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Ordering my grandfather Cecil
Carter's death certificate I learned who his parents
were and began to call around some
local cousins to learn more about them. Then I
ordered his dad's death certificate
which was a big help in my research. Cecil was my mom's
father and she knew nothing
about him since she was orphaned at the age of 4.
He had told her family stories about
being indian , drank too much they say, and even talked
about having a great grandfather
indian chief, which I have thusfar been unable to
locate. His mother had
married three times, first to Fenn, then Dasher, and
lastly to a Carter so any of them could
connect to a tribe or perhaps one of their mothers or
even more likely to his mother's
lineage way back to 1700s Georgia. There are many
new paths to follow to learn the
truth.
His parents divorced after
having six children between 1893 and 1900 and remarried
so the trace became complicated.
He might have been adopted but surely took on a
new last name. My mother was
indian and when I started looking up census records I
found Cecil's mother Anna Lou Stone as
a child in one record and then I found her Uncle
Charles Stone in Alabama and he
had named his sons Osceola and Tecumseh, so
perhaps I am on the right track,
but which tribe? They were all living in former
Creek Territory but Cecil said he was
Cherokee, perhaps they were mixed blood.
Cecil and his brother Emmett
were tall, large men, dark complexion while their
brother Frank Jr had smaller facial
features and black eyes and black hair. Frank's
granddaughter Martha met with me
and she was at least 6' tall and copper skinned,
lovely lady.
When Cecil was born his mother
decided to leave them all and go back to her family in
Macon City, Bibb County,
Georgia. Cecil was in his father's arms crying so
Wiliam told Anna "here you might as well
take this one" and she did. Then he told the other
children that Cecil was only their
"half" sibling. Cecil was found on the 1920 and
1930 census of Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas but
apparently he visited his family in Alabama now and
then, and they said he was very
mean and drank too much. I only found a few of his
pictures and aparently a time book for a
job he was working in Oak Park before he died in 1939.
The only thing I can remember
about Oak Park was the hospital on Forest Avenue so
maybe he worked
there.
Frank Jr even told his children
that his sister Carrie was only his half sister and she
was the firstborn to Anna and
William Fenn so perhaps the kids just did not get along
or perhaps she looked more like an
indian than the others and was
mistreated.
Cecil's father was William
Franklin Fenn born in 1855 Tuskegee, Macon
County Alabama and Wm's parents were Emeline
Harrell and John Fann of Early County Georgia which
was also former indian
territory. John had served in the Civil War and
his father Elijah Fann born 1788 had drawn in the
Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia. Elijah had
married Martha Rich and her mother was
only known as "Abiah". Elijah's father was Travis
Fann of Virginia, possibly an indian
trader, who married a lady known only as "Mary".
The history of Georgia listed on
usgenweb.com has many stories about the indian traders,
the tribes, the loss of their
lands, and the gold rush of Georgia.
Travis may have been a mixed
blood himself, parents were Alecy McCoy and Zachariah
Fann of Virginia, and I found
some land records on them and their service in the
American Revolution and started
putting those documents on a webpage to view later or
to share with family
Elijah's brother Matthew was
probably the first of the Fenn family to move into
Alabama buying up several hundred acres
of land, employing indians to work the plantation
which was fine but illegal in
the state of Georgia. Matthew Fenn is mentioned in
a book "Early Settlers of Barbour
County".
It was on that plantation where
William Franklin Fenn became the Farm Manager.
Many Fenns may be buried on
that old plantation and a recently found descendant of
Matthew told me that she had to go
to court with the present day owner of that land to
protect the graves of her family.
Anna Stone's parents were Mary
Ann Hendrick, daughter of Christopher Columbus
Hendrick and Augustus Marvin
Stone. Augustus was the son of Sarah Daviess and
Benjamin Wilburne Stone of
Georgia. Ben's parents were Polly Wells of Putnam
Georgia and Michael Stone of
Maryland - they lived in Captain John Stone's District.
Michael and his sons Benjamin
and William Stone were in Macon County Alabama on
the 1850 census with many
returning to Georgia after that but Augustus remained in
Alabama until
1900.
Maybe that is when Anna decided
to go back to Georgia herself and take care of her
mother. The census records
showed that William Fenn was twenty years older than
Anna. His second wife was
even younger.
William and Anna's children were
Carrie/Carolyn, Emmett Marvin, William Franklin,
Robert Lee known as Uncle Lee,
Arthur Lee and Cecil Earl Fenn. Emmett was a very big
man who worked for the railroad
and he lived in downtown Montgomery near the Union
Station. He would stop off
in New York to buy his ver large clothing and that is
where he died of a heart attack. His
nephew Bob Fenn of Millbrook fetched his body back to
Montgomery for burial. Bob
was the son of Frank Jr and principal of Robinson
Springs Elementary School. My mom
put me in touch with him once to discuss our family.
Bob also put me in touch with his
sister Martha. Bob said that he remembered Cecil
being close to a Wm Fenn and Mattie
Mae Adkins Fenn in Georgia but wasn't sure of the
connection. He also told
me that they rememberd Grandma Carter sending pictures
home and gifts. One
picture was of a baseball player, Tige Stone, that they
placed in the living room. Tige
was the son of Anna's brother and played one season in
1923 for the St Louis Cardinals. Bob
siad they had a house fire in Coosada and lost
everything though.
Martha remembered the death of
Grandma Carter and her family taking the train to
Macon. I found grandma
listed as Annie Dasher in 1920 living with her mother
Mary in Macon so she must have married
Carter later.
Cecils's military discharge
shows he received travel pay to his "bonafide" home in
Macon.
His sister Carolyn married later
in life to a Ben Johnson from Choctaw Territory Texas
and they had moved to Creek
Nation in Oklahoma on the 1930 census.
This is so ironic since I found
a nephew listed on the Dublin census living with my
great great grandfather John Thomas
Bozeman and wonder if there were any
connection.
Cecil's wife Ellie died in 1935
after birthing William Lawrence, her third child, and
Cecil remined drunk until he fell dead
in 1939 walking down Columbus Street. The
children, my mom and her two brothers,
lived with the McClains from then on. Some teased
them about being Indian, they were
poor and had a rough life. They attended Capital
Heights School on Federal Drive. "Billy"
stayed in trouble, Cecil was quiet and Annie married at
a young age to Donald Robinson
for a brief time. Cecil Jr married Christine of
North Carolina and spent many years
there, having a son named Mark, but also had a
brief first marriage to Jean McNeil
having one child named Victoria. Cecil's third wife was
Jerri in Atlana and she had
Michael and Jeffrey Earl Carter, before he left.
Billy had no children but married several
times and spent most of his life in Oklahoma.
Annie met Frank Cochran in 1949 and
married.
Cecil Jr died a few months after
a rattlesnake bit his leg twice and he refused
amputation. Billy died in
car accident. Anne had heart bypass surgery
in 1980 and several infections including flu
and pneumonia before she passed in 1992, being buried
close to her brothers in
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anna's son Victor loved the
firewater and died of cirrhosis in 2007 being buried by
his mother.
Cecil had married Alice Emma
McClain and she was listed as Ellie on his death
certificate which had been
signed by his brother Emmett Marvin
Fenn.
I called around the local
cemeteries to find their graves. Emmett was buried
by their father William in Greenwood
Cemetery in Montgomery. The caretaker showed me
the space next to William with no
headstone was recorded as the grave of Mat Fenn - lo and
behold on the census records,
William had a brother named Madison and family had
mentioned that William was
buried by Uncle Mat. I have taken tons of pictures
of tombstones and saved many of the
census images on another webpage.
Running out of space quickly I
had to start using and abusing other web designers to get
my research "out there" and have
received tons of emails and packages in my home
mail to add new information to
this labor of love
and have met many new family
members. The list is below but I need to say that
the parents of Alice McClain Carter was Charles Allen McClain born
1886 Ramer Alabama and Lorena Emma Bozeman born
1892 Dublin Alabama. One
cousin who contacted me regarding his research linking
to mine regarding Lorena's mother, Alice
Stephens being a Cherokee, told me that I was on the
right track, saying that our
ancestor John Stephens served in the American Revolution
and married a full blood indian
and migrated to Alabama. Another writes that Lorena's
great great Uncle John Bozeman
married an indian in Darlington SC and moved to
Mississippi in 1823. Then of
course we do not know much at all about the widow Sarah
Brown that Lorena's great great
grandfather Peter Bozeman married in 1786 and had
served in the War.
One trip to Dublin revealed the
first home that Ethel Bozeman and her husband Jace
Gibson built while they and the
children lived in a tent. I was there after talking with
some of her daughters, Ruby and
Peggy, who have now passed on and given directions
and stories. Then I found
the tombstones of Ethel and Jace in Hills Chapel
Cemetery. On the way out I stopped at a
small church cemetery where I saw the tombstone of
Herman and "OOTCHA" Broadway who were
our cousins through Charlie McClain's mother
Elizabeth Broadway who was born
1853. Then it seems that Elizabeth's sister
Rebecca Broadway was the mother of Jace
Gibson.
Elizabeth Broadways' mother was
Mary Stephens, a daughter of Benjamin. Elizabeth
had married Josiah Marion
McClain after the Civil War, but I found no marriage
record because he had deserted his
first wife Julia King in Georgia and his several
children. Julie had filed to joined the
Cherokee Rolls and also filed for divorce in 1872.
Josiah was wounded in the war and his
wife Elizabeth filed for his pension so maybe he had no
memory of his other family.
Josiah's mother is only known as "Anna" and was
married to James McClain and they are
buried in Indian Creek Cemetery in GA.
When I had gone to Greenwood
Cemetery to find the graves of my husband's
grandparents Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar
Brooks Sr., I found his mother Annie
Clark Ballard beside them and on
my way towards the exit I discovered a Bozeman
family plot and pulled over
immediately. There close to the gate was Nancy Jane
Anderson Bozeman's tombstone,
the grandmother of my Lorena. Buried beside her
were two of her sons, Meady and
Robert, their wives and children.
Uncle Robert is the one who
owned a large piece of land near Maxwell AFB and
donated a portion to create the
Memorial Cemetery where Lorena and her children are
buried and my parents. The
road is named Bozeman Drive and for many years I just
hoped for a connection until
recently did I learn the story. He was a contractor and
each of his six daughters received a
piece of land and street name when they married.
Now I can certainly understand
Lorena's connection to this place.
The story and others were told
to me by a new found cousin Dora Stubbs, the
granddaughter of Dora Dillard
and Uncle Peter James Bozeman. I met Dora in May
2007 on a road trip back to Dublin
with my oldest daughter, where we met many new
Bozeman cousins, children of
Uncle Bob actually, and the Gibson children, quite an
exciting day. We met at
Hills Chapel Church which is across the street from
Hills Chapel Cemetery. We were led
around the block to another road which runs behind the
church to an old family cemetery, a
small burial ground encased with barbed wire, and many
fallen branches and years of
neglect.
I like to call it Bozeman
Hill.....it needed a name.
There we found our great great
great grandfather's tombstone of Peter Edward
Bozeman born 1834 who had served
in the Civil War. Near his was a grave of R L Hill
who must have been his cousin and nearby
was the most precious tombstone I have ever seen -
My Darling ALB - Alice Lorena
Stephens Bozeman was Peter's daughter in law, the wife
of John Thomas Bozeman. Alice was
the great granddaughter of John Stephens and his
cherokee wife. There was a small
clover type design drawn upon the tombstone and the
dates worn very thin.
Family says she died a few months after delivering
Little John and her husband married again right
away to have help with the children.
John Thomas Bozeman is buried at
the Hills Chapel Cemetery with his other wife Sarah
Ellen Bean, near his brother,
Peter James and Dora. Dora Dillard's ancetor Nat Dillard
had a large plantation in Dublin
beofre moving on to Troy. Ellen Bean told the
children she was kin to the hanging Judge
Roy Bean.
Dora Stubbs also told me that
several years back we could have seen about 50 other
tombstones in that old family
plot behind the church. When I researched the area
I found it was once owned by a
John Hill who was most likely the uncle to Peter.
Peter's mother was always listed as
Martha H. so she was possibly the sister of John Hill.
Reading back into Darlington SC
I found a John Hill served in the American Revolution.
Darlington is where Peter's
father william Henry Bozeman married Martha H. - nothing
is known about Martha's
mother.
My List of Ancestors'
Names
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page46.html
2 1847 Will of Abraham
Crigler leaving all to wife Lydia.
3 1848 Slave Appraisal of
Abraham Crigler
4 1817 Laurence and
William Roby Wills
6 Will of Reason Roby and
Lawrence Roby 1817
7 William Roby Estate Sale
1834
8 1819 Will of our
grandfather Jesse Simmons leaving land to Catherine
Roby
9 George Little Memorial
placed by great granddaughter
Laura
10 Lydia Carpenter marries
Abraham Crigler in 1795
11 Handley Mason and
Worthington of Ireland to Kentucky 1800
12 Slave Owners in Bullitt
Kentucky
15 Frankie Lavern
Cochran
16 Mary Ella Thornton and
James Edgar Brooks Jr.
17 Frankie Cochran with
Kathy in Arizona
18 Charles Allen McClain
born 1886 - his funeral memorial book and many names of
visitors.
19 Anne Alice Carter
Cochran
20 My pictures of Coosada
and Montgomery Indian Historical
Markers
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page21.html
22 Thomas Randolph Carter,
Lacy and Jesse Bozeman, Tombstones
24 Letter by Aunt
Ethel Bozeman, Lorena's sister
25 Peter Bozeman -my
research links
26 Bozemans from Darlington
SC to Montgomery Alabama
30 Frankie Cochran and Anne
by the cactus in 1953 Arizona
32 Wedding of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran, parents of Frankie
and Freelon, Jay and Cleo, Darrell
33 Freelon Cochran's
final letter from Korea
39 Census Records 1790
1800 1810
40 Brooks and Thornton of
Elmore County Alabama
41 Kathy discovers grave of
Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834
42 Jacob cochran and Mariah
White Genealogy
43 Hans Brooke of
Holland and son John to Tennessee and the connection to
Elijah Lee born 1777 and Andrew
Cooper of SC, Carter, Ballard...
44 My Alabama Genealogy and
Research - Lee, Cooper, Ballard, Hereford, Hood,
Thornton, Partridge, Baxley,
Brack, Sellers, Anderson, Brooks.
46 My many ancestors listed
with spouse
51 American Genealogy
background with links
52 Dream Catcher background
with links
54 Tige Stone, nephew of
Anna
55 Civil War Pension of
Grandfather John Wright Little
56 Tombstone of Grandfather W F
Fenn
58 Charles and his
children
59 Tombstone of Charles
Brooks
Cecil and Alice married about
1931, had Cecil Jr in 1932 , my mother Anne in 1934 and
William Lawrence in 1935, with
Alice dying immediately after giving birth - Cecil died
in 1939 so the children were raised
by the McClain grandparents in Montgomery Alabama.
Cecil Jr married several
times and had several chiclren. Anne married
Frankie Cochran in 1951 having me in 1953
in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma. William had no
children.
When I started tracing the
Cochran lineage I found he had a cousin nmed Powhatan
and grandmothers who smoke pipes and
made their own medicine, living on the prairie
among the indians . One of
Frank's many grandfathers had refused land in indian
territory, just a family story,
but where would I find proof.
My dad talked about Luella
sitting in the field for hours filling her apron with
roots and herbs. He said her long
black hair touched the floor when she sat down.
She had told her children that she was one
quarter Cherokee. They talked about Luella's
mother, Lattie, cooking skunk
meat; that it was the best tasting meat ever. I
cannot begin to imagine how she caught the
little critter.
Lattie was a beautiful petite
dark featured lady from Kentucky and her mother Mary
Catherine Crigler Little was
positively gorgeous in the photos with a long dark braid
hanging over her shoulder.
Lattie's father, John Wright Little, was another
handsome dark featured man, even so
described in his civil war pension papers. His
grandmother was Catherine G. Weatherford out
of Charlotte VA as so written in the internet's Virginia
history records. Those
records state that her father was Charles Weatherford
and I find only one Charles on census
during that particular time. His mother is
recorded as Mary Half Blood and he ended up in
Alabama married to Sehoy. His father Martin
Weatherford was a wealthy plantation
owner with slaves in Georgia, a very outspoken Loyalist
who was kicked out of the State and
resided in the Bahamas where he married a second
time and this wife also named a
son Charles.
Georgia became a name for some
of the women in that lineage and I would also
suspect it was the middle name of
Catherine, giving us a clue to her father's
whereabouts.
The Criglers came from Germanny,
residing in Virginia 1700s in a colony called
Germanna so we should focus our
research on the many wives of those men wo
eventually migrated into
Kentucky in 1800 with the Carpenters, Duvals, Simmon,s
Wells, and Roby families. Many
had served in the War and received Land
Grants.
I find it so ironic that grandpa
John Wright Little left Kentucky when his wife died and
took a homestead in Little Rock
Arkansas. He is buried on some unknown mountatntop
there. He was a cherokee, a
blacksmith and a farmer. My dad's sister Bernice
has a few pieces of his work.
Bernice was a twin to Eunice and their mother also
had another set of twin boys who did not
survive. Twins are quite common in that lineage;
I have discovered
several.
I have found several in my
lineage who served in the Civil War and in the American
Revolution, learned that much of
our Alabama families lost everything during the Civil
War and then many more served in
the other wars of our nation and collected quite a bit
of documentation within this
maize of genealogy pages.
I went back into researching a
grandmother of Lorena, a Lavinia Jane Sellers, and
found one of her cousins had
married a Schrimpshire, and another Schrimpshire had
married an indian Chief Dennis
Bushyhead. Others tracing the Sellers, Anderson,
Brack, Doty lineage through the Carolinas
into Alabama are also claiming indian blood. My
husband's Brooks, Ballard, Bond,
Baxter, Smith, Craig, Connelly lineage of 1800
Tennessee resided in Indian
Territory there long before the Trail of Tears and the
Tennessee website has an
exciting history uploaded to enjoy at usgenweb.com -
Enjoy reading about Sequoyah and Nancy
Ward and Joe Vann during this same time in history
along with Rogers, Starr and
Ross, they all lived so close together.
Lorena's husband's line came out
of Virginia in 1750 when a Charles McClain married
Elizabeth Moon and moved to
Spartanburg South Carolina, mixed with Stone, Lynch,
Wood, Hildebrand and many
other interesting names who migrated into Georgia's
Indian Territory about
1800.
This journey will never be
complete; I just try to follow their path, gather
the census records, marriage licenses, land
records, and military records, maps, attempting to
piece our history together.
One difficult item is they used nicknames quite
often, even on the documents. Anna Stone's
son William Franklin Fenn Jr. was called Will on his WWI
registration; her nephew
William Arthur Stone was called Tige ; Anna's son,
Cecil liked to go by Earl or even
Nick, his mother was called Annie, his son William was
Billy or even Larry and then my mother
was named Annie but she preferred Anne when she
became Mrs. Cochran. One
photo of Frank Cochran's mother Luella has Rue written
on it but I would think Lue, not
Rue and they called my dad Bud. Lorena was called
Rena even on a census record in 1900
but I could not find her anywhere in 1920 or 1930.
Annie Ballard Brooks called one
son Bubba and one daughter Sissy. Bubba was my
husband's father and Sissy is the
one helping me trace their lineage, sharing many
beautiful photos.
My search box above will reveal
most anything I have documented on any of our
surnames.
Happy Hunting
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Ordering my grandfather Cecil
Carter's death certificate I learned who his parents
were and began to call around some
local cousins to learn more about them. Then I
ordered his dad's death certificate
which was a big help in my research. Cecil was my mom's
father and she knew nothing
about him since she was orphaned at the age of 4.
He had told her family stories about
being indian , drank too much they say, and even talked
about having a great grandfather
indian chief, which I have thusfar been unable to
locate. His mother had
married three times, first to Fenn, then Dasher, and
lastly to a Carter so any of them could
connect to a tribe or perhaps one of their mothers or
even more likely to his mother's
lineage way back to 1700s Georgia. There are many
new paths to follow to learn the
truth.
His parents divorced after
having six children between 1893 and 1900 and remarried
so the trace became complicated.(
Cecil was mean and abusive and his father was probably
the same way ) ( Anna was young and Cecil was an infant
so did she have more children with her second husband Mr
Carter? Who were they? Were they of Indian Blood? )
Cecil Earl might have been adopted but surely took
on a new last name, from Fenn to Carter.
His mother Anna had married a Carter and then a Dasher.
She was apparently called Annie Lee instead of Anna Lou
but rarely did these people go by their legal names and
often times on census records the entire family would be
listed by initials only.....................Cecil went
by Earl and sometimes Nick.........his son Cecil Jr went
by Junior and his son William Lawrence went by
Larry........... My mother was indian and when I
started looking up census records I found
Cecil's mother Anna Lou Stone as
a child in one record and then I found her Uncle
Charles Stone in Alabama and he
had named his sons Osceola and Tecumseh, so
perhaps I am on the right track,
but which tribe? They were all living in former
Creek Territory but Cecil said he was
Cherokee, perhaps they were mixed blood.
Cecil and his brother Emmett
were tall, large men, dark complexion while their
brother Frank Jr had smaller facial
features and black eyes and black hair. Frank's
granddaughter Martha met with me
and she was at least 6' tall and copper skinned,
lovely lady.
When Cecil was born his mother
decided to leave them all and go back to her family in
Macon City, Bibb County,
Georgia. Cecil was in his father's arms crying so
Wiliam told Anna "here you might as well
take this one" and she did. Then he told the other
children that Cecil was only their
"half" sibling. Cecil was found on the 1920 and
1930 census of Fort Bliss in El Paso Texas but
apparently he visited his family in Alabama now and
then, and they said he was very
mean and drank too much. I only found a few of his
pictures and aparently a time book for a
job he was working in Oak Park before he died in 1939.
The only thing I can remember
about Oak Park was the hospital on Forest Avenue so
maybe he worked
there.
Frank Jr even told his children
that his sister Carrie was only his half sister and she
was the firstborn to Anna and
William Fenn so perhaps the kids just did not get along
or perhaps she looked more like an
indian than the others and was
mistreated.
Cecil's father was William
Franklin Fenn born in 1855 Tuskegee, Macon
County Alabama and Wm's parents were Emeline
Harrell and John Fann of Early County Georgia which
was also former indian
territory. John had served in the Civil War and
his father Elijah Fann born 1788 had drawn in the
Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia. Elijah had
married Martha Rich and her mother was
only known as "Abiah". Elijah's father was Travis
Fann of Virginia, possibly an indian
trader, who married a lady known only as "Mary".
The history of Georgia listed on
usgenweb.com has many stories about the indian traders,
the tribes, the loss of their
lands, and the gold rush of Georgia.
Travis may have been a mixed
blood himself, parents were Alecy McCoy and Zachariah
Fann of Virginia, and I found
some land records on them and their service in the
American Revolution and started
putting those documents on a webpage to view later or
to share with family
Elijah's brother Matthew was
probably the first of the Fenn family to move into
Alabama buying up several hundred acres
of land, employing indians to work the plantation
which was fine but illegal in
the state of Georgia. Matthew Fenn is mentioned in
a book "Early Settlers of Barbour
County".
It was on that plantation where
William Franklin Fenn became the Farm Manager.
Many Fenns may be buried on
that old plantation and a recently found descendant of
Matthew told me that she had to go
to court with the present day owner of that land to
protect the graves of her family.
Anna Stone's parents were Mary
Ann Hendrick, daughter of Christopher Columbus
Hendrick and Augustus Marvin
Stone. Augustus was the son of Sarah Daviess and
Benjamin Wilburne Stone of
Georgia. Ben's parents were Polly Wells of Putnam
Georgia and Michael Stone of
Maryland - they lived in Captain John Stone's District.
Michael and his sons Benjamin
and William Stone were in Macon County Alabama on
the 1850 census with many
returning to Georgia after that but Augustus remained in
Alabama until
1900.
Maybe that is when Anna decided
to go back to Georgia herself and take care of her
mother. The census records
showed that William Fenn was twenty years older than
Anna. His second wife was
even younger.
William and Anna's children were
Carrie/Carolyn, Emmett Marvin, William Franklin,
Robert Lee known as Uncle Lee,
Arthur Lee and Cecil Earl Fenn. Emmett was a very big
man who worked for the railroad
and he lived in downtown Montgomery near the Union
Station. He would stop off
in New York to buy his ver large clothing and that is
where he died of a heart attack. His
nephew Bob Fenn of Millbrook fetched his body back to
Montgomery for burial. Bob
was the son of Frank Jr and principal of Robinson
Springs Elementary School. My mom
put me in touch with him once to discuss our family.
Bob also put me in touch with his
sister Martha. Bob said that he remembered Cecil
being close to a Wm Fenn and Mattie
Mae Adkins Fenn in Georgia but wasn't sure of the
connection. He also told
me that they rememberd Grandma Carter sending pictures
home and gifts. One
picture was of a baseball player, Tige Stone, that they
placed in the living room. Tige
was the son of Anna's brother and played one season in
1923 for the St Louis Cardinals. Bob
siad they had a house fire in Coosada and lost
everything though.
Martha remembered the death of
Grandma Carter and her family taking the train to
Macon. I found grandma
listed as Annie Dasher in 1920 living with her mother
Mary in Macon so she must have married
Carter later.
Cecils's military discharge
shows he received travel pay to his "bonafide" home in
Macon.
His sister Carolyn married later
in life to a Ben Johnson from Choctaw Territory Texas
and they had moved to Creek
Nation in Oklahoma on the 1930 census.
This is so ironic since I found
a nephew listed on the Dublin census living with my
great great grandfather John Thomas
Bozeman and wonder if there were any
connection.
Cecil's wife Ellie died in 1935
after birthing William Lawrence, her third child, and
Cecil remined drunk until he fell dead
in 1939 walking down Columbus Street. The
children, my mom and her two brothers,
lived with the McClains from then on. Some teased
them about being Indian, they were
poor and had a rough life. They attended Capital
Heights School on Federal Drive. "Billy"
stayed in trouble, Cecil was quiet and Annie married at
a young age to Donald Robinson
for a brief time. Cecil Jr married Christine of
North Carolina and spent many years
there, having a son named Mark, but also had a
brief first marriage to Jean McNeil
having one child named Victoria. Cecil's third wife was
Jerri in Atlana and she had
Michael and Jeffrey Earl Carter, before he left.
Billy had no children but married several
times and spent most of his life in Oklahoma.
Annie met Frank Cochran in 1949 and
married.
Cecil Jr died a few months after
a rattlesnake bit his leg twice and he refused
amputation. Billy died in
car accident. Anne had heart bypass surgery
in 1980 and several infections including flu
and pneumonia before she passed in 1992, being buried
close to her brothers in
Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery
Alabama.
Anna's son Victor loved the
firewater and died of cirrhosis in 2007 being buried by
his mother.
Cecil had married Alice Emma or
Emily Alice McClain and she was listed as Ellie on his
death certificate which had been
signed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn. Also learned
that Cecil's nickname was Nick - which is
puzzling..
I called around the local
cemeteries to find their graves. Emmett was buried
by their father William in Greenwood
Cemetery in Montgomery. The caretaker showed me
the space next to William with no
headstone was recorded as the grave of Mat Fenn - lo and
behold on the census records,
William had a brother named Madison and family had
mentioned that William was
buried by Uncle Mat. I have taken tons of pictures
of tombstones and saved many of the
census images on another webpage.
Running out of space quickly I
had to start using and abusing other web designers to get
my research "out there" and have
received tons of emails and packages in my home
mail to add new information to
this labor of love
and have met many new family
members. The list is below but I need to say that
the parents of Alice McClain Carter was Charles Allen McClain born
1886 Ramer Alabama and Lorena Emma Bozeman born
1892 Dublin Alabama. One
cousin who contacted me regarding his research linking
to mine regarding Lorena's mother, Alice
Stephens being a Cherokee, told me that I was on the
right track, saying that our
ancestor John Stephens served in the American Revolution
and married a full blood indian
and migrated to Alabama. Another writes that Lorena's
great great Uncle John Bozeman
married an indian in Darlington SC and moved to
Mississippi in 1823. Then of
course we do not know much at all about the widow Sarah
Brown that Lorena's great great
grandfather Peter Bozeman married in 1786 and had
served in the War.
One trip to Dublin revealed the
first home that Ethel Bozeman and her husband Jace
Gibson built while they and the
children lived in a tent. I was there after talking with
some of her daughters, Ruby and
Peggy, who have now passed on and given directions
and stories. Then I found
the tombstones of Ethel and Jace in Hills Chapel
Cemetery. On the way out I stopped at a
small church cemetery where I saw the tombstone of
Herman and "OOTCHA" Broadway who were
our cousins through Charlie McClain's mother
Elizabeth Broadway who was born
1853. Then it seems that Elizabeth's sister
Rebecca Broadway was the mother of Jace
Gibson.
Elizabeth Broadways' mother was
Mary Stephens, a daughter of Benjamin. Elizabeth
had married Josiah Marion
McClain after the Civil War, but I found no marriage
record because he had deserted his
first wife Julia King in Georgia and his several
children. Julie had filed to joined the
Cherokee Rolls and also filed for divorce in 1872.
Josiah was wounded in the war and his
wife Elizabeth filed for his pension so maybe he had no
memory of his other family.
Josiah's mother is only known as "Anna" and was
married to James McClain and they are
buried in Indian Creek Cemetery in GA.
When I had gone to Greenwood
Cemetery to find the graves of my husband's
grandparents Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar
Brooks Sr., I found his mother Annie
Clark Ballard beside them and on
my way towards the exit I discovered a Bozeman
family plot and pulled over
immediately. There close to the gate was Nancy Jane
Anderson Bozeman's tombstone,
the grandmother of my Lorena. Buried beside her
were two of her sons, Meady and
Robert, their wives and children.
Uncle Robert is the one who
owned a large piece of land near Maxwell AFB and
donated a portion to create the
Memorial Cemetery where Lorena and her children are
buried and my parents. The
road is named Bozeman Drive and for many years I just
hoped for a connection until
recently did I learn the story. He was a contractor and
each of his six daughters received a
piece of land and street name when they married.
Now I can certainly understand
Lorena's connection to this place.
The story and others were told
to me by a new found cousin Dora Stubbs, the
granddaughter of Dora Dillard
and Uncle Peter James Bozeman. I met Dora in May
2007 on a road trip back to Dublin
with my oldest daughter, where we met many new
Bozeman cousins, children of
Uncle Bob actually, and the Gibson children, quite an
exciting day. We met at
Hills Chapel Church which is across the street from
Hills Chapel Cemetery. We were led
around the block to another road which runs behind the
church to an old family cemetery, a
small burial ground encased with barbed wire, and many
fallen branches and years of
neglect.
I like to call it Bozeman
Hill.....it needed a name.
There we found our great great
great grandfather's tombstone of Peter Edward
Bozeman born 1834 who had served
in the Civil War. Near his was a grave of R L Hill
who must have been his cousin and nearby
was the most precious tombstone I have ever seen -
My Darling ALB - Alice Lorena
Stephens Bozeman was Peter's daughter in law, the wife
of John Thomas Bozeman. Alice was
the great granddaughter of John Stephens and his
cherokee wife. There was a small
clover type design drawn upon the tombstone and the
dates worn very thin.
Family says she died a few months after delivering
Little John and her husband married again right
away to have help with the children.
John Thomas Bozeman is buried at
the Hills Chapel Cemetery with his other wife Sarah
Ellen Bean, near his brother,
Peter James and Dora. Dora Dillard's ancetor Nat Dillard
had a large plantation in Dublin
beofre moving on to Troy. Ellen Bean told the
children she was kin to the hanging Judge
Roy Bean.
Dora Stubbs also told me that
several years back we could have seen about 50 other
tombstones in that old family
plot behind the church. When I researched the area
I found it was once owned by a
John Hill who was most likely the uncle to Peter.
Peter's mother was always listed as
Martha H. so she was possibly the sister of John Hill.
Reading back into Darlington SC
I found a John Hill served in the American Revolution.
Darlington is where Peter's
father william Henry Bozeman married Martha H. - nothing
is known about Martha's
mother.
My List of Ancestors'
Names
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page46.html
2 1847 Will of Abraham
Crigler leaving all to wife Lydia.
3 1848 Slave Appraisal of
Abraham Crigler
4 1817 Laurence and
William Roby Wills
6 Will of Reason Roby and
Lawrence Roby 1817
7 William Roby Estate Sale
1834
8 1819 Will of our
grandfather Jesse Simmons leaving land to Catherine
Roby
9 George Little Memorial
placed by great granddaughter
Laura
10 Lydia Carpenter marries
Abraham Crigler in 1795
11 Handley Mason and
Worthington of Ireland to Kentucky 1800
12 Slave Owners in Bullitt
Kentucky
15 Frankie Lavern
Cochran
16 Mary Ella Thornton and
James Edgar Brooks Jr.
17 Frankie Cochran with
Kathy in Arizona
18 Charles Allen McClain
born 1886 - his funeral memorial book and many names of
visitors.
19 Anne Alice Carter
Cochran
20 My pictures of Coosada
and Montgomery Indian Historical
Markers
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathybrooks53/page21.html
22 Thomas Randolph Carter,
Lacy and Jesse Bozeman, Tombstones
24 Letter by Aunt
Ethel Bozeman, Lorena's sister
25 Peter Bozeman -my
research links
26 Bozemans from Darlington
SC to Montgomery Alabama
30 Frankie Cochran and Anne
by the cactus in 1953 Arizona
32 Wedding of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran, parents of Frankie
and Freelon, Jay and Cleo, Darrell
33 Freelon Cochran's
final letter from Korea
39 Census Records 1790
1800 1810
40 Brooks and Thornton of
Elmore County Alabama
41 Kathy discovers grave of
Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834
42 Jacob cochran and Mariah
White Genealogy
43 Hans Brooke of
Holland and son John to Tennessee and the connection to
Elijah Lee born 1777 and Andrew
Cooper of SC, Carter, Ballard...
44 My Alabama Genealogy and
Research - Lee, Cooper, Ballard, Hereford, Hood,
Thornton, Partridge, Baxley,
Brack, Sellers, Anderson, Brooks.
46 My many ancestors listed
with spouse
51 American Genealogy
background with links
52 Dream Catcher background
with links
54 Tige Stone, nephew of
Anna
55 Civil War Pension of
Grandfather John Wright Little
56 Tombstone of Grandfather W F
Fenn
58 Charles and his
children
59 Tombstone of Charles
Brooks
Cecil and Alice married about
1931, had Cecil Jr in 1932 , my mother Anne in 1934 and
William Lawrence in 1935, with
Alice dying immediately after giving birth - Cecil died
in 1939 so the children were raised
by the McClain grandparents in Montgomery Alabama.
Cecil Jr married several
times and had several chiclren. Anne married
Frankie Cochran in 1951 having me in 1953
in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma. William had no
children.
When I started tracing the
Cochran lineage I found he had a cousin nmed Powhatan
and grandmothers who smoke pipes and
made their own medicine, living on the prairie
among the indians . One of
Frank's many grandfathers had refused land in indian
territory, just a family story,
but where would I find proof.
My dad talked about Luella
sitting in the field for hours filling her apron with
roots and herbs. He said her long
black hair touched the floor when she sat down.
She had told her children that she was one
quarter Cherokee. They talked about Luella's
mother, Lattie, cooking skunk
meat; that it was the best tasting meat ever. I
cannot begin to imagine how she caught the
little critter.
Lattie was a beautiful petite
dark featured lady from Kentucky and her mother Mary
Catherine Crigler Little was
positively gorgeous in the photos with a long dark braid
hanging over her shoulder.
Lattie's father, John Wright Little, was another
handsome dark featured man, even so
described in his civil war pension papers. His
grandmother was Catherine G. Weatherford out
of Charlotte VA as so written in the internet's Virginia
history records. Those
records state that her father was Charles Weatherford
and I find only one Charles on census
during that particular time. His mother is
recorded as Mary Half Blood and he ended up in
Alabama married to Sehoy. His father Martin
Weatherford was a wealthy plantation
owner with slaves in Georgia, a very outspoken Loyalist
who was kicked out of the State and
resided in the Bahamas where he married a second
time and this wife also named a
son Charles.
Georgia became a name for some
of the women in that lineage and I would also
suspect it was the middle name of
Catherine, giving us a clue to her father's
whereabouts.
The Criglers came from Germanny,
residing in Virginia 1700s in a colony called
Germanna so we should focus our
research on the many wives of those men wo
eventually migrated into
Kentucky in 1800 with the Carpenters, Duvals, Simmon,s
Wells, and Roby families. Many
had served in the War and received Land
Grants.
I find it so ironic that grandpa
John Wright Little left Kentucky when his wife died and
took a homestead in Little Rock
Arkansas. He is buried on some unknown mountatntop
there. He was a cherokee, a
blacksmith and a farmer. My dad's sister Bernice
has a few pieces of his work.
Bernice was a twin to Eunice and their mother also
had another set of twin boys who did not
survive. Twins are quite common in that lineage;
I have discovered
several.
I have found several in my
lineage who served in the Civil War and in the American
Revolution, learned that much of
our Alabama families lost everything during the Civil
War and then many more served in
the other wars of our nation and collected quite a bit
of documentation within this
maize of genealogy pages.
I went back into researching a
grandmother of Lorena, a Lavinia Jane Sellers, and
found one of her cousins had
married a Schrimpshire, and another Schrimpshire had
married an indian Chief Dennis
Bushyhead. Others tracing the Sellers, Anderson,
Brack, Doty lineage through the Carolinas
into Alabama are also claiming indian blood. My
husband's Brooks, Ballard, Bond,
Baxter, Smith, Craig, Connelly lineage of 1800
Tennessee resided in Indian
Territory there long before the Trail of Tears and the
Tennessee website has an
exciting history uploaded to enjoy at usgenweb.com -
Enjoy reading about Sequoyah and Nancy
Ward and Joe Vann during this same time in history
along with Rogers, Starr and
Ross, they all lived so close together.
Lorena's husband's line came out
of Virginia in 1750 when a Charles McClain married
Elizabeth Moon and moved to
Spartanburg South Carolina, mixed with Stone, Lynch,
Wood, Hildebrand and many
other interesting names who migrated into Georgia's
Indian Territory about
1800.
This journey will never be
complete; I just try to follow their path, gather
the census records, marriage licenses, land
records, and military records, maps, attempting to
piece our history together.
One difficult item is they used nicknames quite
often, even on the documents. Anna Stone's
son William Franklin Fenn Jr. was called Will on his WWI
registration; her nephew
William Arthur Stone was called Tige ; Anna's son,
Cecil liked to go by Earl or even
Nick, his mother was called Annie, his son William was
Billy or even Larry and then my mother
was named Annie but she preferred Anne when she
became Mrs. Cochran. One
photo of Frank Cochran's mother Luella has Rue written
on it but I would think Lue, not
Rue and they called my dad Bud. Lorena was called
Rena even on a census record in 1900
but I could not find her anywhere in 1920 or 1930.
Annie Ballard Brooks called one
son Bubba and one daughter Sissy. Bubba was my
husband's father and Sissy is the
one helping me trace their lineage, sharing many
beautiful photos.
My search box above will reveal
most anything I have documented on any of our
surnames.
Happy Hunting
!!!
A few trips to
cemeteries finding tombstones of relatives Charlie and I
knew nothing about, I have saved several photos of those
headstones on webpages and tried to write a little bit
about those new discoveries.
My mother didn't know
much about her parents since she was orphaned at the age
of 4 and raised by her mother's McClain
parents.
Once I had my family
tree up and looking fabulous, I began on my late
husband's family and found one of his cousins, Clarence
Bearden, posting on the internet, doing the same thing
with the Brooks lineage. I phoned Clarence and he
sent me some research papers on John Brooks born 1837
and some pictures of Thomas Randolph Carter
family. Clarence's mother is my
husband's Aunt Sissy, actually named Elizabeth Brooks
and she had called my husband's daddy,
Bubba.
I never knew that
before.
I called
Charlie's cousin, Sue Carol, about Mary Ella's lineage
and found that her husband, Wayne Bozeman, was also my
cousin, WOW !!
Sue Carol drove me and
Beverly up to Central one day to see the tombstones of
Mary Partridge and George Thornton, a couple of there
great grandparents from Georgia, buried behind an old
Primitive Baptist Church.
Wayne and Sue Carol had
dug deeply into his lineage and they were amazed with my
Bozeman research. They had been to the graves at
Hope Hull, but so had Clarence Bearden and he had also
published an article about his findings there on the
Alabama Cemetery Preservation
webpage.
Beverly took me to Hope
Hull and our findings were extremely fascinating and we
took many pictures
Then we went to Dublin
to further our reearch and to Elmore County and I have
many other pictures within.
Beverly gave me a new
computer for Christmas 2006 with a free subscription to
ancestry.com and I have saved hundreds of old documents,
and census images showing the tracks of our
ancestors.
Wayne loaned me his
copy of a book written about the Bozemans and I have
also scanned those pages into my
research.
I have posted my huge
family tree on the internet to share at rootsweb.com and
there is another relative online researching the Brooks
lineage of Tennessee and Alabama
New relatives write to
me all the time, I have dozens and dozens of emails from
people asking for information, sharing their lineage,
letting me know that we are
related.
I joined several
genealogy mailing lists and message boards online and
once tried to contact a Donna Burdette but her mother
wrote back to me, being from the Bozeman line -
Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman, the
sister of my great granny Lorena.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman wrote
to me and met me and Elizabeth at Dublin in May 2007, my
daughter Beverly drove us there and we met a lot of
Ethel Mae's family there and some elderly children of
Uncle Bob Bozeman's family. We explored the old
family cemetery way behind Hills Chapel Church, out in
the woods and found the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman
and his daughter in law Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman.
Peter's son John had
been married to Alice. Alice was our great great
granny, rich with Cherokee blood.
I can see how she named
my great granny Emma Lorena Bozeman but where did she
get the name for Ethel Mae. Aunt Ethel had written
a story about her parents, published in the Montgomery
Advertiser around 1970.
I asked these people at
Dublin if they knew anything about Lorena 's husband
Charlie McClain and they said he was a good man, cross
eyed, and never had a tombstone.
December 2007 a new
cousin, Glenda, sends an email. Cousin to my
mother in law, she is a wonderful new friend. We
are researching Ella Olivia Baxley Hood and her parents
of Holtville. Beverly takes me to Coosa River
Primitive Baptist Church cemetery where we find several
family graves, Louisa Miranda Holt and James Hardie
Baxley, of the Civil War and down the road at Cains
Chapel Cemetery we find the grave of Ella and her
husband L W Hood and their children, including
"Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton ( the mother of
Mary Ella Thornton Brooks ).
My mother was an indian
and my father had some indian blood so I am certainly
interested in all native american history, finding a lot
being uploaded to usgenweb.com
My Dad's sisters are
near 90 and well Bernice is 92 and they sent me
information and pictures of the old ones and copies of
their own genealogy worksheets, which have been very
helpful with my Cochran lineage. My grandpa
Cochran was married to a Coonfield which has much indian
history coming out of 1800s Kentucky, Civil War and
travels across the nation.
Several of my ancestors
served in the American Revolution and the Civil War and
I find it amazing to cross their names in our nation's
history.
Many books are written
including a portion of our family; Grandpa Coonfield
being listed in the history of Morgan County
Indiana; Grandpa Little in the DAR books and
Kentucky History; Sketches of Bozeman published in
1885 mentions Peter Bozeman moving to Alabama;
Stephens Ancestors book at Ramer Library written by a
cousin Clyde Stephens who wrote to me a few years ago
and sent a package of papers to my home for my
research; Fenn families in Georgia history and in
the Early Settlers of Barbour County
Alabama.
Jimmy Ray Bozeman's
daughter is currently working to get our Peter Bozeman
recognized at the DAR which will open doors for many
many Alabama Bozeman researchers. Peter's son
William Henry Bozeman has a large lineage
here.
Peter's son Jesse is
the one found buried at Hope Hull.
Everything I find is
printed to my notebook and also saved on a
webpage,
Kathy Cochran
Brooks
Dream Catcher
background with lots of my links
Brooks of
Tennessee
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His grandparents were James E
Brooks Sr and Susie Mae Cooper/
and Bessie Mae Hood and
Milton Elijah Thornton.
Bessie's mother was Ella Olivia Baxley.
1910 Elmore Co, AL, Central -
pct 6, page 92, ED 76, sht 2A............ (all
birthplaces shown as AL) Willie Thornton 37 M1 farmer,
married 17 yrs,shown as Wm J in 1900 Sallie (wife)
30 M1 married 17 yrs, 7 kids, 6 living, shown as
Sallie E. in 1900 Elijah (son) 16 laborer-home
farm Mary (dau) 13 Judain? May (dau) 10 Earnest (son) 8 Early
(son) 6 Jewell (dau) 3............ W. J. Thornton
married C. S. A. E. Woodall on Nov 9, 1893 in Elmore Co, AL
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1930 Montgomery Co, AL, Pole
Bridge, ED 51 sht 7B (all birthplaces shown as AL)
Milton Thornton 36 auto mechanic, married 14 yrs
Bessie (wife) 30 married 14 yrs Loraine (dau) 10
Nellie (dau) 9 James (son) 7 Mary Ella (dau) 3
Glennie? Mae (dau) 0 mos
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.......... There is a draft
registration for Milton Thornton in Elmore Co
dated 6/5/1917. Milton's birthdate is shown as 5/11/1894. He is
married and working for the Lancaster-Johnson
Lumber Co near Wetumpka............ There is
a family tree for Milton and Bessie at rootsweb.
Shows their children but not their parents..............
Milton died on either 12/1/1953 or 12/4/1953 in
Montgomery Co. DC # 25766. Looks like another death
certificate needs to be ordered for
confirmation............. 1900 Elmore Co, AL,
Cold Springs, ED 63, sht 13B
(all birthplaces shown as Alabama) L. W. Hood 41
farmer married 14 yrs Ella O. (wife) 29 married 14 yrs, 3
kids, 3 living Sewart (son) 10 farm laborer Minnie
Lee (dau) 8 Allen W. (son) 2
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Then we find John Brooke born
1837 in Pennsylvania but raised in
Pennsylvania, with his father, Hans Brooke,
from Holland and mother from
France....................Hans had three boys and
one girl...........Henry, Edward, John and Lula
Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The
parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl was
adopted.........John, our grandfather, was bound
out to a tailor to learn that trade.........He was very
unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia TN
about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860
census in TN working as a tailor but as John
Brooks............That year he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith.
She was just breaking up with
her other boyfriend, Doctor Smith and fell in love
with John Brooks.................John
and RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon
train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were
born......
...John died in 1882 of
tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna
went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He
actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas
to marry her and bring her back to TN. They lived and
died in Sandy Hook, Tennessee.
Cecil's parents were Anna
Lou Stone and William Frank Fenn of Bullock County
AL
Alice McClain Carter had three children
and died at the age of 19 while her husband Cecil
died only four years later; their
children were raised by her McClain parents. Their Uncle Emmitt
Fenn stayed in touch with the children and his
estate was divided amongst them, which was not
much at all, but he loved them. A sister of Alice
was Katy Bell and she adored those babies and
helped her parents raise them and sewed their clothing.
Katie never had any children of her
own.
They had another sister
named Jimmie Lee, who got pregnant by a neighbor
named Hays, so she named the baby Jimmy Lee
Hayes. Suffering from Toxicemia during the
pregnancy, she died giving birth. Alice
had another sister named Mary
who had crippling arthritis in her feet but also a
bad leg where she fell off a truck as a child and it
ran over her.
Not much is known about
grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter except his military
records show us that he served about 20 years in the
army but we have no clue if the children received
any benefits after his death.
The papers also
indicate he had a very dark ruddy complexion,
which we know he was Indian. He drank
too much alcohol and claimed
his grandfather was an indian chief. Cecil
fell dead on Columbus Street. His death certificate reveled
the names of his parents and then I found his
father's grave, W F Fenn.
Still researching the Brooks
lineage, learning that Milton Elijah Thornton's
mother was an indian - Mary Angeline Partridge married
George Thornton. These families were found
in 1800 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears of 1835.
The Brooks married into
the Carter/ Cooper/ Lee families which were found
in 1850 Chambers County AL census records that indicate
they all came from South Carolina. We find that
Mrs Andrew Cooper was named Alsey and had no last
name so shall we suspect that she was an indian
born about 1800 in South Carolina...and she was a
great great granny to Susie Mae Cooper Brooks (
Mamaw )
John Brooks of PA was found
in 1860 census of Giles, TN and he married
Roxanna Permilia Smith that
year. Her mother was
Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of
North Carolina. The father of John Brooks came from
Holland.
Permilia named her first son
John Brooks, and he married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they
moved to Alabama .
Our Scottish Cochran
family is found in
Pennsylvania, then Ohio. Coonfield from Holland was in PA and
then Kentucky by 1800.
The Little family of Scotland settled in SC
first, then Kentucky - all three
families are later found in
Arkansas.
One piece of the puzzle
in Union South Carolina 1790 census, there are
several Little families living close together and we may
never ever know if they are related to each other,
but the names are repeated over and over in our line. Our
Grandfather John Little was in the Civil
War.
Granny Clora Jane Miller Cochran's ancestors
came from Ireland and we found her GGGgreat
grandfather Reverend
Alexander Miller settled in Rockingham VA.
Clora's mother was a Parker with
ancestors from England
settled in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New
York Indian Country, then Ohio. The Wright and
Weatherford families came out of Charlotte VA
1700s into Kentucky.
Ancestors of Anne Carter
Cochran are English and Dutch in Virginia and the
Carolinas, before migrating through Georgia and Alabama.
I find that she had many great great
grannies with no last name and suspect that several took
indian brides and gave them a Christian name.
Researching McClain, Moon, Bozeman, Anderson, Stephens,
Sellers, Broadway. Wood, Fenn, Stone, Hendrick,
Harrell, Wells, Davis.
Pictures and
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List of Webpages on this
site:
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathylcochran/Genealogy.html
http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/n/c/Samanthas-Ancestors/
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/grpsht.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/grandpatrcarter/photoList.html
pictures of headstones
that I found in Hope Hull cemetery of Jesse
Bozeman, Lacy Bozeman and her husband
Thomas Randolph Carter and their children - these
graves are located only two miles
off the Interstate 65 on McLean
Road.
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kc90853/000.html
www.hometown.aol.com/cochransgenweb/List.html
http://hometown.aol.com/kc90853/Bud.html
www.hometown.aol.com/bozemangenweb/1.html
http://hometown.aol.com/carterancestry/Family.html
http://hometown.aol.com/cochransgenweb/Family.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/alabamagenealogy/1.html
4 Brooks ancestors to
John Smith in Virginia
5 George Little in 1800
SC lives beside Spray, John and his son
Jonas. Jonas had Hiram
and Hiram had our grandpa John who had
Lattie.
6 George Little in 1810
Kentucky by Hunt and Handley
7 his son John
Little in 1810 KY was in Civil
War
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Hiram
8 Isaac Benjamin
Coonfield tracks from 1800 Kentucky to Arkansas
also went to Indiana
and back to ARK
9 Josiah McClain
born 1788 headstones
10.Cooper lineage of
Chambers County Alabama
11. Grandma Elizabeth
Broadway in 1860 at age 7 later married Josiah
Marion McClain after
his civil war service.
13 Bible Records
and some census records
14 Jonas Little in
Kentucky 1810
17 Charlie Brooks
lineage
22 John Handley in
Ky 1810
23 Elijah Lee in Alabama
born 1777 SC and Malinda Philips to Cooper
and
Brooks
24 Susie Mae Cooper and
son
25 Bozeman and Carter
links
26 Lorena Bozeman
and Charles McClain wed 1908
27 McClains buried in
Indian Creek Cemetery
29
31 Alice McClain
Carter and little Annie
Alice
32 Anne and Frank
Cochran
34
Billy and Junior
Carter, sons of Alice
35 Catherine
Crigler and John Little
36 Amy Coonfield and Joe
Gray
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