Elders
Bozeman Carter Cochran Little
Here are some of my favorite websites:
My
1840 Montgomery census
Grandpa
Bozeman
(http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Mordecai.html)
Mordecai and his sons are mentioned on pages
128-130 in the Sketches of Bozeman published in 1885..........the DAR has
finally acknowledged Peter Bozeman as a soldier in the American Revolution
effective January 2008.........finally!!!
Mordecai and his sons, Peter and John served in the American
Revolution while his son James was too young. Peter moved to Alabama about
1826-1827, John moved to Mississippi in 1823, and James remained in Darlington
SC. The South Carolina Archives show that Peter's land was surveyed in
1826.
Estate Sale of Peter in Alabama 1829
Peter wrote letters asking about his land benefits so apparently he
received a land grant in Alabama, because his son Jesse handled the
division of the Estate after Sarah died. One of Peter's letters filed at
the Probate Office included the signature of E. Stephens.
John P Stacie is involved with this family,
married to a Sarah Bozeman in 1860
Jesse b 1793 and Lucy had a daughter named Sarah Bozeman who
married John Stacie in 1860 and Jesse is listed as Jesse M. Bozeman on the
census records - his son is listed as Jesse A. Bozeman. Jesse A. Bozeman
handled his father's estate.
Jesse A. Bozeman married Missouri Flinn. I have no idea what
Lucy's maiden name was but would think that the A may represent her family name
as was the custom of that era.
Jesse M. Bozeman had married twice - secondly
to a widowed Francis Freeman and took in her children. Buried near them
was their son James Freeman Bozeman who died in the Civil War.
Vincent Joiner may have married one of Peter's
stepdaughters thru the widow Brown and her other daughter was likely married to
one of the men attending Peter's estate sale in 1829. Sarah Brown was
probably a Mead before she married as her first born son is named Meade, then
Jesse, William, Peter and Lucy. Lucy married a Campbell and there are
several Campbells involved in this lineage. William's daughter even
married a Campbell. One Campbell married Mathew Stokes and a Stokes
witnessed Nancy K. Hill Bozeman's application for John's Civil War
pension.
But William Henry Bozeman had married a
Martha Hill and we see a Laney Hill attending Peter's Estate Sale in 1829.
William's son John married a Nancy Hill. William's son Peter Edward
was buried on the property of John Hill behind Hill's Chapel. John Hill
witnessed Nancy Jane's application for Peter Edward's Civil War
pension. Then we find a Jack Stacie married to a Mary Hill with John
and Nancy Hill Bozeman residing in their home.
William Henry and Martha Hill Bozeman had a son
named Meedy who married a widowed Rebecca Brewer and she had two children.
Meedy and Rebecca named a son John Thomas in 1866 and he married Sarah Ann
Edwards. Sarah had a son named D. Leon Bozeman in 1898 and several other
children including a son named Jesse Graves Bozeman. Governor Graves was a
pall bearer at John's funeral. John and Sarah operated a little country
store in Hope Hull just off the I-65 exit - actually it was demolished about
1970 when the interstate was being constructed. The store was called
McGeHee Switch.
Montgomery has a little bit of history written
about the McGeHee plantation of Hope Hull and yet nothing about the Bozemans
other than an article about Bunberry Flinn's daughter marrying Jesse A. Bozeman,
which is really sad, since the Bozeman descendants have become very successful
in the county, and may be distantly connected to the famous Dr. Nathan Bozeman
whose portrait hangs in the Alabama Archives Building.
William Henry had another son, John Thomas
Bozeman who married Nancy Kizer/Kiser Hill and her mother was found on the
census as Charlottie. One of Nancy's sons was named William Thomas Bozeman
and he married Rebecca Scott of Shelby County, having a son named Charles Eugene
Bozeman.
Colonial records of Hill, Bozeman, Anderson,
Stephens, Broadway, Carter, Sellers, Brack, McClain, Fenn, Stone, Lee,
Cooper, Stokes, Flinn, McGeHee, many South Carolina residents who migrated about
the same time to Montgomery Alabama soon after serving in the American
Revolution. John Hill and Peter Bozeman were both in Darlington 1790 -
1820 census with their families. Carter was in Edgefield, McClain in
Spartanburg, these families were never too far apart.
Daughters of Alice Stephens and John T Bozeman of Dublin were
Lorena and Ethel.
The girls Ethel and Lorena married "cousins" of
the Broadway family. Ethel married Jace Gibson and his mother was Rebecca
Broadway. Lorena married Charles McClain and his mother was Elizabeth
Broadway. The mother of the Broadway girls was a Stephens and there were
several Stephens' farms in the Ramer/ Dublin area.
Jesse born 1793
tombstone
Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman's
grandfathers
at Hills Chapel we met Dora's granddaughter, Dora who is now
85.
John is buried close to Peter James but John is
buried by his 4th wife Ellen Bean who told her children that she was related to
the famous hanging Judge Roy Bean.
Another son of Peter Edward and Nancy was
Robert Henry Bozeman who married Corrie Huffman, a successful contractor with
land located between Hope Hull and Maxwell AFB, he donated some land to become
the Memorial Cemetery yet he is buried by his mother and his brother Meady in
Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery - his brother Meady had married Leila
Campbell. They also had a brother named Millard
Milton who married a Nettie Barrow and named a son Clyde......go
figure.......Another son of Peter Edward was named George and one can only
speculate where the name came from - possibly the elder George Hill was an uncle
and he owned a large plantation, as did John Hill.
My Survey of Dublin cemetery and then Memorial Cemetery in
Montgomery off Bozeman Drive - the land around Memorial was part of Robert Henry
Bozeman's farm and when each of his daughters married they received a piece of
land with a street named after them. I found a few Bozeman graves in
Ramer also.
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