Researching one's family tree is a long process and and only the ones close to your heart and in your life can be verified in the beginning.
Browsing through the many other family trees on the internet we can find thousands of new cousins, and thankfully there are many census records, cemetery records, etc. available to verify those.
Some may not be verified and need further research. I have ordered a few death certificates, browsed through boxes of our old family photos with names and dates on them, cards, letters, and notebooks, to put this together, yet am quite certain there are still many corrections and additions to come.
Dozens of new cousins have emailed me with some detail about their connection to my lineage and it's been wonderful getting to know you all. Some want me to show them their indian blood which is impossible, I only know my own. I know that my dad was one quarter Cherokee and his sister calls her son Regal Eagle and my mom's great great grandpa Stephens married a full blood Cherokee in SC before his journey to the Dublin / Ramer area where I have visited a few times to do my research. Her great great grandmother Nancy Anderson has two grandmothers from Cherokee blood and maybe more.
Both of my parents had Cherokee blood but it is highly possible there was some other native american blood in their lineage. Many of my mother's ancestors lived among the Creeks in the 1700s and my father's lineage was in Kentucky 1800 where many tribes had migrated, yet soon after, they all began to migrate to Iowa Territory and Indiana, ending up in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
it's been said that my dad's great grandfather John Wright Little refused an indian land allotment however he did uproot his family from their Kentucky roots to migrate to a homestead in Arkansas and his descendants ended up in Alabama.
When I was looking into my husband's line I was told that his mom's grandmother Partridge was an indian from Georgia and I did find her families on census there before they all moved into Elmore County.
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- Cherokee Children (53 KB)
2005
- 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.
- 1956-1957 (447 KB)
Great grand-daughter of Charles Allen McClain
- Obituary Teegardin (177 KB)
Frank's cousin Dorline Gray Teegardin
- Emma Lorena Bozeman McClain (7 KB)
Ramer Alabama
Her Cherokee mother was Emma Alice Lorena Stephens
- Obituary Cochran (62 KB)
Frank's sister Mary Lou
- Wm Franklin Fenn Jr b 1896 (10 KB)
Thompson, Bullock County, Alabama
- Uncle Sam and Nancy Little (10 KB)
Luella's Uncle
- Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, brother of W F Fenn Jr (13 KB)
Thompson, Bullock County, Alabama
born 1899 or 1900 died 1939
- 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
- Emma Alice McClain Carter, wife of Cecil (2 KB)
Ramer Alabama, daughter of Lorena Bozeman McClain
- 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
- William Lawrence Carter, son of Cecil & Alice (16 KB)
Montgomery Alabama
- Bubber - Bessie Mae Hood Thornton (114 KB)
second photo is her daughter Mary Ella Thornton Brooks with her children
- Uncle Emmett Fenn Obit 1959 (21 KB)
Grandpa Cecil's brother
- Cherokee Stephens Family (170 KB)
Montgomery Alabama, from NC
- Charles Allen McClain wed Lorena Bozeman 1908 (17 KB)
Ramer Alabama
- Stephens, W E (72 KB)
Ramer Alabama
- Sam (121 KB)
riding horses
- McClains, Charles and son Walton (25 KB)
Ramer Alabama
- 1980 (295 KB)
Frank Cochran at Shriners Construction Site
- OOTCHA Annie Broadway (49 KB)
Ramer Alabama
- 1850 (380 KB)
Michael Stone in Macon County Alabama, Anna Stone Fenn's great grandfather came from Maryland
- FENN, Virginia Leigh, daughter of WF Fenn JR (4 KB)
Bullock Alabama
- 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
- Carter, Mark b 1950 (5 KB)
NC, son of Cecil Carter Jr
- 1860 (472 KB)
Elizabeth Broadway with parents Mary S. Stephens and Abner Broadway may have been Creek Indian Blood
- 1956 Dad (30 KB)
Living in Mesa Arizona, one of my dad's receipts for pay at his job.
- 1850 (683 KB)
Joe Stephens age 4 served in the Civil War and had a daughter named Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman - Grandfather Joseph later bought land near Talladega in his elder years, while many of his Stephens relatives migrated into Florida and Panama.
- 1957 Arizona (23 KB)
Living in Mesa Arizona, Uncle Billy took this picture of my family and his first wife Lillian.
- 2000 (31 KB)
Kathy
- 1959 Alabama (20 KB)
Easter Sunday with Roscoe and Katy Coley's grandson, Mike Carr - Kathy, Jr. Vic
- Mary and James Brooks about 1975. (67 KB)
Acapulco Vacation awarded to the John Deere employees. James's sister Christine Brooks Bridges attended.
- Carter (33 KB)
Victoria, daughter of Cecil Jr. Vickie was the half sister of Bradford Earl, Cecil Mark, Mike, and Jeffrey Earl. Cecil had married several times.
- Surveying Greenwood Cemetery (55 KB)
Fenn family plot owned by Orr is quite a mystery that surely some of the relatives can resolve. Perhaps Bob Fenn knows since he had Uncle Emmett buried there.
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