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.
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.