The search box will list anything
researched in these files about Brooks and Cochran
including all other names involved like Anderson,
Ballard, Baxter, Baxley, Broadway, Bozeman,
Carter, Coonfield, Cooper, Douglass, Fenn,
Handley, Henderson, Hendrick, Lee, Little,
McClain, Miller, Parker, Sellers, Stephens, Tefft,
Weatherford, Wright, Young. It is helpful to
search a first name, nickname, location or even a
particular year.
Map 1827 lands (1047 KB) Shiloh was Peter's land
and Faith was Jesses land. While I stood in the center
of that Stokes Carter Cemetery shown on the map, I had
no idea about the churches or I would have looked for
them or some sign that our ancestors were there. Peter
Bozeman, his wife Sarah, their son William Henry, all
could be buried at one of those places, which could
now be covered in woods.
Jacob's Grave (14 KB) J. B. Cochran born 1822
buried at Hill City Cemetery in Kansas. He had left
Guernsey Ohio after the Civil War to explore the Iowa
Territory for a few years, then migrated into KS in
1882.
Jacob's Military
Registration (121
KB) J. B. Cochran born 1822 to William
Cochran and Martha Henderson served in the Civil War.
Some say that two of his brothers went into Canada and
never returned.
1830 Alexander Cochran
(202 KB) Census shows he
obviously had a son named Jacob residing next to him
so now we know why the other son William named a child
Jacob.
1830 Alexander Cochran the younger
son (189
KB) Census shows he lived close to brother
William on the next page from their father and the
Henderson families are all around them.
Captain Little (450 KB) My dad's GGG grandfather from
Scotland along with several possible brothers, in Union
County South Carolina 1790 and 1800 census but in
Kentucky 1810 after the brother of Mrs. Mary Handley
Douglass Little explored, surveyed and offered them land
in Vienna Kentucky and more along the Green River which
is included in the books History of Kentucky and
mentions these familis and is included in the Kentucky
Genealogy Webpages.
The Captain's great
grandson (144
KB) Military Record 1863 Kentucky Infantry,
then Bullitt County Kentucky and later in Madison
Arkansas. Also John's father was a surgeon in the Civil
War....many of this family served.
1838 Lucy Campbell (173 KB) Sterling Campbell married one
of the daughters of Peter Bozeman in Darlington SC and
followed the families to Montgomery and later bought
land near Talladega.
1829 Vincent Joiner (265 KB) Sarah's X mark - Vincent
married Ellen Bozeman, a daughter of Peter, and later
bought land in South Alabama. Vincent also signed
documents for Peter in 1822 and 1824 as his child Julius
received a gift of land from Grandpa Peter
Boseman, Bozman, etc.
(27 KB) Most could not read
nor write so the spelling varies through time.
1811 Catherine
Weatherford (52
KB) Item 76 states she is the daughter of
Charles but he is not making her marriage bond so he
must have been in Alabama.
Documents (191 KB) Some old images in my
collection.
Catherine Weatherford Wright's daughter
Catherine (254
KB) Go to Little and see Catherine who
married Hiram Little - She is the daughter of
Catherine G. Weatherford and John Wright. Hiram was a
physician and the son of Jonas, and the grandson of
George. Hiram and Catherine had a son named John who
is listed below their article. John's granddaughter
married Frank D. Cochran.
Martha Hill Bozeman in Montgomery
County (39
KB) By 1850 she had settled near the other
Hills in Dublin and some families in Ramer who
connected to her vast lineage.
Grandmother Annie Lee
(1 KB) Anna Lou Stone married
Fenn and Carter and Dasher and died around 1933 or
1934. Her father was born in Macon County AL and moved
back to Macon GA before he died. She followed. The
death certificates of both of her parents are found in
the Georgia Archives and Annie signed as a witness to
her mother's.
Elders of Martha Hill's
husband (23
KB) Study of William Henry Bozeman born 1802
Darlington and their trails into Hope Hull.
census 1910 Uncle Meady Bozeman and
Nancy (1071
KB) with his mother in Montgomery Alabama
She was our great great granny Nancy Jane Anderson
Bozeman, widow of Peter Edward Bozeman.
James H Baxley born 1846
(871 KB) Beverly took me to
Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, about 3
miles from Holtville School and another mile from the
Cains Chapel Church Cemetery where other relatives are
buried. James was the father of Ella Olivia Baxley
Hood and he was the great great great grandfather of
Charlie Brooks.
census 1920 Labette
Kansas (454
KB) Cochrans this Frank M Cochran from
Indiana may or may not be related to our Cochran
family in Chetopa Kansas
1860 James McClain of GA is in Coffee
Alabama (123
KB) father of Josiah Marion McClain with
second wife and children so this migration might be
the reason our great great grandfather Josiah came to
Alabama and he joined the Civil War at Greenville and
never went back home to his first wife.
William Arthur Stone
"Tige" (48
KB) grandma Anna Stone sent his picture to
the family so he must be the son of her brother Arthur
Augustus Stone. Tige played in 1923 for the St Louis
Cardinals before moving on to Florida where he is
buried.l He also attended Mercer University in Georgia
and played baseball there before moving on.
great great great grandpa James
McClain (26
KB) son of Josiah and named his first son
Josiah Marion McClain. James first married Anna, maybe
an indian, and he was found in Alabama 1860 census with
a second wife, and they went back to Georgia after the
Civil War, where they are buried in Indian Creek
Cemetery.
John Little (479 KB) Civil War, he was Cherokee by
blood and his description was dark complected, black
eyes and black hair. John's mother was Catherine
Weatherford, a daughter of Charles Weatherford.
Mordecai Bozeman (53 KB) Anne Carter's great great
great great grandfather Mordecai Bozeman was paid for
his service in the Militia of the South Carolina's
Continental Line of the American Revolution. He was born
1735 Bladen North Carolina and had sons, Peter, John,
James. Peter moved to Alabama in 1827.
Mordecai Bozeman 2 (52 KB) Anne Carter's great great
great great grandfather Mordecai Bozeman was paid for
his service in the Militia of the South Carolina's
Continental Line of the American Revolution. He was born
1735 Bladen North Carolina and had sons, Peter, John,
James. Peter moved to Alabama in 1827. Peter had William
Henry and then Henry had Peter Edward. Peter Edward
Bozeman had John Thomas, and he had Lorena.
Jesse Bozeman born 1793
headstone (49
KB) found in Stokes-Carter Cemetery in Hope
Hull, Montgomery, Alabama just off I-65 where his
daughter Lacy Bozeman married Thomas Randolph Carter,
DAR (83
KB) Some of my ancestors are recognized for
their military service
Fann of Virginia became Fenn in
Georgia (76
KB) Military service in the American
Revolution and Land Grants, a vast lineage migrated into
the Mississippi/ Alabama Territory
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.
Confederate Application for Widows
Pension (852
KB) Grandmother Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
( daughter of Lavinia ) applied in 1899 with her
husband's Uncle John A. Hill as the witness - her
husband is buried on Uncle John's old plantation in
Dublin where I have discovered his tombstone - this
item adds to the suspicion of Hill in our lineage as
John was the brother of Martha H. Bozeman and her
father was also a John Hill in the American Revolution
who eventually settled in Dublin with many of his own
children.
1850 (610
KB) Vincent Joiner and Aunt Ellen Bozeman
took in her brother Meady's son after his death and
one of them became big in history as the Captain Peter
Henry Bozeman of Mississippi Calvary - Ellen was one
of the daughters of Sarah and Peter of Darlington SC.
Stone in Macon County
(654 KB) 1850 shows
Grandfather Augustus Marvin Stone as a child with his
parents Sarah Davies and Benjamin Wilburn Stone living
near Ben's brother William, from Georgia, but also
near their own father from Maryland, Michael Stone
born 1778.
1830 (76
KB) Grandpa Elisha Anderson in Montgomery
Alabama by his son in law Alfred Sellers and by Jesse
and by Captain Benjamin Lewis
Anderson and Sellers
(1 KB) Big migration into
Montgomery Alabama with Sellers, Anderson and Bozeman
all living very close together for many many years.
Alice's daughter Anne
(37 KB) Alice Emma McClain
had Annie in 1934. Great granddaughter of Alice
Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman.
Mordecai1 (40 KB) Bozeman in SC Militia,
father of Peter, John, James and probably Ralph and
Paul. Mordecai could have been the son of Mary White
and Samuel Bozeman of Bladen County North Carolina
and born 1735, while it was still Cherokee Indian
Territory. The researchers of his son John claim
that John was half Cherokee so the other sons would
also be half blood. This makes sense since nothing
is known about his wife and his marriage is not
recorded anywhere thus far - some speculate that his
wife was called Elizabeth
Lorena's son Walton
(18 KB) Walton McClain
holding Anne, his niece. Grandson of John Thomas
Bozeman and Alice Lorena Stephens - of Elizabeth
Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain.
1908 Wedding Day (13 KB) Lorena Emma Bozeman and
Charles Allen McClain
Alice's daughter Anne 2
(44 KB) Anne Carter married
Frank Cochran who was the grandson of Clora Jane
Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran - and of Lattie
Cedonia Little and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield.
1779 Peter Bozeman
(107 KB) Lorena's great
great grandfather in the American Rev sold his land
in 1826 and moved to Hope Hull, in Montgomery
County, Alabama, wrote letters found in the Archives
in 1828 claiming to be injured and an invalid but
they had no proof and rejected his claim but he
managed to get his land in Alabama which was sold
and divided in 1838 according to the documents in
Alabama Archives.
Tombstone of John's wife,
ALB (78
KB) Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman - The
family story is that her great grandfather John
Stephens served in the American Revolution in North
Carolina and married a full blood Cherokee woman,
gave her a Biblical name, and due to Indian unrest
they migrated into South Carolina and then Alabama.
John named a son John who married Jane Tillman and
they were proud of his Indian blood, shared stories
and the sons loved music and art.
1866 John (31 KB) Lorena's father born and
died in Ramer, John Thomas Bozeman was married to
Alice Lorena Stephens
Victor Daniel Cochran
(119 KB) Son of Anne Carter
and Frank Cochran was the grandson of Luella
Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran - and of Alice
Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.
Anne's death
certificate (440
KB) Lorena's granddaughter by Alice Emma
McClain Carter, - Anne was the great great
granddaughter of Nancy Jane Anderson and Peter
Edward Bozeman - and of Mary Ann Hendrick and
Augustus Marvin Stone- and of Emeline Harrell and
John Fenn.
1866 John Bozeman (31 KB) Lorena's father born and
died in Ramer, John Thomas Bozeman was married to
Alice Lorena Stephens - Whomever placed his
tombstone had it inscribed "Estimated Age"
Rev War Land Grants
(151 KB) Grandpa Brack -
descendant Lavinia Jane Brack Sellers to Nancy Jane
Anderson Bozeman - Grandpa Brack had married Hester
Doty in North Carolina 1700s.
John's mother Nancy Jane
Anderson (18
KB) Lorena's grandmother kept them for a
while when Alice Stephens Bozeman died, until John
married Ellen Bean. Nancy was married to Peter
Edward Bozeman and filed for his Civil War Pension
Mordecai Bozeman (362 KB) Colonial Soldiers of the
South - served in the Militia
1922 Fenn and Adkins
(7 KB) Interesting reading -
I had been told that a Wm Fenn married a Mattie Mae
Adkins and my grandpa Cecil was close friends with
them.
Bozeman 1782 (1 KB) Transcribing and
contributing my findings
Indian Raid (2 KB) Transcribing and
contributing my findings, saving other's who share a
connection to mine
Peter Bozeman (36 KB) The son of Mordecai born
around 1755-1758 had sons named Jesse M, Peter E,
William Henry and a daughter Lucy Campbell. They
moved to Montgomery Alabama around 1827 and Peter
died around 1829. Peter had been paid for his
service in the SC Continental Line of the American
Revolution but thought he had earned something more
when he moved, perhaps the Land Grant, but was
possibly rejected because of a dead line setup by
the government, but he did write about having a
certificate, one that we have not yet discovered.
Tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman (78
KB) found in the woods behind Hills Chapel
Church by Peter Edward Bozeman's tombstone on the old
John Hill plantation. Alice was the wife of his son
John Thomas Bozeman who was buried across the street
in another cemetery. Stone reads " My Darling ALB "
Grandma Stone (88 KB) Informant is our great
granny Annie L Dasher who later became Annie Carter,
previously a Fenn in 1893
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter
(525 KB) Military Discharge
shows dark ruddy complexion of this handsome Cherokee.
There were three documents where he re-enlisted and
served about twenty years at Fort Bliss in El Paso
Texas. Cousin Ruby Gibson once told me that Cecil was
still in the Army when he married Alice McClain.
1920 Annie Stone (133 KB) Shown with Mother -
apparently Annie married 3 times, Fenn, Carter, Dasher
but no marriage record has been located.
John Stephens (23 KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter
Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman
Wm Sellers (23 KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter
Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman -
Some researchers say that Mr Sellers had married an
indian woman in South Carolina before moving to
Alabama.
TOMBSTONE - CAPT GEORGE
LITTLE (152
KB) One of my daddy's many grandfathers on
Luella's side - her mother was Lattie Little.
Broadway (21 KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter
Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Charles McClain's
mother
Hiram Lucius Little (94 KB) Father of John Wright Little
married first to Catherine Wright and second to
Rebecca Isabella Adams.
Peter Bozeman (173 KB) Jesse petitions the court
to sell or divide the land that his father owned,
dated 1838 - Peter died in 1829 after writing letters
to the War Dept and Bounty Land Office because he knew
that he was to receive that free land grant for his
service in the American Revolution. Obviously he got
the land in Hope Hull Alabama but I have not found any
type of Land Deed until this item shows that Peter did
in fact own land in Alabama. Now we need to go back
and find the followup to this document to see when the
land was sold and to whom.
Moon (22
KB) S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's
grandpa - also grandpa to Charles McClain's father
Lattie Cedonia Little
Coonfield (177
KB) daughter of John Wright Little -
beautiful Lattie was my great grandmother and of
Cherokee blood
Jesse Bozeman born 1793 was
Attorney (1352
KB) When his brother Peter E. Bozeman died,
Gilly asks him to be her lawful attorney regarding
this estate in 1851. signed by John Stephens and
Gilly's X mark.
Brandon (23
KB) S C Roster shows Brandon, under which
many of our elders served
Benjamin Coonfield (53 KB) Husband of Lattie Little,
father of Luella - Aunt Deloris said the Coonfields
had such rich black hair that it looked blue.
1838 Jesse Bozeman
Attorney (173
KB) Dividing his father Peter Bozeman's land
among the heirs named on this document which is signed
by Judge Bibb.
McClaijn (21 KB) S C Roster shows several
McClains, not our Charles
John Wise - father of Elizabeth Wise
Carter (38
KB) 1700s South Carolina Militia - Elizabeth
named her son John Wise Carter and he settled into
Talladega Alabama about 1820- 1830 and married an
unknown woman having a son named Thomas Randolph
Carter.
Lattie Cedonia Little & Ben
Coonfield (177
KB) Ben Coonfield family - Lattie told her
children they were of Cherokee blood and some of
another tribe
Benjamin Coonfield's
parents (28
KB) Husband of Lattie Little, his parents
were Martha Frances Young and Benjamin Wylie Coonfield
of Indiana
Dillard and Stone (33 KB) 1700s Chatham North Carolina
Muster Roll - There is a story online about the
Dillards and Jordans being related to Pocahontas
Flowers and Stone (34 KB) 1700s Edgecombe North
Carolina Muster Roll
Deer and Clark (35 KB) 1700s Granville North
Carolina Militia
Charles Wayne Brooks 1953 -
1998 (63
KB) taken about 1975 at a friend's wedding
reception - handsome son of Mary Ella Thornton and
James Edgar Brooks Jr. Charlie had never gone to
doctors until that Christmas Eve 1996 when he got sick
with colon cancer.
Charles' Grandpa Carter
(40 KB) Thomas Randolph Carter
born 1820 with his firt wife Lacy Bozman lived in Hope
Hull. He married secondly to Mary Josephine Hereferd
of Virginia and they had Sarah Elizabeth Carter who
married Levi Benjamin Cooper - Sarah's baby was named
Susie Mae Cooper and she marrried James Edgar Brooks
Sr. ( Thomas Carter's grandfather served in the
American Revolution ) When Thomas died his wife Mary
had him placed by his first family and then she went
to live with her daughter. Thomas and Lacy have
beautiful tall tombstone monuments in Hope Hull where
he purchased land thru her father, Jesse Bozeman, from
the William Henry Bozeman Estate.
Charles' Grandpa Brooks
(24 KB) John Brooks and Annie
Clark Ballard of Tennessee had only one son James E
Brooks Sr in Montgomery AL. James married Susie Mae
Cooper and named their son James Jr. James Jr married
Mary Ella Thornton and had Charles. ( The first John
Brooks came from Holland and settled in PA with a
french wife and had John in 1837 who was in Giles TN
in 1860 marrying Roxanna Smith and having a son named
John in TN )
Grandpa John Wright
Little (26
KB) Luella Coonfield Cochran's grandfather
was born in Kentucky 1843 and claimed to be Cherokee.
He moved to Arkansas after his wife Catherine Crigler
died. John was the son of Catherine Wright and Hiram
Lucius Little. Catherine Wright's mother was Catherine
Weatherford, a daughter of Charles according to the
Virginia records online. Family legend is that John's
family refused a land allotment in Indian nation
Oklahoma
Indians at Fenn Plantation in
Alabama (161
KB) cousin Matthew Fenn employed Indians on
his farm and my grandpa William Fenn was the Manager
according to the census records. They all descend from
Travis Fenn and Elijah Fann but this area was indeed
Creek Nation as the whites began to settle and plant,
they all had to work together to survive.
Kathy's GG granny Mary Catherine Crigler
(53 KB) Married
John Wright Little in Shepherdsville Kentucky and had
Lattie Cedonia Little who married Benjamin Wallace
Coonfield. Lattie named her daughter Luella Ellen.
Luella married Frank Delbert Cochran and had Frankie
in 1927. Catherine wore her long black hair in braids.
The Criglers were of German blood, read the Germanna
Colony pages online and how they lived so close to the
indians of that era.
John Thomas Bozeman, son of Peter
Edward (386
KB) Born 1866 in Dublin Alabama, married
Alice Stephens and had Lorena Bozeman - John was the
son of Nancy Jane Anderson and Peter Edward Bozeman.
His grandparents were Martha Hill and William Henry
Bozeman who migrated from Darlington South Carolina
about 1826. The Andersons and Bozemans lived next to
each other in Hope Hull 1830 with Peter Edward being
born in 1834. After the Civil War Peter and Nancy
bought land in Ramer/ Dublin area along the
Meriweather Trail close to John Hill. John Hill
donated land for their family cemetery which I
visited, and he donated land for the Hills Chapel
Church and another cemetery across from it where John
T Bozeman is buried.
1821 William Cochran Land
Record (35
KB) only one in this township !!! Bought
land in 1821 and had Jacob Benjamin Cochran in 1822.
WWI Charles McClain (36 KB) his birth date is wrong,
should be 1886 but it shows his wife as Lorena
Bozeman. Charles was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and
Josiah Marion McClain's who's families migrated from
South Carolina into Georgia, then Alabama. Josiah
descends from Elizabeth Moon and Charles McClain of
1750s Virginia. Elizabeth Moon had named a son Josiah
and his son James had married an indian woman called
Anna - Anna had a son named Josiah. I have seen three
different dates of birth for grandpa Charlie but they
had very little education, some could not read nor
write at all, so the numbers are often mixed up.
Uncle John Coonfield
(39 KB) brother of Ben - the
Coonfields had very black hair with a blue shine to it
Lucius Powhatan Little
(40 KB) cousin to John Wright
Little - L P was an attorney, a judge, a writer and a
genealogist. His daughter Laura Simmons Little tried
to prove this line connected to a sister of
Pocahontas, named Cleopatra. Laura also joined the
Owensboro Chapter of the DAR.
Abner Broadway (38 KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of
the South - May have married an indian woman before
they began to migrate into Alabama.
Cook School (134 KB) 1933 photo includes 7
Cochran children
John Stephens (34 KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of
the South - John married a full blood Cherokee and
migrated into Alabama.
Luella Coonfield Cochran
(116 KB) Death Certificate -
the cancer was so bad that her husband had to okay
they take her off the machines. Luella had many
children, including two sets of twins
Mordecai 1 (40 KB) Receipt of payment for
service in the American Revolution - he is also listed
online in the South Carolina Archives under the Roster
of the Continental Army serving in the Militia.
Mordecai2 (52 KB) Receipt of pay for his
services in the American Revolution.
Peter Bozeman captured in Am
Rev (107
KB) 1779 article from SC Archives - the
surname spelling varies but these people could not
read so it just didn't matter. Peter and his wife
Sarah signed with only an X mark on various documents.
Grandma Lorena Bozeman
McClain (11
KB) 1941 she was mother of Alice McClain
Carter and raised the children of Alice ( Cecil Jr,
Anne Alice, William Lawrence) Lorena was wonderful to
visit, churning butter, sewing quilts, gardening, and
read her Bible daily, having a very special gift of
healing.
Anne Carter and Frankie Cochran
1950 (44
KB) married in 1951, moved to Broken Arrow
in Tulsa Oklahoma and then to Mesa Arizona, living
next to his sister, Eunice Cochran Haraughty. Both had
Cherokee heritage.
Brack Land Grant (151 KB) Eleazor and George Brack
served in the Am Rev along with the Bozemans and
Andersons and Sellers, all of whom eventually migrated
from SC to AL - all being intermarried and becoming
our grandfathers and grandmothers
Uncle Billy Carter (25 KB) Anne's younger brother was
killed in a car accident on hwy 231 - had married
several, had no children. loved living in Oklahoma
around the indians because he was indian and felt at
home with them.
LAND RECORD (57 KB) 1859 Grandfather Isaac
Coonfield in Arkansas
Frankie Cochran in 1949
(9 KB) left Chetopa Kansas and
served in Korean War, was copilot of a bomber and was
shot in the shoulder, sent to Maxwell AFB in
Montgomery. While seeing the sights in downtown
Montgomery he ran into Anne Carter, and he told her
that night that she was the one he wanted to marry.
She was about 17 and working at the old Kress store on
Dexter Avenue, waiting for her bus to take her home.
John Bozeman (132 KB) 1781 Loyalists - sided with
the British during our War for Independence
Confederate Pension
Application (18
KB) Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman filed for
widows pension after Peter Edward died. He had served
in the Shelby County Reserve
Uncle Walton McClain
(18 KB) about 1936 holding
Anne Carter. Walton was a very dark handsome man, well
educated, and military all his life, now buried at
Arlington Cemetery.
Anne Carter in 1940 (37 KB) school days at Capitol
Heights, they moved around, Maryland Avenue, and
Yougene Streets, attending Highland Avenue Church of
Christ but some old letters from the 1950s talk about
church on Saturdays so they must have switched
religions at some point.
John Hill in 1754 (64 KB) Lt in North Carolina - this
could be the father of the many Hills who moved into
Montgomery Alabama along with the Bozemans in 1826
John in Mississippi 1830
(43 KB) Rev War Soldier could
be the brother of Peter or the son of Mordecai -
Mordecai's lineage had not been researched until this
decade. I see that his son James remained in
Darlington SC but John did not and Peter did not. John
and Peter may have married indian women and migrated
into Alabama and John moved on into Mississippi which
was at that time Choctaw Nation. John and Peter both
had difficulty after their migration proving that they
had served in the American Revolution even though it
is recorded where they got paid in 1785.
Benjamin Dotey (33 KB) 1700s Colonial Soldiers of
the South - they all trace back to the Mayflower's
Edward Doty and the first Thanksgiving of the
Pilgrims.
Hello!! (62
KB) As aol begins to close it's doors to
their hometown webpages that so many have used to save
their notes on, here we begin a vast attempt at saving
research
Peter Bozeman (36 KB) Peter had married Sarah
Brown in 1786, having three daughters on the 1790
census followed by sons Meade, William Henry, Jesse M.
Peter E,- Ellen married Vincent Joiner, Lucy married
Sterling Campbell and the third daughter has not been
found unless she was at the estate sale in one of
those other familiar names like Seller, Mason, Watkins
or Stacie or Campbell.
Coonfield Indian Blood
(85 KB) Other researchers of
the family - Long before I began studying my family
tree, there was talk of indian blood in this line. But
even now my 92 year old aunt tells me that her mother
Luella Coonfield was part indian.
Civil War - Bozeman (16 KB) Peter Edward Bozeman married
Nancy Jane Anderson
Civil War - Seaborne
Anderson (16
KB) Nancy Jane's father served along with
his brothers and father - some of this family died in
the War - Seaborne was the great grandfather to Lorena
Bozeman McClain - Seaborne's great grandfathers served
in the American Revolution.
Civil War - Josiah Marion
McClain (70
KB) Lorena Bozeman McClain's father in law
was married to Elizabeth Broadway - He had deserted
his first wife Julia King in Georgia and joined the
Civil War in Alabama. He was wounded. He married or
lived with Elizabeth having two girls around 1870 who
died but had Charles Allen McClain in 1886 . Josiah
died soon after. Josiah's mother was known as Anna and
his father was James McClain who might have also
served in the Civil War. It is believed that Josiah's
mother was native american - Charlie McClain was a
very dark tiny man and very spiritual and faithful.
Civil War - Thomas Randolph
Carter (9
KB) son of John Wise Carter and "Elizabeth",
Thomas married Lacy Jane Bozeman first and Mary
Josephine Hereferd second. Mary had a daughter named
Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin
Cooper. Grandfathers of Thomas served in the American
Revolution.
Files (4
KB) Research on John Brooks of Holland, his
son's marriage to Roxanna P Smith of Tennessee, her
son's move to Alabama and descendants in Montgomery
My Webpages (2 KB) Links to much of my research
- I save everything, scan every document or photo, and
someday I just might get it organized and alphabetized
Grandpa Abner Broadway
(123 KB) father of Elizabeth B
McClain - he had married Mary Stephens. Abner was born
in Montgomery and his parents had come from South
Carolina, another Abner Broadway and "Nancy unknown"
Grandpa Elijah Lee and Andrew
Cooper (101
KB) Chambers County census shows how close
they lived together. Charner Cooper married Sarah Lee
and had Levi Benjamin Cooper. Levi married Sarah
Carter and had a daughter Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
Ancestors (163 KB) The many ancestors of the
Brooks children.
Grandpa Anderson married Lavinia
Brack (91
KB) from the Carolinas to Montgomery Alabama
- Soldiers of the American Revolution, received Land
Grants and migrated into Georgia, then to Montgomery
County Alabama.
Surnames (37 KB) Baxley, Cochran, Crigler,
Fenn, Little, Miller, so many names in my family tree.
1840 census Montgomery AL
(32 KB) only half of my
transcription, more to come on page 2 - the pages are
quite difficult to read
Notes and Research (1052 KB) A big thank you to my many
internet found cousins who have shared their lineage
and pictures with me to help verify the journeys of
our ancestors.
My Census Notes (3 KB) My families migrated into
several counties of Alabama by 1830 1840
Mordecai Bozeman (3 KB) Account being audited for
claims of Am Rev War
Baxley (19
KB) From Joseph to James to Ella Olivia
Mordecai's son Peter Bozeman in
SC (11
KB) Ralph and Peter received Land Grants -
they might have received several acres each time they
re-enlisted - Ralph even got a land grant in Georgia
Families Settled in Montgomery
AL (1
KB) Several names listed - this was the
capitol city - with land rich for farming, slaves and
indians willing to work the crops, and the Alabama
River used for travel. The railroad also came through
Ramer and into Montgomery - the Union Station sits
along the banks of the Alabama River in downtown
Montgomery where historical signs indicate this was
once a large indian village. Even the parents of Chief
Red Eagle ( Sehoy and Charles Weatherford) lived along
the Alabama River.
Brooks in Montgomery
(1 KB) Descending from John
Brookes of Holland who settled in Pennsylvania, then
his son went to Tennessee by 1860 where he married R P
Smith
Carolina 1700s (19 KB) We were both Quakers and
Loyalists
Grandpa Cecil Carter's
ancestors (36
KB) Fenn of Virginia and Stone of Maryland,
all migrating south through the Carolinas during the
War and into Georgia's Land Lottery and then to
Montgomery Alabama where the land was two dollars an
acre. The Fenns were Indian Traders in very early
Georgia, 1700s, and their wives were likely native
americans.
Cherokee Bozeman (3 KB) John married a Cherokee in SC
and moved to MS
DAR Jesse Bozeman (10 KB) Unknown connection but our
Peter named a son Jesse so this could be a brother to
our Peter in Darlington - there was a Jesse living two
doors away from Peter in 1800 Darlington census.
Peter's son was named Jesse M Bozeman and I can only
suppose that M was for Mordecai and then can suppose
it is possible that was also Peter's father's
name.......now go back to the Jesse who served in the
American Revolution and wonder if his middle initial
was also M - could he have really been Peter's father
living so close to him in 1800.............we may
never know.
Bozeman in Choctaw Nation
(4 KB) James Boozman and
Percila White - this name White takes me back to the
mother of Mordecai, thinking what if she were also
indian....we will never know.
Many years ago I began
working on my family tree and soon became quite
addicted! I took the very little bit of information that
my mother knew about her family and began to put the
pieces of the puzzle together. I have no idea why she
never ordered her father's death certificate but when I
did, the information was amazing. 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. This is past Santuck on hwy 9
going down to the flashing caution light and taking a
right turn.
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. The cemetery is
located just off I-65 at the Hope Hull Exit, turn left
and go a few miles to McLean Road and take another
right.
Beverly took me to Hope
Hull and our findings were extremely fascinating and we
took many pictures of Lacy Bozeman's monument, her
fathers, and her husband's, T. R. Carter, all from
Darlington SC.
Then we went to Dublin
to further our reearch of Grandma Alice Lorena
Stephens, and her Bozeman family, and to Elmore
County where Baxley, Holt, Hood and other Thorntons are
buried, 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. Two pages of
this book are about Mordecai, and his sons Peter, John
and James.
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. Ethel wrote her
children a long letter stating that her mother was Alice
Stephens and step mother was Ellen
Bean.
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 father's Cochran
sisters have worked our genealogy for many many years
and shared much information. Dad's mother was
Luella Coonfield and I have traced her lineage quite
thoroughly.
Boseman, Bozman, etc. (27 KB) Most could not read nor write
so the spelling varies through time.
1811 Catherine Weatherford
(52 KB) Item 76 states she is
the daughter of Charles but he is not making her
marriage bond so he must have been in Alabama.
Documents (191 KB) Some old images in my
collection.
Catherine Weatherford Wright's daughter
Catherine (254
KB) Go to Little and see Catherine who married
Hiram Little - She is the daughter of Catherine G.
Weatherford and John Wright. Hiram was a physician and
the son of Jonas, and the grandson of George. Hiram and
Catherine had a son named John who is listed below their
article. John's granddaughter married Frank D. Cochran.
Martha Hill Bozeman in Montgomery
County (39 KB) By
1850 she had settled near the other Hills in Dublin and
some families in Ramer who connected to her vast
lineage.
Grandmother Annie Lee (1 KB) Anna Lou Stone married Fenn and
Carter and Dasher and died around 1933 or 1934. Her
father was born in Macon County AL and moved back to
Macon GA before he died. She followed. The death
certificates of both of her parents are found in the
Georgia Archives and Annie signed as a witness to her
mother's.
Elders of Martha Hill's
husband (23
KB) Study of William Henry Bozeman born 1802
Darlington and their trails into Hope Hull.
Our ancestors met
before the Civil War. They came together in Montgomery
sharing cotton plantations in the fields you now see
when passing throughMontgomery on
I-65. Yet after the war this land was worthless, being
destroyed as Wilsons Raiders burned a path through the
state but these families struggled to revive as much
as they could. I found an old cemetery with some
tombstones dating back to 1793 on this property and
then tried to trace their descendants across town. In
1900 I find them again in downtown Montgomery near the
train station as many others had migrated into our
lineage and they once again worked together. In fact
my mother in law in 1950 had taken in the widow of my
great grandfather when she had no place to go.
My husband's cousin Sue Carol on his mother's side
married one of my mother's Bozeman Cousins and his
father's great grandpa Thomas Carter was once married
to another of our Bozeman Cousins in Hope
Hull. Our families were always close, we
just did not realize how very close. My father
came from Kansas and married my mom in Montgomery in
1951, while he was stationed at Maxwell AFB after
injuries from being shot in the Korean War - his
lineage was partly in Pennsylvania and South Carolina
before migrating into Kentucky and Ohio and then on
into the midwest. Together we have dozens of
grandfathers in the American Revolution and the Civil
War.
Captain Little (450 KB) My dad's GGG grandfather from
Scotland along with several possible brothers, in Union
County South Carolina 1790 and 1800 census but in
Kentucky 1810 after the brother of Mrs. Mary Handley
Douglass Little explored, surveyed and offered them land
in Vienna Kentucky and more along the Green River which
is included in the books History of Kentucky and
mentions these familis and is included in the Kentucky
Genealogy Webpages.
The Captain's great
grandson (144
KB) Military Record 1863 Kentucky Infantry,
then Bullitt County Kentucky and later in Madison
Arkansas. Also John's father was a surgeon in the Civil
War....many of this family served.
1838 Lucy Campbell (173 KB) Sterling Campbell married one
of the daughters of Peter Bozeman in Darlington SC and
followed the families to Montgomery and later bought
land near Talladega.
1829 Vincent Joiner (265 KB) Sarah's X mark - Vincent
married Ellen Bozeman, a daughter of Peter, and later
bought land in South Alabama. Vincent also signed
documents for Peter in 1822 and 1824 as his child Julius
received a gift of land from Grandpa Peter.
Boseman, Bozman,
etc. (27
KB) Most could not read nor write so
the spelling varies through time.
1811 Catherine
Weatherford (52
KB) Item 76 states she is the daughter
of Charles but he is not making her marriage
bond so he must have been in Alabama.
Documents (191 KB) Some old images in my
collection.
Catherine Weatherford Wright's
daughter Catherine (254 KB) Go to Little and see
Catherine who married Hiram Little - She is the
daughter of Catherine G. Weatherford and John
Wright. Hiram was a physician and the son of
Jonas, and the grandson of George. Hiram and
Catherine had a son named John who is listed
below their article. John's granddaughter
married Frank D. Cochran.
Martha Hill Bozeman in Montgomery
County (39
KB) By 1850 she had settled near the
other Hills in Dublin and some families in Ramer
who connected to her vast lineage.
Grandmother Annie
Lee (1
KB) Anna Lou Stone married Fenn and
Carter and Dasher and died around 1933 or 1934.
Her father was born in Macon County AL and moved
back to Macon GA before he died. She followed.
The death certificates of both of her parents
are found in the Georgia Archives and Annie
signed as a witness to her mother's.
Elders of Martha Hill's
husband (23
KB) Study of William Henry Bozeman
born 1802 Darlington and their trails into Hope
Hull.
Cemetery (213 KB) Mt Hebron Primitive
Baptist Church Cemetery is very small. George
Thornton and wife Mary Angeline Partridge graves
are found here.
Grandpa McClain
(62 KB) Emily Alice
McClain's father stands with her brother.
Charles McClain's parents and grandparents spent
many years in Creek Territory.
Cemetery (52 KB) Stokes-Carter Cemetery
has no official name, no Stokes buried here,
mostly Carters and Bozemans. Tombstones being
trampled and damaged by the cattle and falling
trees.
Cecil Carter (230 KB) Anne's father was
born around 1900 - nobody is really certain - at
Thompson Station in Bullock County - born to a
Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his
mother remarried in Macon Georgia. His father
was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from
former Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed
to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in the Army about
1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso.
Found his father living in Montgomery Alabama
and returned about 1931.
Cemetery (865 KB) Cain's Chapel in
Slapout has many Thornton and Hood families from
the early days of Cold Springs, Elmore County,
Alabama
Cecil Carter (15 KB) Anne's father was born
around 1900 - nobody is really certain - at
Thompson Station in Bullock County - born to a
Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his
mother remarried in Macon Georgia. His father
was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from
former Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed
to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in the Army about
1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso.
Found his father living in Montgomery Alabama
and returned about 1931.
Cemetery (308 KB) Dublins' old cemetery
behind Hills Chapel hidden far off into the
woods.
Cecil Carter's brother Frank
Fenn (51
KB) born 1896 at Thompson Station in
Bullock County - died in Coosada on his farm at
Airport Road where the school now sits. His
grave is on that land he had donated to the
church for a cemetery. Frank worked for the
railroad, his wife boiled his dirty clothes in a
pot outside - he was in WWI and hauled POWs on
the train.
Cemetery (97 KB) Dublins'new cemetery
for the public is across the street from the
front of Hills Chapel.
Bill Carter (38 KB) about 1970 - he was
Anne's brother
Cemetery (88 KB) Dublin - old
gravestone being cleaned with water and a brush
John and Annie
Brooks (72
KB) Moved into Montgomery Alabama
after 1900 and their son James married Susie Mae
Cooper. They have a strong lineage into 1800 TN
Cemetery (64 KB) Greenwood in
Montgomery, very large cemetery has graves of
many of the Brooks, Cooper, Bozeman, Fenn
families
Jacob and Clora
Cochran (34
KB) Left Iowa for Kansas Territory
after 1880 with son Frank Delbert Cochran on the
left.
Cemetery (18 KB) Memorial has many of
my relatives' resting places - land donated by
Lorena Bozeman's Uncle Robert Henry Bozeman -
located between Maxwell AFB and Hope Hull and
Pine Level.
Luella Coonfield
(119 KB) Arkansas - she
is in the center of this photo just before she
married Frank Delbert Cochran. She is Cherokee
by blood. Her mother was Lattie Cedonia Little
of Kentucky.
Luella Coonfield's mother was
indian (63
KB) Shepherdsville, Bullitt County,
Kentucky - Lattie Little was born to Mary
Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little.
Cemetery (275 KB) Dublin Old Cemetery
has tiny tombstone markers with no names
Cemetery (78 KB) Dublin Old Cemetery
behind the church - Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman, the Cherokee in grandma's lineage.
Cemetery (1456 KB) Dublin Old Cemetery
behind the church - Peter Edward Bozeman of the
Civil War - the clover design is a separate
layer added to this homemade tombstone with
penciled PEB our father added.
Powhatan (40 KB) Lucius Powhatan Little
was Lattie's cousin in Kentucky - he was a
lawyer, a judge, a writer, and a genealogist.
They all had one common grandmother from
Virginia, Catherine Weatherford.
Cemetery (78 KB) Indian Creek Cemetery
in Georgia where James McClain born 1810 is
buried - the father of Josiah is also the son of
the elder Josiah
Ben Coonfield's
parents (68
KB) Martha Frances Young of Kentucky
married Benjamin Wylie Coonfield in Indiana.
Their hair was so black that it looked blue in
the sunshine.
Cemetery (14 KB) Hill City Cemetery in
Graham Kansas is where my dad's grandparents are
buried
Mary Catherine
Crigler (323
KB) Born in Kentucky to Nancy
Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler, she married
John Little and had Lattie and Sadona in this
picture.
Cemetery (28 KB) Old Harmony Primitive
Church Cemetery has few graves but includes
Elijah Lee born 1777 and his wife Malinda
Phillips who came to Chambers County before 1830
buying land from an old Creek Indian and they
are the great great grandparents of Susie Mae
Cooper Brooks.
Cochrans (106 KB) Chetopa Kansas, the
Cochran family includes Frankie, Freelon and
Darrell
Carter photo (46 KB) T R Carter with his
first wife and family - he is great grandfather
of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
Cochrans (26 KB) Frank Delbert's
brothers and sisters.
Susie Mae Cooper
Brooks (40
KB) grandmother to Charles Wayne
Brooks known as Mamaw. Her mother was Sarah
Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin
Cooper, a son of Charner P. Cooper of Chambers
County.
Anne Carter (28 KB) On the left she stands
by her granny Lorena, and Lorena's daughter
Katie Bell McClain. They raised her after her
mom Alice McClain Carter died. All buried at
Memorial
1900 Grandma
Elizabeth (846
KB) With second husband John L.
Gardener and her son Charles McClain
1850 Elizabeth
Westbrook (764
KB) Back with her parents she must
have been pregnant with George when her husband
died - Westbrook sometimes comes up as
Westbrooks but it could be because of the loopy
penmanship of the census taker.
1900 Grandma Clora
(984 KB) Her parents
were James Madison Miller and Mary Clara Parker
who had settled in Bloomington Illinois before
Iowa where she met my great grandpa Jacob
Land Records (40 KB) George Grauer and his
father in law Mark Porter buying land in Marengo
County and then the daughter of George,
Elizabeth Westbrook buying 160 acres of her own
in 1860 for herself.
1915
Kansas (28 KB) Aunt Ruth Coonfield with
Charles Gray, holding Luella's twins
Cherokee
Mom (16
KB) Annie Lee Carter changed her name to
Anne Alice Carter, because she had no idea that
her grandmother was Annie Lee Stone Fenn Carter
born about 1875, so she chose to use her own
mother's name Alice. Annie Lee Stone might have
been the full blood Cherokee we are searching for.
Of course Annie Lee Stone might have married a
half blood Wm Fenn in 1893 as we see the Cherokee
blood runs strong in his mother's line of Harrell.
Uncle Billy Carter born
1935 (63
KB) Handsome Cherokee son of Cecil Earl
Fenn Carter grew up to be security guard in Enid
Oklahoma
Cherokee Great
Grandparents (12 KB) Grandparents of Frankie
Lavern Cochran left Kentucky for Arkansas,
Benjamin Coonfield and Latte Cedonia Little.
1972
(48 KB) July 14, 1972
Charles and Kathy with Anne and Mary on Kiwanis
Street
Robert Lee Fenn, brother of W F Fenn
Jr (13
KB) Thompson, Bullock County, Alabama
headstone found buried beside his brother,
although Robert never appeared on the census
1977
(47 KB) Charles and Kathy
in friend's wedding
1996
(79 KB) Funeral of Frankie
Cochran December 1996. On Christmas Eve he hugged
Kathy and said I love you more than you will ever
know and at 3 am he was gone. Brother Darrell and
sister Mary Lou shown by Deloris
1820
(482 KB) Charles McClain
and Elizabeth Moon in Spartanburg had son Josiah
who had James who had Josiah Marion McClain who
served in the Civil War and marrie Elizabeth
Broadway who had a son named Charles Allen McClain
in Dublin Alabama
