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My genealogy has led me to many new places, meeting many new faces, and taking me on a long journey through time;  a worthwhile journey that I hope my children will someday treasure.
My Mother:  Anne Alice Carter born 1934
My Father:  Frankie Lavern Cochran born 1927
My Spouse:  Charles Wayne Brooks born 1953
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 James Edgar BROOKS
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 1925 in Montgomery, Alabama
  • Death: JAN 1992 in Prattville Cemetery

    Father:     James Edgar BROOKS b: 1895 in he was their only child, was in WWI , was born in TN
    Mother:     Susie Mae COOPER b: 12 DEC 1902 in Alabama

    Marriage 1     Mary Ella THORNTON b: 1 MAR 1927 in Montgomery, Alabama Children
     Charles Wayne BROOKS b: 1 JUL 1953 in Montgomery, Alabama died in 1998.
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    Kathy
    Father: Frankie Lavern COCHRAN b: 7 MAY 1927 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas
    Mother:     Anne Alice CARTER b: 14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama
    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2

    2. Frankie Lavern COCHRAN was born 7 MAY 1927 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas ( one eighth Cherokee), and died 25 DEC 1996 in Montgomery, Alabama. He was buried in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery.  He had an artificial aorta heart valve put in 1981.  He was the son of 4. Frank Delbert COCHRAN and 5. Luella Ellen COONFIELD.

    3. Anne Alice CARTER was born 14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL .... She was buried in Memorial Cemetery. She was Cherokee by blood. She was the daughter of 6. Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER and 7. Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN.
       

    Children of Anne Alice CARTER and Frankie Lavern COCHRAN are:
    1.   i. Living LORENA. She married Charles Wayne BROOKS, son of James Edgar BROOKS and Mary Ella THORNTON. He was born 1 JUL 1953 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 1 JUN 1998 in Brookside Cemetery.. Kathy has three children and two grands.
        ii. Living COCHRAN. He married Living WARD, daughter of Living WARD and Virginia Marie HENDERSON.  Frankie Jr has three children and several grands. Jr. looks a lot like Grandpa Ben Coonfield.
        iii. Victor Daniel COCHRAN was born 20 OCT 1957 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Az, and died 17 JUL 2007 in VA Hospital, Birmingham, AL, burial at Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery Alabama. He married Living DEAVERS and had only one child.
        iv. Living COCHRAN. She married Larry FULLER, son of John Edward FULLER and Hazel Elizabeth RICHARDS. He was born 28 FEB 1952 in Jefferson County, Alabama, and died 4 OCT 2008 in Montgomery Alabama.  Pam now resides in our parents' home where Dad's family used to come visit often.
    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 3

    4. Frank Delbert COCHRAN was born 20 JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and died 20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas. WWI Vet. He was the son of 8. Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN and 9. Clora Jane MILLER.  I have a few pictures of us at Mena and POP would put coffee and sugar in my bottle :)

    5. Luella Ellen COONFIELD was born 8 FEB 1897 - one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO Med Hospital. She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Chetopa Kansas. She was the daughter of 10. Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD and 11. Lattie Cedonia LITTLE. Luella said they had other indian blood mixed in but she didn't know from which tribe so she could have been half blood.
       

    Children of Luella Ellen COONFIELD and Frank Delbert COCHRAN are:
        i. Bernice Pauline COCHRAN was born 24 JUL 1915 in Mason Valley, Benton, Arkansas.  She married Homer CLARK. He died in Grandby MO. She married Homer Gordon CLARK 16 OCT 1934 in Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, son of Bert CLARK and Bessie Jane SMITH. He was born 1912 in Prosperty Jasper Missouri, and died 1979 in Mesa AZ.
        ii. Eunice Irene COCHRAN was born 24 JUL 1915 - Twin, born Mason Valley, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 19 MAR 2004 - had alzheimers. She married Charles Thomas HARAUGHTY, son of Stephen HARAUGHTY and Ida Frances FIZER. He was born ABT 1900. She married Malloy Thomas ROSS. He was born 1917 in Oklahoma, and died 1981 in Phoenix AZ. She married Charles Thomas HARAUGHTY 6 MAR 1933 in Oswego Kansas, son of Jack EDWARDS and Ida Francis FIZER. He was born 1913 in Labette KS, and died 1956 in Mesa AZ.
        iii. Cleo Stanley COCHRAN was born 7 JUL 1917 in Prosperity, Jasper, Missouri, and died 1 FEB 1992 in Parsons, Lebette, Ka. He married Lucretia SHORT 25 FEB 1949 in Bentonville, Arkansas, Usa.
        iv. Frances COCHRAN was born 25 NOV 1919 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas, and died 25 NOV 1919.
        v. Fran COCHRAN was born 4 JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas, and died 4 JUL 1920 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas.
        vi. Harley COCHRAN was born 4 JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died 4 JUL 1920.
        vii. Irmajean Cedona COCHRAN was born 19 SEP 1921 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas. She married Frank Charles MILES 1940 in Chetopa. He was born 1917 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas, and died in unknown.
        viii. Joy Benjamin COCHRAN was born 12 NOV 1923 in enlisted WWII 1946, Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died 26 JUN 1998 in , Chetopa, Labette, Kansas. He married Living JARMAN. He married Vida Marie JARMAN 1940 in Kansas. She was born 1925, and died 2004.
        ix. Bonnie Mae COCHRAN was born 4 MAY 1925 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark. She married George Lemuel KNOTTS 1948 in yates Center KS. He was born 8 OCT 1924, and died 1967 in Wichita Kansas. She married Living MATTHEWS.  She had Regal Eagle.
    2.   x.
    Frankie Lavern COCHRAN was born 7 MAY 1927 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas ( one eighth Cherokee), and died 25 DEC 1996 in Montgomery, Alabama. He married Anne Alice CARTER 1 SEP 1951 in http://www.usgenealogy.net/members///ancestry///01.html
    , daughter of Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER and Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN. She was born 14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL ....
        xi. Mary Lou Ruby COCHRAN was born 1 NOV 1929 in Chetopa, Labett County, Kansas, and died 27 JAN 2006. She married James F MOUNT 1953 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He was born 1931 in Welch, Craig, Oklahoma, and died in unknown.
        xii. Freelon Larraine Coonfield COCHRAN was born 3 NOV 1932 in Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, and died 4 JUN 1953 in Korean War Fatality.
        xiii. Darrell Dean COCHRAN was born 12 OCT 1936 in Chetopa KS, and died in Alive and well. He married Living WALBEE.
        xiv. Wanda Deloris COCHRAN was born 20 DEC 1938 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas. She married Howard Lee RIDDLE in Nowata Oklahoma, son of Ernest Paul RIDDLE and Jimmie Grace MOORE. He was born 3 OCT 1934 in Chetopa KS, and died in unknown.

    6. Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER was born 1901 in Thompson Station, Bullock, Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL. Cherokee by blood.  He was buried 6 FEB 1939 in Memorial Cemetery. He was the son of 12. William Franklin FENN and 13. Anna Lou STONE.

    7. Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN was born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street, Montgomery, AL. She was buried in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. She was the daughter of 14. Charles Allen MCCLAIN and 15. Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN.
       

    Children of Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN and Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER are:
        i. Cecil Earl CARTER was born 22 NOV 1932 in Montgomery, AL, and died in Montgomery AL. He married Jean MCNEIL. She died in Montgomery AL. He married Living CHRISTINE, daughter of DAD. He married Living JERRI.
    3.   ii.
    Anne Alice CARTER was born 14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died 27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL .... She married Frankie Lavern COCHRAN 1 SEP 1951 in http://www.usgenealogy.net/members///ancestry///01.html
    , son of Frank Delbert COCHRAN and Luella Ellen COONFIELD. He was born 7 MAY 1927 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas ( one eighth Cherokee), and died 25 DEC 1996 in Montgomery, Alabama.
        iii. William Lawrence CARTER was born 9 OCT 1935 in Montgomery, AL, and died 1975 in spent most of his life in Enid OK, Montgomery AL. He married Living WIVES.

    Ahnentafel, Generation No. 4

    8. Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN was born 22 FEB 1822 in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, and died 24 NOV 1902 in Civil War Vet Ohio Infantry, and First Homesteader of Hill City, in 1882 Graham, KS.  Miner and farmer, he was was buried in Hill City Cemetery. He was the son of 16. William COCHRAN and 17. Martha Patty HENDERSON.

    9. Clora Jane MILLER was born 12 OCT 1852 in Bloomington, McLean, Ilinois, and died 6 DEC 1931 in Hill City, Graham County, Kansas. She was buried in hill City Cemetery. She was the daughter of 18. James Madison MILLER and 19. Mary Clara PARKER.  Clora Jane smoked a pipe and read the ashes.  She taught her grandchildren how to make popcorn by the fire.
       

    Children of Clora Jane MILLER and Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN are:
        i. Clora Ann Doll COCHRAN was born 13 MAR 1880 in Meringo, Scott, Iowa, Usa, and died 1970 in Colorado. She married John OSMAN. She married Williiam HETZEL 30 JAN 1898 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, Usa. He was born ABT 1880 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, Usa, and died 1921 in unknown.
        ii. Jacob Madison COCHRAN was born 17 DEC 1881 in Maringo, Iowa, and died 26 JUL 1954 in Corvillis, Benton, Oregon. He married Nancy Ellen COOK 1907 in Hill City, Graham County, KS, daughter of Isaac Newton COOK and Mary Belle PERSONETT. She was born 7 JUL 1890 in Benkleman, Dundy Co, Nebraska, and died 1954 in Corvallis, OR.
        iii. Ky COCHRAN was born 15 NOV 1883 in Partis, Smith, Kansas, Usa, and died 6 MAR 1973 in Plainsville, Rook, Kansas, Usa. He married Sophia Madeline DE MURRY 1907 in Partis, Smith, Kansas. She was born 10 SEP 1892 in Palco Rook KS, and died 1959 in Plainville, Rook, Kansas.
        iv. Mary Jane Emmaline COCHRAN was born 20 SEP 1885 in Hillcity, Graham, Kansas, and died 2 DEC 1989 in Vancouver, Clark, Washington. She married Gustave BERTRAND 16 APR 1902. He was born 1870 in Hill City KS. She married Edward WALKER 1921. He was born 1881, and died 1962 in Mich.
        v. Dasie Violetta COCHRAN was born 19 APR 1887 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, and died 19 APR 1890 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas.
        vi. Benjamin Harrison COCHRAN was born 18 FEB 1889 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, was christened in Mesa, Az, and died 14 JUN 1963 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. He married Clara Ann PENTICO 1913 in Goodland, Graham, KS, daughter of John Edward PENTICO and Annie RYMAN. She was born 1891 in Agenda, Republic, KS, and died 1956 in Mesa. He married Ina MORGANSIN 20 DEC 1913 in Goodland, Graham, Kansas, Usa.
        vii. Della Floydell COCHRAN was born 10 FEB 1891 in Lenora, Morton, Kansas, and died OCT 1920 in Hillcity, Graham, Kansas. She married George F HETZEL 13 JUL 1905 in Hill City, Graham County, KS. He was born ABT 1887 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas. She married Robert Henry WALLACE 1909 in Hill City, Graham County, KS. He was born ABT 1888 in New Zealand.
    4.   viii. Frank Delbert COCHRAN was born 20 JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and died 20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas. He married Luella Ellen COONFIELD 2 SEP 1914 in Arkansas, daughter of Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD and Lattie Cedonia LITTLE. She was born 8 FEB 1897 in one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO Med Hospital.

    10. Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD was born 31 AUG 1870 in Anderson, Benton Co Arkansas, and died 1938 in Coffelt Cemetery, Benton Co AR. He was the son of 20. Benjamin Wylie COONFIELD and 21. Martha Anne Frances YOUNG. Must have been indian by blood.

    11. Lattie Cedonia LITTLE was born 14 JAN 1872 in Bardstown Junction, Kentucky, and died 23 JAN 1933 in Vaughn, Benton County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of 22. John Wright LITTLE and 23. Mary Catherine CRIGLER.
       

    Children of Lattie Cedonia LITTLE and Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD are:
        i. Benjamin Harrison COONFIELD was born 9 SEP 1892 in Benton AR - World War I, and died 21 MAR 1971 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark. He married Inez Violet GRAY, daughter of John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie" Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT. She was born 1895 in Kansas, and died 1985.
        ii. Amy Marie COONFIELD was born 30 JAN 1895 in Hawasser, Benton, AR, and died 15 FEB 1952 in Los Angeles, CAlifornia. She married Joseph Monroe GRAY 1911, son of John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie" Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT. He was born 19 APR 1890 in Barnes Kansas, and died 28 JUN 1967 in Eureka KS.
    5.   iii. Luella Ellen COONFIELD was born 8 FEB 1897 in one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO Med Hospital. She married Frank Delbert COCHRAN 2 SEP 1914 in Arkansas, son of Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN and Clora Jane MILLER. He was born 20 JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and died 20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas.
        iv. Ruthe COONFIELD was born 1900, and died 1957 in Chetopa KS. She married George BATES 1922, son of Peyton BATES and Mabel HENRY. He was born 1902, and died in Car accident.
        v. Eula COONFIELD was born 1902. She married WILLIAMS.
        vi. Carl Newton COONFIELD was born 1906 in 1930 census shows him still at home with parents, and died 1972. He married Mary RENO.
        vii. Jewel( Virginia) COONFIELD was born 14 JUN 1907 in had Alzheimers disease. She married George Lee SAVAGE. She married Ruel Taft MILLER 1949 in Los Angeles CA. He was born 10 JAN 1909 in Gainesville, ozark Missouri, and died 9 SEP 1972.
        viii. Eva Irene COONFIELD was born 1908, and died 1911.
        ix. John Chester COONFIELD was born 1912 in 1930 census shows him still at home with parents, and died 2003. He married Thelma WRIGHT.

    12.
    William Franklin FENN was born DEC 1855 in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, and died 11 MAR 1922 a farm manager in Eufaula at the Fenn Plantation of Matthew Fenn written in the History Book of Barbour County,  then to boarding house in Montgomery County AL* http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Cecil.html
    . He was buried 12 MAR 1922 in buried by his brother Madison, Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. He was the son of 24. John Franklin FENN and 25. Emeline "Emily" HARRELL.

    13. Anna Lou STONE was born NOV 1871 in Alabama, and died ABT 1933 in Macon, Bibb, Georgia. She was the daughter of 26. Augustus Marvin STONE and 27. Mary Ann HENDRICK. Known as Annie, she divorced Fenn and married Carter, then widowed, she married Dasher and signed as witness to her mother's death certificate.
       

    Children of Anna Lou STONE and William Franklin FENN are:
        i.
    William Franklin FENN was born 1894 in Bullock County AL, and died 1981 in Coosada, Elmore County AL. He married Neva Mae WALRAVEN in http://www.usgenealogy.net/members///ALABAMA///Notes/anniestonessonfrank.jpg
    , daughter of Paul WALRAVEN. She was born 1896 in GA, and died 1972 in Coosada Alabama.
        ii. Carolyn Lee FENN was born SEP 1894 in Thompson Station, Greenwood Township, Bullock AL, and died ABT 1934 in on 1930 census in Creek County, Oklahoma. She married Benjamin Franklin JOHNSON, son of Nathaniel B. JOHNSON and Nancy America Emmaline MILLS. He was born 1887 in 1900 census shows his family in Choctaw Nation Texas, and died in oklahoma.  Ben signed the affidavit stating his mother was Full Blood and he was born in Choctaw Nation.
        iii. Robert Lee FENN was born 16 MAR 1896 in Thompson, Bullock County AL - found in 1920 census of US Navy Hospital, and died 1 JUL 1974 in Coosada, Elmore Co., AL. He married MARY. She died in unknown.
        iv. Arthur Lee FENN was born ABT 1897, and died ABT 1925. He married UNKNOWN.
        v. Emmett Marvin FENN was born 26 SEP 1898 in WWI Vet born in Thompson Station, Bullock County AL, and died 10 MAY 1959 in New York. He married NONE.
    6.   vi. Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER was born 1901 in Thompson Station, Bullock, Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL. He married Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN APR 1932 in Montgomery County AL, daughter of Charles Allen MCCLAIN and Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN. She was born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street, Montgomery, AL.  Cecil and Alice died very young and the children went to Lorena.

    14. Charles Allen MCCLAIN was born 7 OCT 1886 - had lazy eye, Ramer, Montgomery, AL, and died 24 OCT 1949 in Maryland Avenue, Montgomery, AL. He was buried in Church Of Christ Cemetery, Dublin Alabama. He was the son of 28. Josiah Marion MCCLAIN and 29. Elizabeth "Bettie" BROADWAY.

    15. Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN was born 11 JAN 1892 in Ramer Alabama, and died 12 JUN 1982 in Memorial Cemetery off Bozeman Drive, Montgomery AL. She was buried in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. She was the daughter of 30. John Thomas BOZEMAN and 31. Alice Lorena STEPHENS.
       

    Children of Lorena Emma "Rena" BOZEMAN and Charles Allen MCCLAIN are:
        i. Mary Ruth MCCLAIN was born in Montgomery AL, and died ABT 1975 in Montgomery AL. She married Walter B CURLEE. He died in Montgomery AL.
        ii. Charles Henderson "Buddy" MCCLAIN was born in Could not read nor write; had only one daughter, and died 11 JAN 2002 in Ft Mitchell Military Cemetery, near Ft Sill, Alabama. He married Lena HAINEY. She died 1991.
        iii. Lillie Mae MCCLAIN was born 18 OCT 1909 in Ramer Alabama, and died 28 JUN 1985 in Dublin AL Church Of Christ Cemetery. She married Hubbert DUNCAN, son of D C ? DUNCAN and LIZZIE. He died in Dublin AL.
        iv.
    Katie Bell MCCLAIN was born 2 APR 1912 in she raised his children, Ramer AL, and died in Montgomery AL. She married Roscoe COLEY ABT 1939 in http://www.usgenealogy.net/members///ALABAMA///Notes/roscoe-katybellmcclaincoley.jpg
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        v. Jimmie Lee MCCLAIN was born 17 SEP 1913 in Dublin AL, and died 1932 in Dublin AL. She married HAYES. He died in unknown.
    7.   vi. Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN was born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street, Montgomery, AL. She married Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER APR 1932 in Montgomery County AL, son of William Franklin FENN and Anna Lou STONE. He was born 1901 in Thompson Station, Bullock, Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL.
        vii. Dr. William Walton MCCLAIN , PhD was born 20 APR 1920 in Ramer Alabama, and died ABT 1972 in Arlington Cemetery.
        viii. Joseph Edward MCCLAIN was born 24 MAY 1926 in Ramer AL, and died ABT 1975 in USNavy, Pearl Harbor, Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. He married Living DORTHY. He married Living BROADWAY, daughter of John W BROADWAY and Jessie MAE.

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    My  daddy always called mom his little 5'2" indian squaw and spoke of his mother being part indian as well. He spoke of his mother sitting in the fields digging up roots and picking herbs to fill her apron and that she smoked a pipe but his daddy's mother also smoked a pipe, taught them how to make pop corn, and then that one's mother helped the indians make medicine. His line has some fascinating stories throughout Rhode Island  1600s history and into New York Indian Country before migrating into Ohio and Kentucky by 1800.  Daddy's great great great grandmother descended from the line of Tefft families involved with King Phillip, an indian, who hanged Joshua Tefft and the Parker families involved with indians kidnapping a Cindy Parker who became the bride of an Indian Chief having his son Quanna Parker. 

    I found Alexander and William Cochran in 1790 in Pennsylvania and then in 1810 Ohio where Jacob was born in 1822. He was a miner and a farmer and went to California to search for gold, returned and moved his family to Iowa Territory.  His second wife Clora Jane Miller said she was born in Illinoy.........to Mary Clara Parker and James Miller. There are stories of Jacob Cochran's grandparents helping the indians in Ohio and starting a school. 

     In 1800 Kentucky I found records of Isaac Coonfield, who's great great granddaughter Luella would later marry Frank Cochran. Isaac war born about 1770 in Pennsylvania to a Dutch, Christopher Confeldt. It is not known how many sons Christopher had but suspect one was John as I found him listed near Isaac, then Isaac named a son John and a son Isaac Jr. in 1808.  The Coonfields were still in Kentucky census in 1820 but in 1830 found in Indiana.  In 1856 Isaac Jr. bought land in Arkansas and had a son Benjamin Wylie Coonfield.  Isaac had married Lydia Epperson of Kentucky and she had Ben and died  so Isaac married her sister Mary Epperson.  Ben married Martha Frances Young of Indiana and her family had come from Kentucky. Martha named a son Benjamin Wallace "Wally" Coonfield and he married Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky, while in Arkansas.

    Most of these men served in the Civil War.  I have Ben Coonfield's registration and Lattie's father's, John Little, and also Jacob Cochran  I have found a land deed where John Little took a homestead in 1900 Arkansas and do not know why he left Kentucky but in 1910 his father in law Abraham Crigler had followed them.  John's father Hiram Little had moved to Texas and married a young 14 yr old Rebecca and started a second family.

    • My mother's lineage goes back to the Mayflower to Edward Doty, since his descendant married an Anderson in North Carolina, where I then researched Anderson, Bozeman, Stephens, Fann, Stone, McClain, Moon as they journeyed into Alabama Territory by 1820. In Virginia and Maryland 1600s the Bozemans were given more land by the King of England when they "transported" new families into America and there is a story of one of the Bozemans there being the son of an Indian Princess.  In 1790 I began to find them in North Carolina and in South Carolina as a few of the colonies began to develop amongst many indian tribes which are very interesting to read about.  Peter Bozeman was born about 1758 to Mordecai and "wife" and Peter's brother married a full blood and migrated into Mississippi in 1823 while Peter moved his family to Hope Hull.

     

      So while studying the Carolinas I also found my daddy's ancestor, Captain George Little in Union County SC who moved to Kentucky in 1802.  His grandson Hiram Little married Catherine Wright, a daughter of Catherine Weatherford, whom I traced into Charlotte Virginia records, to a Patsy Weatherford found in 1810 with three daughters.  Patsy must have been the former wife of Charles Weatherford who moved into Wetumpka, Alabama and married Sehoy, the Creek Indian mother of Chief Red Eagle.  Picketts History of the Creeks along the Alabama River shares much detail about the Weatherfords. 

    Hiram Little's nephew, Lucius Powhatan Little had a daughter, Laura, who did extensive family research and tried to connect us to a daughter of Chief Powhatan of Virginia, so we can suspect that Patsy Weatherford was of Indian Blood. 

     There is more written about the father of Charles Weatherford, Martin.  Martin left Virginia and was a loyalist, on the side of the British, and received a lot of land in Georgia, where it is written that he was a wealthy planter who employed indians to work his crops, but was so very outspoken for the British, that the State of Georgia kicked him out and he moved to the Bahamas. 

    It is just hard to imagine that one of my daddys grandfathers was here in Alabama in 1800 so close to my mother's ancestors. After the American Revolution, there was a land office in Georgia, able to sell the new lands available in Alabama Territory and many of her ancestors did just that, since the lands were so good for planting crops like cotton and corn.  They hauled their crops to Dexter Avenue to sell, back when it was a nasty bumpy dirt road. 

    The crops could be shipped out by steamboats along the Alabama River and then the Train Station was developed.  Her daddy Cecil Carter was adopted around 1905, by the unknown Carter in Macon Georgia.  His mother Annie Lou Stone had married his father William Franklin Fenn in 1893, divorced about 1901, married a Carter and then a Dasher, but probably never returned to Alabama. Annie Lou's great grandfather was Michael Stone of Maryland 1700s and I tried to connect him to Thomas Stone who signed the Declaration of Independence but have not been able to trace that far back. However I was able to trace the Fenn family back to Virginia where John Fann married a Mary Stone in 1698. 

     

    My husband's line also has Stone, a  MaryCatherine  Stone in Tennessee, who married John Baptist Bond about 1800.  She had a daughter Caroline Bond who married several times, but her daughter Roxanna is the one who married John Brooks in 1860. Roxanna's son John married Annie Clark Ballard, and these women have a long history from the Carolinas into Tennessee about 1800, where many indian tribes existed.  There are many grandmothers included, with names only known as Kezziah or Gracey, that we may never know anything about. There was one named Hester Ward and while I do not find the parents' names I do know there was a famous indian called Nannie Ward and wonder if there was any connection.  Annie's son James Edgar Brooks would be related to all of these found in  early Tennessee history, but his family moved to Montgomery Alabama with the work on the railroad and he married Susie Mae Cooper in 1923.   Susie's families also had come out of South Carolina, some settling in Chambers County and some in Montgomery but her granny Mary Josephine Hereford Carter was born in Virginia in 1844.  Mary was the second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin Cooper.  Levi's parents were born in Chambers County, Charner P. Cooper and Sarah F. Lee but their parents were from South Carolina also.  Thomas Carter was born in 1820 SC to John Wise Carter and unknown wife ( here we go again ) and the first wife of Thomas was Lacy Bozeman of Hope Hull.  Often I have wondered if Thomas was somehow kin to my grandfather Cecil Carter. 

    James Brooks Jr. married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie.  Mary's grandmother Mary Angeline Partridge was an indian out of Georgia, according to Lorraine "Tutor" and her daughter Sue Carol Bozeman.

    When I go back and study those old records, I find many of our families residing very close to several famous indian names, like my Cochrans living near Will Rogers in Rogers County Oklahoma and his ancestors Rogers living by my Peter Bozeman in Darlington long before that.  Even found Sequoyah's ancestors, Gist, Guist, Guess in South Carolina as well, along with McQueen, Hildebrand, McGillvary, McIntosh, and many others who married an indian bride. 

    When my grandmother Lorena Bozeman's "Grandma Sellers" migrated to Alabama, there was a connection to Nathan Sellers who married one of the indian Schrimpshire girls and another Schrimpshire girl married Chief Dennis Bushyhead and another Schrimpshire girl was the mother of Will Rogers, all quite fascinating history.  Our grandma Lavinia Sellers married Seaborn Anderson in Montgomery Alabama and his great great grandfather Anderson is listed as full blood Cherokee on the Latter Day Saints research page.  Other researchers online are looking into the indian heritage of the Sellers family of North Carolina as well.  Lavinia Janes' daughter Nancy Jane Anderson married Peter Edward Bozeman in Dublin and had John Thomas Bozeman in 1865, and John married Alice Lorena Stephens.  The Stephens great grandfather had married a full blood Cherokee in the Carolinas during his service with the American Revolution and then migrated into Dublin.  There were several Stephens plantations found in Dublin and Ramer in the 1800s.  John and Alice had Lorena Emma Bozeman in 1890, my great granny.  Lorena was a very special, gifted, Christian lady.  She could touch, pray and heal those in need.  My daddy once talked about a man hurt and bleeding from a car accident, and daddy carried the man to Lorena, who touched the man and prayed for him, and my daddy witnessed the healing, the bleeding stopped immediately.  There was a day when I was about 20 and found a lump in my chest that needed surgery,and Lorena said show me, so she placed a hand on my chest and prayed, and my surgeon said the lump came out benign and I do believe she helped me.  There were many special moments in our lives, and those with premonitions who helped many, and my daddys sister Irma being born with a veil over her face was an amazing story.  The doctor removed it and it came right back, then he removed it again and it came back, but the third veil was taken by Irma's mother and placed in the Family Bible, where it still remains.  Whenever something was wrong, the veil would "sweat". 

     

    I have gathered stories and letters and names to get this family tree growing, and then collected census records, death certificates, marriage licenses, military documents, and other things to verify the branches and continue to add to it every so often.  Some send me emails after reading the family tree on rootsweb.com and let me know how they connect to us and share whatever stories they have found.  One was about my grandpa Cecil Carter's sister, Carolyn / Carrie Fenn who married an indian named Ben Johnson and moved to Oklahoma.  Ben had signed an affidavit stating his mother America Mills was born a full blood indian in Alabama, but his daddy Nathaniel Johnson would not allow them to register on the indian rolls.  Mills is an important name in my Stephens line as well.  However, Johnson, sometimes spelled as Johnston, is also in my son in law's lineage in Macon County.  Nathaniel's line was back to a David Johnston married to Mary Macon, of the family this county was named after. 

     In my husband's line there is Holtville Community or Town named after one of his grandfathers, where James H. Baxley married Louisa Miranda Holt in Elmore County and we found their graves at Coosa River Primitive Church by an elder J. Holt born 1806 who must have been her father.Miranda's daughter Ella Olivia Baxley married  L. W. Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood who married Milton Eligah Thornton.  Bessie's daughters were Mary Ella Brooks, Tutor Lorraine Jeffcoat and Olivia Angeline Cox.  There is a Glenda Baxley who emailed me with her findings on James at Coosa River and sent me his Civil War papers. 

     Clarence Bearden is the son of  Aunt Sissy Elizabeth Brooks and sent me a package of records found on the Brooks side, including some beautiful pictures. His article and research of the cemetery at Hope Hull is posted online at the Alabama Cemetery Preservation page.  That page has other information that a Benjamin Lewis once owned that plantation around 1820 and it was sold a couple of times before Peter Bozeman arrived.  I also speculate that Benjamin Lewis or his son married one of the daughters of Peter Bozeman.  Most of these people are listed in the South Carolina Archives, some in North Carolina in the 1700s but then again in Montgomery Alabama in the 1820s and 1830s.  Peter died in 1829 and his estate sale lists many of these people attending.  In 1848 Peter's son William died and his articles are also found in the Montgomery Archives, estate sale, and writ of dower for the widow. The marriage licenses of William's children are also found, including his son Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834, served in the Civil War and married Nancy Jane Anderson. 

     Elisha Anderson's will is found in 1834 Montgomery. 

     So many of these elders are found in the DAR records where they were in the American Revolution, that it will take forever to get it all organized, and am greatful that cousin Jimmy Ray Bozeman's daughter joined the DAR based on Peter Bozeman's record.  Jimmy joined the Sons of the Revolution and now cousin Hazel Bozeman has joined the DAR. I find it so rewarding meeting these new cousins, Hazel met us at Dublin where we found the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman and his daughter in law Alice Lorena.  Hazel is the daughter of  Uncle Bob Bozeman and we met cousin Elizabeth, the granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson.  Ethel's son Buster said that my grandpa Charlie McClain had no tombstone ever at Dublin's Church of Christ, which seems odd since he served in WW1.  Charlie's daddy was Josiah Marion McClain of Georgia who served in the Civil War, got wounded and forgot that he had a wife and children in Georgia so he married Elizabeth Broadway of Dublin and had Charlie.  Elizabeth was born in 1853 to Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway - ironic since Charlie married Lorena Bozeman and her mother was also a Stephens.  When Josiah McClain died, his widow filed for his military pension and when Peter Edward Bozeman died, his widow also filed for a pension and it was signed by Peter's Uncle John Hill.

     
    So much to do and so little time.

     
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      Our ancestors met before the Civil War. They came together in Montgomery sharing cotton plantations in the fields you now see when passing through Montgomery on I-65. Yet after the war this land was worthless, being destroyed as Wilsons Raiders burned a path through the state but these families struggled to revive as much as they could. I found an old cemetery with some tombstones dating back to 1793 on this property and then tried to trace their descendants across town. In 1900 I find them again in downtown Montgomery near the train station as many others had migrated into our lineage and they once again worked together. In fact my mother in law in 1950 had taken in the widow of my great grandfather when she had no place to go.  My husband's cousin Sue Carol on his mother's side married one of my mother's Bozeman Cousins and his father's great grandpa Thomas Carter was once married to another of our Bozeman Cousins in Hope Hull.   Our families were always close, we just did not realize how very close.  My father came from Kansas and married my mom in Montgomery in 1951, while he was stationed at Maxwell AFB after injuries from being shot in the Korean War - his lineage was partly in Pennsylvania and South Carolina before migrating into Kentucky and Ohio and then on into the midwest.  Together we have dozens of grandfathers in the American Revolution and the Civil War.
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    • 1920 Grandma Luella (1080 KB)
      My family in Oklahoma
    • 1930 Grandma Luella (901 KB)
      My family in Oklahoma and dad is age 2
    • 1930 Grandma Lattie (1207 KB)
      Arkansas- often mispelled at Lottie
    • 1910-Grandma Elizabeth (513 KB)
      With Charles and Lorena on Hickory Grove
    • 1900 Grandma Elizabeth (846 KB)
      With second husband John L. Gardener and her son Charles McClain
    • 1850 Elizabeth Westbrook (764 KB)
      Back with her parents she must have been pregnant with George when her husband left her with baby William - Westbrook sometimes comes up as Westbrooks but it could be because of the loopy penmanship of the census taker...In 1870 Elizabeth is married to Lawson and caring for her mother......James also had remarried to Johanna and they named a son Osceola...........but then he vanishes during the Civil War and that family goes to Florida
    • 1830- Elizabeth Westbrook's father in Alabama (383 KB)
      George Grauer and Sophia Porter in Marengo County before 1830 with his several brothers in same county
    • 1900 Grandma Clora (984 KB)
      Her parents were James Madison Miller and Mary Clara Parker who had settled in Bloomington Illinois before Iowa where she met my great grandpa Jacob
    • 1900 George Westbrook (901 KB)
      son of Elizabeth and James
    • Census Images (76 KB)
      My collection of census images relating to my family
    • Dad's Research (1 KB)
      Midwest cousins
    • Dad's Research (959 KB)
      Midwest cousins
    • Midwest Research (959 KB)
      Cousins and Connection
    • Genealogy (5 KB)
      Cochran of Ohio into Iowa
    • Books (27 KB)
      Documents and Resources
    • Southern Research (211 KB)
      Path of my Elders
    • Land Records (40 KB)
      George Grauer and his father in law Mark Porter buying land in Marengo County and then the daughter of George, Elizabeth Westbrook buying 160 acres of her own in 1860 for herself.
    • Captain Little (450 KB)
      My dad's GGG grandfather from Scotland along with several possible brothers, in Union County South Carolina 1790 and 1800 census but in Kentucky 1810 after the brother of Mrs. Mary Handley Douglass Little explored, surveyed and offered them land in Vienna Kentucky and more along the Green River which is included in the books History of Kentucky and mentions these familis and is included in the Kentucky Genealogy Webpages.
    • The Captain's great grandson (144 KB)
      Military Record 1863 Kentucky Infantry, then Bullitt County Kentucky and later in Madison Arkansas. Also John's father was a surgeon in the Civil War....many of this family served.
    • 1838 Lucy Campbell (173 KB)
      Sterling Campbell married one of the daughters of Peter Bozeman in Darlington SC and followed the families to Montgomery and later bought land near Talladega.
    • 1829 Vincent Joiner (265 KB)
      Sarah's X mark - Vincent married Ellen Bozeman, a daughter of Peter, and later bought land in South Alabama. Vincent also signed documents for Peter in 1822 and 1824 as his child Julius received a gift of land from Grandpa Peter.
    • Boseman, Bozman, etc. (27 KB)
      Most could not read nor write so the spelling varies through time.
    • Helpful Links (4 KB)
      Followup
    • Weatherford Indians (134 KB)
      Census study shows them as native americans in Alabama.
    • Names (343 KB)
      Names and tales of family members
    • Cousin (21 KB)
      Helpful Links
    • Land Records (308 KB)
      Deeds
    • Coonfield of 1760 (85 KB)
      Interview of a descendant
    • Cousins and Relations (257 KB)
      Helpful Links
    • Tales and Lore (610 KB)
      Family stories
    • 1811 Catherine Weatherford (52 KB)
      Item 76 states she is the daughter of Charles but he is not making her marriage bond so he must have been in Alabama.
    • Documents (191 KB)
      Some old images in my collection.
    • Bits and Pieces (44 KB)
      Parts of the Genealogy
    • Catherine Weatherford Wright's daughter Catherine (254 KB)
      Go to Little and see Catherine who married Hiram Little - She is the daughter of Catherine G. Weatherford and John Wright. Hiram was a physician and the son of Jonas, and the grandson of George. Hiram and Catherine had a son named John who is listed below their article. John's granddaughter married Frank D. Cochran.
    • Notes (119 KB)
      Old Research notes
    • Ellie McClain (1 KB)
      Broadway and McClain
    • D A R (189 KB)
      Most of these had fathers in the American Revolution - so many connect to me.
    • Search Box (39 KB)
      1
    • Search Files (124 KB)
      Images and Folders
    • D N A (111 KB)
      DNA results to Jimmy Ray
    • Notes (102 KB)
      Some records
    • Bozeman (33 KB)
      Hickory Grove
    • Martha Hill in census (137 KB)
      Her families and descendants in census notes.
    • 1820s and 1830s (40 KB)
      Studying the past
    • Martha Hill Bozeman in Montgomery County (39 KB)
      By 1850 she had settled near the other Hills in Dublin and some families in Ramer who connected to her vast lineage.
    • Grandmother Annie Lee (1 KB)
      Anna Lou Stone married Fenn and Carter and Dasher and died around 1933 or 1934. Her father was born in Macon County AL and moved back to Macon GA before he died. She followed. The death certificates of both of her parents are found in the Georgia Archives and Annie signed as a witness to her mother's.
    • Elders of Martha Hill's husband (23 KB)
      Study of William Henry Bozeman born 1802 Darlington and their trails into Hope Hull.
    • 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
  • FILES (5 KB)
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  • Family (25 KB)
    My Many Grandfathers
  • Documents (791 KB)
    Records found on many of our relatives, Baxley, Ballard, Bond, Bozeman, Carter, Cooper, Coonfield, Cochran, Fenn, McClain, Stone, Little, Parker, Stephens, Tefft, Wright, Weatherford, Young
  • Documents 2 (94 KB)
    Records found on many of our relatives, Baxley, Ballard, Bond, Bozeman, Carter, Cooper, Coonfield, Cochran, Fenn, McClain, Stone, Little, Parker, Stephens, Tefft, Wright, Weatherford, Young
  • 1830 census (12 KB)
    Montgomery Alabama
  • Dallas County (18 KB)
    My Census records saved from my own subscription for future reference.
  • Lowndes County (14 KB)
    Census Records
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  • Me (238 KB)
    My grandson is made up of all of genes.
  • Marriage Record (524 KB)
    Annie Ballard wed John Brooks in Tennessee
  • Marriage Record (1122 KB)
    John Brooks Sr married Roxanna "Annie" "Roxie" Permilia Smith in Tennessee and had son John who married Annie Ballard.
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  • Sarah (143 KB)
    Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper with her children including Susie Mae
  • Carter , John Wise (35 KB)
    1821 Land Record
  • Gilly Bozeman (114 KB)
    Wife Of Peter born 1807
  • Thomas Randolph Carter (46 KB)
    With first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
  • 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
  • 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.
    • Amos (801 KB)
      Ancestors of Amos Westbrook
    • 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 )
    • 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 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.
    • Tombstones (41 KB)
      Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
    • 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
    • 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
     

    Family Photos

    • 1885 (386 KB)
      Sketches12-14 This Samuel Bozeman was probably the brother to our grandfather Mordecai Bozeman, and they were sons of Samuel Edward Bozeman.
    • 1885 (392 KB)
      Sketches16-17
    • Isaac Coonfield death record (436 KB)
      Mortality List
    • 1885 (420 KB)
      Sketches14-15
    • Death Certificate of Anne Carter (440 KB)
      wife of Frank Cochran. On that last night with her she told me to go home to my babies because a "lady in white" had visited her and told her that she was about to "go home"
    • 1885 (383 KB)
      Sketches18
    • Tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman (78 KB)
      found in the woods behind Hills Chapel Church by Peter Edward Bozeman's tombstone on the old John Hill plantation. Alice was the wife of his son John Thomas Bozeman who was buried across the street in another cemetery. Stone reads " My Darling ALB "
    • Grandma Stone (88 KB)
      Informant is our great granny Annie L Dasher who later became Annie Carter, previously a Fenn in 1893.
    • 1885 (440 KB)
      Sketches20
    • Anne Carter Cochran in Arizona (6 KB)
      They lived in Mesa near Aunt Eunice Cochran in 1953
    • Grandpa Augustus Marvin Stone (90 KB)
      Father of Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter Dasher - grandfather to Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.
    • 1885 (314 KB)
      Sketches24
    • George Little of Scotland in SC and KY (24 KB)
      S C Roster shows Frank Cochran's grandpa and probably the brothers of George Little.
    • Cecil Earl Fenn Carter (525 KB)
      Military Discharge shows dark ruddy complexion of this handsome Cherokee. There were three documents where he re-enlisted and served about twenty years at Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas. Cousin Ruby Gibson once told me that Cecil was still in the Army when he married Alice McClain.
    • 1920 Annie Stone (133 KB)
      Shown with Mother - apparently Annie married 3 times, Fenn, Carter, Dasher but no marriage record has been located.
    • 1885 (429 KB)
      Sketches22
    • John Stephens (23 KB)
      S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman
    • Catherine Crigler and her baby girls (53 KB)
      wife of John Wright Little
    • John Franklin Fenn 1862 (7 KB)
      Macon County - Civil War
    • 1885 (352 KB)
      Sketches28
    • Wm Sellers (23 KB)
      S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman - Some researchers say that Mr Sellers had married an indian woman in South Carolina before moving to Alabama.
    • Catherine Crigler 's son Sam Little (43 KB)
      son of John Wright Little
    • TOMBSTONE - CAPT GEORGE LITTLE (152 KB)
      One of my daddy's many grandfathers on Luella's side - her mother was Lattie Little.
    • Broadway (21 KB)
      S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Charles McClain's mother
    • Hiram Lucius Little (94 KB)
      Father of John Wright Little married first to Catherine Wright and second to Rebecca Isabella Adams.
    • Peter Bozeman (173 KB)
      Jesse petitions the court to sell or divide the land that his father owned, dated 1838 - Peter died in 1829 after writing letters to the War Dept and Bounty Land Office because he knew that he was to receive that free land grant for his service in the American Revolution. Obviously he got the land in Hope Hull Alabama but I have not found any type of Land Deed until this item shows that Peter did in fact own land in Alabama. Now we need to go back and find the followup to this document to see when the land was sold and to whom.
    • Moon (22 KB)
      S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Charles McClain's father
    • Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield (177 KB)
      daughter of John Wright Little - beautiful Lattie was my great grandmother and of Cherokee blood
    • Jesse Bozeman born 1793 was Attorney (1352 KB)
      When his brother Peter E. Bozeman died, Gilly asks him to be her lawful attorney regarding this estate in 1851. signed by John Stephens and Gilly's X mark.
    • Brandon (23 KB)
      S C Roster shows Brandon, under which many of our elders served
    • Benjamin Coonfield (53 KB)
      Husband of Lattie Little, father of Luella - Aunt Deloris said the Coonfields had such rich black hair that it looked blue.
    • 1838 Jesse Bozeman Attorney (173 KB)
      Dividing his father Peter Bozeman's land among the heirs named on this document which is signed by Judge Bibb.
    • McClaijn (21 KB)
      S C Roster shows several McClains, not our Charles
    • Aunt Ethel and her Gibson husband (22 KB)
      With my great Grandmother Lorena
    • Bowsman Peter (22 KB)
      S C Roster shows grandpa Peter Bozeman
    • John Carter - married Elizabeth Wise (33 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia
    • John Wise - father of Elizabeth Wise Carter (38 KB)
      1700s South Carolina Militia - Elizabeth named her son John Wise Carter and he settled into Talladega Alabama about 1820- 1830 and married an unknown woman having a son named Thomas Randolph Carter.
    • Lattie Cedonia Little & Ben Coonfield (177 KB)
      Ben Coonfield family - Lattie told her children they were of Cherokee blood and some of another tribe
    • Benjamin Coonfield's parents (28 KB)
      Husband of Lattie Little, his parents were Martha Frances Young and Benjamin Wylie Coonfield of Indiana
    • Chester Coonfield (43 KB)
      Ben Coonfield 's son, brother of Lattie
    • John Wright Little photo (26 KB)
      father of Lattie
    • Bond (34 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia - Edgecombe County - our John Baptist Bond went to TN into the Brooks lineage
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      family in Arkansas
    • Ballard and Smith (35 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia - Granville County - our Ballard went to TN into the Brooks lineage
    • Amy Coonfield (38 KB)
      Ben Coonfield 's daughter - sister of Luella and Ruth
    • Grandpa Zachariah Fann (35 KB)
      1700s Georgia Rangers also includes John Hill
    • John Wright Little pension (403 KB)
      Civil War Service
    • 1885 (343 KB)
      Sketches129-130
    • Holley (34 KB)
      1700s Granville North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Westbrook lineage of Alabama
    • John Little Pension (144 KB)
      Civil War, Kentucky Infantry
    • 1885 (299 KB)
      Sketches130Alabama
    • Westbrook (34 KB)
      1700s Onslow North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Westbrook lineage of Alabama
    • John Wright Little family (39 KB)
      Civil War Service
    • Cooper and Lee (35 KB)
      1700s Edgecombe North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Susie Mae Cooper Brooks lineage of Alabama
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      Louisville KY
    • Grandpa John Stephens (35 KB)
      1700s Edgecombe North Carolina Muster Roll
    • Dillard and Stone (33 KB)
      1700s Chatham North Carolina Muster Roll - There is a story online about the Dillards and Jordans being related to Pocahontas
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      1700s Edgecombe North Carolina Muster Roll
    • Deer and Clark (35 KB)
      1700s Granville North Carolina Militia
    • Charles Wayne Brooks 1953 - 1998 (63 KB)
      taken about 1975 at a friend's wedding reception - handsome son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr. Charlie had never gone to doctors until that Christmas Eve 1996 when he got sick with colon cancer.
    • Charles' Grandpa Thomas Carter (40 KB)
      Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820 with his firt wife Lacy Bozman lived in Hope Hull. He married secondly to Mary Josephine Hereferd of Virginia and they had Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin Cooper - Sarah's baby was named Susie Mae Cooper and she marrried James Edgar Brooks Sr. ( Thomas Carter's grandfather served in the American Revolution ) When Thomas died his wife Mary had him placed by his first family and then she went to live with her daughter. Thomas and Lacy have beautiful tall tombstone monuments in Hope Hull where he purchased land thru her father, Jesse Bozeman, from the William Henry Bozeman Estate. Father of Thomas was John Wise Carter, a son of Elizabeth Wise and John Carter of South Carolina. Serving in the American Revolution was a John Wise, a John Carter and a Thomas Carter who may have been a brother to John.
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      Sketches50
    • Charles' Grandpa Brooks (24 KB)
      John Brooks and Annie Clark Ballard of Tennessee had only one son James E Brooks Sr in Montgomery AL. James married Susie Mae Cooper and named their son James Jr. James Jr married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charles. ( The first Hans Brooks came from Holland and settled in PA with a french wife and had John in 1837 who was in Giles TN in 1860 marrying Roxanna Smith and having a son named John in TN )
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      Sketches52
    • Grandpa John Wright Little (26 KB)
      Luella Coonfield Cochran's grandfather was born in Kentucky 1843 and claimed to be Cherokee. He moved to Arkansas after his wife Catherine Crigler died. John was the son of Catherine Wright and Hiram Lucius Little. Catherine Wright's mother was Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Charles according to the Virginia records online. Researching Charlotte Virginia, I found a young Charles Weatherford who could have been her brother and then a Patsy Weatherford who might have been her mother. Family legend is that John's family refused a land allotment in Indian nation Oklahoma, but it is a mystery as to why he chose to move to Arkansas.
    • Amy Coonfield Gray (32 KB)
      Joseph Gray
    • Indians at Fenn Plantation in Alabama (161 KB)
      cousin Matthew Fenn employed Indians on his farm and my grandpa William Fenn was the Manager according to the census records. They all descend from Travis Fenn and Elijah Fann but this area was indeed Creek Nation as the whites began to settle and plant, they all had to work together to survive.
    • Kathy's GG granny Mary Catherine Crigler (53 KB)
      Married John Wright Little in Shepherdsville Kentucky and had Lattie Cedonia Little who married Benjamin Wallace Coonfield in Arkansas. Lattie named her daughter Luella Ellen. Luella married Frank Delbert Cochran and had my daddy, Frankie in 1927. Catherine wore her long black hair in braids. The Criglers were of German blood, read the Germanna Colony pages online and how they lived so close to the indians of that era.
    • Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and Lattie (14 KB)
      holding Luella
    • 1821 John Wise Carter (212 KB)
      3 land records exist in St Clair County
    • John Thomas Bozeman, son of Peter Edward (386 KB)
      Born 1866 in Dublin Alabama, married Alice Stephens and had my great granny, Lorena Emma Bozeman - John was the son of Nancy Jane Anderson and Peter Edward Bozeman. His grandparents were Martha Hill and William Henry Bozeman who migrated from Darlington South Carolina about 1826. The Andersons and Bozemans lived next to each other in Hope Hull 1830 with Peter Edward being born in 1834. When William died, Martha Hill Bozeman moved to Dublin near her brother John Hill, who created the Hills Chapel School and Church........ After the Civil War Peter and Nancy bought land in Ramer/ Dublin area along the Meriweather Trail close to John Hill. John Hill donated land for their family cemetery which I visited, and he donated land for the Hills Chapel Church and another cemetery across from it where John T Bozeman is buried.
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      Eureka Kansas
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      only one in this township !!! Bought land in 1821 and had Jacob Benjamin Cochran in 1822.
    • WWI Charles McClain (36 KB)
      his birth date is wrong, should be 1886 but it shows his wife as Lorena Bozeman. Charles was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain's who's families migrated from South Carolina into Georgia, then Alabama. Josiah descends from Elizabeth Moon and Charles McClain of 1750s Virginia. Elizabeth Moon had named a son Josiah and his son James had married an indian woman called Anna - Anna had a son named Josiah. I have seen three different dates of birth for grandpa Charlie but they had very little education, some could not read nor write at all, so the numbers are often mixed up. His mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway, and when Josiah died about 1897, she remarried to John Gardner of Dublin. Elizabeth and John and Charlie are found on the 1900 census, then again in 1910 with Lorena.
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      brother of Ben - the Coonfields had very black hair with a blue shine to it
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      Montgomery, Alabama. Grandpa Abner and Grandma Nancy migrated from South Carolina.
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      1700s Anson North Carolina Militia
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      copied from book
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      Frank Delbert Cochran's brothers and sisters.
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      Land Record in Alabama
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      1700s North Carolina Militia
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      copied from book
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      brother of my daddy, died in Korea - dad had told him to stay home
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      Land Record
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      1700s North Carolina Militia
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      cousin to John Wright Little - L P was an attorney, a judge, a writer and a genealogist. His daughter Laura Simmons Little tried to prove this line connected to a sister of Pocahontas, named Cleopatra. Laura also joined the Owensboro Chapter of the DAR.
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      Land Record - Peter's brother went to Mississippi
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
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      dad's sister had alzheimers
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      Land Record
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South - May have married an indian woman before they began to migrate into Alabama.
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      1933 photo includes 7 Cochran children
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South - John married a full blood Cherokee and migrated into Alabama.
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      Death Certificate - the cancer was so bad that her husband had to okay they take her off the machines. Luella had many children, including two sets of twins
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
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      Receipt of payment for service in the American Revolution - he is also listed online in the South Carolina Archives under the Roster of the Continental Army serving in the Militia.
    • Mordecai2 (52 KB)
      Receipt of pay for his services in the American Revolution.
    • Peter Bozeman captured in Am Rev (107 KB)
      1779 article from SC Archives - the surname spelling varies but these people could not read so it just didn't matter. Peter and his wife Sarah signed with only an X mark on various documents. Peter was the son of Mordecai and moved his family to Alabama about 1826
    • 1824 Lewis Bozeman (197 KB)
      Land Record
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      1941 she was mother of Alice McClain Carter and raised the children of Alice ( Cecil Jr, Anne Alice, William Lawrence) Lorena was wonderful to visit, churning butter, sewing quilts, gardening, and read her Bible daily, having a very special gift of healing.
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      Grandpa Isaac Coonfield
    • Anne Carter and Frankie Cochran 1950 (44 KB)
      married in 1951, moved to Broken Arrow in Tulsa Oklahoma and then to Mesa Arizona, living next to his sister, Eunice Cochran Haraughty. Both had Cherokee heritage. My daddy always called my mother his darling little 5'2" indian squaw.
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      Eleazor and George Brack served in the Am Rev along with the Bozemans and Andersons and Sellers, all of whom eventually migrated from SC to AL - all being intermarried and becoming our grandfathers and grandmothers
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      1837 Isaac Benjamin Coonfield
    • Uncle Billy Carter (25 KB)
      Anne's younger brother was killed in a car accident on hwy 231 - had married several, had no children. loved living in Oklahoma around the indians because he was indian and felt at home with them. Named William Lawrence Carter, he loved being called Billy or Larry. Obviously named after his grandfather William Fenn.
    • William Sellers Land Grant (445 KB)
      ended up in Alabama
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      1859 Grandfather Isaac Coonfield in Arkansas
    • Frankie Cochran in 1949 (9 KB)
      left Chetopa Kansas and served in Korean War, was copilot of a bomber and was shot in the shoulder, sent to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery. While seeing the sights in downtown Montgomery he ran into Anne Carter, and he told her that night that she was the one he wanted to marry. She was about 17 and working at the old Kress store on Dexter Avenue, waiting for her bus to take her home.
    • John Bozeman (132 KB)
      1781 Loyalists - sided with the British during our War for Independence
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      1831 Grandfather John Hill
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      Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman filed for widows pension after Peter Edward died. He had served in the Shelby County Reserve
    • 1756 John Bozeman is 18 (101 KB)
      Colonial Soldiers of the South
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      1832 Alexander Cochran, either the brother or the father of William, land purchase in the same township as William.
    • Harrell -Bryant - Gunter (33 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Uncle Walton McClain (18 KB)
      about 1936 holding Anne Carter. Walton was a very dark handsome man, well educated, and military all his life, now buried at Arlington Cemetery. Walton wrote to Kathy very often, calling her his little princess. His title was Doctor, PHD.
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      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Anne Carter in 1940 (37 KB)
      school days at Capitol Heights, they moved around, Maryland Avenue, and Yougene Streets, attending Highland Avenue Church of Christ but some old letters from the 1950s talk about church on Saturdays so they must have switched religions at some point.
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      1837 Uncle Peter Bozeman
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