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 Rootsweb.com or 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. and several listed in the DAR catalog online.

Now with tons of census records and documents, I am researching their hometowns, trying to learn more about their neighbors and their lifestyle.

When I began working the Sellers lineage of my mother, I found where one of the cousins, Nathaniel Sellers married a Schrimpshire girl and her sister married an Indian Chief Dennis Bushyhead. I have several of those branches !!! In the Sellers case, the Sellers and Andersons already had Indian blood in their line from their grandmothers of North Carolina 1700s. The Scrimpshire father, Martin, had married a Gunter who was full blood Cherokee and they all resided in Guntersville Alabama. One of the Gunters married a McCoy girl but then I found one of my Fenn grandfathers did also!! Mrs Fenn then named a son Travis and he married a girl only known as ?Mary?. which might be another clue.

Then I looked for the parents of Martin Schrimpshire and found his mother was listed online as ?Edith Kona Edna Vann? - lo and behold another famous Cherokee name, which is where I need to study their hometown known as Big Joe Vann?s Spring Place in Georgia.

My own grandfather Cecil Fenn Carter said they were Cherokee and I managed to locate his sister Carrie in Choctaw Nation Oklahoma.  Carrie's husband Ben Johnson was born in Indian Nation, Texas but his mother was an indian from Alabama and his father "denied" her the right to join the Rolls.

Carrie and Cecil had a brother, Frank Jr., who called them "half" siblings so maybe Mr. Carter was the father of them - we will never know !  There are many Carter families online researching their Cherokee blood.  What we do know is that William Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee Alabama married Anna Lou Stone in 1893 and she left him about 1900 to remarry, but she joined her family in Macon Georgia.  Anna's Uncle Charles Stone named his sons Tecumseh and Osceola.

My own transcription of 1840 Montgomery

Captain George Little and Isaac Coonfield were the 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.

My grandmother was Luella Coonfield Cochran and she was Cherokee by blood from some of those above.

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 and my research of my Bozemans

My collection of tombstones at Find A Grave.com

Images and Documents and Certificates

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www.accessgenealogy.comHas 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.  They married whites and lived as white.

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, McQueen, 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 D. 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. Her brother Billy Carter loved Indian Country and remained in Enid Oklahoma for many years.

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 , a wealthy planter 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?  Why were so many of our ancestors moving into the indian nation.

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 ? Cherokee blood. Her mother was Lattie Little who had married Ben Coonfield in Arkansas and granny Lattie said they had mixed blood from another tribe as well.

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. When you visit Central, you find Lake Martin and Kowaliga, where the old wooden indian stands by the restaurant near the open church in the pines, a beautiful area.

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!

The land of cotton, corn and faith.

There are many books I have found to include my ancestors and surely there are many more to be discovered.  Some pages are scanned and placed in my webpages to verify their place in time.

http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/o/c/Lorena-Cochran/

http://www.genealogy.com/users/t/r/e/Family-Tree-Alabama/

http://www.genealogy.com/users/k/c/2/Kc2744-Kc2744/ Military Notes

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