Cochran and Brooks Family Research

 

 

Kathy Cochran

Montgomery 1880 census notes

Preserving Our Past

 

Kansas Indian and Pioneer History

 

 

 

 

Anderson, Elisha and Elijah to Seaborne to granny Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman, wife of Peter Edward Bozeman of Ramer Alabama

 

 

Anderson, Brack, Sellers, Bozeman, Carter, Fenn, Stone, Lavinia Brack Anderson to granny Lavinia Jane Sellers

 

 

Ballard, Annie To James Edgar Brooks

 

 

Brookes, John and James Edgar to Charles Brooks

 

 

Bozeman, Grandpa John and his ancestry  and marriage to Alice Stephens and his daughters Ethel Bozeman Gibson and Lorena Bozeman McClain

 

Bozeman, William Henry estate, father of Peter and grandfather of John T

 

Bozeman, Doctor Nathan in Montgomery Alabama Archives building

 

Brack, Lavinia or Mrs Anderson great grandmother of Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman

 

Broadway, Gibson, McClain  Granny Bettie Broadway daughter of Abner Broadway and Mary Stephens

 

Carpenter, Lydia of Virginia in Kentucky with Crigler, Roby, Little, Coonfield

 

Carter to Fenn  Annie Carter Cochran with her daughter Kathy and husband Frank Cochran

 

Carter, Thomas Randolph, grandpa to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks

 

Carter, Grandpa Cecil Earl father of Annie Alice Carter Cochran

 

Clark, Bernice  Cochran

 

Clark, Mrs. Barsheba Coonfield in 1830 Kentucky, widow of grandpa Isaac Benjamin Coonfield

 

Clendenning and Sturgeon to Cochran in Ohio

 

Cochran, Coonfield, Little, Young census and Jacob Cochran, Grandpa Frank Cochran and his brother Ky  and Kathy Cochran

 

Cochran, Jacob Benjamin's headstone

 

Cochran, Alexander of Scotland in Pennsylvania married Sarah Adams

 

Cochran, Freelon died in Korean War 1953

 

Coonfield, Grandpa Benjamin and family photos of his  daughter Amy Gray

 

Coonfield, Luella granny Luella Cochran and Uncle John Chester Coonfield

 

Coonfield, Lattie  granny Lattie Cedonia Little burial permit

 

Coonfield, grandpa Isaac family from Holland to PA and KY

 

Cooper to Brooks, Chambers County to grandpa Thomas Randolph Carter

 

Cooper, Thornton, Brooks

 

Crawford, Sarah Miller of Ireland in Virginia to granny Clora Jane Miller Cochran

 

Crigler to Roby  to grandpa Reason Roby and Owen Crigler

 

Crigler, Catherine  or Grandma Little

 

Dean, Mrs Mary of Owensboro KY

 

Fann to Fenn, Stone

 

Fenn, Grandpa William Franklin born 1855, married Anna Lou Stone

 

Gray, Dorline and Verna, daughters of Aunt Amy Coonfield and Joe Gray, family photo

 

Handley, Mary Mason and daughter Mary Molly Handley Douglas Little

 

Harrell, Grandma Emily Fenn  or  Emiline Harrell

 

Henderson to Cochran

 

Hood to Thornton and Grandpa Brooks

 

Hood headstones

 

Hood, Bubber Thornton and Barney

 

Jones, "Polly" Weatherford, wife of Charles? in Virginia, handwriting of L P Little. may

connect to Thomas Jones of Bermuda Hundred, Henrico, VA

 

 

Lee, Elijah born 1777 to Phillips, Cooper, Brooks

 

Little to Coonfield, Gray, Cochran  Grandpa John Wright Little , John's sons John Abraham Little,  William, Sam, Charley

 

Little, Laura Simmons Hawes daughter of Lucius Powhatan Little studied indian blood line possibly from her father's own stories.

 

Little, Grandpa George Little of Scotland to KY descendancy  Family Photos

 

Little photos at bottom of page, unknown

 

 

McClain, Charles to Josiah McClain  born 1788

 

 

McClain, Katie Bell married widowed Coley and raised his children while Katie's sister Alice is buried beside the late mama Coley

 

McClain, Grandpa Charles Allen in Ramer Alabama about 1930

 

 

McClain  Alice Emma  married Grandpa Carter . photo of Alice McClain

 

McGill, Mary Lou Cochran obituary & photo of her at Frank's funeral in 1996

 

 

Miller, Clora Jane to Reverend Alexander Miller   Miller and Parker to Cochran

 

Miller, Clora, photos of her and children

 

Moon, Elizabeth married Charles McClain in Virginia 1700s

 

Moon, Grandpa Gideon in Virginia

 

Parker, Grandma Mary Clara Parker of New York

 

Rich, Grandma Martha Fann in Georgia

 

Roby of England 1500s lineage in Kentucky with Simmons, Wells, Crigler, Little

 

Scrimpshire to Grandpa Sellers, and to Cherokee Nation

 

Sellers of Virginia to Grandma Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman

 

Simmons, Kitty and Grandma Wells in MD to KY with Roby and Crigler

 

 

Smith, Colonel John of Virginia 1700s to Tennessee granny Roxanna Permilia Smith Brooks

 

Smith, Benoni could be related, he was surety to marriage of grandma Catherine Weatherford, as listed in #76 in the article.

 

 

Stephens, Anderson, McClain, Bozeman to granny Alice Stephens Bozeman

 

Stephens, John took a full blood Cherokee wife in North Carolina and their children lived in Ramer Alabama, near the Bozeman, Anderson, Sellers families

 

 

Stone, Michael of Maryland 1700s to Benjamin and Augustus to Granny Anna Stone Fenn

 

Sweet, John lineage in Rhode Island and New York Indian Country  to grandma Mary Clara Parker Miller

 

 

Tefft cousin to Parker and Miller, Tefft of England 1600s

 

 

Thornton, Milton Elijah to granny Mary Ella Thornton Brooks

 

Weatherford, grandpa Charles in Charlotte VA 1810 census - see # 76 entry of article - we will

never be able to prove that our Charles went to Alabama and married Sehoy in the Creek Nation but this author believes he did.  Charles and his family were banned from the state of Georgia but Charlies died in GA and this author believes that his daughter's name was Catherine Georgia Weatherford.

 

 

 

White, Sarah a Wampanoag Indian of New York in our Parker/ Dodge lineage

 

 

Wright, Weatherford, Little to grandpa Charles Weatherford according to Virginia historial records and other notes

 

 

Wright, John C married Catherine G. Weatherford in 1811 VA + NOTES

 

 

 

 

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So many relatives and so little time to study them all.

 

Kathy's mother was born Annie Lee Carter but changed her name to Anne Alice Carter and married Frankie Lavern Cochran in 1951.

 

Annie disliked that name and wondered how she got it but liked her mother's name Alice and changed her own.  Annie had no idea that her father's mom was Annie Lee Stone.  Family did not discuss her parents.

 

Census records show that Annie Lee may have been a nickname and her legal name could have been Anna Lou Stone. Grandma Stone could have been fullblood Cherokee and the research continues.  Anna may connect to the Michell Stone from Maryland in the 1700s but then who were his ancestors.

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Annie Lee Carter was briefly married to a Donald Robinson before she met Frank Cochran so you may see a Mrs Robinson written in her grandfather's funeral memorial book.

 

Frank learned that his former girlfriend in Kansas had a son

named Frank Jr.

 

Frankie and Anne lost two sons before Kathy was born.  Frank left the Air Force in Oct 1952 and Kathy was born in Sept 1953, Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  

 

It is unknown how long they stayed in OK but spent some time with family in Kansas and back to Montgomery Alabama because we find a letter Frank wrote to his darling wife and child in 1955 saying that he was traveling looking for work and sending them money.  In 1956 they are in Arizona where two sons are born and back to Alabama in 1959 for Kathy to start school.  Their youngest daughter born in 1961.

 

Kathy graduated in 1971 from Robert E Lee and married in 1972 to Charles Brooks.  This family tree study finds a few last names quite common in both lines.

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FAMILY TREE RESEARCH

 

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Grandpa Charles McClain's funeral memorial book signatures

 

 

 

MORE FAMILY LINKS

 

Begin Your Native American Genealogy

 

Was Grandma Polly Jones married to Charles Weatherford?

 

Virginia Documents /Wright/Weatherford Marriage 1811 - Historians needs to figure out which Charles Weatherford fathered this Catherine G Weatherford

and if she was kin to Chief Red Eagle.

 

Catherine G Wright Little on 1860 census

 

Was Grandpa John C Wright an Indian?

 

Grandma Clora Jane Miller

 

More about Grandma Parker

 

Grandma Bozeman's Indian Blood Lineage

 

Grandma Stephens was Cherokee full blood

 

Grandma Harrell a  Cherokee?

 

Bozeman Gibson House/Letter from School

 

Grandpa White's unknown wife next to Bozeman

 

Grandpa Michell Stone from Maryland to Alabama

 

Sam Little Photo, son of John

 

Coonfield Lineage

 

Clora Ann Cochran?

 

Uncle Chester Coonfield Photo

 

Tefft Lineage to Cochrans

 

Alabama Cemeteries

 

Alabama Genealogy

 

Political Graveyard, Great Site!

 

Coonfield Headstones

 

Bozeman Headstones

 

Old Photos of Relatives

 

My Family Links Page

 

About My Parents

 

Grandpa Fenn Lineage

 

Thoughts of Nancy Wright

 

Grandma Moon lineage

 

Grandma Branch/ Bozeman

 

Colonel John Smith 1701

 

Sara Greene Tefft and Joshua

 

Michell Stone of Maryland

1850 Macon County Alabama

 

Peter Bozeman of South Carolina

 

James and Josiah McClain in Georgia

 

Draft Card of Benjamin Harrison Cochran

 

John C Wright in Kentucky

 

Isaac Coonfield in Indiana 1850

 

1860 Missouri/William and Thomas Little

 

1850 Davies Kentucky

 

Grandpa Charles McClain in SC 1800

 

odd search notes

 

 

 

 

Kathy's parents were both mixed Cherokee and Kathy could be  at least one quarter Indian Blood.  Her husband could be a smaller amount which is yet to be studied.

 

Kathy's mother, Anne Carter's parents were Cecil Earl Fenn Carter and Emma Alice McClain;  which brings us to study many other names in their history like Fenn, Stone, Harrell, Rich, Bozeman, Stephens, Anderson, Brack, Doty, Sellers, Mills, a line that came down thru Virginia, and the Carolinas to Alabama.

 

Kathy's father, Frank Cochran's parents were Frank Delbert Cochran and Luella Ellen Coonfield;  which brings us to study Parker, Miller, Young, Little, Crigler, Roby, Carpenter, Barber, Crawford, Wright, Weatherford, Tefft, Sweet from Rhode Island, New York Indian Territory, into PA and Ohio and into the midwest.

 

Census records often had nicknames on them or simply an initial so it is a long process to organize our family tree accurately.  Some of my webpages will have those census records while some have photos of the person.

 

Census takers may not have been very educated with math and often the ages are wrong plus they wrote down "what they thought they heard" as a name.  They wrote down the race as black or white, never tan, red or indian.

 

One thing that cannot be denied in our history is that the colonists

were cold, hungry, and lonely in this new land and they intermarried with the Indians.  We may not know how much indian blood we carry nor which tribe we belong to, but we do know

who we really are.

 

Alabama History

Georgia

 

usgenweb click on the state you choose

 

Many thanks to my wonderful relatives working on

our family tree.

 

If you are a cousin and wish to add something,

just send an email and let me know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Family Tree is on the Web

 

Genealogy.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRACKING OUR ROOTS

 

 

Brooks married Cochran in 1972

 

Cochran born of Carter and Cochran marriage

  Frankie Cochran married Annie Lee Alice Carter in 1951

 

Brooks born of Brooks and Thornton marriage - X

  James Edgar Brooks Jr married Mary Ella Thornton

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carter was adopted but was born to Fenn and Stone marriage

  Grandpa Cecil Carter married Emma Alice McClain

 

Cochran was born to Miller and Cochran marriage

  Grandpa Frank D Cochran married Luella Ellen Coonfield

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brooks was born to Brooks and Ballard marriage

  James Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper

 

Thornton was born to Thornton and Hood marriage

  Milton Elijah Thornton married Bessie Mae Hood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Grandpa William Frank Fenn married Anna Lou Stone in 1893, divorced about 1900 and both remarried.

 

Great Grandpa Charles Allen McClain married Emma Lorena Bozeman in 1908

 

Great Grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran and his second wife Clora Jane Miller came from Iowa to Kansas about 1890 and had Frank Delbert Cochran.

 

Great Grandpa Benjamin Wallace Coonfield married Lattie Cedonia Little in 1891.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Great Grandpa John Fenn/Fann married Emeline Harrell in GA and had our William Frank Fenn in Tuskegee Alabama in 1855

 

Great Great Grandpa Dempsey Harrell stayed in Georgia?

 

Great Great Grandpa Josiah Marion McClain left his first wife in GA and came to Alabama in the Civil War and married Elizabeth Broadway in Ramer Alabama and had our Charles Allen McClain.

 

Great Great Grandpa John Thomas Bozeman married Alice Lorena Stephens in Ramer Alabama and had our Lorena Emma Bozeman.

 

 

 

 

John Brooks married Roxanna Permilia Smith in Tennessee about 1860; John came from Pennsylvania and his father was from Holland and his mother was from France.  John's son, John, married Annie Clark Ballard in Tennessee and they moved into Alabama and are buried at Greenwood Cemetery.

 

Cooper, Levi Benjamin married Sallie Carter in 1884 in Montgomery AL and his family came from Chambers County Alabama.

 

Thornton

 

Hood, Bessie Mae's parents were Wesley Hood and Ella Mae O. and they are all buried at Caine's Chapel Cemetery in Holtville, Alabama.


Charner Cooper's mother is only known as Alsey.  His father was Andrew Cooper of South Carolina.

 

Elija Lee married Matilda Phillips about 1830

 

John L Hereford married Jemima Ramey about 1818

 

John Wise Carter came from South Carolina to Talledega Alabama.

 

William M Craig married Rebecca Carolina Pennington in 1860

 

Larkin Frances Ballard married Rowena Densy Baxter in 1847 TN

James Baxter Jr married Hester Ward of NC in 1829 TN

 

James Milton Ballard married Kissiah Dickens of NC abt 1820

 

William Pennington married Gracey

 

David C Craig married Catherine Connelly of NC in 1832

 



 

 

 

 

John Baptist Bond married Catherine Kitty Stone of NC in 1819 TN - X

 Henry Smith of a Virginia John Smith lineage married Sinia Evans in 1819 TN

 

 

 

 

Cochran, Jacob, said his ancestors came from Scotland.

 

Millers came from Ireland, where Reverend Alexander Miller is found in Rockingham Virginia and Charles Weatherford is found in Charlotte VA in the 1810 census just one year before his daughter married John C Wright.

 

Several other family names were in Pennsylvania Quaker areas, New York Indian County, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and they all ended up in Ohio

and Kentucky around 1800.  They began to move west and some served in the wars and some searched for gold.  Jacob Cochran apparently became an apple farmer in Kansas.

 

Charles McClain married Elizabeth Moon in VA and they moved into the Carolinas.

 

John Fann of England married Mary Stone in VA and their children moved south as some were Indian Traders.

 

The Bozemans/ Bosmans are found in the 1600s Maryland and VA where they got together with the Stephens, Andersons, Brack, Sellers and even a Doty which connects us to the Mayflower.

 

John Stephens came from Florida to the Carolinas to fight in the Rev War

and married A full blood Cherokee, before coming to Alabama.

 

Captain George Little of Scotland was in the American Revolution in South Carolina and went to Kentucky about 1800.

 

Family Tree

 

From those we know and those we have heard of

 

and those we only think we know.

 

A family tree brings your line together but genealogy

will prove they all belong together.

 

Some documents are found to prove parts of the family tree

but there are still many questions, especially those

well known names with unknown wives;

such as why didn't the family remember the name

of their own mother or grandmother?

 

The man was always remembered; many even included

a middle name or initial -

 

why was the woman "unknown"

unless they had something to hide.....

 

 

 

 

Welcome to my search..........  More About Me

 

Stepping Stones to our many SURNAMES

 

INTRODUCTION TO OUR FAMILY LINEAGE

 

Anderson to Bozeman from the Carolinas in Montgomery AL

 

CAPTAIN GEORGE LITTLE IN 1800 ~ 1810 CAPTAIN GEORGE LITTLE

 

1810 JOHN LITTLE

 

1800 ISAAC COONFIELD ~ COCHRAN FAMILY TREE

 

Ruth Coonfield Photo

 

1810 JONAS LITTLE ~ JOHN HANDLEY

 

JOHN BROOKS AND JOHN SMITH TO A COCHRAN

 

FAMILY RESEARCH

 

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Elisha Anderson in Montgomery Ala 1835

 

Luella Coonfield Cochran

 

Bozeman Cousins on Census Records

 

John Thomas Bozeman photo

 

Elizabeth Broadway on 1860 census married McClain

 

George Little Descendants

 

 

Miller and Parker Cousins

 

Bible Records

 

Collecting more family on census images..& ...PAGE TWO

 

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Family Photos and Notes

 

Stands Tall

 

Alabama Relatives

 

Charles Weatherford, father of Catherine G Weatherford Wright WE find the Weatherfords on the 1810 census of Charlotte VA but not the Wrights; Charles was there for the census so we wonder did he go back and forth to Alabama? OR was there another Charles Weatherford in another county going to Alabama? However with several women in the line being named Georgia and his daughter was Catherine G Weatherford, we can assume that her middle name was Georgia !!  Family researchers seem to have the wife of Charles listed as Polly Jones, granddaughter of Thomas Jones of Bermuda Hundred area in VA and of course every Mary was nicknamed Polly so this story has much speculation.  With the county formations during this time that Charlotte Virginia was created it is also possible that the John C Wright family was very much nearby.

 

 

Brooks Family

 

Brooks, Ballard, Baxter, Craig, Pennington in TN

 

Frank Cochran

 

EMAIL

 

Annie Carter Cochran

 

Home Page

 

Family Links

 

Cherokee Visions

 

Grandpa Carter and his Fenn family

 

 

 

MORE TO COME !!!

 

ROOTS

 

 

 

 

 

1......Roots and Branches to review...

 

KinFolk

 

Little Message

 

John C Wright on 1850 KY census

 

Alabama Marriages

 

Smith to Brooks Lineage

 

Alabama Cemetery Search Stokes in Montgomery

 

Mayflower Passengers

 

Charles McClain of Virginia

 

Jonas Little of SC to AL

 

William Stone of VA

 

Fenn from CT to AL

 

Kentucky Migrations

 

KY Cochran

 

MORE to come on this page

 

More Names and Lineage

 

 

 

John Bozeman, son of Peter Edward Bozeman in Alabama

 

Bozeman Blog

 

Charles McClain in South Carolina 1800 census

 

OLD Newspapers from Indian Territory

 

My Parents  My Parents in 1957 Tempe AZ  Tulsa OK

 

Emmett Fenn

 

My favorite links page

 

USGENWEB free search for your state

 

LDS free search for your ancestors

 

Genforum free message board discussing your ancestors

 

Rootsweb free messages, family trees, mailing lists and more

 

 

 

Email me

 

More Links

 

Another page of family links and photos

 

Third page of family photos and research

 

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Fenn families from everywhere

 



 

 

 

 

 

Lue Cochran

 

Luella

 

Luella's daughters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncle Joe,  Uncle Billy,  news article of 1957

 

 

 

Cleo Cochran and sister

 

Cochrans

 

 

Uncle Walton

 

Kathy1959

 

 

 

 

Frank and Lue Cochran

 

Frank and Lue Cochran

 

Luella's Death Certificate

 



 

 

Just Me

 

Lineage of a few more of my surnames

 

FDCochran Sister, husband and son ( my great aunt)

 

 

Freelon Cochran

 

Inez Gray Coonfield

 

John Wright Little

 

 

 

 

 

 

Military

 

Twins

 

Living Twins

 

 

DAR Captain George Little

 

Cochran Children

 

Ruth and Luella

 

 

Aunt Bonnie

 

Grandpa Ben

 

Uncle Bud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorothy Glass

 

Kathy and Frank in 1954

 

Lorena Emma or Emma Lorena

 

Ruth Cooper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas S Smith married Caroline M Bond in 1840 Maury Co, TN

 

John Brooke of Holland had John, Christine, Edward and Henry.

 

James Calvin Ballard married Willie Eudora Florence Craig in 1876 TN

 

Charner P. Cooper of South Carolina married Sara F. Lee in 1845 Chambers AL

 

Thomas Randolph Carter married Mary Josephine Hereferd about 1861 and had Sallie Carter.  After Mary passed away, Thomas married Lacy Bozeman, daughter of Jesse Bozeman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

Grandma Lorena Bozeman in 1900