave Appraisal of
Abraham Crigler
4 1817 Laurence and
William Roby Wills
6 Will of Reason Roby and
Lawrence Roby 1817
7 William Roby Estate Sale
1834
8 1819 Will of our
grandfather Jesse Simmons leaving land to Catherine
Roby
9 George Little Memorial
placed by great granddaughter
Laura
10 Lydia Carpenter marries
Abraham Crigler in 1795
11 Handley Mason and
Worthington of Ireland to Kentucky 1800
12 Slave Owners in Bullitt
Kentucky
15 Frankie Lavern
Cochran
16 Mary Ella Thornton and
James Edgar Brooks Jr.
17 Frankie Cochran with
Kathy in Arizona
18 Charles Allen McClain
born 1886 - his funeral memorial book and many names of
visitors.
19 Anne Alice Carter
Cochran
20 My pictures of Coosada
and Montgomery Indian Historical
Markers
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page21.html
22 Thomas Randolph Carter,
Lacy and Jesse Bozeman, Tombstones
24 Letter by Aunt
Ethel Bozeman, Lorena's sister
25 Peter Bozeman -my
research links
26 Bozemans from Darlington
SC to Montgomery Alabama
30 Frankie Cochran and Anne
by the cactus in 1953 Arizona
32 Wedding of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran, parents of Frankie
and Freelon, Jay and Cleo, Darrell
33 Freelon Cochran's
final letter from Korea
39 Census Records 1790
1800 1810
40 Brooks and Thornton of
Elmore County Alabama
41 Kathy discovers grave of
Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834
42 Jacob cochran and Mariah
White Genealogy
43 Hans Brooke of
Holland and son John to Tennessee and the connection to
Elijah Lee born 1777 and Andrew
Cooper of SC, Carter, Ballard...
44 My Alabama Genealogy and
Research - Lee, Cooper, Ballard, Hereford, Hood,
Thornton, Partridge, Baxley,
Brack, Sellers, Anderson, Brooks.
46 My many ancestors listed
with spouse
51 American Genealogy
background with links
52 Dream Catcher background
with links
54 Tige Stone, nephew of
Anna
55 Civil War Pension of
Grandfather John Wright Little
56 Tombstone of Grandfather W F
Fenn
58 Charles and his
children
59 Tombstone of Charles
Brooks
Cecil and Alice married about
1931, had Cecil Jr in 1932 , my mother Anne in 1934 and
William Lawrence in 1935, with
Alice dying immediately after giving birth - Cecil died
in 1939 so the children were raised
by the McClain grandparents in Montgomery Alabama.
Cecil Jr married several
times and had several chiclren. Anne married
Frankie Cochran in 1951 having me in 1953
in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma. William had no
children.
When I started tracing the
Cochran lineage I found he had a cousin nmed Powhatan
and grandmothers who smoke pipes and
made their own medicine, living on the prairie
among the indians . One of
Frank's many grandfathers had refused land in indian
territory, just a family story,
but where would I find proof.
My dad talked about Luella
sitting in the field for hours filling her apron with
roots and herbs. He said her long
black hair touched the floor when she sat down.
She had told her children that she was one
quarter Cherokee. They talked about Luella's
mother, Lattie, cooking skunk
meat; that it was the best tasting meat ever. I
cannot begin to imagine how she caught the
little critter.
Lattie was a beautiful petite
dark featured lady from Kentucky and her mother Mary
Catherine Crigler Little was
positively gorgeous in the photos with a long dark braid
hanging over her shoulder.
Lattie's father, John Wright Little, was another
handsome dark featured man, even so
described in his civil war pension papers. His
grandmother was Catherine G. Weatherford out
of Charlotte VA as so written in the internet's Virginia
history records. Those
records state that her father was Charles Weatherford
and I find only one Charles on census
during that particular time. His mother is
recorded as Mary Half Blood and he ended up in
Alabama married to Sehoy. His father Martin
Weatherford was a wealthy plantation
owner with slaves in Georgia, a very outspoken Loyalist
who was kicked out of the State and
resided in the Bahamas where he married a second
time and this wife also named a
son Charles.
Georgia became a name for some
of the women in that lineage and I would also
suspect it was the middle name of
Catherine, giving us a clue to her father's
whereabouts.
The Criglers came from Germanny,
residing in Virginia 1700s in a colony called
Germanna so we should focus our
research on the many wives of those men wo
eventually migrated into
Kentucky in 1800 with the Carpenters, Duvals, Simmon,s
Wells, and Roby families. Many
had served in the War and received Land
Grants.
I find it so ironic that grandpa
John Wright Little left Kentucky when his wife died and
took a homestead in Little Rock
Arkansas. He is buried on some unknown mountatntop
there. He was a cherokee, a
blacksmith and a farmer. My dad's sister Bernice
has a few pieces of his work.
Bernice was a twin to Eunice and their mother also
had another set of twin boys who did not
survive. Twins are quite common in that lineage;
I have discovered
several.
I have found several in my
lineage who served in the Civil War and in the American
Revolution, learned that much of
our Alabama families lost everything during the Civil
War and then many more served in
the other wars of our nation and collected quite a bit
of documentation within this
maize of genealogy pages.
I went back into researching a
grandmother of Lorena, a Lavinia Jane Sellers, and
found one of her cousins had
married a Schrimpshire, and another Schrimpshire had
married an indian Chief Dennis
Bushyhead. Others tracing the Sellers, Anderson,
Brack, Doty lineage through the Carolinas
into Alabama are also claiming indian blood. My
husband's Brooks, Ballard, Bond,
Baxter, Smith, Craig, Connelly lineage of 1800
Tennessee resided in Indian
Territory there long before the Trail of Tears and the
Tennessee website has an
exciting history uploaded to enjoy at usgenweb.com -
Enjoy reading about Sequoyah and Nancy
Ward and Joe Vann during this same time in history
along with Rogers, Starr and
Ross, they all lived so close together.
Lorena's husband's line came out
of Virginia in 1750 when a Charles McClain married
Elizabeth Moon and moved to
Spartanburg South Carolina, mixed with Stone, Lynch,
Wood, Hildebrand and many
other interesting names who migrated into Georgia's
Indian Territory about
1800.
This journey will never be
complete; I just try to follow their path, gather
the census records, marriage licenses, land
records, and military records, maps, attempting to
piece our history together.
One difficult item is they used nicknames quite
often, even on the documents. Anna Stone's
son William Franklin Fenn Jr. was called Will on his WWI
registration; her nephew
William Arthur Stone was called Tige ; Anna's son,
Cecil liked to go by Earl or even
Nick, his mother was called Annie, his son William was
Billy or even Larry and then my mother
was named Annie but she preferred Anne when she
became Mrs. Cochran. One
photo of Frank Cochran's mother Luella has Rue written
on it but I would think Lue, not
Rue and they called my dad Bud. Lorena was called
Rena even on a census record in 1900
but I could not find her anywhere in 1920 or 1930.
Annie Ballard Brooks called one
son Bubba and one daughter Sissy. Bubba was my
husband's father and Sissy is the
one helping me trace their lineage, sharing many
beautiful photos.
My search box above will reveal
most anything I have documented on any of our
surnames.
Happy Hunting
!!!
A few trips to
cemeteries finding tombstones of relatives Charlie and I
knew nothing about, I have saved several photos of those
headstones on webpages and tried to write a little bit
about those new discoveries.
My mother didn't know
much about her parents since she was orphaned at the age
of 4 and raised by her mother's McClain
parents.
Once I had my family
tree up and looking fabulous, I began on my late
husband's family and found one of his cousins, Clarence
Bearden, posting on the internet, doing the same thing
with the Brooks lineage. I phoned Clarence and he
sent me some research papers on John Brooks born 1837
and some pictures of Thomas Randolph Carter
family. Clarence's mother is my
husband's Aunt Sissy, actually named Elizabeth Brooks
and she had called my husband's daddy,
Bubba.
I never knew that
before.
I called
Charlie's cousin, Sue Carol, about Mary Ella's lineage
and found that her husband, Wayne Bozeman, was also my
cousin, WOW !!
Sue Carol drove me and
Beverly up to Central one day to see the tombstones of
Mary Partridge and George Thornton, a couple of there
great grandparents from Georgia, buried behind an old
Primitive Baptist Church.
Wayne and Sue Carol had
dug deeply into his lineage and they were amazed with my
Bozeman research. They had been to the graves at
Hope Hull, but so had Clarence Bearden and he had also
published an article about his findings there on the
Alabama Cemetery Preservation
webpage.
Beverly took me to Hope
Hull and our findings were extremely fascinating and we
took many pictures
Then we went to Dublin
to further our reearch and to Elmore County and I have
many other pictures within.
Beverly gave me a new
computer for Christmas 2006 with a free subscription to
ancestry.com and I have saved hundreds of old documents,
and census images showing the tracks of our
ancestors.
Wayne loaned me his
copy of a book written about the Bozemans and I have
also scanned those pages into my
research.
I have posted my huge
family tree on the internet to share at rootsweb.com and
there is another relative online researching the Brooks
lineage of Tennessee and Alabama
New relatives write to
me all the time, I have dozens and dozens of emails from
people asking for information, sharing their lineage,
letting me know that we are
related.
I joined several
genealogy mailing lists and message boards online and
once tried to contact a Donna Burdette but her mother
wrote back to me, being from the Bozeman line -
Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman, the
sister of my great granny Lorena.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman wrote
to me and met me and Elizabeth at Dublin in May 2007, my
daughter Beverly drove us there and we met a lot of
Ethel Mae's family there and some elderly children of
Uncle Bob Bozeman's family. We explored the old
family cemetery way behind Hills Chapel Church, out in
the woods and found the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman
and his daughter in law Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman.
Peter's son John had
been married to Alice. Alice was our great great
granny, rich with Cherokee blood.
I can see how she named
my great granny Emma Lorena Bozeman but where did she
get the name for Ethel Mae. Aunt Ethel had written
a story about her parents, published in the Montgomery
Advertiser around 1970.
I asked these people at
Dublin if they knew anything about Lorena 's husband
Charlie McClain and they said he was a good man, cross
eyed, and never had a tombstone.
December 2007 a new
cousin, Glenda, sends an email. Cousin to my
mother in law, she is a wonderful new friend. We
are researching Ella Olivia Baxley Hood and her parents
of Holtville. Beverly takes me to Coosa River
Primitive Baptist Church cemetery where we find several
family graves, Louisa Miranda Holt and James Hardie
Baxley, of the Civil War and down the road at Cains
Chapel Cemetery we find the grave of Ella and her
husband L W Hood and their children, including
"Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton ( the mother of
Mary Ella Thornton Brooks ).
My mother was an indian
and my father had some indian blood so I am certainly
interested in all native american history, finding a lot
being uploaded to usgenweb.com
My Dad's sisters are
near 90 and well Bernice is 92 and they sent me
information and pictures of the old ones and copies of
their own genealogy worksheets, which have been very
helpful with my Cochran lineage. My grandpa
Cochran was married to a Coonfield which has much indian
history coming out of 1800s Kentucky, Civil War and
travels across the nation.
Several of my ancestors
served in the American Revolution and the Civil War and
I find it amazing to cross their names in our nation's
history.
Many books are written
including a portion of our family; Grandpa Coonfield
being listed in the history of Morgan County
Indiana; Grandpa Little in the DAR books and
Kentucky History; Sketches of Bozeman published in
1885 mentions Peter Bozeman moving to Alabama;
Stephens Ancestors book at Ramer Library written by a
cousin Clyde Stephens who wrote to me a few years ago
and sent a package of papers to my home for my
research; Fenn families in Georgia history and in
the Early Settlers of Barbour County
Alabama.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman's
daughter is currently working to get our Peter Bozeman
recognized at the DAR which will open doors for many
many Alabama Bozeman researchers. Peter's son
William Henry Bozeman has a large lineage
here.
Peter's son Jesse is
the one found buried at Hope Hull.
Everything I find is
printed to my notebook and also saved on a
webpage,
Kathy Cochran
Brooks
Dream Catcher
background with lots of my links
Brooks of
Tennessee
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His grandparents were James E
Brooks Sr and Susie Mae Cooper/
and Bessie Mae Hood and
Milton Elijah Thornton.
Bessie's mother was Ella Olivia Baxley.
1910 Elmore Co, AL, Central -
pct 6, page 92, ED 76, sht 2A............ (all
birthplaces shown as AL) Willie Thornton 37 M1 farmer,
married 17 yrs,shown as Wm J in 1900 Sallie (wife)
30 M1 married 17 yrs, 7 kids, 6 living, shown as
Sallie E. in 1900 Elijah (son) 16 laborer-home
farm Mary (dau) 13 Judain? May (dau) 10 Earnest (son) 8 Early
(son) 6 Jewell (dau) 3............ W. J. Thornton
married C. S. A. E. Woodall on Nov 9, 1893 in Elmore Co, AL
..................
1930 Montgomery Co, AL, Pole
Bridge, ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Milton Thornton 36 auto mechanic, married 14 yrs
Bessie (wife) 30 married 14 yrs Loraine (dau) 10
Nellie (dau) 9 James (son) 7 Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
.................
.......... There is a draft
registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore Co
dated 6/5/1917. Milton's birthdate is shown as 5/11/1894. He is
married and working for the Lancaster-Johnson
Lumber Co near Wetumpka............ There is
a family tree for Milton and Bessie at rootsweb.
Shows their children but not their parents..............
Milton died on either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953 in
Montgomery Co. DC # 25766. Looks like another death
certificate needs to be ordered for
confirmation............. 1900 Elmore Co, AL,
Cold Springs, ED 63, sht 13B
(all birthplaces shown as Alabama) L. W. Hood 41
farmer married 14 yrs Ella O. (wife) 29 married 14 yrs, 3
kids, 3 living Sewart (son) 10 farm laborer Minnie
Lee (dau) 8 Allen W. (son) 2
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Then we find John Brooke born
1837 in Pennsylvania but raised in
Pennsylvania, with his father, Hans Brooke,
from Holland and mother from
France....................Hans had three boys and
one girl...........Henry, Edward, John and Lula
Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The
parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl was
adopted.........John, our grandfather, was bound
out to a tailor to learn that trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia TN
about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860
census in TN working as a tailor but as John
Brooks............That year he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up with
her other boyfriend, Doctor 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.
Cecil's parents were Anna
Lou Stone and William Frank Fenn of Bullock County
AL
Alice McClain Carter had three children
and died at the age of 19 while her husband Cecil
died only four years later; their
children were raised by her McClain parents. Their Uncle Emmitt
Fenn stayed in touch with the children and his
estate was divided amongst them, which was not
much at all, but he loved them. A sister of Alice
was Katy Bell and she adored those babies and
helped her parents raise them and sewed their clothing.
Katie never had any children of her
own.
They had another sister
named Jimmie Lee, who got pregnant by a neighbor
named Hays, so she named the baby Jimmy Lee
Hayes. Suffering from Toxicemia during the
pregnancy, she died giving birth. Alice
had another sister named Mary
who had crippling arthritis in her feet but also a
bad leg where she fell off a truck as a child and it
ran over her.
Not much is known about
grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter except his military
records show us that he served about 20 years in the
army but we have no clue if the children received
any benefits after his death.
The papers also
indicate he had a very dark ruddy complexion,
which we know he was Indian. He drank
too much alcohol and claimed
his grandfather was an indian chief. Cecil
fell dead on Columbus Street. His death certificate reveled
the names of his parents and then I found his
father's grave, W F Fenn.
Still researching the Brooks
lineage, learning that Milton Elijah Thornton's
mother was an indian - Mary Angeline Partridge married
George Thornton. These families were found
in 1800 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears of 1835.
The Brooks married into
the Carter/ Cooper/ Lee families which were found
in 1850 Chambers County AL census records that indicate
they all came from South Carolina. We find that
Mrs Andrew Cooper was named Alsey and had no last
name so shall we suspect that she was an indian
born about 1800 in South Carolina...and she was a
great great granny to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks (
Mamaw )
John Brooks of PA was found
in 1860 census of Giles, TN and he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith that
year. Her mother was
Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of
North Carolina. The father of John Brooks came from
Holland.
Permilia named her first son
John Brooks, and he married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they
moved to Alabama .
Our Scottish Cochran
family is found in
Pennsylvania, then Ohio. Coonfield from Holland was in PA and
then Kentucky by 1800.
The Little family of Scotland settled in SC
first, then Kentucky - all three
families are later found in
Arkansas.
One piece of the puzzle
in Union South Carolina 1790 census, there are
several Little families living close together and we may
never ever know if they are related to each other,
but the names are repeated over and over in our line. Our
Grandfather John Little was in the Civil
War.
Granny Clora Jane Miller Cochran's ancestors
came from Ireland and we found her GGGgreat
grandfather Reverend
Alexander Miller settled in Rockingham VA.
Clora's mother was a Parker with
ancestors from England
settled in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
York Indian Country, then Ohio. The Wright and
Weatherford families came out of Charlotte VA
1700s into Kentucky.
Ancestors of Anne Carter
Cochran are English and Dutch in Virginia and the
Carolinas, before migrating through Georgia and Alabama.
I find that she had many great great
grannies with no last name and suspect that several took
indian brides and gave them a Christian name.
Researching McClain, Moon, Bozeman, Anderson, Stephens,
Sellers, Broadway. Wood, Fenn, Stone, Hendrick,
Harrell, Wells, Davis.
Pictures and
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List of Webpages on this
site:
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathylcochran/Genealogy.html
http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/n/c/Samanthas-Ancestors/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/grpsht.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/grandpatrcarter/photoList.html
pictures of headstones
that I found in Hope Hull cemetery of Jesse
Bozeman, Lacy Bozeman and her husband
Thomas Randolph Carter and their children - these
graves are located only two miles
off the Interstate 65 on McLean
Road.
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kc90853/000.html
www.hometown.aol.com/cochransgenweb/List.html
http://hometown.aol.com/kc90853/Bud.html
www.hometown.aol.com/bozemangenweb/1.html
http://hometown.aol.com/carterancestry/Family.html
http://hometown.aol.com/cochransgenweb/Family.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/alabamagenealogy/1.html
4 Brooks ancestors to
John Smith in Virginia
5 George Little in 1800
SC lives beside Spray, John and his son
Jonas. Jonas had Hiram
and Hiram had our grandpa John who had
Lattie.
6 George Little in 1810
Kentucky by Hunt and Handley
7 his son John
Little in 1810 KY was in Civil
War
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Hiram
8 Isaac Benjamin
Coonfield tracks from 1800 Kentucky to Arkansas
also went to Indiana
and back to ARK
9 Josiah McClain
born 1788 headstones
10.Cooper lineage of
Chambers County Alabama
11. Grandma Elizabeth
Broadway in 1860 at age 7 later married Josiah
Marion McClain after
his civil war service.
13 Bible Records
and some census records
14 Jonas Little in
Kentucky 1810
17 Charlie Brooks
lineage
22 John Handley in
Ky 1810
23 Elijah Lee in Alabama
born 1777 SC and Malinda Philips to Cooper
and
Brooks
24 Susie Mae Cooper and
son
25 Bozeman and Carter
links
26 Lorena Bozeman
and Charles McClain wed 1908
27 McClains buried in
Indian Creek Cemetery
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31 Alice McClain
Carter and little Annie
Alice
32 Anne and Frank
Cochran
34
Billy and Junior
Carter, sons of Alice
35 Catherine
Crigler and John Little
36 Amy Coonfield and Joe
Gray
Coonfield headstones
at
Charles Brooks' great
grandmother, Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton, was
from Cherokee Territory in
Georgia.
Elijah LEE married Malinda
Phillips in Georgia and they bought land in
Chambers County and had
Sarah. Sarah married Charner P Cooper and
he served in the Civil
War - they had Levi Benjamin Cooper who married
Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth
Carter in Hope Hull Alabama. Their daughter
was Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
LEE and Cooper had come into Chambers
County about 1830 while it
was still Creek Territory and must have had
quite an adventure living
in this wilderness.
Sallie was the daughter of
Mary Josephine Hereferd and Thomas Randolph
Carter and he must had a
large plantation until the Civil War ruined the
lands in Alabama.
His father was John Wise Carter of Edgefield
SC who had settled in Talladega
with a wife known only as "Mary" and several
children.
Mary J Hereford had
beautiful black eyes and black hair and she was
born in
Virginia.
John's father served in
the American Revolution along with his father in
law, and some researchers
think that John had a brother named Thomas
Carter who also served in
the War.
Charles Wayne Brooks m
Kathy Cochran
His parents were James
Edgar Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton of
Montgomery Alabama -
Kathy's parents were Anne Carter and Frank
Cochran. Frank's
parents were Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert
Cochran of Arkansas and
Kansas. Anne Carter's parents were Alice
Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter
who claimed to be Cherokee. Cecil's father
was born in Tuskegee, Macon
County Alabama which was also Creek Territory.
His mother Anna Stone's
ancestors were in Georgia 1800s, and her Uncle
Charles Stone named his
sons Osceola and Tecumseh. Frank Cochran had
a 3rd cousin named
Powhatan Little and the Little families are
researching their connection to
Pocahontas as well as Chief Red Eagle through the
Weatherford lineage.
Luella's Coonfield family were in Kentucky
for the 1800 tax lists and my
granny Luella said that she was
Cherokee.
Charlie's
grandparents were James E Brooks Sr and
Susie Mae Cooper/ and Bessie Mae Hood and
Milton Elijah Thornton.
1910 Elmore Co, AL,
Central - pct 6, page 92, ED 76, sht
2A............ (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Willie Thornton 37 M1
farmer, * Milton Elijah's uncle??
married 17 yrs,shown
as Wm J in 1900
Sallie (wife) 30 M1
married 17 yrs, 7 kids, 6 living,
shown as Sallie E. in 1900
Elijah (son) 16
laborer-home farm
Mary (dau) 13 Judain? May
(dau) 10
Earnest (son) 8
Early (son) 6
Jewell (dau) 3............
W. J. Thornton married C. S. A. E. Woodall on Nov
9, 1893 in Elmore Co, AL
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1930 Montgomery Co, AL,
Pole Bridge, ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown
as AL) Milton Thornton 36
auto mechanic, married 14 yrs Bessie (wife) 30
married 14
yrs
Loraine (dau) 10 Nellie
(dau) 9
James (son) 7
Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
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.......... There is a
draft registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore
Co dated 6/5/1917. Milton's
birthdate is shown as 5/11/1894.
He is married and working
for the Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co near
Wetumpka............ There
is a family tree for Milton and Bessie at
rootsweb.
Shows their children but
not their parents.............. Milton died on
either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953 in
Montgomery Co. DC # 25766. Looks like another
death certificate needs to
be ordered for confirmation............. 1900
Elmore Co, AL, Cold Springs, ED
63, sht 13B (all birthplaces shown as Alabama)
L. W. Hood 41 farmer
married 14 yrs
Ella O. (wife) 29 married
14 yrs, 3 kids, 3 living
Stewart (son) 10 farm
laborer
Minnie Lee (dau) 8
Allen W. (son) 2
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Milton 's sister Lucy Ann
married Mr. Gross and had a son named Charlie
who currently lives in
Robinson Springs.
Mary Ella's sister
Lorraine, "Tutor", says that Mary Angeline
Partridge was their indian granny.
Tutor's daughter Sue Carol is married to
Wayne Bozeman and they are also
working on this lineage. Sue took me to the
graves of Mary Angeline
and George Thornton in Central, just past Santuck,
at the Primitive Baptist
Church. She and Wayne also had been to the
Bozeman's graves in Hope
Hull. My genealogy connects my children to
both Wayne and Sue
Carol.
The grave of Jesse Bozeman
born 1793 we all found in Hope Hull, his wife,
his children and his
daughter Lacy who was the first wife of T R
Carter, out in a huge cow pasture on
land once owned by these families from South
Carolina. Jesse was the
son of Peter Bozeman who was born around 1750
in Bladen NC to
Mordecai and his unknown wife possibly of the
Cherokee Nation. Peter
married a widowed Sarah Brown in 1786, adopted her
two girls and named their
first son Meady and another one William Henry and
one named Peter.
They all migrated to Alabama about 1826.
Mordecai also had a son named John
who married a full blood Cherokee and moved to
Mississippi. Mordecai and
his sons John and Peter all served in the
American Revolution and
received Land Grants in Darlington SC in the
1780s and payment for
their services.
Then we find John Brooke
born 1837 in Holland but raised in Pennsylvania,
with his father, Hans
Brooke, from Holland and mother from
France.......
.............Hans had three boys and
one girl...........Henry, Edward, John and
Lula Christine....They
settled in Reading PA. The parents died leaving
minor children, and the
little girl was adopted.........John, our
grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to
learn that trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia
TN about 1860 and we find him on the Giles
County 1860 census in TN
working as a tailor but as John
Brooks............That year he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up
with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith
and fell in love with John
Brooks.................John and RP had Walter and
Nora before joining a
wagon train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and
Tom were born......
...John died in 1882 of
tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna
went back to TN to marry Doctor
Terry Crittendon Smith. He actually heard she
was widowed and went to
Texas to marry her and bring her back to TN.
They lived and died in
Sandy Hook, Tennessee.
Still researching the
Brooks lineage, learning that Milton Elijah
Thornton's mother was an indian -
Mary Angeline Partridge married George Thornton.
These families were found
in 1800 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears of
1835.
Both of George Thornton's
parents were born around 1830 in Georgia:
Nancy Catherine Culpepper
and Charles W. Thornton. Nancy's mother was
Martha Blackstone born
about 1814 in Georgia. The Culpeppers were
in 1700s South Carolina when
the counties were just beginning to form along
the east coast.
While very little is yet found on the
Thornton families I did run across an indian
family
Family Data Collection -
Individual Records
about Delilah Amelia Vann
Name: Delilah Amelia Vann
Spouse: David McNair
Parents: James Clement
Chief Vann , Elizabeth Betsy Go Sa Du I Sga
Thornton
Birth Place: Spring Place,
GA - Murry County
Birth Date: 30 Jun 1795
Marriage Date: 1807
Death Place: Charleston,
Bradley, TN
Death Date: 30 Nov 1838
All quite interesting
since I was researching the Brooks and Smith
lineage in Murry County and the
Ballards next to them in Lawrence County .... As
well as James Ballard's
mother Rowena Densy Baxter being born in Maury
County 1831 and her mother
was Hester Ward of North
Carolina
One can only wonder if
Hester had some connection to the famous indian
woman named Nanyei
Ward.
Census records show some
of our families in 1700s Carolinas near a Gist
family, later finding them
in Tennessee and Alabama.
The Brooks married into
the Carter/ Cooper/ Lee families which were found
in 1850 Chambers County AL
census records that indicate they all came
from South Carolina.
We find that Mrs Andrew
Cooper was named Alsey and had no last name
so shall we suspect
that she was an indian born about 1800 in South
Carolina...
and she was a great great
granny to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks ( Mamaw )
John Brooks of PA was
found in 1860 census of Giles, TN and he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith
that year. Her mother was Caroline Bond,
daughter of a John Baptist
Bond of North Carolina. The father of John Brooks
came from Holland.
Parents of Caroline Bond (
who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond
and Kitty Stone.
Many researchers are looking into the Stone
name as being of Cherokee
Blood.
Permilia named her first
son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no Walter
in the lineage,so why use
this name? and another son JOHN Edwin but the
census looks like his
middle initial was H., and JOHN married
Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they
moved to Alabama being transferred with the
railroad and then lived on
Adams Avenue near the train station. Annie
had only one child, James
Edgar Brooks, who became a bookkeeper with the
State, and later married
Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son
James Edgar Brooks Jr., a
daughter Christine and another girl named
Sissy.
Annie's photo shows dark
black hair and coal black eyes. Annie's
parents were both born in
Tennessee, James Calvin Ballard and Willie Eudora
Craig but their ancestors
migrated from the Carolinas. "Dora's" mother
was Rebecca Caroline
Pennington and she married William Craig in 1860.
Rebecca's mother was
only known as "Gracy" who married William
Pennington, and his mother
was only known as "Kezziah" born about 1750
in South
Carolina.
J E Brooks Jr and Mary
Ella Thornton lived on Hull Street in downtown
Montgomery Alabama, having
sons Johnny, Tommy, and Charlie. Your
author was married to
Charlie and consults Aunt Sissy for background
information on the family,
but also studies census records, and other
documents for
verification.
Visiting Jesse Bozeman's
grave in Hope Hull and his son in law Thomas R
Carter who was a great
great grandfather to Charles Brooks.
Thomas
Carter was the
Grandfather of the above mentioned Susie Mae
Cooper. Thomas had married twice, first
to Jesse Bozeman's daughter, Lacy Jane and
secondly to Mary Josephine
Hereferd.
While Charlie Brooks was
growing up on Hull Street, his future wife Kathy's
family was residing nearby on
Highland Avenue, Yougene Street and
Maryland Avenue and they
were descendants of the Bozeman family,
actually to a brother of
Jesse, William Henry Bozeman.
Most of these families
migrated around 1800 - 1820 from South Carolina.
Some lived in Georgia for
a while, moving on into Alabama or
Tennessee.
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Elijah Lee and Andrew
Cooper of South Carolina born
1770s brought their families
to Chambers County Alabama,
former Creek Indian Lands, before 1840.
It has been said that Elijah paid an
indian directly for his land. Elijah had
married Malinda Phillips of Green County Georgia and
some believe the Phillips were of indian blood.
Andrew Cooper may have also married an
indian woman named Alsey and her last name had never
been discovered. On the 1840 census Alsey
appears to be widowed with children. 1840 shows Elijah
Lee living near a John Phillips. The Alabama
Land Records show that Elijah bought land in
1823 so it was long before the
Trail of Tears. ( note ) ( MORE0
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/grpsht.html
The Lees are buried at the
Old Harmony Baptist Church cemetery and the
graves of the Coopers are not yet found.
Aunt Sissy says that grandpa Levi Cooper
is buried by his sons at a
church cemetery in Cecil, Alabama. They
had resided in Whitehall according to Aunt Sissy.
She and her son Butch have been a great
help!
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Charner P Cooper, son of
Andrew, married Sarah F Lee, daughter of Elijah,
and their son Levi Benjamin Cooper married
Sarah Elizabeth Carter, a daughter of
Thomas Randolph Carter and Mary Josephine Hereford
of Virginia. Mary had a beautiful
complexion, black eyes and
black hair. The grave of TRC born 1820 was found
in Hope Hull, Montgomery,
Alabama by his first wife, Lacy Jane Bozeman and
I really appreciate my daughter driving us
through that cow pasture to find that little
cemetery hidden behind the pond, and
it really deserves a historical
marker.
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The Bozemans
came from South Carolina
and NC 1700s moving into
Alabama as some of the Indian Tribes moved west
in the early 1800s. Lacy's
father Jesse's headstone shows that he was born
1793. Apparently Jesse had been married
twice . Many legal documents exist in Montgomery County
regarding the Bozeman families.
Jesse Bozeman was the
brother of William Henry
Bozeman and administrator of
his Estate. Their father was Peter Bozeman
of Darlington South Carolina
who served in the American Revolution along with
his own father, Mordecai Bozeman. Peter and
his wife Sarah, had moved their
families into Alabama about 1820 and they are
probably buried in Hope Hull, Montgomery County,
Alabama. Several Bozemans
were buying land in Alabama
in the 1820s and 1830s.
Just imagine the many
wagon trains flowing in..
William Henry named his
sons, Meady, Peter Edward, and
John Thomas Bozeman. John's descendant,
Jimmy Ray has assisted with this
research. Meady's descendant Wayne and his
wife Sue Carol have also assisted. Wayne
and Jimmy have had many years of genealogy
work before me and were so kind and proud to
share with a new cousin.
*Thomas Carter
was the son of
John Wise Carter
who some say was buried in
Talladega Alabama. John was born 1792
South Carolina, the son of
Elizabeth Wise and Captain John Carter who may
have served in the War of 1812 and the American
Revolution. John bought
land in Alabama in 1821.
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Susie Mae Cooper's husband
was James Edgar Brooks Sr
and their son was James Jr.
The parents of James came from
Tennessee with the railroad
and they resided downtown Montgomery Alabama
near the Union Station.
They were Annie Clark Ballard and John Brooks, all buried at Greenwood.
John's father
was also named John, born in Pennsylvania
to Dutch parents.
He was found in the 1860
census of Giles TN, the same year he met and
married Roxanna Permilia Smith.note Our cousin
Clarence and his mother
Sissy have assisted with this research and
contributed to the Montgomery Cemetery research
with his survey of Carter-Stokes
cemetery in Hope Hull, which should be
appropriately named Carter and Bozeman
Cemetery.
The Smith families connect
to a Captain John Smith of
Virginia.
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The Ballards
were previously in the
Carolinas, as were the Bond, and Ward
families.
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James Edgar Brooks Jr
married Mary Ella Thornton
and had a son named Charles in Montgomery
Alabama. He also worked a while with the railroad
while living on Hull Street near my grandpa Fenn
but the Brooks soon moved to Millbrook and had a
huge garden and seven boys and
one daughter. Mr Brooks became an
exterminator for a few years before he joined
the John Deere dealership. They are
buried in Prattville by their son
Johnny. *letter*
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Elijah's parents came from
Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton; we found their graves
behind an old primitive Baptist Church in
Central, Elmore, AL on the way to the Lake.Mary
Ella's sister, Lorraine said that Mary Angeline
was an indian and my daughter took
me to the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in
Central to locate those headstones.
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Bessie's parents were
Ella Olivia Baxley
and Allen Wesley Hood but his headstone has an L W
on it. His parents are hard to
trace and prove. Hers
were James and Marnda Baxley of Cold Spring,
Elmore, AL and thus begins the brick wall in our
research.
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Alice McClain's
parents were Lorena Emma Bozeman and Charles Allen McClain of Ramer, Montgomery
County, Alabama. The parents of Charles were Elizabeth Broadway and
Josiah Marion McClain
( Civil War Soldier of GA).
Josiah's ancestors were Elizabeth Moon and Charles
McClain of Virginia 1700s. Josiah's father
James was found in Alabama on the 1860 census
and had possibly married an
indian named Anna. The Broadways came out
of South Carolina and Elizabeth's father
Abner had married Mary Susan Stephens
of Alabama.
Lorena's parents were
Alice Stephens
and John Thomas
Bozeman. Alice
Stephen's great great grandfather John Stephens
had married a full blood
Cherokee in North Carolina and began a journey
to Alabama where many of his grandchildren
settled in Ramer.
Parents of John Bozeman
were Nancy Jane Anderson
and Peter Edward Bozeman.
Peter was the son of
William Henry Bozeman. Our Bozeman
family says that Peter Edward is buried behind
the Hills Chapel Church in the woods where there
was once a cemetery many years
ago.
Nancy's parents were
Lavinia Jane Sellers and Seaborn Anderson.
Lavinia's sister married a Cooper.
Seaborn Anderson's ancestors and his father
Elijah had settled in Lowndes
County before moving to Montgomery, Alabama.
Elijah's parents were Lavinia Brack
and Elisha Anderson who's
Will is located at the Montgomery
County Archives. This line connects to the
Mayflower's Edward
Doty.as Lavinia Brack's mother
was Hester Doty, a daughter of Benajah Doty
and Elizabeth
Farr.
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The Cochran and Coonfield
lineage of the midwest. 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. Family lore is that
Mary 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
France.
As far as documenting the
Cochran lineage, I have none beyond Jacob to
prove the names of his parents or grandparents.
Locating a census record or
a will or more would help to prove this
lineage. Perhaps Jacob told his children
about his parents but reading the census
records, I can safely say there were dozens of
Williams, Alexanders, and Jacob Cochrans in
Pennsylvania and Ohio and
even those who migrated to Iowa Territory.
Apparently William Cochran married Martha
Henderson in Ohio and had
Jacob.
Fortunately for many other
lineages, those before us have done a lot of
research that I can go back and verify for
myself leaving reason to believe most of
what I can see.
Isaac and Barsheba Clark
Coonfield spent many years in early Kentucky and
then moved to Indiana with their grown children.
She was found widowed on
the 1830 census. Her son Isaac Benjamin
Coonfield moved his family to Arkansas. This
family is mentioned in the book of
the Early History of Morgan County Indiana.
Benjamin Wallace Coonfield married Lattie
Cedonia Little and they had Amy,
Ruth and Luella Coonfield. Amy married Joe
Gray and I had corresponded with their daughter
Verna, who forwarded copies of her
late sister's research ( Dorline Gray )
who was trying to connect
this lineage to Chief Powhatan.
Dorline had also been
corresponding with our cousin Martha in Arizona,
who also shared a great amount of research with
me regarding L P Little.
L P Little had a great way of leaving a
trail of his elders by giving each child a
middle name of one of his ancestors and I am honoring
him and his work by writing about him on the
Kentucky webpage.
Arkansas land records
indicate that Isaac Coonfield bought land in
1856.
Hiram Lucius Little, son of
Betsy Douglas and Jonas
Little, had lost his wife,
Catherine Wright, in Kentucky and moved to
Texas. His son John
Little served in the Civil War as a blacksmith,
married, had several children, lost his wife and
then moved his family into Arkansas.
Our grandma Betsy was found widowed and
living with her daughter Betsy Roberts on the
1850 census.
Hiram Little married
Rebecca Isabella Adams in Bosque County Texas
and had more children including a Hiram jr.
Most are buried at the Meridian
Cemetery. Hiram's headstone refers to him as a
doctor and a mason.
Apparently some of the
brothers of grandpa Jonas had already removed to
Texas by 1800 and our Hiram had joined them.
Our Texas migration needs
further study.
Betsy Douglass Little had
another son named Douglass Little who married
Martha Ann Wright, his sister in law. Martha
named her first son,
Powhatan and he was a lawyer, and a judge, who
was a great writer and did a lot of research on
his lineage; as did his daughter, Laura Simmons Little.
They traced Mary
Handley to parents Martha Mason and George
Handley of Ireland, noting that Mary was born
asea, on the trip over. Mary's brother was
Captain John Handley. Their notes also
chart a Thomas Jones settling in the 1600s
on James River in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico
County, Virginia and wrote about a Polly Jones
who may have been the wife or
companion of Charles Weatherford.
Mother of the Wright
sisters was Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of
Charles Weatherford in Charlotte VA.
Alabama land
records indicate land sold
to Charles in 1841 if this is his grandson by
Red Eagle. So far records only indicate one
Charles Weatherford born in this
time period and it is quite possible that he had
more than one wife than history would like for
us to believe and if he was
indian trader, he probably had many children
that have not been noted. History also
indicates that the father of Red Eagle was
from Scotland, and a his grandson on the creek
indian mailing list says that Charles fathered
many children with many women
and then went back to Scotland but we may never
know the facts. Some family trees indicate
that Charles was the son of
Martin Weatherford and an indian woman called
Mary in Charlotte Virginia who migrated to
Georgia and I did find
documentation in the Georgia Archives onlne that
show Martin was a wealthy planter and it
mentions nothing at all about Scotland.
Martin was a loyalist, very outspoken and
the state of Ga banned him so he moved his
family to the Bahamas and more
documentation is found to prove
that.
Parents of Betsy were Mary
Handley and Alexander Douglass who
were married in PA. MMary's brother Captain John
Handley became a surveyor like
Daniel Boone and on one trip to the new land in
Kentucky, before 1800, his brother in law,
Alexander Douglass went with him and
never returned. Alexander was murdered by
indians on his way back home. His wife
took her girls and moved into a
scottish settlement in South Carolina, where her
daughter married Jonas little. Later the father
of Jonas, George
Little, married his son's mother
in law. Both had become widowed but they
had no children together that we know
of.
Ironically there was
an older Jonas Little in South Carolina, who's
descendants moved southward and into Alabama and
we can only suspect there may
be some connection to George. The 1790
census of Newberry, Union, South Carolina shows
George with a housefull of
children but it also shows others around his
home named Jonas, Joseph, William and John who
could also be his Scottish
siblings. Some of those came through
Alabama and Texas but it is hard to
configure.
Abraham's parents were
Lydia Carpenter and Owen
Crigler. Catherine's parents
were Kitty Simmons and Reason Roby.
These families left
Virginia to settle in the new land of Kentucky
about 1800 among friendly indians who were also
migrating westward.
John and Mary were
beautiful, dark complected, had black eyes and
black hair and they had Cherokee
blood.
The Battle of Alamo lists a
soldier named Hiram Little
and there is a possible
connection to our lineage as some of the
decendants are found in
Texas census records. and one receiving a
land grant in
Texas.
Descendant of all of
these was Frankie Lavern Cochran
born 1927.and Kathy Cochran
who was born in Broken Arrow,
Tulsa, Oklahoma later moved
to Montgomery Alabama after spendng a few years
in Arizona. Frankie had dark hair and blue
eyes like his father and
his younger pictures resemble his father, but as
Frankie aged, he resembled his grandpa Coonfield
very much. Pictures
of Catherine Crigler and then those of the
Coonfield women show us they all had long dark
hair in braids and dark eyes. Luella
Coonfield and her mother in law Clora Jane both
smoked pipes. The pipes are in the
possession of cousin Stanley.
Aunt Irma talked of granny
Clora Jane Miller Cochran being a sweet old lady
who stayed with them for a while when grandpa
Jacob died. Clora
stayed with each of her children, taking turns,
as she had no place to go. She taught them
about corn and how to pop it. She
mysteriously read the ashes of her pipe.
Aunt Irma was the child born with a veil
over her face. The doctor removed the veil twice as
it seemed to grow back and on the third veil,
her mother Luella took it and placed it in the
Bible where it still exists to
this day.
.
Annie Carter
as a baby being held by her
Uncle Walton McClain shows us how very
dark the McClain boys
were just like their
father with black eyes and
black hair so it is
quite possible that the
McClain lineage was of indian blood. Annie 's school picture shows that she had long
straight black hair and black eyes, even though
she had it curled up in this photo of her in 1953 pregnant with
Kathy in Tulsa OK.
Looking at Annie's
grandmother, Lorena Bozeman's lineage, I wondered repeatedly about
her father's name, John Thomas Bozeman, and how it may
have originated. His great
grandfather Peter married a widow, Sarah
Brown and she named her first son Meade so that may
have been her maiden name; then a son was named
William Henry and that could have been her
father's name; so
looking back at the 1790 census of South
Carolina, I do find a William Meade and a Thomas
Meade so this may be another clue in our
mystery of names. We know that William
Henry Bozeman might have been the first to name
a son John Thomas Bozeman
and wonder where the name Thomas came into
play.
Digging through mom's
letters and cards, I found an article from the
newspaper of 1956 that listed Lorena McClain
having surgery at Maxwell AFB
hospital and later found that grandpa McClain
had served in WWI. The article also listed
Anne Cochran and family were
relocating to Mesa Arizona and it listed her
cousin James Duncan was going to San Antonio.
These were found in Anne's old
blue diaper bag that she used in Mesa AZ and
brought back with her to Montgomery
Alabama.
Arizana is a small memory
in my mind. We had a lot of burritos and
enchildas that mom cooked, took pictures in the
desert and grand canyon, went
swimming in the Verde River, Coonsbluff,
and drove thru well lighted mountain
tunnels. Most of our friends and neighbors were
indian or mexican and we spoke a little spanish
that I have long since forgotten. My
cousin Frankie Haraughty was a daily
playmate since his mom Eunice Cochran lived
nearby. We played with, horned toads , strange
bugs and creatures of the land
and watched the daily irrigation of the fields
when our front ditches filled with water every
afternoon at 4. Frankie's brother
Frances was called Chigger by my dad.
Chigger was the one making home movies of
us back then.
One of Lorena Bozeman 's
distant cousins married a Jordan which is a line
leading directly to Pocahontas and some of the
Jordans settled in Elmore
County. Lorena's uncle Peter Bozeman
married a Dillard and that line also connects to
Pocahontas.
Cousin Elizabeth helped
with the Bozeman lineage as her grandmother
Ethel was the sister of my great granny Lorena.
Ruby Gibson told me that Charles
McClain and Jason Gibson were cousins and we
connected their mothers as Broadway children
of Abner Broadway and I
verified through census records. One of the
Gibsons had marched in Governor Wallace's
inaugural parade. Ruby also
told me that my grandfather Cecil Carter was
still in the military when he married my granny
Alice McClain but I have not been able to
verify.
We do not know if there
were any suvivors benefits for Cecil's children
as Lorena Bozeman McClain raised them but do
know the McClains left Ramer and
lived on Highland Avenue for a while.
Cecil's adoption records have not been
found, but his children knew of his Fenn
family and I have contacted some of the Fenn
relatives.
Cousin Martha Fenn had only
a few blurred pictures of Cecils' siblings and
told me where Uncle Frank and Uncle Robert were
buried in Coosada, Elmore
County, AL.
Her brother, my cousin Bob
Fenn, talked about his family on the farm there
is Coosada.
I found another cousin,
Nancy Fenn, in Montgomery, who connects to the
Mathew Fenn who owned the plantation in
Eufaula.
Our great grandfather
William Frank Fenn had married Anna Lou Stone
and his great grandfather Michael Stone came to
Alabama from Maryland.
There is a Banister Stone in my McClain /
Moon family of South Carolina but I have not
made any connection; then my
husband's lineage in Tennessee has a Catherine
Stone of the Carolinas who married John Baptist
Bond.
Michael Stone had married
Polly Wells in Putnam, Georgia and they are
found on a census living in a Captain John
Stone's District. Their son
Benjamin Wilburne Stone married Sarah
Davies and had Augustus Marvin Stone.
Augustus married Mary Ann Hendrick, a daughter of
Mary Ann Winters and John Hendrick. The
1850 census of Macon County Alabama shows us
Michael living next to son
William and son Benjamin with their children's
names listed.
Anna's brother was Arthur
Augustus Stone and his son was William Arthur
Stone, known as Tige to the St Louis Cardinals
of 1923.
The obituary of grandpa
Cecil lists a Walter Stone as a pallbearer.
His death certificate is signed by his
brother Emmett Fenn. Cecil is buried at
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery and Emmett is
buried at Greenwood by their father. Their
father's brother Madison is buried by
them without a headstone. Madison was
known as Uncle Mat. Uncle Mat had married
and moved to Texas and never had any
children, but came back to Montgomery after his
wife died. Mat's brother Thomas had
also gone to
Texas.
After taking pictures of
their headstones at Greenwood, getting close to
the exit I discovered the Bozeman family plot,
with Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
buried by her sons Robert and Meady and their
families.
My husband's great
grandparents Annie Clark Ballard and John Brooks
of Tennessee are also buried at Greenwood by
Susie Mae Cooper brooks. I
would love to learn more about those TN families
who had migrated from the Carolinas, during a
time of indian removal . Indian
Wars also caused many friendly indians to move
westward..Annie Ballard was a
beautiful dark featured
lady who only had one
child. Mary Josephine Hereford was from
Virginina and her family all moved into Alabama
and she wa also another beautiful dark
featured lady.
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http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/settle.html
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After the Revolutionary
War, the U.S. Government established laws to
survey and sell land gained from Britain. The
area that became Alabama was
originally part of the Mississippi Territory
from 1798 to 1817. Many settlers arrived in the
area before government lands had
been surveyed. Unable to buy, they simply picked
a location, built a cabin, cleared fields, and
put in crops. Such families
were called squatters. Land laws were passed to
provide legal title to land for settlers who
already lived on the land. Some
settlers claimed land by British or Spanish land
grants, and others were squatters who claimed
land by right of pre-emption.
Starting in 1804, U. S.
Land Offices were established to sell land in
the area which would become Alabama. By law
federal land was sold to the
highest bidders at public auctions. Alabama
sales attracted men from all over the nation,
many of them speculators. Groups of
speculators bought large tracts, sometimes for
as little as $10 an acre, then resold at $20 to
$100 an acre. When an auction
ended, poorer migrants could buy less desirable
land for as little as $2 an acre. The smallest
amount one person could buy was
160 acres. Under the Land Law of 1800 a
purchaser could put one-fourth down and pay the
rest off over three years. But
when the price of cotton fell to eighteen cents
a pound, few could meet payments on land bought
at inflated prices. By
1820, Alabama owed the federal government $11
million--more than half of the national land
debt. In 1820 and 1821 Congress passed
new laws to deal with this problem. The Land Law
of 1820 required future buyers to pay the entire
amount in cash but
lowered the minimums to $1.25 an acre and 80
acres. Those already in debt were aided by the
Relief Act of 1821 which permitted
them to keep part of their land and return the
rest to the government or buy it all on the
installment plan at reduced
rates
Introduction to the
Settlement Unit:
The defeat of the Creek
Indians opened the heartland of Alabama to white
settlement and caused Alabama fever to sweep the
nation. Pioneers by the
thousands left Tennessee, Georgia, the
Carolinas, and Virginia seeking fertile land for
growing cotton. Mississippi territorial
law was in place, but when Mississippi became a
state, Congress created the Alabama Territory in
1817. Congress designated St.
Stephens as capital of the Alabama Territory and
approved a legislature of Alabama delegates
already elected to the
old Mississippi territorial legislature. William
Wyatt Bibb, a Georgia physician who had served
in the United States Congress
and had powerful friends in Washington, was
named Territorial governor. He was also elected
as the first governor when
Alabama became a state December 14, 1819. He
helped establish the government, pass laws and
administer justice. The
following documents deal with cost of
government, land speculation, cotton, and law as
settlers poured in the area during the
early settlement of Alabama.
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At the start of the 19th
century, Indians still held most of present-day
Alabama. War broke out in 1813 between American
settlers and a Creek
faction known as the Red Sticks, who were
determined to resist white encroachment. After
General Andrew Jackson and his
Tennessee militia crushed the Red Sticks in 1814
at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in central
Alabama, he forced the
Creek to sign a treaty ceding some 40,000 sq mi
(103,600 sq km) of land to the US, thereby
opening about three-fourths of
the present state to white
settlement.
From 1814 onward,
pioneers, caught up by what was called "Alabama
fever," poured out of the Carolinas, Virginia,
Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky
into what Andrew Jackson called "the best
unsettled country in America." Wealthy migrants
came in covered wagons,
bringing their slaves, cattle, and hogs. But the
great majority of pioneers were ambitious
farmers who moved to the newly
opened area in hopes of acquiring fertile land
on which to grow cotton. Cotton's profitability
had increased enormously with the
invention of the cotton gin. In 1817, Alabama
became a territory; on 2 August 1819, a state
constitution was adopted; and on the
following 14 December, Alabama was admitted to
statehood. Alabama, then as now, was sparsely
populated. In 1819, its
residents comprised 1.3% of the US population.
That percentage had grown to only 2% in
1980.
During the antebellum
era, 95% of white Alabamians lived and worked in
rural areas, primarily as farmers. Although
"Cotton was king" in
19th-century Alabama, farmers also grew corn,
sorghum, oats, and vegetables, as well as
razorback hogs and cattle. By 1860, 80% of
Alabama farmers owned the land they tilled. Only
about 33% of all white Alabamians were
slaveowners. Whereas in
1820 there were 85,451 whites and 41,879 slaves,
by 1860 the number of slaves had increased to
435,080, constituting
45% of the state population. Large planters
(owners of 50 slaves or more) made up less than
1% of Alabama's white
population in 1860. However, they owned 28% of
the state's total wealth and occupied 25% of the
seats in the legislature. Although
the preponderance of the wealth and the
population in Alabama was located in the north,
the success of Black Belt plantation
owners at forging coalitions with industrialists
enabled planters to dominate state politics both
before and after the Civil
War. The planters led the secessionist movement,
and most other farmers, fearing the consequences
of an end to slavery,
eventually followed suit. However, 2,500 white
Alabamians served in the Union Army, and an
estimated 8,000?10,000 others
acted as Union scouts, deserted Confederate
units, or hid from conscription
agents.
Alabama seceded from the
Union in January 1861 and shortly thereafter
joined the Confederate States of America. The
Confederacy was
organized in Alabama's senate chamber in
Montgomery, and Jefferson Davis was inaugurated
president on the steps of the
capitol. Montgomery served as capital of the
Confederacy until May, when the seat of
government was moved to Richmond,
VA.
Remote from major
theaters of war, Alabama experienced only
occasional Union raids during the first three
years of the conflict. In the summer
of 1864, however, Confederate and Union ships
fought a major naval engagement in Mobile Bay,
which ended in surrender by
the outnumbered southern forces. During the
Confederacy's dying days in the spring of 1865,
federal troops swept through
Tuscaloosa, Selma, and Montgomery. Their major
goal, Selma, one of the Confederacy's main
industrial centers, was left almost
as heavily devastated as Richmond or Atlanta.
Estimates of the number of Alabamians killed in
the Civil War range from
25,000 upward.
During Reconstruction,
Alabama was under military rule until it was
readmitted to the Union in 1868. For the next
six years, Republicans held most
top political positions in the state. With the
help of the Ku Klux Klan, Democrats regained
political control of the state in
November 1874.
Cotton remained the
foundation of the Alabama economy in the late
19th and early 20th centuries. However, with the
abolition of slavery it was now
raised by sharecroppers?white and black landless
farmers who paid for the land they rented from
planters with the cotton
they harvested. Alabama also attempted to create
a "New South" in which agriculture would be
balanced by industry. In the 1880s
and 1890s, at least 20 Alabama towns were touted
as ironworking centers. Birmingham, founded in
1871, became the New
South's leading industrial center. Its promoters
invested in pig iron furnaces, coal mines, steel
plants, and real estate. Small
companies merged with bigger ones, which were
taken over, in turn, by giant corporations. In
1907, Birmingham's Tennessee
Coal, Iron, and Railroad Co. was purchased by
the nation's largest steelmaker, US
Steel.
Another major Alabama
enterprise was cotton milling. By 1900, 9,000
men, women, and children were employed in
Alabama mills; most of these
white workers were farm folk who had lost their
land after the Civil War because of mounting
debts and low cotton prices. Wages
in mills were so low that entire families had to
work hours as long as those they had endured as
farmers.
1. Indian Territory
until:
2. 1798 -
Mississippi Territory
3. 1817 -
became Alabama Territory
4. 1819:
State of Alabama
4. 1819:
State of Alabama.
Around Thanksgiving of 2006
my daughter and I found the Bozeman graves at
Hope Hull by following directions of Jimmy Ray
Bozeman and later contacted
cousin Wayne Bozeman in Santuck to read his copy
of Sketches, then in May of 2007 we met
Jimmy Ray in Dublin and
another cousin Hazel Bozeman, daughter of Uncle
Bob, plus the grandchildren of Ethel Mae
Bozeman Gibson at Hills
Chapel where John T Bozeman is buried; We
were led to the woods way behind the church to
find the tombstone of John's
father Peter Edward Bozeman.
Having my family tree
online has me now receiving lots of emails from
new family researchers and cousins.
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Charles Brooks' great grandmother,
Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton, was from Cherokee Territory in
Georgia.
Elijah LEE married Malinda Phillips
in Georgia and they bought land in Chambers County and had Sarah.
Sarah married Charner P Cooper and he served in the Civil War - they
had Levi Benjamin Cooper who married Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Carter in
Hope Hull Alabama. Their daughter was Susie Mae Cooper Brooks. LEE
and Cooper had come into Chambers County about 1830 while it was still
Creek Territory and must have had quite an adventure living in this
wilderness.
Sallie was the daughter of Mary
Josephine Hereferd and Thomas Randolph Carter and he must had a large
plantation until the Civil War ruined the lands in Alabama. His father
was John Wise Carter of Edgefield SC who had settled in Talladega with a wife
known only as "Mary" and several children.
Mary J Hereford had beautiful black
eyes and black hair and she was born in Virginia.
John's father served in the American
Revolution along with his father in law, and some researchers think that
John had a brother named Thomas Carter who also served in the
War.
Charles Wayne Brooks m Kathy Cochran
His parents were James Edgar Brooks
Jr and Mary Ella Thornton of Montgomery Alabama - Kathy's parents
were Anne Carter and Frank Cochran. Frank's parents were
Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran of Arkansas and Kansas.
Anne Carter's parents were Alice Emma McClain
and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter who
claimed to be Cherokee. Cecil's father was
born in Tuskegee, Macon County
Alabama which was also Creek Territory.
His mother Anna Stone's ancestors
were in Georgia 1800s, and her Uncle Charles Stone named his sons Osceola
and Tecumseh. Frank Cochran had a 3rd cousin named Powhatan Little
and the Little families are researching their connection to Pocahontas as
well as Chief Red Eagle through the Weatherford lineage. Luella's
Coonfield family were in Kentucky for the 1800 tax lists and my granny Luella
said that she was Cherokee.
Charlie's grandparents were
James E Brooks Sr and Susie Mae Cooper/ and Bessie Mae Hood and Milton
Elijah Thornton.
1910 Elmore Co, AL, Central - pct 6,
page 92, ED 76, sht 2A............ (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Willie Thornton 37 M1 farmer, *
Milton Elijah's uncle??
married 17 yrs,shown as Wm J
in 1900
Sallie (wife) 30 M1 married 17
yrs, 7 kids, 6 living,
shown as Sallie E. in 1900
Elijah (son) 16 laborer-home farm
Mary (dau) 13 Judain? May (dau)
10
Earnest (son) 8 Early (son) 6
Jewell (dau) 3............ W. J.
Thornton married C. S. A. E. Woodall on Nov 9,
1893 in Elmore Co, AL
..................
1930 Montgomery Co, AL, Pole Bridge,
ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown as AL) Milton Thornton 36 auto
mechanic, married 14 yrs Bessie (wife) 30 married 14 yrs
Loraine (dau) 10 Nellie (dau) 9
James (son) 7
Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
.................
.......... There is a draft
registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore Co dated
6/5/1917. Milton's birthdate is
shown as 5/11/1894.
He is married and working for the
Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co near Wetumpka............ There is a
family tree for Milton and Bessie at rootsweb.
Shows their children but not their
parents.............. Milton died on either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953 in Montgomery
Co. DC # 25766. Looks like another death certificate needs to be
ordered for confirmation............. 1900 Elmore
Co, AL, Cold Springs, ED 63, sht 13B
(all birthplaces shown as Alabama)
L. W. Hood 41 farmer married 14 yrs
Ella O. (wife) 29 married 14 yrs, 3
kids, 3 living
Stewart (son) 10 farm laborer
Minnie Lee (dau) 8
Allen W. (son) 2
.....................
Milton 's sister Lucy Ann married
Mr. Gross and had a son named Charlie who currently lives in Robinson
Springs.
Mary Ella's sister Lorraine,
"Tutor", says that Mary Angeline Partridge was
their indian granny. Tutor's
daughter Sue Carol is married to Wayne Bozeman and they are also working on
this lineage. Sue took me to the graves of Mary Angeline and George
Thornton in Central, just past Santuck, at the Primitive Baptist Church.
She and Wayne also had been to the Bozeman's graves in Hope Hull.
My genealogy connects my children to both Wayne and Sue
Carol.
The grave of Jesse Bozeman born 1793
we all found in Hope Hull, his wife, his children and his daughter Lacy
who was the first wife of T R Carter, out in a huge cow pasture on land once
owned by these families from South Carolina. Jesse was the son of Peter
Bozeman who was born around 1750 in Bladen NC to Mordecai and his
unknown wife possibly of the Cherokee Nation. Peter married a
widowed Sarah Brown in 1786, adopted her two
girls and named their first son
Meady and another one William Henry and one named Peter. They all
migrated to Alabama about 1826. Mordecai
also had a son named John who
married a full blood Cherokee and moved to Mississippi. Mordecai and his sons
John and Peter all served in the American Revolution and received
Land Grants in Darlington SC in the 1780s and payment for their
services.
Then we find John Brooke born 1837
in Holland but raised in Pennsylvania, with his father, Hans Brooke, from
Holland and mother from France.......
.............Hans had three boys and one
girl...........Henry, Edward, John and Lula Christine....They settled in
Reading PA. The parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl
was adopted.........John, our grandfather, was
bound out to a tailor to learn that
trade.........He was very unhappy and ran
away, arriving in Columbia TN about
1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860 census in TN working as
a tailor but as John Brooks............That year he married Roxanna
Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up with her
other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith and fell in love with John
Brooks.................John and RP had Walter and
Nora before joining a wagon train to
Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were born......
...John died in 1882 of tuberculosis
and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry
Crittendon Smith. He actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas to
marry her and bring her back to TN. They lived and died in Sandy Hook,
Tennessee.
Still researching the Brooks
lineage, learning that Milton Elijah Thornton's
mother was an indian - Mary Angeline
Partridge married George Thornton.
These families were found in 1800
Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears of 1835.
Both of George Thornton's parents
were born around 1830 in Georgia: Nancy Catherine Culpepper and
Charles W. Thornton. Nancy's mother was
Martha Blackstone born about 1814 in
Georgia. The Culpeppers were in 1700s South Carolina when the
counties were just beginning to form along the east coast. While very
little is yet found on the Thornton families I did
run across an indian
family
Family Data Collection - Individual
Records
about Delilah Amelia Vann
Name: Delilah Amelia Vann
Spouse: David McNair
Parents: James Clement Chief Vann ,
Elizabeth Betsy Go Sa Du I Sga Thornton
Birth Place: Spring Place, GA
- Murry County
Birth Date: 30 Jun 1795
Marriage Date: 1807
Death Place: Charleston, Bradley, TN
Death Date: 30 Nov 1838
All quite interesting since I was
researching the Brooks and Smith lineage in Murry County and the Ballards
next to them in Lawrence County .... As well as James Ballard's mother
Rowena Densy Baxter being born in Maury County 1831 and her mother was
Hester Ward of North Carolina
One can only wonder if Hester had
some connection to the famous indian woman named Nanyei
Ward.
Census records show some of our
families in 1700s Carolinas near a Gist family, later finding them in
Tennessee and Alabama.
The Brooks married into the Carter/
Cooper/ Lee families which were found in 1850 Chambers County AL census
records that indicate they all came from South Carolina.
We find that Mrs Andrew Cooper was
named Alsey and had no last name so shall we suspect that she was
an indian born about 1800 in South Carolina...
and she was a great great granny to
Susie Mae Cooper Brooks ( Mamaw )
John Brooks of PA was found in 1860
census of Giles, TN and he married Roxanna Permilia Smith that year.
Her mother was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of
North Carolina. The father of John Brooks came
from Holland.
Parents of Caroline Bond ( who
married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone. Many
researchers are looking into the Stone name as
being of Cherokee
Blood.
Permilia named her first son Walter
Brooks, and this author finds no Walter in the lineage,so why use this name?
and another son JOHN Edwin but the census looks like his middle initial
was H., and JOHN married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they moved to
Alabama being transferred with the railroad and then lived on Adams
Avenue near the train station. Annie had
only one child, James Edgar Brooks,
who became a bookkeeper with the State, and later married Susie Mae
Cooper who soon named her own son James Edgar Brooks Jr., a daughter
Christine and another girl named Sissy.
Annie's photo shows dark black hair
and coal black eyes. Annie's parents were both born in Tennessee, James
Calvin Ballard and Willie Eudora Craig but their ancestors migrated
from the Carolinas. "Dora's" mother was
Rebecca Caroline Pennington and she
married William Craig in 1860. Rebecca's mother was only
known as "Gracy" who married William Pennington, and his mother was only
known as "Kezziah" born about 1750 in South Carolina.
Charles Brooks' great grandmother,
Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton, was from Cherokee
Territory and I found her grave near Santuck in Central,
Elmore County Alabama behind a tiny church.Her family was born in 1800s
Georgia.
Charles Wayne Brooks m Kathy Cochran
His parents were James Edgar Brooks
Jr and Mary Ella Thornton of Montgomery
Alabama
His grandparents were James E Brooks
Sr and Susie Mae Cooper/ and Bessie Mae Hood and Milton
Elijah Thornton.
1910 Elmore Co, AL, Central - pct 6,
page 92, ED 76, sht 2A............ (all birthplaces shown as
AL)
Willie Thornton 37 M1
farmer,
married 17 yrs,shown as Wm J
in 1900
Sallie (wife) 30 M1 married 17
yrs, 7 kids, 6 living,
shown as Sallie E. in 1900
Elijah (son) 16 laborer-home farm
Mary (dau) 13 Judain? May (dau)
10
Earnest (son) 8 Early (son) 6
Jewell (dau) 3............ W. J.
Thornton married C. S. A. E. Woodall on Nov 9, 1893 in
Elmore Co, AL ..................
1930 Montgomery Co, AL, Pole Bridge,
ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown as AL) Milton Thornton
36 auto mechanic, married 14 yrs Bessie
(wife) 30 married 14 yrs
Loraine (dau) 10 Nellie (dau) 9
James (son) 7
Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
.................
.......... There is a draft
registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore Co dated
6/5/1917. Milton's birthdate is shown as 5/11/1894.
He is married and working for the
Lancaster-Johnson Lumber Co near Wetumpka............ There
is a family tree for Milton and Bessie at
rootsweb.
Shows their children but not their
parents.............. Milton died on either 12/1/1953 or
12/4/1953 in Montgomery Co. DC # 25766. Looks
like another death certificate needs to be ordered for
confirmation............. 1900
Elmore Co, AL, Cold Springs, ED 63, sht 13B (all birthplaces
shown as Alabama)
L. W. Hood 41 farmer married 14 yrs
Ella O. (wife) 29 married 14 yrs, 3
kids, 3 living
Stewart (son) 10 farm laborer
Minnie Lee (dau) 8
Allen W. (son) 2
.....................
Milton 's sister Lucy Ann married
Mr. Gross and had a son named Charlie who currently lives in
Robinson Springs.
Mary Ella's sister Lorraine,
"Tutor", says that Mary Angeline Partridge was their indian
granny. Tutor's daughter Sue Carol is
married to Wayne Bozeman and they are also working on this
lineage. Sue took me to the graves of
Mary Angeline and George Thornton in Central, just past
Santuck, at the Primitive Baptist Church.
She and Wayne also had been to the Bozeman's graves in
Hope Hull.
Then we find John Brooke born 1837
in Holland but raised in Pennsylvania, with his father, Hans
Brooke, from Holland and mother from
France.......
.............Hans had three boys and one
girl...........Henry, Edward, John and Lula
Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The parents
died leaving minor children, and the little girl was
adopted.........John, our
grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to learn that
trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away, arriving in
Columbia TN about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County
1860 census in TN working as a
tailor but as John Brooks............That year he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up with her
other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith and fell in love
with John Brooks.................John
and RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon train to
Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were
born......
...John died in 1882 of tuberculosis
and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna went back to TN to marry
Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He
actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas to marry
her and bring her back to TN. They lived
and died in Sandy Hook, Tennessee.
Still researching the Brooks
lineage, learning that Milton Elijah Thornton's mother was
an indian - Mary Angeline Partridge married
George Thornton.
These families were found in 1800
Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears of 1835.
The Brooks married into the Carter/
Cooper/ Lee families which were found in 1850 Chambers
County AL census records that
indicate they all came from South Carolina.
We find that Mrs Andrew Cooper was
named Alsey and had no last name so shall we suspect that
she was an indian born about 1800
in South Carolina...
and she was a great great granny to
Susie Mae Cooper Brooks ( Mamaw )
John Brooks of PA was found in 1860
census of Giles, TN and he married Roxanna Permilia Smith
that year. Her mother was Caroline
Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of North Carolina. The
father of John Brooks came from
Holland.
Parents of Caroline Bond ( who
married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone.
Many researchers are looking into the
Stone name as being of Cherokee Blood.
Permilia named her first son Walter
Brooks, and this author finds no Walter in the lineage,so
why use this name? and another son
JOHN Edwin but the census looks like his middle initial was
H., and JOHN married Annie Clark Ballard in
TN and they moved to Alabama being transferred with the
railroad and then lived on Adams
Avenue near the train station. Annie had only one
child, James Edgar Brooks, who became a
bookkeeper with the State, and later married Susie Mae
Cooper who soon named her own son James Edgar
Brooks Jr., a daughter Christine and another girl named
Sissy.
Annie's photo shows dark black hair
and coal black eyes.
J E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton
lived on Hull Street in downtown Montgomery Alabama,
having sons Johnny, Tommy, and
Charlie. Your author was married to Charlie and
consults Aunt Sissy for background information on the
family, but also studies census records, and other documents
for verification.
Visiting Jesse Bozeman's grave in
Hope Hull and his son in law Thomas R Carter who was a great
great grandfather to Charles Brooks.
Thomas Carter was the Grandfather of the
above mentioned Susie Mae Cooper. Thomas had
married twice, first to Jesse Bozeman's daughter, Lacy Jane
and secondly to Mary Josephine
Hereferd.
While Charlie Brooks was growing up
on Hull Street, his future wife Kathy's family was residing nearby on Highland Avenue, Yougene
Street and Maryland Avenue and they were descendants of
the Bozeman family, actually to a
brother of Jesse, William Henry Bozeman.
Most of these families migrated
around 1800 - 1820 from South Carolina. Some lived in
Georgia for a while, moving on into Alabama or
Tennessee.
Whatever I locate, or document is
placed on a webpage to share with others
George Little /
Liddell
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x MY FTM wiha Farm background
x Tombstones in Dublin - ALB
and PEB
x Pioneers - Log Cabin background
x My Southern Roots and
many surnames
Researching many names in my family
tree and posting them on Rootsweb Family
Trees to share as well as posting on genealogy.com and on usgenealogy.com and providing a major focus on
Alabama
Genealogy and my father's
lineage in Kansas.
My parents were Annie Carter and Frankie
Cochran and there are many names in their ancestry. I am
also researching the ancestors of my husband, Charles
Brooks. and saving it all on various webpages. and creating my own internet family
webring and
searchbox
so that any of our relatives can be looked up. There are many
free
webspace providers online, like angelfire.com
therefore I have many links
to peruse.
Along with collecting family stories and documents, I am
also researching the military records, finding several who
served in the Civil
War.
My own transcription of 1840
Montgomery
Captain George Little and Isaac Coonfield were
grandfathers of the Cochrans who had migrated into Kentucky about 1800, but this
line also intermarried with the Criglers, Douglass, Handley,
Roby, Simmons, Wright, Weatherford, Swearengin, Wells,
Clark, Young, Henderson, Sturgeon, Miller, Crawford, Parker,
Tefft, White, Sweet, names.
Annie Carter's
line includes Fann, Stone, Anderson, Brack, Doty, Stephens,
Bozeman, Moon, McClain,Harrell, Sellers, Fenn, Wood,
Broadway, Hill, most of whom began in Virginia and migrated
south.
The Brooks
line includes, Thornton, Hood, Baxley, Partridge, Culpepper,
Blackstone, Ballard, Smith, Bond, Craig, Pennington, Baxter,
mainly from Georgia and Tennessee.
Charles and Kathy in
1972 and more links Our Family
Info and the TREE
Brooks
Family and the Family Tree Maker pages
1 and 2 contain many documents.
The book Sketches of
Bozeman I have scanned and posted
My collection of tombstones at Find A Grave.com
Images and Documents and
Certificates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1 16 17 18 19 20
. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
32 33 34 35 36
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www.accessgenealogy.com
Has tons of records, Indian rolls, military and many
other free records, biographies and images .
One thing in researching our ancestors, nearly every line
was honored to have someone
Who served in the American Revolution and then another in
the Civil War, as well as
Other military services. These records are available on
the internet.
Most are able to find one relative on the Trail Of Tears
but none of mine yet.
Many were lost to diseases, fevers, other epidemics and
many were orphaned, had legal guardians, adopted or just
took up with another family.
Some famous names were in South Carolina living near my
families, Rogers, Weatherford, McIntosh, McGillvary, Gist,
wasn’t Sequoyah’s father a Guist? There was even a non
cousin Cynthia Parker kidnapped in the 1800s by an Indian
and she gave birth to the next Indian chief Quannah Parker.
Amazing history even with common names. Many of my surnames
are found in Indian Nation Oklahoma, just not my direct
line. I did find my grandpa Frank Cochran and his wife
Luella in 1920 census living near Will Rogers in Chelsea,
Rogers County, Oklahoma, near many other Coonfields who did
marry Indians. Will Rogers became a famous actor and Indian
chief. His father Clement had come from South Carolina into
Tennessee. Great reading. My parents were living in Broken
Arrow on Mingo Road in Tulsa Oklahoma when I was born.
Mother was tracing her roots even back then.
Frank Delbert Cochran was the son of
Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran who had served
in the Civil War. Luella was the daughter of Lattie
Cedonia Little and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and both of
their fathers had also served in the Civil War.
There were several Rogers families around my Bozemans in
South Carolina who migrated to Alabama in the 1820s, while
Alabama was still a wilderness full of beasts and several
Indian tribes.
Usgenweb.com has each state listed and offers a ton of
old stuff to read and study and of course the census records
online at ancestry or heritage quest help locate the
families, with dates and ages, and place of birth, but then
you get to see their neighbors and often times, the
neighbors were family members.
When I found George Little in Kentucky, two of his sons
lived by him, two of his married daughters, then his in laws
and as each decade passed, there were many more to find near
them who had also intermarried into the lineage.
He was born 1733...age 21 when he came to America ( 1754
) married and then 10 children.....was in war 1776 at age 43
for two years in the Third Regiment of the Colonial
Army..was Sargent, Lieutenant, then Captain until Tarleton's
men shot him in the hip causing disability......on 1790
census with 10 others in household...
His son Jonas Little married Betsy Douglass and then
George married Betsy’s widowed mother, Mary Handley
Douglass. Jonas named a son Douglass Little and one Hiram
Little, then having several other children all born in
Kentucky around 1820. The Wright sisters came along and
married
Hiram and Douglass. The mother of the Wright girls was
Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Charles Weatherford,
born in Charlotte Virginia to Mary Half Blood. Of all the
many Weatherfords I have researched during that era, he is
the only one I have found who could have moved to Alabama
and married Sehoy. The father of Charles was Martin
Weatherford who surely made his mark in history, being
banned from the state of Georgia and fled to the Bahamas.
The son of Charles was William Weatherford, or Chief Red
Eagle, and those Creek Indians were all over south Alabama,
but then I found many other of my relatives around south
Alabama and wonder, was there Creek blood in my line?
Grandpa William Fenn was born in Tuskegee Alabama, former
Creek Nation. His wife Anna Stone was also born in Macon
County , former Creek Nation, but their son said he was
Cherokee. When the parents and grandparents of the Fenns and
Stones are studied in early Georgia around 1700s, they were
among Creek and Cherokee. William told his children that the
baby, Cecil ( my grandfather ) was only their “half”
sibling. Anna divorced William and moved back to Macon
Georgia and married a Carter - Cecil used that name and
never used the Fenn name, even though he visited them often.
William had managed his cousin’s Fenn Plantation in Eufaula
for many years and many slaves and Indians had worked the
crops - perhaps one was the Carter man? This we will never
know. Barbour County history mentions the plantation owner
Matthew Fenn who had left Georgia and bought up hundreds of
acres of land in Alabama.
Cecil was said to have been a mean husband to my granny
Alice McClain, that he would get drunk and beat her, causing
her death, once she delivered her third child. Then he drank
himself to death only a few years after. The children were
raised by the McClains and probably never met the Fenns
until they had grown to adulthood. They had a very poor
difficult life and were teased and taunted about being
Indians.
When I began interviewing people about the McClains and
Bozemans of Ramer I found that the Bozeman men were also
rough with their women. Lorena’s father married 4 times but
only two had children with him. One left him soon after the
marriage. They were cotton farmers and also had a poor life,
with very little education. It is said that the Bozeman
ancestors who had settled in Hope Hull lost everything due
to the Civil War.
Anne Alice Carter married Frankie Lavern Cochran in 1951
and was blessed to have such a good honest hard working man.
His mother was Luella Coonfield Cochran and she told her
children that she was ¼ Cherokee blood. Her mother was
Lattie Little who had married Ben Coonfield in Arkansas. On
one census record about 1910 Lattie’s grandfather Abraham
Crigler is living with them - he had become widowed in
Kentucky when his wife Catherine Roby passed away. Lattie’s
father John Wright Little had made that same move several
years prior, when his wife, Catherine Crigler died.
Family lore has it that John was offered a land allotment
in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory and he refused it. He was a
blacksmith in the Civil War and I have his military records.
John is now buried on some unknown mountain top in
Arkansas.
Starting my husband’s genealogy, I found my cousin Wayne
Bozeman married to Charlie’s cousin Sue Carol - her mother
was a Thornton and told her kids that their granny Mary
Angeline Partridge Thornton was an Indian out of Georgia,
who settled into Central, Elmore County, Alabama. They lived
at Cold Springs.
I found their great grandpa Brooks married in Tennessee
to Annie Clark Ballard. Annie had only one child, James, who
married Mamaw - Susie Mae Cooper. Susie’s grandfather was
Thomas R Carter of South Carolina, born 1820, and his first
wife was a Bozeman. Thomas had bought a small piece of land
from my Bozeman grandfather at Hope Hull off McLean Road.
That farm was once 160 acre cotton plantation owned by
American Revolution Patriot Peter Bozeman born 1755 North
Carolina, who was in Darlington South Carolina 1800 where he
was given a few hundred acres for his service in the war.
Peter and several other families had moved to Hope Hull so
the census of 1830 Alabama resembles the 1820 census of
Darlington.
They had Alabama Fever!
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