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The following webpage
collection shares some of the family stories and
pictures of my relatives, along with census images to
follow their trail and military documents of several
wonderful grandfathers in my
lineage.
Some of my dad's grandfathers
were Isaac Coonfield who may be the son of Christopher
Coonfield of Holland who settled in Pennsylvania - Isaac
may have been born there about 1760. From Scotland
came George Little born 1735 who was a Captain wounded
in the American Revolution in South Carolina, then he
settled in Kentucky about 1802. Isaac
Coonfield was found on an 1800 Kentucky Tax List.
These two brought about a marriage of their descendents
in Arkansas in the 1800s, a Little and Coonfield
union. But they had many ancestors from Virginia
and New York and other places who also migrated into
Kentucky including Crigler, Carpenter, Roby, Handley,
Douglass, Duval, Simmons, Swearengin. Our families
are found in many books written about Early Settlers,
the one in Kentucky includes Captain Little, another one
in Indiana about Isaac Coonfield states that he migrated
to Perry Township in 1824.
Ohio is where I found the
Cochrans of Pennsylvania, with their Henderson,
Sturgeon, Long, White connections, who migrated to Iowa
Territory after 1860 and joined the Miller / Parker
families which extend to Reverend Alexander Miller of
Ireland who settled and is buried in Rockingham Virginia
with his wife, Sarah Crawford. The Parker families
of New York intermarried with Tefft and Sweet of England
who had settled in 1600s Rhode Island with a very
interesting history. The daughter of Reverend
Edmund Tefft and Mary Sweet was Sarah Tefft who married
Archelaus Parker; their daughter Mary married
James Miller and had Clora Jane Miller
Cochran.
My mother's lineage was also
out of Virginia and Maryland into North and South
Carolina from the 1600s and 1700s. Several names
of Stone which may connect someday, along with Fann
which became Fenn, Moon, McClain, Bozeman, Brown,
Sellers, Stephens, Anderson, Brack and
Doty.
The Bozeman Trail evens fits
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- Lorena's daughter
Alice (19
KB)
Alice Emma McClain married Cecil
Carter and she died at the age of 19 giving
birth to their third child. She's been
called Ellie and Emily and Cecil was called
Nick.
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- Document1 (26 KB)
Peter in the South
Carolina Line, copied from book - accepted by
the DAR in Jan 2008
-
Bozeman, Anderson, Brack, Sellers,
Doty, McClain, Moon, Sellers, Stephens, Hill,
Goodson, Flinn, Carter, Family
Connections...
Peter Bozeman had 3 daughters in
1810, Lucy married Sterling Campbell, one might
have married Vincent Joiner, or Howell Mason or
Edmund Lewis, but Vincent Joiner is the only one
signing the Estate petition by the widow Sarah.
Then we see a David Campbell as Justice of the
Peace on later documents and a John Hill signed
affidavit for Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman to get
her husband's Civil War Pension. Lucy Bozeman
Campbell's children need to be discovered and
researched as some of the Campbells we find could
be her children or grandchildren, nieces and
nephews.
Sarah and Peter's son Jesse may have
been an attorney and filed many court documents as
the family members passed away. He handled
his father's estate sale and many familiar names
made purchases. In 1838 he sold his parent's
land, land which I cannot find a deed for, but it
was divided among the heirs which did not include
Sarah's son Meady because he might have died
before they made the journey to Alabama or soon
after. Meady's children were raised by
Vincent Joiner and Ellen.
Jesse named a daughter
Ellen. Then a Martha Campbell
married Matthew Stokes, after we found a John
Stokes living close to the Bozemans in Darlington.
And William Henry's daughter Martha married Norman
Campbell.
Am led to believe that Peter had a
brother named Jesse who also served with him in
the American Revolution, thus naming his own son
Jesse M. Bozeman in 1793. Peter's brother
John went to Mississippi while their younger
brother James remained in Darlington to raise his
family.
Peter also named a son Peter E
Bozeman who married Gilly. Peter's
other son was William Henry Bozeman who married
Martha Hill in Darlington.
Jesse Bozeman handled the estates for
both widows Gilly and Martha.
Many of these died young, perhaps due
to the flu epidemic or other diseases that wreaked
havoc upon our nation.
There are many documents to confirm
this little Bozeman Trail into
Alabama.
This creates new trails of new family
members and other relations into the Carter and
McClain families of my lineage, which include
Fenn, Fann, Stone, Hendrick, Wells, Lyles,
Cochran, Coonfield, Crigler, Little, Miller,
Henderson, Long, Sturgeon, Parker, Sweet, Tefft,
and then the Brooks lineage of
Thornton, Partridge, Hood, Baxter, Baxley, Smith,
Connelly, Craig, Dickson, Bond and
Ballard.
Thus I end up with 16,000 in my
family tree and a maize of webpages in my
collection. In 1972 this Bozeman/ McClain
descendant married a Brooks / Carter descendant ,
and his Carter's first wife was a daughter of
Jesse Bozeman, - but my mother married one of the
Cochran/ Miller/ Coonfield
descendants.
Grandpa Isaac (195 KB)
Perry County History
Annie's Clan (55 KB)
Taken about 1968
1840 (371 KB)
Sellers in Pike County
Grandpa Jacob (121 KB)
Civil War Registration
Annie's Clan (46 KB)
Taken about 1965
Lavinia Sellers -
1880 (528
KB)
Mysterious error on census, Lavinia
Jane Sellers Anderson mistakenly listed as
Bozeman, but note that she is the mother in law -
she is Corrintha Anderson Barfoot's mother.
Lavinia was the wife of Seaborn Anderson and also
the mother of Nancy Bozeman in the next household.
Lavinia's parents were Levinia Anderson and
William Calvin Sellers - all the Andersons being
of the same family of Elisha and the Sellers all
being from 1700s North Carolina.
Grandpa Charles and
Zachariah (12
KB)
Georgia Records 1700s
Annie's Clan (54 KB)
Taken about 1953
Sellers (40 KB)
Letter
Grandpa George (105 KB)
Davies Kentucky
Grandparents of Frank
(34 KB)
his father shown
on left side
1850 (610 KB)
Vincent Joiner and
Ellen
Parents of Frank
(212 KB)
shown on left
side
1830 (76 KB)
Grandpa Elisha Anderson
in Montgomery Alabama by his son in law Alfred
Sellers and by Jesse and by Captain Benjamin Lewis
- Elisha's will was probated in 1834 mentioned a
son named Elijah. Elijah wa the father of
Seaborne Montgomery Anderson who married Lavinia
Sellers.
Grandpa in WWI (130 KB)
Military Registration
1840 (576 KB)
W H
Grandpa Ben in Civil
War (40
KB)
Military Registration
1850 (616 KB)
J B
Laura's Inquiry (563 KB)
Owensboro Kentucky -
her father was Lucius Powhatan Little, a well
known author, lawyer and judge of Owensboro and
genealogist.
1830 (299 KB)
W H
Grandpa John (122 KB)
Land Deed
1820 (531 KB)
Sellers in Brunswick NC
http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kc90853/Mordecai.html
- Sarah (143 KB)
Sarah Elizabeth
Carter - Cooper with her children including
Susie Mae
- Carter , John Wise
(35 KB)
1821 Land Record
- migrated from South Carolina
- Gilly Bozeman (114 KB)
Wife Of Peter born
1807
- Thomas Randolph
Carter (46
KB)
With first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
Second he married Mary Hereford who had Sarah
Elizabeth Carter Cooper.
- Thornton, George
(56 KB)
1839 Land Record
- James E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella
Thornton (6
KB)
Her parents were Bessie Mae Hood
and Milton Elijah Thornton. Bessie's parents
were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. Milton's
parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George
Thornton.
- Partridge, George
(51 KB)
1858 Land Record
- Baxley James H
(483 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service - father of Ella
- Yours truly (368 KB)
author
- Baxley James H
(64 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service1
- 1888 James H.
Baxley (56
KB)
Land Record - Homestead
- Baxley James H
(351 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service2
- 1930 census of Brooks and
Cooper (1512
KB)
Both their widowed mothers live in
this household which includes James E Brooks Jr
who later married Mary Ella Thornton and had
Charlie in 1953.
- Baxley James H
(618 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service3
- 1930 census Milton Elijah
Thornton (446
KB)
Bessie Mae Hood his wife with
children include Mary Ella Thornton who married
James E Brooks Jr
- Baxley James H
(398 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service4-Judge Smith
- 1840 John Wise
Carter (360
KB)
Talladega Alabama census, father
of Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of
Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper - great
grandfather of Mamaw
- Baxley James H
(796 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service-Pension Application
- 1914 (72 KB)
John Edward Brooks
with Annie Clark Ballard, parents of James Edgar
Brooks, of Tennessee. James married Susie Mae "
Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. -
Jr married Mary Ella Thornton.
- Baxley James H
(451 KB)
Certificate of
Confederate Service-Pension Application 2
- INTRODUCTION (1 KB)
My Genealogy
- Ramsey to Herriford and
Carter (29
KB)
Mary Josephine Hereferd's mother
was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia.
- Brooks Family (89 KB)
So many other names in
our genealogy, so many other locations to
research.
- Thornton -
Partridge (54
KB)
Research on Mary Ella Thornton -
Brooks' ancestors on her father's side.
- Brooks Family Tree
(79 KB)
A nice view of
our ancestors and their children.
- Westbrook (161 KB)
Beverly's inlaws
- Baxley, Grandmother Ella
Olivia (11
KB)
A visit to the Cain's Chapel
cemetery to locate the tombstones of Ella and
her husband L W Hood plus her parents buried
down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in
"Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa
Miranda Holt. These were ancestors of Mary Ella
Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother of Bessie
Mae Hood - Thornton.
- Carter in South
Carolina (99
KB)
father of Thomas was John Wise
Carter and his dad was Captain John Carter of
the American Revolution who married Elizabeth
Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John Wise.
- Mary Ella Thornton, wife of James
Edgar Brooks Jr (258 KB)
Her father was Milton
Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie Mae
Hood. This focus on the Thorntons as they
migrated out of Georgia into Elmore County
Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline
Partridge.
- Hood - Thornton - Brooks -
Smith (29
KB)
Tracking family from North
Carolina to Alabama through Tennesssee
- Hans Brooks of Holland
1800 (25
KB)
John Brooks born 1837 to a father
from Holland and a mother from France is what is
found on the 1860 census when young John is a
boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee,
where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna
had a son named John who married Annie Clark
Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar
Brooks.
- Brooks Genealogy
Memo (5
KB)
My research and a few extra notes
- Brooks - followup
(5 KB)
John Brooks born
1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from
France is what is found on the 1860 census when
young John is a boarder in a home in Giles
County Tennessee, where he met and married
Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who
married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named
a son James Edgar Brooks. Annie's father was
James Cal Ballard. Roxanna's father was Thomas
Smith and her mother was Caroline
Bond...............James Edgar Brooks married
Susie Mae Cooper, the daughter of Sarah
Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin
Cooper........Susie named her son James Edgar
Brooks Jr. in 1927.
- Stokes Cemetery on Bozeman Land-
Hope Hull (39
KB)
Jesse Bozeman's daughter Lacy is
buried here near her husband Thomas Randolph
Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of
Am Rev Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's
father was Peter Bozeman a soldier in the
American Revolution. Lacy and some of the
children died in an epidemic. Jesse and his
wife's tombstones have been separated by a large
tree and the stones are broken. The top of
Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but
Lacy's monument stands tall. The Carters and
Bozemans once owned large plantations here.
Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In
fact Jesse's brother William Henry Bozeman was
Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is not
found ( yet ) A Matthew Stokes married a Mary
Campbell who may have connections - they even
owned this piece of land at some point.
- Ballard, James Cal of
Tennessee (80
KB)
Father of Annie Clark Ballard
Brooks was married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee.
Parents of James Ballard were Rowena Densy
Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about
1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears
began.
- Brooks and Smith of
Tennessee (150
KB)
Another family researcher has a
beautiful webpage to share.
- Bond, John Baptist
(80 KB)
Father of
Caroline Bond Smith was married to Catherine
Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times
in Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith
was the father of Roxanna Smith - Brooks. Notes
on this page include Henry Smith, father of
Thomas and then the Ballards of North Carolina -
Larken Ballard's mother was Kizziah Dickens.
- Tombstones (2 KB)
Baxley, Holt, Hood,
Thornton in "Holtville" Elmore County
- Pictures and
Letters (55
KB)
James Brooks letter of WWI,
pictures and letters
- Lee and Cooper in 1840 Chambers
County AL (107
KB)
Elijah Lee born 1777 married
Malinda Phillips and their daughter Sarah F. Lee
married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County.
Charner's parents were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper
of South Carolina. Charner's son was Levi
Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope
Hull on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter
and married the man's daughter.
- John and Roxanna Brooks
families (155
KB)
listing
- Carter, Thomas
Randolph (47
KB)
Hope Hull visit to find the
tombstone of the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper
Brooks and he was the great grandfather of James
Edgar Brooks Jr. Father of Thomas was John Wise
Carter, the son of Elizabeth Wise and John
Carter of South Carolina.
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- Tombstones (41 KB)
Annie Ballard and
James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several
tombstones found in Alabama - located in a
beautiful plot behind the Lords Supper at
Greenwood.
- Nearby I found my grandpa W Fenn's tombstone
and some Bozemans in Greenwood.
- Photos (4 KB)
Scanned photos of
people and their tombstones
- Tombstones (1 KB)
Annie Ballard and James
Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several
tombstones found in Alabama
- Baxter, Rowena
Densy (20
KB)
Grandmother of Annie Clark Ballard
Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie
- Kathy Brooks Kin
(38 KB)
Cochran and
Carter, Bozeman and McClain notes
- Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820
SC (6
KB)
Civil War
Records............father of Sarah Elizabeth
Carter Cooper ..........grandfather of Susie Mae
Cooper Brooks.
- 1786 Marriages
(66 KB)
Peter Bozeman
and Sarah Brown were the parents of Jesse and
William Henry Bozeman, plus another son named
Peter E. Bozeman who married Gilly - This
marriage record is in the Diaries of Evan Pugh,
a minister found on the 1790 census
- of Darlington, same page with Peter B.
- Partridge, Mary
Angeline (4
KB)
Parents of Angeline were Mildred
Smith and George Partridge of Georgia. Her
husband was George Thornton of Georgia and his
parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and
Charles Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha
Blackstone born 1814 Georgia, long before the
Trail of Tears.
- File (4 KB)
Files
- Miscellaneous (22 KB)
Research Notes
- Joe Stephens -Civil
War (4
KB)
Joe and Sarah Mills Stephens of
Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John
T Bozeman but she died soon after giving birth
to their 4th child.
- Cooper and Lee
(49 KB)
Chambers County
Records
- Colonial Records
(3 KB)
Saving a few
documents relating to my ancestors.
- Herriford of
Virginia (50
KB)
Mary Josephine Hereferd was the
second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their
daughter was Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper (
mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died, Mary had
him buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and
their children.
- Cooper in Civil War
(86 KB)
Father of Levi
Cooper
- Anderson in Civil
War (30
KB)
Father of Nancy
- Carter in Civil War
(9 KB)
T. R. Carter
father of Sarah
- http://www.genealogy.com/users/b/r/o/Kat-Brooks-AL/
- Catherine Crigler's
husband (61
KB)
John Little was born in Kentucky
1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram Little.
- Baxley Letter 1921
(306 KB)
Pension Request
for James H. Baxley
- John Little's sister named
Georgia (252
KB)
Georgia followed their father to
Bosque County Texas
- Charles Weatherford in Alabama
1780 (140
KB)
They fail to mention he was mixed
Scot with Indian Blood and the possibility
exists that this man traveled back and forth
visiting family in Georgia or Virginia, nobody
knows the true facts of his entire life, nor the
possibility this man who fathered Red Eagle may
also have fathered Catherine Weatherford who
married John Wright.
- Fann - Fenn
Zachariah (128
KB)
Virginia born the Fenns ventured
into Georgia, into the War of Independence and
beginning their plantations.
- Mary Catherine
Crigler (323
KB)
Daughter of Catherine Roby and
Abraham Crigler was married to John Wright
Little; She was born and died in Bullitt
Kentucky. Afer her death John moved their family
to Arkanas and soon after, her father followed
him. They are Cherokee by blood.
- Fann - Fenn
Zachariah (41
KB)
Virginia born the Fenns ventured
into Georgia, into the War of Independence and
beginning their plantations.
- Catherine Crigler's daughter
Lattie (63
KB)
Lattie Little about age 16 born
Kentucky, Cherokee by blood.
- Fann - Fenn Travis
(135 KB)
Virginia born
the Fenns ventured into Georgia, into the War of
Independence and beginning their plantations.
- Catherine Crigler's son
Bill (84
KB)
William Little born Kentucky,
Cherokee by blood.
- Fann - Fenn Travis
(201 KB)
Virginia born
the Fenns ventured into Georgia, into the War of
Independence and beginning their plantations.
- Catherine Crigler's son
Sam (36
KB)
Sam Little born Kentucky, Cherokee
by blood.
- Fann - Fenn Travis
(107 KB)
Virginia born
the Fenns ventured into Georgia, into the War of
Independence and beginning their plantations.
- Catherine Crigler's granddaughter
Luella (119
KB)
Lattie Little had Luella in
Arkansas - Cherokee by blood.
- Fenn, Travis (104 KB)
Travis Fenn awarded
land in Georgia
- Catherine Crigler's family in
Arkansas (39
KB)
John W. Little with his children
- Luella's husband's
tombstone (10
KB)
Frank Cochran, son of Clora Miller
and Jacob Cochran
- Luella's son (23 KB)
Frankie was born 1927
in Kansas and died in 1996 Alabama
- 1838 Jesse petitions
court (173
KB)
To divide Peter's land
- Alabama Lines (7 KB)
Joseph Baxley, Andrew
Cooper, Elijah Lee, Peter Bozeman, Thomas
Carter, John Hill, Michael Stone, John Fenn,
- Chart of my
Ancestors (15
KB)
My Elders
- Gideon Moon of
Virginia (23
KB)
His daughter married Charles
McClain
- Frankie Cochran's Kansas
families (32
KB)
His father served in WWI, his
brother died in Korea, his grandfather served in
the Civil War and some served in the American
Revolution. Frankie was one eighth Cherokee
blood.
- Kentucky Records
(53 KB)
George Little
living near his grown up children and their
families, and in laws, and Isaac Coonfield near
Clark and Cline
- Weatherford Notes
(134 KB)
Researching my
Catherine G. Weatherford of Charlotte, VA a
daughter of Charles, who married John Wright in
1811....her descendants named Georgia, have some
similiarity with some on this list......
- James McClain 1810
(74 KB)
buried at Indian
Creek Cemetery
- Colonial Documents
(55 KB)
Tracing my
ancestors through time
- 1810 census shows Patsey
Weatherford (136
KB)
she has children in the home and
could be Catherine's mother - she could also
have been a wife of the famous Charles
Weatherford; nearby is a younger Charles
Weatherford who might have been her
son.....Patsey Weatherford is one to be
researched.
- Intro (610 KB)
My Family
- Many Grandfathers in my
line (14
KB)
Cochran, Henderson, Long,
Clendenning, Sturgeon of Pennsylvania into Ohio
- "Stuff" on my southern grandfathers
- 1811 marriage record of Catherine
Weatherford (52
KB)
Virginia Documents state that her
father was Charles Weatherford - scroll down to
#76 where Benoni Smith was her surety to
marriage - was her father in Alabama with his
other family?
- Links (27 KB)
My Family Study Sheet
- Many Grandfathers in my
line (75
KB)
Cochran, Henderson, Long,
Clendenning, Sturgeon of Pennsylvania into Ohio
; Coonfield and Young, Epperson, into Indiana
and Arkansas, Roby and Crigler of Kentucky with
Simmons and Wells
- Coonfield Lineage
(13 KB)
Finding Isaac
Coonfield in Kentucky 1800 so was he born about
1760 or 1770
- My DAR Ancestors
(189 KB)
Several of my
grandfathers served in the American Revolution
and have been acknowledged by the DAR and Peter
Bozeman was just recognized in Jan 2008
- List of Who's Who
(56 KB)
Basic Outline
- Tefft and King
Phillip (14
KB)
Our Tefft Cousins in History
- Crigler of Kentucky
(204 KB)
Abraham Crigler
and Lydia had Owen. Owen then named a son
Abraham who married Catherine Roby and had Mary
Catherine Crigler who later married John Little.
- The Family Tree on the
Web (8
KB)
Rootsweb GED
- John Sweet (104 KB)
into Rhode Island and
Mass.
- Hiram Little born 1821
Kentucky (158
KB)
The son of Jonas married Catherine
Wright ( daughter of Catherine Weatherford) and
named a son John Wright Little in 1843. John is
later found living with Abraham Crigler because
his mother died and Hiram moved to Texas and
remarried.
- Annie Fenn and Alice
Carter (71
KB)
Tracing their families from
Virginia to Alabama
- Iowa Cochran
Families (9
KB)
Jacob Cochran left Ohio for Iowa
Territory
- Reason Roby born Kentucky
1790 (205
KB)
Abraham Crigler's wife was Mary
Catherine Roby, the daughter of Reason and
Catherine Simmons Roby. Reason was the son of
Lawrence Roby and a lady named "Catherine" who
is shown widowed living by Reason in 1820.
- Grandpa McClain
(39 KB)
Charles married
Elizabeth Moon about 1750 in Virginia and moved
to Spartanburg SC. His son Josiah married Nancy
Wood and had James. James married a woman only
known as Anna and they are buried at Indian
Creek Cemetery in Georgia. Anna's son Josiah
Marion McClain had a family in GA, left for the
Civil War and never returned. He had a second
family in Alabama and one son named Charles born
1886.
- Jacob Benjamin
Cochran (88
KB)
Joined the California Gold Rush,
served in the Civil War and was married twice
- Simmons, Catherine's father Jesse
born 1753 (254
KB)
Parents of Catherine Simmons were
Jesse and Rachel Wells Simmons from Maryland
into Kentucky. Rachels's father was Jacob Wells.
Parents of Jesse were Elizabeth Swearengin and
Johnathon Simmons of Maryland.
- Miller of Virginia from
Ireland (76
KB)
Parker of New York Indian Country,
Sweet and Tefft of Rhode Island 1600
Grandpa Stone (90 KB)
Augustus was the father
of Anna Stone Fenn Carter
Anne Carter 's Grandpa's Death
Certificate (458
KB)
Montgomery Alabama 1922 death
certificate of William Franklin Fenn born 1855 in
Tuskegee, Macon County Alabama, former Creek
Indian Nation to Emeline Harrell and John Fenn of
Georgia - John had served in the Civil War and
moved his family to Alabama in the 1860s.
Grandma Stone (88 KB)
Augustus was the father
of Anna Stone Fenn Carter and his wife was Mary
Ann Hendrick of Georgia
Anne Carter 's Uncle Frank
Fenn (18
KB)
Her daddy's brother born 1895
resided in Coosada, had a farm on Airport Road, a
family cemetery and the Church Cemetery he
donated, and later his land became Coosada
Elementary School. Frank served in WWI and worked
for the railroad and he was the father of Bob
Fenn, the principal of Robinson Springs School
around 1987. Frank's tombstone is next to his
brother Robert's in their family graveplot. Robert
never appeared on a census record but was known as
Uncle Lee.
Annie (440 KB)
Annie Carter was named
after her grandmother Anna Lou Stone. Annie was
Kathy's mother. Annie had open heart surgery in
1980 just weeks before Beverly was born but
managed to walk into that hospital to hold her
first grand daughter.
Susie Mae Cooper 's
grandfather (35
KB)
Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R
Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. This
picture of Thomas shows his first wife Lacy
Bozeman and their family before the epidemic. When
Thomas died, Mary had him buried near Lacy
Anne Carter and Frank
Cochran (54
KB)
1953 by the cactus in Arizona
Grandpa Charles
McClain (1888
KB)
Death Certificate - his daughter
Alice married Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, the son of
Anna Stone. Charlie raised the children of Alice
and Cecil when they died by 1939. Charlie was the
son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion
McClain. Census records show the date of birth of
Charlie was 1886 and all other records seem to
differ because his wife was not very educated.
James Brooks' mother
(72 KB)
Annie Clark
Ballard of Tennessee married John E Brooks and had
one son named James.
Frank Cochran (212 KB)
Family photo about 1937
with Frank on the left
William Marion
McClain (1713
KB)
Charlie's cousin by his father's
first marriage. They all connect to Josiah Marion
McClain born 1838
Mary Angeline Partridge
Thornton (300
KB)
Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton in
Elmore County Alabama and the granny of Mary Ella
Thornton Brooks.
Cemetery at Hope Hull
(1 KB)
Thomas R Carter
buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the
top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War
and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her
parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located
off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge
pasture on the right.
Frank Cochran and Son Frank Jr and
son (30
KB)
Family in Montgomery about 1993
Charles McClain's wife Lorena
Bozeman (11
KB)
Not sure who posted her as his
mother on his death certificate. Lorena was the
daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas
Bozeman of the Dublin/ Ramer area in Montgomery
County and she had indian blood.
Minnie Lee Gibson
(83 KB)
Daughter of Ethel
Mae Bozeman's daughter Ruby Gibson - Minnie's
daughter contacted me and sent the picture; please
do write again.
Cemetery at Hope Hull
(21 KB)
Thomas R Carter
buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the
top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War
and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her
parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located
off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge
pasture on the right.
Frank Cochran's father as a child
with Jacob (108
KB)
Family in Kansas
Lorena's sister Ethel Mae
Bozeman (91
KB)
with husband Jace Gibson who was
also first cousin to Charlie McClain because their
own mothers were sisters ( Broadway ) Ruby on
horse - Ruby was mother of Elizabeth who we met in
Dublin at the Hills Chapel Church
Sam Little (984 KB)
Uncle Sam was the son
of John Wright Little and a brother to Lattie
Tombstone of Jesse Bozeman, father
of Lacy (264
KB)
states he was born 1793 and a tree
separates him from one of his wive's graves. He
came from Darlington South Carolina with his
father Peter who had served in the American
Revolution and their many families to settle in
Hope Hull in 1826. Jesse bought 160 acres in 1827
while his father wrote letters found at the
Probate Office where he expected free land for his
military service. Peter died in 1829 and is buried
closeby one would expect - his grave is not yet
found.
Frank Cochran's mother
Luella (119
KB)
Luella was the daughter of Lattie
Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas
Clopton Gibson (184 KB)
Ethel's father in law
came from South Carolina
John T. Bozeman (3 KB)
Son of Peter and Nancy,
married Alice Stephens, having Ethel Mae and
Lorena Emma Bozeman, this photo may have been
taken around 1890. John is buried at Hills Chapel
Cemetery in front of the church at Dublin beside
his brother Peter James, who died of suicide.
Tombstone of Peter Edward
Bozeman (1350
KB)
Son of Martha Hill and William Henry
Bozeman of Darlington SC who also settled in Hope
Hull.....William was born about 1802 a son of
Peter and brother of Jesse. Wm's son Peter Edward
was married to Nancy Jane Anderson and he served
in the Civil War and she got his pension - papers
at Probate Office - Nancy had son named John
Thomas Bozeman who married Alice Lorena Stephens.
This tombstone is found in Dublin behind the Hills
Chapel Church while his son John is buried in
front of the church.
Frank Cochran's mother Luella's MOM
Lattie (63
KB)
Luella was the daughter of Lattie
Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. This
picture of Lattie shows her indian features quite
nicely. Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky
to Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, who
had served in the Civil War.
1920 Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter
Dasher in Macon GA (133 KB)
Apparently she is now
widowed and taking care of her mother - Cecil was
in Fort Bliss in the Army.
Home (105 KB)
kids
James H Baxley (871 KB)
Tombstone - Civil War
Soldier - married Louisa Holt and had Ella Olivia
Baxley who married L W Hood and had Bessie Mae
Hood
Frank Cochran's great grandmother
Crigler (323
KB)
Luella was the daughter of Lattie
Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. Lattie
Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine
Crigler and John Wright Little, who had served in
the Civil War. This picture of Lattie as a small
child with her sister Sadonia and their mother
Catherine Crigler of Kentucky. Catherine was the
daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler who
were of Mixed Blood.
Home (131 KB)
kids
Tombstone Ella Olivia Baxley
Hood (94
KB)
Mother of Bessie Mae - Ella was
daughter of James Baxley in Holtville, Elmore
County, Alabama
Frank Cochran's great grandfather
John W. Little (479
KB)
John Wright Little military
description, dark complexion, black eyes, black
hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a
blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine
Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused
Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was
the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John
Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in
1811.
Home (45 KB)
Westbrook
Tombstone L. W. Hood
(58 KB)
Cains Chapel
Cemetery at Slapout - father of Bessie Mae Hood
Thornton.
Tombstone Bessie Mae Hood
Thornton (34
KB)
Cains Chapel Cemetery at Slapout -
mother of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks
1830 Alabama Creek
Nation (38
KB)
The Indian Territory that our
ancestors traveled through in 1830
1870 Uncle William
Stone (384
KB)
Tallapoosa County Alabama
Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman (78
KB)
Dublin burial, mother of Lorena
McClain
Frank Cochran's great grandfather
John W. Little (26
KB)
John Wright Little military
description, dark complexion, black eyes, black
hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a
blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine
Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused
Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was
the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John
Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in
1811. This picture of John as he got older and
grey.
1930 James Brooks
(1512 KB)
Montgomery
Alabama - wife Susie Mae Cooper
John W. Little's cousin Lucius
Powhatan Little (40
KB)
John Wright Little's mother had a
sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a
brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in
honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a
writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky
History books.
Beverly at Coosa
River (816
KB)
Surveying the Cemetery where the
Baxleys are buried
Anne Carter Cochran
(18 KB)
Married to Frank
Cochran, she had Kathy in Broken Arrow Oklahoma
and then they moved to Mesa Arizona where her sons
were born
Lucius Powhatan Little's
Mother (33
KB)
John Wright Little's mother had a
sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a
brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in
honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a
writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky
History books. This picture of Martha Wright is
all we have of that lineage, lovely lady with
indian features died of euthanasia according to
old records of LP and his daughter Laura.
Holt - Baxley (794 KB)
Louisa Miranda Holt
born 1847 was granny to "Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood
Thornton and great great granny of Charles W.
Brooks
Anne Carter Cochran
(59 KB)
Birth Announcement
from Montgomery Advertiser
John Wright Little Family
Photo (39
KB)
About 1900 he moved them all to
Marble, Arkansas after his wife died and appeared
on the 1900 and 1910 census
Cemetery Survey (213 KB)
Beverly photographs
tombstones of her great great grandparents
tombstones, Mary Angeline Partridge and George
Thornton, the parent of Milton Elijah Thornton
near Santuck, in Central at the Mount Hebron
Primitive Baptist Church.
Anne Carter Cochran's Daddy was
Cherokee (25
KB)
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter born 1900
Kathy Cochran wed Charles W.
Brooks (33
KB)
Photo taken about 1995 before he got
sick with colon cancer. Charles was the son of
Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr
Clora Jane Miller
(102 KB)
Frank Cochran's
granny was married to Jacob Cochran and named a
son Frank Delbert Cochran. When Jacob died the
widow made her rounds, spending a few months with
each of her grown children's families. She smoked
a pipe, read the ashes and taught them to pop
corn. her ancestors of Ireland had settled in
Rockinham Virginia where we find Rev. Alexander
Miller of the 1700s buried at Cooks Creek
Cemetery. Clora's mother was Mary Clara Parker of
Ohio, who some say made medicine with the indians,
born to Sara Tefft and Archelaus Parker of the New
York Indian County. Tefft has a wonderful 1600s
history in Rhode Island, where one of the Uncles
was hanged by King Phillip.
Anne Carter Cochran's Mother was
mixed blood (19
KB)
Alice Emily McClain Carter, daughter
of Lorena Bozeman and Charles Allen McClain
Charles W. Brooks'
parents (6
KB)
Charles was the son of Mary Ella
Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr - Parents of
Mary Ella were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah
Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper
and James E. Brooks.
Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
tombstone (29
KB)
Widow of Peter Edward Bozeman, is
buried by two of her sons in this family plot, not
far from the Brooks and Coopers and Fenns who are
also buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anne Carter and Frank
Cochran (60
KB)
Montgomery Alabama about 1950
Susie Mae Cooper's
dad (50
KB)
Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth
Carter and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner
Cooper had served in the Civil War and married
Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama.
Walton McClain (35 KB)
with Charlie McClain on
the farm in Ramer about 1930 - Walton joined the
military for most of his life and earned his PHD.
buried at Alexandria VA
Anne Carter 's Daddy's Death
Certificate (230
KB)
Montgomery Alabama 1939 death
certificate confirms his parents to be Ann Stone
and Wm Frank Fenn as witnessed by his brother
Emmett Marvin Fenn
Susie Mae Cooper
(40 KB)
Levi Cooper
married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae.
Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the
Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County
Alabama. This picture of Susie Mae with her spouse
James E. Brooks.
Frank Delbert Cochran
(50 KB)
Son of Clora Jane
Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran served in WWI
while Jacob was a Civil War soldier of the Ohio
Infantry.
Susie Mae Cooper with her mother
Sarah (68
KB)
Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth
Carter and had Susie Mae. Sarah was the daughter
of Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia and Thomas
Randolph Carter of SC who had settled in Hope
Hull.
Uncle Cecil Earl Carter born
1932 (33
KB)
Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl
Fenn Carter was the father of Victoria Carter, all
buried at Memorial Cemetery except Vickie who was
cremated by her half sisters.
Susie Mae Cooper 's granny
(58
KB)
Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R
Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter.
Uncle William Lawrence Carter born
1935 (25
KB)
Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl
Fenn Carter he was the brother of Anne and Cecil
Jr. Alice died giving birth to "Billy". Billy
spent most of his life in Indian Territory
Oklahoma.
Anne Carter and Frank Cochran in
Arizona 1957 (447
KB)
Pictures taken by Billy Carter,
Anne's brother, accompanied by Lillian, Billy's
first wife.
- Peter Edward
Bozeman (16
KB)
grandfather of Lorena Emma Bozeman
McClain and he was the great great great
grandfather of Kathy.
- Family Tree (8 KB)
Charlie Brooks family
on Rootsweb.com
- Letter by Ethel Bozeman
Gibson (9
KB)
Her life as told to her children
- Peter Edward
Bozeman (1
KB)
Beverly took me to Dublin to
locate these tombstones - grandfather of Lorena
Emma Bozeman McClain and he was the great great
great grandfather of Kathy.
- 1910 Charles
McClain (6
KB)
Kathy's great grandfather on
census with his mother, stepfather, his own wife
Lorena and baby
- Baxley to Charles
Brooks (11
KB)
Coosa River Cemetery
- Peter Edward Bozeman's Uncle Jesse
- Hope Hull (47
KB)
Beverly took me to Hope Hull to
locate these tombstones - plus we found the
grave of T R Carter, a great great grandfather
to Charlie Brooks. Carter's daughter Sarah
married Levi Cooper, the son of Charner Cooper.
- 1920 Charles
McClain (61
KB)
Kathy's great grandfather on
census in World War I
- Anderson, Seaborn Montgomery,
father of Nancy (16
KB)
Nancy Jane Anderson married Peter
Edward Bozeman in Dublin and they had John
Thomas Bozeman who fathered Lorena.
- John Wise Carter's land
records (51
KB)
Father of Thomas Randolph Carter
came from South Carolina to Alabama.
- Alabama Research
(28 KB)
So many ended up
in Alabama
- Mordecai Bozeman, father of Peter,
John, James. (5
KB)
Mordecai served in the American
Revolution with sons Peter and John. Peter moved
to Alabama about 1826 while John moved to
Mississippi in 1823. James remained in
Darlington County SC.
- T R Carter (9 KB)
Born 1820 served in
Civil War, married Jesse's daughter Lacy Bozeman
who died in an epidemic then married to Mary
Josephine Hereford of Virginia, and had Sarah
Elizabeth Carter
- 1 Introduction
(286
KB)
1
- Civil War Kin (32 KB)
Several relatives in
the war
- Baxley, James H. buried at Coosa
River (11
KB)
Charlie's mom's great grandfather
- Kathy's mom's great great great
grandpa Bozeman (5
KB)
Mordecai Bozeman served in the
American Revolution = father of Peter Bozeman
who migrated to Hope Hull who also served along
with him in the War - they were paid for their
services and received land grants in Darlington
County South Carolina.
- Much about my
relatives (45
KB)
Kathy's parents and their
relations
- Kathy's mom's great great Grandpa
Josiah McClain (70
KB)
Josiah Marion McClain was born in
Georgia to Anna and James McClain. Josiah
married first to Julia King and had a family in
Georgia, then he joined the Civil War in an
Alabama Infantry and was with Elizabeth Broadway
by 1870 having a son named Charles Allen
McClain. Charles and his wife Lorena had a
daughter named Alice McClain who married Cecil
Carter.
- Census images (26 KB)
My kin found on census
records in 1790, 1800, 1810 and other good stuff
- Genealogy (22 KB)
Research
- Charner P Cooper
(1 KB)
grandfather of
Susie Mae "Mamaw" Cooper Brooks - Charner served
in the Civil War and married Sarah F Lee of
Chambers County.
- Brooks Family (610 KB)
Our Relatives
- Brooks Genealogy
- Brooks Websites
- Introduction to my many family
members and surnames
- A little bit more information on
those family members
- Those who migrated to
Alabama
- Those who migrated to Kentucky,
Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas
- Those who migrated to Montgomery
County Alabama
- Documents
- Preserving Our Past
- Researching in
Alabama
- Links Of Interest
- MontgomeryGenWeb
- Alabama Genealogy
- Uncle Freelon Lorraine
Cochran
- Search the South Carolina Archives
and Military Records
- Grandmas Fenn, Stone, Rich,
Hendrick, Winters, Lyle
- Grandpas Fenn
- Grandmother Annie Lee Stone Fenn
was named Anna Lou
- Anna's nephew "Tige" William
Arthur Stone
- My List
- Brooks Ancestry
- 1840 Montgomery Alabama census
transcription
- Our Alabama
Connections
- Our Alabama
Connections
- Grandfathers in the
Military
- A brief summary
- About the McClains
- About the Cochrans
- About the Alabama
Families
- Several listed in the 1700s Wills
of Virginia
- Worksheet
- Tribalpages
- My Submission to the State of
Alabama Gen Web Page
- Alabama Lands were $2.00 per
acre
- Home
- Montgomery Area
Families
- Brief Description of my
ancestors
- About Researching in
Alabama
- Journey of our
Elders
- Our Family Jewels
- My Native American
Research
- Colonial Documents and Land
Records
- ........My Brooks
Genealogy
- Visit to Coosa River Primitive
Baptist - Grandpa Baxley 1846
- Grandpa Frank
Cochran
- My Colonial Records and 1700s
documents
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- Bacley, Holt, Hood, Thornton to
the Brooks families
- Tombstones of Nancy Jane Anderson
Bozeman and sons
- Links
- Brooks Gen Web
- Baxley, Joseph to James to Ella
Olivia Baxley Hood to Bubber
- Mary Ella's great grandfather
Baxley in Holtville 1800s
- Kathy's great granny Lorena
Bozeman McClain research
- Peter Bozeman settled in Hope
Hull
- Family Research
- Research
- Hood tombstones
- Family pictures
- Family pictures
- Family pictures
- Family pictures, Charlie and Kathy
7/14/1972
- Family pictures
- Family pictures, Mary
Ella
- 2005
- Kids
- My Parents
- Contents
- Photo of my Anne and Frank
Cochran
- Greetings
- About Alabama
- About Lorena
- Census Notes
- FTM Alabama
Connections
- Charles
- Map (44 KB)
1779 Cheraws District
South Carolina
- Tombstone of George
Little (152
KB)
From Scotland to South Carolina's
Continental Army
- Civil War (40 KB)
Benjamin Wylie
Coonfield in the Indiana Infantry
- Map (39 KB)
1818 Cheraws,
Darlington County, South Carolina
- Map of Georgia
(202 KB)
1796
- Georgia Rangers
(74 KB)
Charles
Weatherford
- Map (275 KB)
1779 North Carolina
includes the Peedee River running into South
Carolina from Bladen County
- Map of Georgia
(377 KB)
1822
- Civil War (306 KB)
Baxley Pension
Request
- Map (263 KB)
1780 North Carolina,
excellent view of the counties and state
boundaries
- Map (189 KB)
Indian Villages of
Alabama
- Civil War (20 KB)
Discharge paper of J W
Little
- Map (233 KB)
1781 map of the south
before Alabama and includes the many indian
tribal locations
- Map (255 KB)
1747 Georgia and the
Carolinas
- Civil War (135 KB)
Partridge in the
Georgia Militia
- Map (259 KB)
1814 Mississippi
Territory
- Map (134 KB)
1820 Alabama
- Tennessee (7 KB)
John Dickens
- Map (336 KB)
1839 Map of Southern
States with Counties
- Map (141 KB)
1830 Alabama
- Charles Brooks
(28 KB)
1972 in his
parent's swing
- Map (559 KB)
Map of Native Tribal
Lands
- Map (218 KB)
Forts of Alabama
- Frank and Anne
(54 KB)
Arizona
- Weatherford (178 KB)
Martin Weatherford of
VA in GA history, father of Charles
- Map (36 KB)
Land Offices in
Alabama
- Frank and Anne's
daughter (47
KB)
from Broken Arrow
- Civil War (121 KB)
Jacob Cochran in the
Ohio Infantry
- Frank and Anne
(23 KB)
Tulsa
- 1785 (151 KB)
Heirs of Jesse +
Gabriel land grants
- Meady A. (65 KB)
1841
- 1838 (173 KB)
Henry, Peter E.,
Lucy, Jesse
- John (191 KB)
1823
- 1838 (173 KB)
Lucy, Henry, Peter
E., Jesse
- John, Paul, Ralph, Phillip, Peter,
Mordecai (127
KB)
1776-1783
- 1838 (173 KB)
Lucy, Henry, Peter
E., Jesse
- John, Ralph, Peter
(63 KB)
1776-1783
- 1849 (167 KB)
Meedy
- John, Paul, Ralph, Phillip, Peter,
Mordecai (19
KB)
1775-1783
- 1849 (67 KB)
John T.
- John, Ralph, Peter joined
Marion (22
KB)
1775-1783
- 1849 (699 KB)
W. H. orphans court
- 1829 (265 KB)
Sarah, Peter E.,
W.H., and Vincent
- 1765 (207 KB)
Map of NC SC GA FL
includes the many Indian Tribes
- 1850 (318 KB)
Missouri and Jesse
- 1778 (82 KB)
Richard
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!
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
The Ballards were previously in the
Carolinas, as were the Bond, and Ward
families.
*
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*
*
*
*
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.
*
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.
*
*
*
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.
*
*
*
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.
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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.
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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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Having my family tree online
has me now receiving lots of emails from new
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