The following webpage collection shares some of the family stories and pictures of my relatives, along with census images to follow their trail and military documents of several wonderful grandfathers in my lineage.
 
Some of my dad's grandfathers were Isaac Coonfield who may be the son of Christopher Coonfield of Holland who settled in Pennsylvania - Isaac may have been born there about 1760.  From Scotland came George Little born 1735 who was a Captain wounded in the American Revolution in South Carolina, then he settled in Kentucky about 1802.    Isaac Coonfield was found on an 1800 Kentucky Tax List.  These two brought about a marriage of their descendents in Arkansas in the 1800s, a Little and Coonfield union.  But they had many ancestors from Virginia and New York and other places who also migrated into Kentucky including Crigler, Carpenter, Roby, Handley, Douglass, Duval, Simmons, Swearengin.  Our families are found in many books written about Early Settlers, the one in Kentucky includes Captain Little, another one in Indiana about Isaac Coonfield states that he migrated to Perry Township in 1824.
 
  • Photos and Stuff
  • Bozeman - some cousins were Rejected on the Rolls
  • The Bozeman Trail
  • Mulatto Families in NC 1880-Are they Yours?
  • Mulatto Names in Alabama 1880
  • Memorial to my Husband
  • My Clan
  • Sweet Family
  • Moon Family
  • Sarah White - Wampanoag Indian of NY
  • John White in NC abt 1700 next to Bozemans
  • Robey
  • Tefft Cousin hanged by King Phillip
  • Simmons
  • MY PARENTS LINEAGE 1-2005
  • Bozeman to Pocahontas
  • To Be Continued.....Early Settlers into Alabama
  • MY Rootsweb Family Tree Page
  • Kansas Indians
  • George & Jonas Little possibly brothers? think about it?
  • ELIJAH FENN IN GEORGIA, FATHER OF JOHN,
  • Family History
  • Sellers
  • Family History 2
  • more census images
  • Luella Coonfield Cochran family research
  • Coonfield notes
  • Coonfield headstones
  • Bozeman on census records
  • Charles Allen McClain WWI registration card
  • Various family tree notes
  • PETER BOZEMAN Rev War records
  • Ralph BOZEMAN Rev War records
  • McClain
  • COCHRAN Rev War records
  • Reason Roby on Kentucky census
  • Sellers 1800 census in South Carolina
  • Family Bible Records
  • Elisha Anderson Last Will and Estate Sale
  • Census images
  • Fenn Tracks from MD to AL
  • Brooks Research from Holland to TX to AL
  • Stone, Fenn, Bozeman family research
  • Fenn Fann and Rich family research into Georgia
  • Parker
  • Indian Wars - Georgia Military
  • Mary Ella Thornton Brooks
  • Brooks Genealogy page
  • Carter Family Connections
  • Brooks and Cochran Family Connections
  • Wright - Little, Kentucky Cherokees migrated West
  • Sturgeon
  • Miller
  • Gunter - Vann
  • Alabama Research on our ancestors
  • Alabama Research on our ancestors
  • INTRODUCTION to the Research on our ancestors
  • INTRODUCTION to the Research on our ancestors
  • Charles Wayne Brooks
  • Great Great Grandma Emeline Harrell Fenn from GA to Tuskegee
  • Sarah Brown Bozeman in Montgomery Alabama from SC
  • 1850 Stone family in Alabama
  • McCLain Research on our Grandpas lineage
  • Links Galore
  • Continued.........................
  • ENTER my research pages
  • Kathy and Charlie
  • Dorline Gray's Coonfield notes and Obituaries
  • Elisha Anderson's last will and testament in Montgomery Ala
  • Frank Delbert Cochran
  • Directory of Surnames
  • Thomas Carter and Lacy Bozeman photos
  • freepages on rootsweb
  • Hiram Lucius Little headstone in TX
  • Links
  • Samantha
  • update
  • Updating my Home Page
  • Annie and Frankie photo in Mesa AZ
  • John Little Civil War description
  • Links to grandpa Hiram Lucius Little of Kentucky
  • Samantha's Ancestry
  • Thomas Randolph Carter
  • Bozeman Gen Web
  • John Brookes of Holland, descendants in Alabama
  • Alabama Kin
  • Alabama Gen Web
  • Weatherford, Wright, Little, Coonfield to Cochran
  • Military Registrations
  • Bozemans in Alabama
  • Alabama Genealogy
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran born 1927 Chetopa KS
  • Cochran Genealogy
  • Brooks Genealogy
  • Broken Arrow
  • Peter Edward Bozeman of 1750 Darlington SC
  • Josiah McClain 1788 Spartanburg South Carolina
  • Kin in the Civil War
  • Cochran, Carter, Brooks, Bozeman
  • Kathy and Charles Wayne
  • * * * continued
  • Peter Bozeman's Estate Sale in 1829 Montgomery Alabama
  • Brooks Genealogy
  • Montgomery Genealogy
  • Samantha's Ancestors
  • Beverly's Ancestors
  • new list
  • Researching natives in our family
  • Links
  • Brooks Genealogy
  • Greetings
  • Summary of the Family
  • Carrie Fenn Johnson
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  • Peter James Bozeman/Dora Ann Dillard headstone (30 KB)
    son of Peter Edward Bozeman
  • 1800 CENSUS Elisha Sellers (18 KB)
    Wilmington, Brunswick, North Carolina
  • John Thomas Bozeman headstone (7 KB)
    son of Peter Edward Bozeman
  • 1840 CENSUS William Sellers (549 KB)
    Richmond Georgia
  • Velma,Eunice,Wayne/wifeCoonfield,Harvey/Dolly (23 KB)
    Coonfield relations
  • headstone of Jacob Benjamin Cochran (42 KB)
    buried in Hill City Cemetery Kansas, wife of Clora, father of Frank and Joy Benjamin and several other children
  • 1800 census Marlboro District SC (20 KB)
    William Sellers
  • Martha Ann Wright Little (22 KB)
    Catherine G Weatherford Wright's daughter
  • Little, H L jr marriage license (60 KB)
    Hiram Lucius Little junior, half brother to John Wright Little
  • 1790 census South Carolina Anderson (346 KB)
    Elijah Anderson
  • Emma Alice McClain Carter (21 KB)
    wife of Cecil Earl Carter married about 1931
  • Hood, Bessie Mae Thornton and siblings (7 KB)
    Mother of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks
  • 1790 census South Carolina JOSEPH LITTLE (420 KB)
    union regiment
  • Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman (19 KB)
    wife of Peter Edward Bozeman
  • Mordecai Bozeman (52 KB)
    payment2
  • 1830 census Obediah Clark (527 KB)
    Henry Kentucky - probably the brother of Barsheba Clark Coonfield
  • Meady G Bozeman (61 KB)
    son of Peter Edward Bozeman
  • Mordecai Bozeman (53 KB)
    payment1
  • 1830 census BARSHEBA Coonfield (497 KB)
    Henry Kentucky, Barsheba Clark Coonfield lives by her brother Archelus Clark, near brother Obediah Clark who married Susannah Coonfield. Archelus/Archibald married Lanarah Coonfield
  • Bozeman Plot (204 KB)
    family of Peter Edward Bozeman
  • 1810 census ISAAC Coonfield (169 KB)
    Henry county Kentucky, Isaac was also on the 1800 tax list of Kentucky
  • James C Wright (9 KB)
    unknown family beside Bozeman plot
  • 1820 census ISAAC Coonfield (126 KB)
    West Port, Henry county Kentucky, Isaac was also on the 1800 tax list of Kentucky
  • 1820 census James Epperson (209 KB)
    Montgomery County Kentucky
  • Roberta Bozeman Page headstone (59 KB)
    Bozeman plot
  • Robert H Bozeman headstone/Corrie Huffman (60 KB)
    Bozeman plot
  • Victoria Carter (33 KB)
    daughter of Cecil, died about 2000
  • 1820 census REASON ROBY (338 KB)
    taken at Shepherdsville, Bullitt, Kentucky
  • Catherine Crigler Little (38 KB)
    wife of John Wright Little
  • 1830 census REASON ROBY (495 KB)
    Mount Washington, Bullitt, Kentucky
  • Ben and Martha Coonfield 1885 (316 KB)
    top row, William, John, Ella, Wallace bottom row: Albert, Benjamin, Martha, Edward, Tom
  • 1810 census ABE CRIGLER (199 KB)
    Bullitt Kentucky
  • 1790 CENSUS GEORGE LITTLE (242 KB)
    UNION SOUTH CAROLINA CENSUS
  • 1830 Abe Crigler in Bullitt KY, father of OWEN (179 KB)
    someone is about 70 years old in this household if you browse across the page and look at the ages.
  • 1790 CENSUS BESIDE GEORGE LITTLE IN UNION SC (243 KB)
    NOTE THE MANY SURNAMES IN THAT COMMUNITY
  • 1850 census Owen CRIGLER, son of Abraham (478 KB)
    Bullitt Kentucky, wife Mary Duval and living next to Carpenters
  • 1790 CENSUS BESIDE GEORGE LITTLE IN UNION SC (257 KB)
    NOTE THE MANY SURNAMES IN THAT COMMUNITY
  • 1810 census Michael Carpenter (335 KB)
    Montgomery County Kentucky
  • 1820 CENSUS ELEAZOR BRACK (537 KB)
    WILKINSON GEORGIA
  • 1810 census Weatherford families (442 KB)
    Charlotte VA
  • 1830 CENSUS ELEAZOR BRACK (566 KB)
    WILKINSON GEORGIA
  • Jesse Bozeman headstone (49 KB)
    born 1793 SC died in Alabama
  • James Bozeman headstone (46 KB)
    buried near Jesse in Montgomery Alabama
  • headstone of Clora Jane Miller Cochran (45 KB)
    wife of Jacob buried in Hill City Cemetery Kansas
  • Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson's house burned in 2004
  • Charles McClain funeral book, they moved to Highland Avenue
  • Michael Stone of Maryland in Alabama with family
  • W Frank Fenn headstone next to his brother Mat/Madisen
  • Fenn, Stone, Carter notes
  • Fenn, Stone, Carter, Bozeman lineage notes
  • Bozeman Headstones found near Fenn
  • Anna Stone Fenn lineage found
  • Carter headstones posted at findagrave.com
  • Bozeman researcher has great webpage
  • Tracking Our Roots
  • Our Many Surnames
  • 1790 Peter Boseman on census in SC
  • Sheriff William Boseman in Maryland
  • Ambrose Boseman 1673 deeds
  • Bozeman headstones I posted on the net
     
    • 1850 Seaborn Anderson (486 KB)
      Alabama census shows the father and mother( Lavinia Jane Sellers) of Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman.
    • 1910 census Dublin Alabama (280 KB)
      shows us J T Bozeman on his 3rd marriage to Samantha Faulk who is on her second marriage; they are white. Notice the nearby Dillard family is listed as black and note that John's brother Peter married a Dillard. John had 40 acres, probably left to him by his father Peter Bozeman. Note the many NON white families around them.
    • 1910 William and Eva Dakota Fenn (370 KB)
      William was born 1855 Tuskeegee Alabama and died in Montgomery in 1922. His sons are still with him, Frank jr, Arthur Lee, Emmett, but still no sign of Robert Lee Fenn yet we found his grave next to Frank jr. Carrie is not listed so she must be living in another household or gone to visit her mom Annie in Macon GA; her marriage record is not yet found. William Fenn managed his cousin Matthew Fenn's plantation in Eufaula until he moved into Montgomery.
    • 1830 Eleazor Brack (449 KB)
      Wilkinson Georgia census - his daughter Lavinia Brack married Elijah Anderson and had Levinia Anderson who married William Calvin Sellers.
    • 1790 census of Peter Bozeman (270 KB)
      in Cheraw, Charleston South Carolina after he fought in the American Revolution. notice two Witherford families nearby.
    • 1840 Benjamin Wilburn Stone (716 KB)
      son of Michael Stone, father of Augustus M Stone, and grandfather to Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter
    • 1930 Cecil Earl Fenn Carter (3 KB)
      Enlisted from GA he is in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas working at Beaumont Hospital, still a single man but he married Emma Alice McClain before 1932 when their first son was born. Cecil was apparently adopted about 1910 when his mother remarried to a Carter in Macon GA. Cecil Earl died on Columbus Street in Montgomery AL in 1939
    • 1800 William Sellers (20 KB)
      Marlboro District South Carolina
    • 1870 Peter Bozeman (696 KB)
      found in Montgomery Alabama; wife Nancy Jane Anderson we found buried at Greenwood Cemetery. They had Peter and John + several more children.
    • Cochran Marriage License (192 KB)
      Luella and Frank Delbert Cochran 1914
    • Death Certificate of Cecil Earl (216 KB)
      Proof of his parentage! His military records describe him with dark ruddy complexion, with dark hair and dark eyes.
    • 1790 Elijah Anderson (346 KB)
      South Carolina
    • WWI Millard Milton Bozeman (222 KB)
      son of Peter and Nancy Jane
    • 1910 Charles McClain and Lorena Bozeman (136 KB)
      Married with child Lillie, and living with his mother Elizabeth and her new husband John Gardner in Montgomery County Alabama. Apparently the father of Charles ( Josiah Marion McClain ) had passed away. Josiah descends from his father James, to Josiah to Charles McClain of Virginia who had married Elizabeth Moon and they had moved into South Carolina by 1800. Charles was very dark but his hair turned white at a very young age - his sons were also very dark complected.
    • 1830 Eleazor Brack (446 KB)
      now in Wilkinson Georgia
    • WWI Mead G Bozeman (208 KB)
      son of Peter and Nancy Jane is also buried at Greenwood Cemetery only a few graves away from William Franklin Fenn's grave.
    • Stephens came to Alabama (276 KB)
      from Florida to North Carolina and back through GA, a Cherokee family settled in Ramer Alabama
    • 1900 Alabama census (283 KB)
      Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman living with J T Bozeman
    • WWI Rollie Bozeman (200 KB)
      son of Peter's son John and Alice Stephens
    • Annie Lee "Alice" Carter (69 KB)
      Results from all of the other ancestors she was born in 1934 with black hair and black eyes, a Cherokee.
    • 1920 Wm Frank Fenn Jr with Neva Mae Walraven (300 KB)
      Montgomery AL census shows them on McDonough Street near Columbus Street - we know his brother Cecil Earl died on Columbus Street in 1939.
    • WWI Jesse Bozeman (211 KB)
      son of Peter's son John and other wife Ellen Bean
    • Death Certificate of Annie Carter (440 KB)
      Anne Carter Cochran
    • 1900 Wm Franklin Fenn Sr with Annie Lou Stone (327 KB)
      Thompson Station Alabama apparently Cecil Earl was not born yet
    • WWI Jefferson Richardson Bozeman (219 KB)
      could be the son of Joseph Bozeman and Josephine Wood and/or the brother of Nathan Bozeman - this line may connect to DAR Patriot Ralph Bozeman of Bladen County North Carolina
    • 1800 Charles McClain (192 KB)
      South Carolina census , father of Josiah who had James who had Josiah Marion McClain who married Elizabeth and had Charles Allen McClain.
    • 1870 John Fenn and Emeline Harrell (521 KB)
      from Macon Georgia to Macon Alabama, they had Wm Franklin Fenn in 1855, and John descends from John Fann and Mary Stone of Virginia thru their son Henry Fann to Zachariah ( Rev War ), Travis to Elijah Fann who married Martha Rich in Burke County Georgia in 1807...John and Emeline also had children named Madisen, Thomas, Ida.
    • 1810 Charles Weatherford (329 KB)
      Charlotte Virginia...could this be the same father of Catherine G Weatherford and also the father of Chief Red Eagle....do we have the correct connection
    • Death Certificate of Wm Franklin Fenn (449 KB)
      Proof of his parentage and birthplace
    • 1920 Eva Finn and William Frank Finn in Montgomery (499 KB)
      William was born 1855 Tuskeegee Alabama and died in Montgomery in 1922. They are found living on Commerce Street with his son Emmett and his daughter Carlyn or Carrie, who still shows up as a Single Person.... He must have been sickly at this point. His grave is found in Greenwood Cemetery, next to Emmett and next to his brother Madison who was often called Uncle Matt.
    • 1900 Nancy Bozeman Adaway (283 KB)
      apparently took in her siblings when their parents passed away.
     
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    • Allen Wesley Hood (109 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , brother of Bessie and Barnie - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley Hood........could be husband of Jessie Swindall
    • Annie Clark Ballard Brooks (89 KB)
      wife of John, mother of James; the daughter of Eudora Craig and James Ballard of Lawrence TN plus her four grandparents were all born in Tennessee.
    • Brooks - Cooper headstone (69 KB)
      Greenwood Cemetery, behind the Last Supper monument; all the way to the back road of the cemetery.
    • Barnie or Buster Hood (88 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , brother of Bessie and Allen - son of Ella O Hood and L Wesley Hood
    • Luther Vernon Ballard (72 KB)
      must have been brother to Annie as all are buried near each other in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery AL
    • R E Thornton (74 KB)
      Cains Chapel, Slapout Alabama
    • L W Hood - great great grandpa (115 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , husband of Ella Mae O Hood and father of Bessie Mae " Bubber" Hood Thornton............Bessie named her sons Lister and James...........
    • James Edgar Brooks SR (106 KB)
      buried by his wife Susie Cooper and near his mother Annie...........we found his father JOHN buried in a different section of the cemetery; yet this section had a large marker named Cooper-Brooks located in Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery AL
    • BROOKS - Mary Ella Thornton (87 KB)
      wife of James Edgar Brooks, mother of Charles Wayne Brooks; buried in Prattville Cemetery beside James and their other son John
    • Barnie Hood's wife (98 KB)
      Augusta Hood
    • Susie Mae Cooper Brooks (73 KB)
      buried by husband James Edgar Brooks Sr - Susie was known as Mamaw
    • BROOKS - James Edgar Jr (68 KB)
      beside wife Mary Ella Thornton and their son John in Prattville Cemetery - father of Charles Wayne Brooks, John Milton and Thomas Earl Brooks
    • Dorothy Hood (89 KB)
      Hood family in Slapout/ Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama - this cemetery is behind Cains Chapel Methodist Church on the corner of the intersection of Hwy 111
    • Zona Cooper (97 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
    • BROOKS - John Milton (73 KB)
      Johnny died young, buried by his parents James and Mary Brooks in Prattville AL
    • Jessie Swindall Hood (110 KB)
      Hood family in Slapout
    • Walter Cooper (80 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
    • BROOKS - Charles Wayne born 1953 (57 KB)
      son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks; buried in Millbrook Alabama at Brookside Memorial.
    • J William Thornton (83 KB)
      Thornton and Hood family in Slapout
    • Mollie Cooper (99 KB)
      buried in the Cooper Brooks plot
    • John Brooks 1880 Texas census (833 KB)
      shows his father from Holland and mother from France....married Permilia Roxanna Smith in Tennessee and had their son, John Brooks who married Annie Ballard and came to Montgomery AL
    • Lela Thornton is beside J Wm Thornton (90 KB)
      Thornton and Hood family in Slapout
    • Bessie Mae HOOD Thornton (80 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL wife of Milton Elijah Thornton, and she was mother of Mary Ella Thornton who married James Edgar Brooks JR
    • Wesley Hood on 1910 census (342 KB)
      census image shows him as head of household with ELLA as his wife, so it leaves confusion as to the L W Hood headstone
    • Marlon Thornton (119 KB)
      Slapout
    • Milton Thornton (52 KB)
      buried in Slapout AL , he married Bessie Mae Hood and he is father of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks
    • Bessie Hood on census (19 KB)
      census image
    • Minnie Hood (79 KB)
      Slapout
    • James and Susie Brooks on census (1086 KB)
      1930 census image
    HAPPY TRAILS
    • 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.
    • 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
    • Grandpa Isaac (195 KB)
      Perry County History
    • Annie's Clan (55 KB)
      Taken about 1968
    • 1840 (371 KB)
      Sellers in Pike County
    • Grandpa Jacob (121 KB)
      Civil War Registration
    • Annie's Clan (46 KB)
      Taken about 1965
    • Lavinia Sellers - 1880 (528 KB)
      Mysterious error on census, Lavinia Jane Sellers Anderson mistakenly listed as Bozeman, but note that she is the mother in law - she is Corrintha Anderson Barfoot's mother. Lavinia was the wife of Seaborn Anderson and also the mother of Nancy Bozeman in the next household. Lavinia's parents were Levinia Anderson and William Calvin Sellers - all the Andersons being of the same family of Elisha and the Sellers all being from 1700s North Carolina.
    • Grandpa Charles and Zachariah (12 KB)
      Georgia Records 1700s
    • Annie's Clan (54 KB)
      Taken about 1953
    • Sellers (40 KB)
      Letter
    • Grandpa George (105 KB)
      Davies Kentucky
    • Grandparents of Frank (34 KB)
      his father shown on left side
    • 1850 (610 KB)
      Vincent Joiner and Ellen
    • Parents of Frank (212 KB)
      shown on left side
    • 1830 (76 KB)
      Grandpa Elisha Anderson in Montgomery Alabama by his son in law Alfred Sellers and by Jesse and by Captain Benjamin Lewis
    • Grandpa in WWI (130 KB)
      Military Registration
    • 1840 (576 KB)
      W H
    • Grandpa Ben in Civil War (40 KB)
      Military Registration
    • 1850 (616 KB)
      J B
    • Laura's Inquiry (563 KB)
      Owensboro Kentucky
    • 1830 (299 KB)
      W H
    • Grandpa John (122 KB)
      Land Deed
    • 1820 (531 KB)
      Sellers in Brunswick NC
    • 1920 Madison Fenn on Commerce Street, Montg, AL (817 KB)
      he is Carrie's Uncle Mat or our great grandfather Wm F Fenn's brother who died in 1927 and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery by Wm F Fenn and near Emmett Fenn. Whomever buried Uncle Mat listed him as Matthew A Fenn, so they did not know much about the family's real names. Madison was a night watchman at a grocery store, according to this census, being widowed as his wife had died in Texas, prompting his return to Alabama. There is also a Rewis family on this census which we later find connected with Emmett Fenn.
    • 1930 James Brooks and Susie Mae Cooper (1086 KB)
      Montgomery Alabama census... John BROOKS Self M Male W 42 PA Farmer HOLLAND FRANCE P. R. BROOKS Wife M Female W 38 TN Keeping House TN TN Nora C. BROOKS Dau S Female W 18 TN At Home PA TN Walter H. BROOKS Son S Male W 13 TN At Home PA TN John H. BROOKS Son S Male W 7 TX PA TN Lula C. BROOKS Dau S Female W 5 TX PA TN ... W. BROOKS Son S Male W 3 TX PA TN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Source Information: Census Place Precinct 1, Lamar, Texas.
    • 1930 Uncle Wm Frank Fenn near Highland Avenue (998 KB)
      Carrie's brother, also brother of our grandpa Cecil Earl Fenn Carter. Uncle Frank, his wife Neva Mae Walraven, and her mother are living between Panama Street and Highland Avenue. He works on the railroad, like his brother Emmett. Uncle Frank later buys land in Coosada on Airport Road and has a family cemetery which includes his brother Robert's grave. The land later becomes Coosada Elementary School. Some is donated to the church for a cemetery. This is where cousin Martha remembered her mom, Neva, boiling Frank's workclothes in a pot outside from his job on the railroad. There was once a housefire where they lost many of their family photos and mementos, but one son remembered Frank having a photo of a guy in baseball uniform signed by Wm Arthur "Tige" Stone.
    • 1920 Susie Mae Cooper (763 KB)
      Montgomery Alabama census with her mother Sallie E Carter, widow of Thomas R Carter and his first marriage was to Lacy Bozeman
    • 1930 Eva Dakota Fenn on McDonough Stree (21 KB)
      She is now alone. At some point she moved in with her stepson Wm Frank Fenn Jr because my mother in law Mary Ella Brooks knew her and actually took her in when Eva and Frank did not get along. This might have happened in Montgomery before they all moved to Elmore County but yes, Mary Ella took care of the lady !! What a small world we live in < smiles >
    • WWI Draft Registration Card (24 KB)
      James Edgar Brooks is in Forsyth Georgia so is he in our line?
    • 1820 Elijah Fann/ Fenn in Laurens Georgia (407 KB)
      One of our great great grandfathers....married to Martha Rich and had John who ended up in Tuskegee Alabama and had a son named William Frank Fenn . Elijah's ancestors came down through the Carolinas and the wars and some were listed on the Georgia land lottery - such amazing history here !!
    • 1910 James E Brooks in Montgomery AL (384 KB)
      on Hull Street with father in law listed as Crawford, children John and Dorothy....?W. P. BROOKS Self M Male W 55 TN Farmer NC VA Carrie BROOKS Wife M Female W 33 TN Keeps House TN TN John D. BROOKS Son M Male W 25 TN Mule Trader TN TN Roxanna BROOKS DauL M Female W 22 TN At Home TN TN Walter BROOKS Son S Male W 19 TN Farm Laborer TN TN Rolla BROOKS Son S Male W 5 TN TN TN Lilly BROOKS Dau S Female W 3 TN TN TN Kate JONES Other D Female B 35 TN Dom. Servant TN TN Oscar JONES Other S Male B 3 TN TN TN -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Source Information: Census Place District 16, Maury, Tennessee
    • 1930 Mary Ella Thornton ( married J E Brooks ) (855 KB)
      age 3 with her parents Milton Elijah and Bessie Thornton on Park Avenue in Chisholm, Montgomery County Alabama
    • 1850 Cooper (93 KB)
      Chambers Alabama Alsey Cooper is widowed with children in Chambers..
    • 1910 Wesley Allan Hood, father of Bessie Thornton (342 KB)
      Elmore County Census shows Mary Ella's grandfather but Bessie is listed on page two with her two brothers
    • John Thomas Bozeman photo (386 KB)
      father of Lorena, husband of Alice Stephens... Peter E. BOZEMAN Self M Male W 46 AL Farmer SC SC Nancy J. BOZEMAN Wife M Female W 34 AL Keeping House AL GA John Thos. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 14 AL Field Hand AL AL Peter J. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 12 AL Field Hand AL AL Corintha BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 10 AL AL AL Robt. H. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 8 AL AL AL Martha J. F. BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 5 AL AL AL Allie Lucie BOZEMAN Dau S Female W 2 AL AL AL George M. BOZEMAN Son S Male W 1 AL AL AL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Source Information: Census Place Dublin, Montgomery, Alabama
    • 1910 Wesley Allan Hood's children listed on PAGE 2 (19 KB)
      Elmore County Census shows Mary Ella's grandfather but Bessie is listed on page two with her two brothers
    • 1930 Creek County, Oklahoma, Carrie Fenn Johnson (993 KB)
      Cousin Martha said that Aunt Carrie married a Ben Johnson and moved to Oklahoma where they had one daughter named Jean and they lived a very poor life and probably died there. Ben is shown to have been born in Texas.
    • John Brooks of Pennsylvania in Texas 1880 census (833 KB)
      Shows his father is from Holland and his mother is from France and his wife is from Tennessee. John is 42 on this document and his children are born in Texas so they have been here nearly 20 years apparently. Roxanna Permilia Smith is using P R for her name on this.
    • 1900 Choctaw Nation Texas, Ben Johnson (927 KB)
      some of Ben's siblings are born in Indian Territory but he shows born in Texas - all citizens are listed as white. There is another Johnson family living next to them. Ben's mother is born in Alabama. They must have returned later to Alabama when he met Carrie Fenn and married her and then they moved on to Oklahoma.
    • 1860 John Brooks in Giles County TENN from PENN (643 KB)
      young man is a boarder in this household, just before he married Ms Smith and then they moved on to Texas.
    • 1920 Carrie Fenn in Alabama with her father (701 KB)
      on Commerce Street with her stepmother Eva, we do not know why Carrie/ Carolyn never lived with her own mother, but her father was ill and she stayed. Her brother Emmett is also there but we do not know why they show his middle initial as J when his middle name was Marvin, but census officials were not perfect and if Eva was the person giving out the information, she probably had no clue. Eva Dakota Fenn was very young too !!

     

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