My parents were Annie Carter and Frankie Cochran and there are many names in their ancestry. I am also researching the ancestors of my husband, Charles Brooks. and saving it all on various webpages. and creating my own internet family webring and searchbox so that any of our relatives can be looked up. There are many free webspace providers online, like Rootsweb.com or angelfire.com therefore I have many links to peruse.

Along with collecting family stories and documents, I am also researching the military records, finding several who served in the Civil War. and several listed in the DAR catalog online.

Now with tons of census records and documents, I am researching their hometowns, trying to learn more about their neighbors and their lifestyle.

When I began working the Sellers lineage of my mother, I found where one of the cousins, Nathaniel Sellers married a Schrimpshire girl and her sister married an Indian Chief Dennis Bushyhead. I have several of those branches !!! In the Sellers case, the Sellers and Andersons already had Indian blood in their line from their grandmothers of North Carolina 1700s. The Scrimpshire father, Martin, had married a Gunter who was full blood Cherokee and they all resided in Guntersville Alabama. One of the Gunters married a McCoy girl but then I found one of my Fenn grandfathers did also!! Mrs Fenn then named a son Travis and he married a girl only known as ?Mary?. which might be another clue.

Then I looked for the parents of Martin Schrimpshire and found his mother was listed online as ?Edith Kona Edna Vann? - lo and behold another famous Cherokee name, which is where I need to study their hometown known as Big Joe Vann?s Spring Place in Georgia.

My own grandfather Cecil Fenn Carter said they were Cherokee and I managed to locate his sister Carrie in Choctaw Nation Oklahoma.  Carrie's husband Ben Johnson was born in Indian Nation, Texas but his mother was an indian from Alabama and his father "denied" her the right to join the Rolls.

Carrie and Cecil had a brother, Frank Jr., who called them "half" siblings so maybe Mr. Carter was the father of them - we will never know !  There are many Carter families online researching their Cherokee blood.  What we do know is that William Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee Alabama married Anna Lou Stone in 1893 and she left him about 1900 to remarry, but she joined her family in Macon Georgia.  Anna's Uncle Charles Stone named his sons Tecumseh and Osceola.

My own transcription of 1840 Montgomery

Captain George Little and Isaac Coonfield were the grandfathers of the Cochrans who had migrated into Kentucky about 1800, but this line also intermarried with the Criglers, Douglass, Handley, Roby, Simmons, Wright, Weatherford, Swearengin, Wells, Clark, Young, Henderson, Sturgeon, Miller, Crawford, Parker, Tefft, White, Sweet, names.

My grandmother was Luella Coonfield Cochran and she was Cherokee by blood from some of those above.

Annie Carter's line includes Fann, Stone, Anderson, Brack, Doty, Stephens, Bozeman, Moon, McClain,Harrell, Sellers, Fenn, Wood, Broadway, Hill, most of whom began in Virginia and migrated south.

The Brooks line includes, Thornton, Hood, Baxley, Partridge, Culpepper, Blackstone, Ballard, Smith, Bond, Craig, Pennington, Baxter, mainly from Georgia and Tennessee.

Charles and Kathy in 1972 and more links Our Family Info and the TREE

Brooks Family and the Family Tree Maker pages 1 and 2 contain many documents.

The book Sketches of Bozeman I have scanned and posted and my research of my Bozemans

My collection of tombstones at Find A Grave.com

Images and Documents and Certificates

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www.accessgenealogy.comHas tons of records, Indian rolls, military and many other free records, biographies and images .

One thing in researching our ancestors, nearly every line was honored to have someone Who served in the American Revolution and then another in the Civil War, as well as Other military services. These records are available on the internet.

Most are able to find one relative on the Trail Of Tears but none of mine yet.  They married whites and lived as white.

Many were lost to diseases, fevers, other epidemics and many were orphaned, had legal guardians, adopted or just took up with another family.

Some famous names were in South Carolina living near my families, Rogers, McQueen, Weatherford, McIntosh, McGillvary, Gist, wasn?t Sequoyah?s father a Guist? There was even a non cousin Cynthia Parker kidnapped in the 1800s by an Indian and she gave birth to the next Indian chief Quannah Parker. Amazing history even with common names. Many of my surnames are found in Indian Nation Oklahoma, just not my direct line.

I did find my grandpa Frank D. Cochran and his wife Luella in 1920 census living near Will Rogers in Chelsea, Rogers County, Oklahoma, near many other Coonfields who did marry Indians. Will Rogers became a famous actor and Indian chief. His father Clement had come from South Carolina into Tennessee. Great reading. My parents were living in Broken Arrow on Mingo Road in Tulsa Oklahoma when I was born. Mother was tracing her roots even back then. Her brother Billy Carter loved Indian Country and remained in Enid Oklahoma for many years.

There were several Rogers families around my Bozemans in South Carolina who migrated to Alabama in the 1820s, while Alabama was still a wilderness full of beasts and several Indian tribes.

Usgenweb.com has each state listed and offers a ton of old stuff to read and study and of course the census records online at ancestry or heritage quest help locate the families, with dates and ages, and place of birth, but then you get to see their neighbors and often times, the neighbors were family members.

When I found George Little in Kentucky, two of his sons lived by him, two of his married daughters, then his in laws and as each decade passed, there were many more to find near them who had also intermarried into the lineage.

He was born 1733...age 21 when he came to America ( 1754 ) married and then 10 children.....was in war 1776 at age 43 for two years in the Third Regiment of the Colonial Army..was Sargent, Lieutenant, then Captain until Tarleton's men shot him in the hip causing disability......on 1790 census with 10 others in household...

His son Jonas Little married Betsy Douglass and then George married Betsy?s widowed mother, Mary Handley Douglass. Jonas named a son Douglass Little and one Hiram Little, then having several other children all born in Kentucky around 1820. The Wright sisters came along and married

Hiram and Douglass. The mother of the Wright girls was Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Charles Weatherford, born in Charlotte Virginia to Mary Half Blood. Of all the many Weatherfords I have researched during that era, he is the only one I have found who could have moved to Alabama and married Sehoy. The father of Charles was Martin Weatherford , a wealthy planter who surely made his mark in history, being banned from the state of Georgia and fled to the Bahamas. The son of Charles was William Weatherford, or Chief Red Eagle, and those Creek Indians were all over south Alabama, but then I found many other of my relatives around south Alabama and wonder, was there Creek blood in my line?  Why were so many of our ancestors moving into the indian nation.

Grandpa William Fenn was born in Tuskegee Alabama, former Creek Nation. His wife Anna Stone was also born in Macon County , former Creek Nation, but their son said he was Cherokee. When the parents and grandparents of the Fenns and Stones are studied in early Georgia around 1700s, they were among Creek and Cherokee. William told his children that the baby, Cecil ( my grandfather ) was only their ?half? sibling. Anna divorced William and moved back to Macon Georgia and married a Carter - Cecil used that name and never used the Fenn name, even though he visited them often.

William had managed his cousin?s Fenn Plantation in Eufaula for many years and many slaves and Indians had worked the crops - perhaps one was the Carter man? This we will never know. Barbour County history mentions the plantation owner Matthew Fenn who had left Georgia and bought up hundreds of acres of land in Alabama.

Cecil was said to have been a mean husband to my granny Alice McClain, that he would get drunk and beat her, causing her death, once she delivered her third child. Then he drank himself to death only a few years after. The children were raised by the McClains and probably never met the Fenns until they had grown to adulthood. They had a very poor difficult life and were teased and taunted about being Indians.

When I began interviewing people about the McClains and Bozemans of Ramer I found that the Bozeman men were also rough with their women. Lorena?s father married 4 times but only two had children with him. One left him soon after the marriage. They were cotton farmers and also had a poor life, with very little education. It is said that the Bozeman ancestors who had settled in Hope Hull lost everything due to the Civil War.

Anne Alice Carter married Frankie Lavern Cochran in 1951 and was blessed to have such a good honest hard working man. His mother was Luella Coonfield Cochran and she told her children that she was ? Cherokee blood. Her mother was Lattie Little who had married Ben Coonfield in Arkansas and granny Lattie said they had mixed blood from another tribe as well.

On one census record about 1910 Lattie?s grandfather Abraham Crigler is living with them - he had become widowed in Kentucky when his wife Catherine Roby passed away. Lattie?s father John Wright Little had made that same move several years prior, when his wife, Catherine Crigler died.

Family lore has it that John was offered a land allotment in Oklahoma?s Indian Territory and he refused it. He was a blacksmith in the Civil War and I have his military records. John is now buried on some unknown mountain top in Arkansas.

Starting my husband?s genealogy, I found my cousin Wayne Bozeman married to Charlie?s cousin Sue Carol - her mother was a Thornton and told her kids that their granny Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton was an Indian out of Georgia, who settled into Central, Elmore County, Alabama. They lived at Cold Springs. When you visit Central, you find Lake Martin and Kowaliga, where the old wooden indian stands by the restaurant near the open church in the pines, a beautiful area.

I found their great grandpa Brooks married in Tennessee to Annie Clark Ballard. Annie had only one child, James, who married Mamaw - Susie Mae Cooper. Susie?s grandfather was Thomas R Carter of South Carolina, born 1820, and his first wife was a Bozeman. Thomas had bought a small piece of land from my Bozeman grandfather at Hope Hull off McLean Road. That farm was once 160 acre cotton plantation owned by American Revolution Patriot Peter Bozeman born 1755 North Carolina, who was in Darlington South Carolina 1800 where he was given a few hundred acres for his service in the war. Peter and several other families had moved to Hope Hull so the census of 1830 Alabama resembles the 1820 census of Darlington.

They had Alabama Fever!

The land of cotton, corn and faith.

There are many books I have found to include my ancestors and surely there are many more to be discovered.  Some pages are scanned and placed in my webpages to verify their place in time.

http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/o/c/Lorena-Cochran/

http://www.genealogy.com/users/t/r/e/Family-Tree-Alabama/

http://www.genealogy.com/users/k/c/2/Kc2744-Kc2744/ Military Notes

My daughter's Marriage into the Westbrook family, now there are many new names to study like Grauer, Glass, Holt, Braswell, Penton, Jones, Holly. Daddy, Charles Brooks had dozens and dozens of ancestors migrating into Alabama in the early 1800s. Joseph Baxley born 1815 Georgia or possibly as some speculate, in SC., married Mary Evans and named a son James H. - the tombstone of James has the middle name as Hardie. James served in the Civil War and married Louisa Miranda Holt and resided in "Holtville". Their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley married L. W. Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood who married Milton Elijah Thornton. Elijah's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge, an indian, and George Thornton, a mixed blood from Georgia, who had settled in Central, Elmore County, Alabama. Elijah's daughter, Mary Ella Thornton married James Edgar Brooks Jr. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E Brooks Sr. James and Susie are listed on the 1930 census with both their widowed mothers. Susie's ancestors were in Chambers County about 1830: Andrew Cooper and "Alsey" from SC living near Malinda Phillips and Elijah Lee born 1777 SC. Their children Sarah F. Lee married Charner P. Cooper, a soldier from the Civil War, and had a son named Levi who moved to Hope Hull working on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter, where he fell in love with the daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Carter. Parents of Thomas were "Mary" and John Wise Carter of SC who had migrated to Talledega. Thomas is buried in Hope Hull on his old plantation by his first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman. Her name was Lucy on census but Lacy on her tombstone. Thomas served in the Civil War and his grandfather Captain John Carter served in the American Revolution, along with his own father in law, John Wise of South Carolina....The second wife of Thomas Carter was Mary Josephine Hereferd of Virginia and she was the mother of Sarah Elizabeth Carter...Mary was not very happy with this marriage and had only the one child. She buried Thomas by his first wife. Some of Mary's family settled in Alabama and some moved on to Texas. Mary's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia..Parents of James Brooks were Annie Ballard and John Brooks of Tennesse and they are all buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. John was a railroad man, born to Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and a John Brooks born 1837 Pennsylvania. John 1837 died of tuberculosis in Texas. Parents of Roxanna were Caroline Bond and Thomas Smith. Parents of Annie Ballard were Dora Craig and James Ballard of TN. Some of these families migrated into Tennessee about 1800 from the Carolinas living amongst the Cherokee Indians and Chickasaw so they could have been mixed blood. Annie's picture shows she was a dark lady with black eyes and black hair and so was her husband's features very dark but I would suspect his from the Smith side of the family....

Anne Carter 's Grandpa's Death Certificate (458 KB) Montgomery Alabama 1922 death certificate of William Franklin Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee, Macon County Alabama, former Creek Indian Nation to Emeline Harrell and John Fenn of Georgia - John had served in the Civil War and moved his family to Alabama in the 1860s. Anne Carter 's Uncle Frank Fenn (18 KB) Her daddy's brother born 1895 resided in Coosada, had a farm on Airport Road, a family cemetery and the Church Cemetery he donated, and later his land became Coosada Elementary School. Frank served in WWI and worked for the railroad and he was the father of Bob Fenn, the principal of Robinson Springs School around 1987. Frank's tombstone is next to his brother Robert's in their family graveplot. Robert never appeared on a census record but was known as Uncle Lee. Franks' features are very much like those of Billy Carter and of Mark Carter. Anne Carter and Frank Cochran (54 KB) 1953 by the cactus in Arizona - They married in 1951 and moved to Tulsa Oklahoma for a while, then to Arizona, and then back through Mena Arkansas and Chetopa Kansas before returning to Alabama. Frank Cochran (212 KB) Family photo about 1937 with Frank on the left Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton (300 KB) Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County Alabama and the granny of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks. Frank Cochran and Son Frank Jr and son (30 KB) Family in Montgomery about 1993 Minnie Lee Gibson (83 KB) Daughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman's daughter Ruby Gibson - Minnie's daughter contacted me and sent the picture; please do write again. It has been such a joy hearing from my new found cousins. Frank Cochran's father as a child with Jacob (108 KB) Family in Kansas - "Pop" Frank Delbert Cochran was a handsome little lad with much resemblence to the pictures of his many grandsons, born to parents Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran - both had become widowed in Iowa 1870s and married there before migrating to Hill City of Graham County Kansas in 1882 . Sam Little (984 KB) Uncle Sam was the son of John Wright Little and a brother to Lattie. Lattie told her children stories of their Indian Heritage while Uncle Sam would deny them all - he didn't want to be indian. Frank Cochran's mother Luella (119 KB) Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. Lattie was born in Kentucky and Ben's family had been born in Indiana both with ancestors mentioned in those states' history books . John T. Bozeman (3 KB) Son of Peter and Nancy, married Alice Stephens, having Ethel Mae and Lorena Emma Bozeman, this photo may have been taken around 1890. John is buried at Hills Chapel Cemetery in front of the church at Dublin beside his brother Peter James, who died of suicide. Frank Cochran's mother Luella's MOM Lattie (63 KB) Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. This picture of Lattie shows her indian features quite nicely. Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War. Home (105 KB) kids Frank Cochran's great grandmother Crigler (323 KB) Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War. This picture of Lattie as a small child with her sister Sadonia and their mother Catherine Crigler of Kentucky. Catherine was the daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler who were of Mixed Blood. Home (131 KB) kids Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W. Little (479 KB) John Wright Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in 1811. Home (45 KB) Westbrook Surnames: Grauer, Braswell, Glass, Holley, Penton, Jones, Johnson, and more. cousin (128 KB) Mark cousin (15 KB) Brad Tombstone of Elijah Lee (28 KB) One of the many grandfathers of Charles Brooks was born in 1777 SC and settled in Chambers County Alabama by 1830 is buried beside his wife and his son at Old Harmony Church. Elijah's daughter Sarah Lee married her neighbor Charner P . Cooper, a Civil War soldier and had a son named Levi Benjamin Cooper who settled in Hope Hull on T. R. Carter's plantation as a laborer and then married Carter's daughter. Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W. Little (26 KB) John Wright Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in 1811. This picture of John as he got older and grey. John W. Little's cousin Lucius Powhatan Little (40 KB) John Wright Little's mother had a sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky History books. Lucius Powhatan Little's Mother (33 KB) John Wright Little's mother had a sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky History books. This picture of Martha Wright is all we have of that lineage, lovely lady with indian features died of euthanasia according to old records of LP and his daughter Laura. John Wright Little Family Photo (39 KB) About 1900 he moved them all to Marble, Arkansas after his wife died and appeared on the 1900 and 1910 census Baxley, James H. (483 KB) One of the many grandfathers of Charles Brooks, served in the Civil War and had a farm in Holtville, Elmore County. Much information of Grandpa Baxley was sent by cousin Glenda, a new found email pal with extensive Baxley family research. Kathy Cochran wed Charles W. Brooks (33 KB) Photo taken about 1995 before he got sick with colon cancer. Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr Charles W. Brooks' parents (6 KB) Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr - Parents of Mary Ella were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E. Brooks. Susie Mae Cooper's dad (50 KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama. Susie Mae Cooper (40 KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama. Sarah Lee's father was Elijah Lee born 1777 South Carolina and had served in the War of 1812, then married in Georgia to Malinda Phillips, settled in Chambers County upon land purchased directly from a Creek Indian and they are buried there - tombstones found at the Old Harmony Church beside their son James Lee who died in the Civil War..... This picture of Susie Mae with her spouse James E. Brooks. Susie Mae Cooper with her mother Sarah (68 KB) Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Sarah was the daughter of Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia and Thomas Randolph Carter of SC who had settled in Hope Hull. Thomas served in the Civil War and it is written that he furnished his own horse and it is written that he spent time in a Virginia Hospital during a sickness and one can only wonder if that is where he met the beautiful Mary Hereferd because her entire family soon moved into Montgomery Alabama. Susie Mae Cooper 's granny (58 KB) Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. Mary's parents were Jemima Ramsey and John Herriford of Virginia, all migrated to Alabama. Grandpa Stone (90 KB) Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter - parents of Augustus were Sarah Davies and Benjamin Wilburne Stone but census transcribers listed him as Stowe......all born in Georgia they are found in 1850 Macon Alabama and the father of Benjamin resided beside him named Michael Stone born in Maryland 1700s. Grandma Stone (88 KB) Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter and his wife was Mary Ann Hendrick of Georgia - her father was Christopher Columbus Hendrick, who moved on from Alabama into Texas after his daughter left home. Annie (440 KB) Annie Carter was named after her grandmother Anna Lou Stone. Annie was Kathy's mother. Annie had open heart surgery in 1980 just weeks before Beverly was born but managed to walk into that hospital to hold her first grand daughter with amazing strength and pride in her family. Grandpa Charles McClain (1888 KB) Death Certificate - his daughter Alice married Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, the son of Anna Stone. Charlie raised the children of Alice and Cecil when they died by 1939. Charlie was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Census records show the date of birth of Charlie was 1886 and all other records seem to differ because his wife was not very educated. Few could read or write back then. His funeral memorial booklet shows the names of his parents, wife, and many children. Served in WWI but has no headstone on his grave at Dublin Church of Christ. Grandpa had lazy eye but none of the children inherited it. Susie Mae Cooper 's grandfather (35 KB) Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. This picture of Thomas shows his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their family before the epidemic. When Thomas died, Mary had him buried near Lacy and their children and Mary never married again and never had any more children. William Marion McClain (1713 KB) Charlie's cousin by his father's first marriage. They all connect to Josiah Marion McClain born 1838. Josiah was first married to Julia America King in Georgia who bore him several children - Josiah served in the Civil War, injured at the Battle of Franklin TN and apparently sent back to Alabama to recover but obviously forgot about his family and remarried. Julia filed for divorce for dessertion in 1872 and tried to apply into the Cherokee Nation Rolls. His second wife Elizabeth filed for a Widows Pension in 1897. James Brooks' mother (72 KB) Annie Clark Ballard of Tennessee married John E Brooks and had only one son named James. This beautiful Annie's parents were Dora Craig and James Ballard of Tennessee early 1800s history. Charles McClain's wife Lorena Bozeman (11 KB) Not sure who posted her as his mother on his death certificate. Lorena was the daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman of the Dublin/ Ramer area in Montgomery County and she had indian blood. Cemetery at Hope Hull (1 KB) Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge pasture on the right. Lorena's sister Ethel Mae Bozeman (91 KB) with husband Jace Gibson who was also first cousin to Charlie McClain because their own mothers were sisters ( Broadway ) Ruby on horse - Ruby was mother of Elizabeth who we met in Dublin at the Hills Chapel Church. Ethel's children and grandchildren are still living in that Dublin/ Ramer area and can lead you to much of their heritage. Cemetery at Hope Hull (21 KB) Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge pasture on the right. Clopton Gibson (184 KB) Ethel's father in law came from South Carolina Tombstone of Jesse Bozeman, father of Lacy Carter (264 KB) states he was born 1793 and a tree separates him from one of his wive's graves. He came from Darlington South Carolina with his father Peter who had served in the American Revolution and their many families to settle in Hope Hull in 1826. Jesse bought 160 acres in 1827 while his father wrote letters found at the Probate Office where he expected free land for his military service. Peter died in 1829 and is buried closeby one would expect - his grave is not yet found. Jesse is buried near his daughter Lacy's very large monument and his son James Freeman Bozeman who died in the Civil War, and many of Lacy's children. 1920 Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter Dasher in Macon GA (133 KB) Apparently she is now widowed and taking care of her mother - Cecil was in Fort Bliss in the Army. Tombstone of Peter Edward Bozeman (1350 KB) Son of Martha Hill and William Henry Bozeman of Darlington SC who also settled in Hope Hull.....William was born about 1802 a son of Peter and brother of Jesse. Wm's son Peter Edward was married to Nancy Jane Anderson and he served in the Civil War and she got his pension - papers at Probate Office - Nancy had son named John Thomas Bozeman who married Alice Lorena Stephens. This tombstone is found in Dublin behind the Hills Chapel Church while his son John is buried in front of the church. James H Baxley (871 KB) Tombstone - Civil War Soldier - married Louisa Holt and had Ella Olivia Baxley who married L W Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood. His father Joseph Baxley was born about 1815 in Georgia and was married to Mary Evans, in 1841 Chambers County Alabama, - all found in 1850 Macon County Alabama but in 1860 were back in Muskogee Georgia Tombstone Ella Olivia Baxley Hood (94 KB) Mother of Bessie Mae - Ella was daughter of James Baxley in Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama Tombstone L. W. Hood (58 KB) Cains Chapel Cemetery at Slapout - father of Bessie Mae Hood Thornton......L. W. was called Wesley. Tombstone Bessie Mae Hood Thornton (34 KB) Cains Chapel Cemetery at Slapout - mother of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks was nicknamed Bubber. Bessie was married to Milton Elijah Thornton and Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L. W. Hood. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton of 1800s Georgia who had settled in Cold Springs, Elmore. 1830 Alabama Creek Nation (38 KB) The Indian Territory that our ancestors traveled through in 1830 1870 Uncle William Stone (384 KB) Tallapoosa County Alabama Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman (78 KB) Dublin burial, mother of Lorena McClain 1930 James Brooks (1512 KB) Montgomery Alabama - wife Susie Mae Cooper. Susie bore him a son James Jr. and called him Bubba. Anne Carter Cochran (18 KB) Married to Frank Cochran, she had Kathy in Broken Arrow Oklahoma and then they moved to Mesa Arizona where her sons were born Beverly at Coosa River (816 KB) Surveying the Cemetery where the Baxleys are buried Anne Carter Cochran (59 KB) Birth Announcement from Montgomery Advertiser Holt - Baxley (794 KB) Louisa Miranda Holt born 1847 was granny to "Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton and great great granny of Charles W. Brooks Anne Carter Cochran's Daddy was Cherokee (25 KB) Cecil Earl Fenn Carter born 1900 Cemetery Survey (213 KB) Beverly photographs tombstones of her great great grandparents tombstones, Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton, the parent of Milton Elijah Thornton near Santuck, in Central at the Mount Hebron Primitive Baptist Church. Anne Carter Cochran's Mother was mixed blood (19 KB) Alice Emily McClain Carter, daughter of Lorena Bozeman and Charles Allen McClain Clora Jane Miller (102 KB) Frank Cochran's granny was married to Jacob Cochran and named a son Frank Delbert Cochran. When Jacob died the widow made her rounds, spending a few months with each of her grown children's families. She smoked a pipe, read the ashes and taught them to pop corn. her ancestors of Ireland had settled in Rockinham Virginia where we find Rev. Alexander Miller of the 1700s buried at Cooks Creek Cemetery. Clora's mother was Mary Clara Parker of Ohio, who some say made medicine with the indians, born to Sara Tefft and Archelaus Parker of the New York Indian County. Tefft has a wonderful 1600s history in Rhode Island, where one of the Uncles was hanged by King Phillip. Anne Carter and Frank Cochran (60 KB) Montgomery Alabama about 1950 Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman tombstone (29 KB) Widow of Peter Edward Bozeman, is buried by two of her sons in this family plot, not far from the Brooks and Coopers and Fenns who are also buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. Anne Carter 's Daddy's Death Certificate (230 KB) Montgomery Alabama 1939 death certificate confirms his parents to be Ann Stone and Wm Frank Fenn as witnessed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn Walton McClain (35 KB) with Charlie McClain on the farm in Ramer about 1930 - Walton joined the military for most of his life and earned his PHD. buried at Alexandria VA Frank Delbert Cochran (50 KB) Son of Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran served in WWI while Jacob was a Civil War soldier of the Ohio Infantry. Uncle Cecil Earl Carter born 1932 (33 KB) Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter was the father of Victoria Carter, all buried at Memorial Cemetery except Vickie who was cremated by her half sisters. Uncle William Lawrence Carter born 1935 (25 KB) Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter he was the brother of Anne and Cecil Jr. Alice died giving birth to "Billy". Billy spent most of his life in Indian Territory Oklahoma. Anne Carter and Frank Cochran in Arizona 1957 (447 KB) Pictures taken by Billy Carter, Anne's brother, accompanied by Lillian, Billy's first wife.

• Peter Edward Bozeman (16 KB)
  grandfather of Lorena Emma Bozeman McClain and he was the great great great grandfather of Kathy.
• Family Tree (8 KB)
  Charlie Brooks family on Rootsweb.com
• Letter by Ethel Bozeman Gibson (9 KB)
  Her life as told to her children
• Peter Edward Bozeman (1 KB)
  Beverly took me to Dublin to locate these tombstones - grandfather of Lorena Emma Bozeman McClain and he was the great great great grandfather of Kathy.
• 1910 Charles McClain (6 KB)
  Kathy's great grandfather on census with his mother, stepfather, his own wife Lorena and baby
• Baxley to Charles Brooks (11 KB)
  Coosa River Cemetery
• Peter Edward Bozeman's Uncle Jesse - Hope Hull (47 KB)
  Beverly took me to Hope Hull to locate these tombstones - plus we found the grave of T R Carter, a great great grandfather to Charlie Brooks. Carter's daughter Sarah married Levi Cooper, the son of Charner Cooper.
• 1920 Charles McClain (61 KB)
  Kathy's great grandfather on census in World War I
• Anderson, Seaborn Montgomery, father of Nancy (16 KB)
  Nancy Jane Anderson married Peter Edward Bozeman in Dublin and they had John Thomas Bozeman who fathered Lorena.
• John Wise Carter's land records (51 KB)
  Father of Thomas Randolph Carter came from South Carolina to Alabama.
• Alabama Research (28 KB)
  So many ended up in Alabama
• Mordecai Bozeman, father of Peter, John, James. (5 KB)
  Mordecai served in the American Revolution with sons Peter and John. Peter moved to Alabama about 1826 while John moved to Mississippi in 1823. James remained in Darlington County SC.
• T R Carter (9 KB)
  Born 1820 served in Civil War, married Jesse's daughter Lacy Bozeman who died in an epidemic then married to Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia, and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter
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• Related articles (831 KB)
  Interesting Reading.
• Civil War Kin (32 KB)
  Several relatives in the war
• Baxley, James H. buried at Coosa River (11 KB)
  Charlie's mom's great grandfather
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• Kathy's mom's great great great grandpa Bozeman (5 KB)
  Mordecai Bozeman served in the American Revolution = father of Peter Bozeman who migrated to Hope Hull who also served along with him in the War - they were paid for their services and received land grants in Darlington County South Carolina.
• Much about my relatives (45 KB)
  Kathy's parents and their relations
• Kathy's mom's great great Grandpa Josiah McClain (70 KB)
  Josiah Marion McClain was born in Georgia to Anna and James McClain. Josiah married first to Julia King and had a family in Georgia, then he joined the Civil War in an Alabama Infantry and was with Elizabeth Broadway by 1870 having a son named Charles Allen McClain. Charles and his wife Lorena had a daughter named Alice McClain who married Cecil Carter.
• Census images (26 KB)
  My kin found on census records in 1790, 1800, 1810 and other good stuff
• Genealogy (22 KB)
  Research
• Charner P Cooper (1 KB)
  grandfather of Susie Mae "Mamaw" Cooper Brooks - Charner served in the Civil War and married Sarah F Lee of Chambers County.
• Brooks Family (610 KB)
  Our Relatives

• Brooks Genealogy
• Documents
• Preserving Our Past
• Uncle Freelon Lorraine Cochran
• Search the South Carolina Archives and Military Records
• Grandmas Fenn, Stone, Rich, Hendrick, Winters, Lyle
• Grandmother Annie Lee Stone Fenn was named Anna Lou
• Brooks Ancestry
• Several listed in the 1700s Wills of Virginia
• Tribalpages
• Montgomery Area Families
• Our Family Jewels
• Colonial Documents and Land Records
• Visit to Coosa River Primitive Baptist - Grandpa Baxley 1846
• My Colonial Records and 1700s documents
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• Bacley, Holt, Hood, Thornton to the Brooks families
• Mary Ella's great grandfather Baxley in Holtville 1800s
• Kathy's great granny Lorena Bozeman McClain research
• 2005
• Kids
• My Parents
• Contents
• Photo of my Anne and Frank Cochran
• Greetings
• About Lorena
• Census Notes
• FTM Alabama Connections
• Next
• Graveyards and tombstones
• Grandfather George Little with ten children listed.
• Some census data
• Grandfather Anderson and sons
• In Memory Of
• Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook in 1850
• Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook in 1870 married to Lawson
• Data
• Tree
• Info
• Mothers
• Moses and Martha Westbrook in Marengo County had James
• Southern Roots in the Bible Belt of the South
• The Cochran Site
• Aunt Ellen Bozeman Joiner
• Tombstone of Isaac Coonfield in Arkansas, father of Benjamin
• Charles Brooks
• Some American Indian Stories
• God's Most Perfect Gift
• Family History Album
• Mom from Broken Arrow
• Names
• Files

My Cochran Clan of Scotland settled in Pennsylvania in the 1700s and had something to do with Cochranville PA, appearing as merchants on the census. Quakers and or Pennsylvania Dutch, they moved into Ohio by 1810, then Iowa and on to Hill City, Kansas where Grandpa Jacob Cochran became the first HomeSteader. Captain George Little of Scotland born 1735 was in Union South Carolina and served in the American Revolution, settling into Kentucky about 1802 with his second wife Mary Handley Douglass. Here his children met up with the Criglers, Carpenters, Roby, Simmons, Wells families. The Coonfields of Holland were in PA in the 1700s and Isaac born about 1760 was in the 1800 Kentucky Tax List. His great grandson Ben Coonfield married Lattie Little. Their daughter Luella married Frank D Cochran. Our grandfather Captain George Little was wounded during the Revolution, therefore exempt from any poll or tax list. Some of the Coonfields and Cochrans were in Iowa Territory in the 1800s and Isaac Coonfield Jr. had settled in Indiana.
In Virginia 1600s is found Bozeman, McClain, Moon, Fann, Stone and 1700s North and South Carolina, are my Andersons, Brack,Doty, Sellers, Stephens ancestors who all eventually migrated into Georgia and Alabama, many listed in the DAR soldiers and patriots listing online. Much has been written about William Benjamin Sellers and John Stephens; The Doty family came from the first Thanksgiving in America, including our Edward Doty.
The capital city of Montgomery attracted most who were moving into Alabama. They farmed cotton and hauled by horse and wagon to Dexter Avenue to sell it. Those in Ramer or Dublin had a very hard time on the nasty dirt roads with their wagons getting stuck, that they found it much closer, to just travel to Troy and sell their crops.
Cousin Clarence deserves much credit for his work on the Brooks family tree. Our Hans Brooke came from Holland with a french wife and settled in Pennsylvania, having four children. Son John was found on the 1860 census of Giles Tennessee where he married and began a family but he also died young of tuberculosis and his wife remarried.
Even though we all studied history as children, only now do I realize how harshly the epidemics harmed our families. There were very few doctors, and even less money to pay them, so most families made their own tonics or salves and tried to heal their own. Also we begin to realize that our own ancestors were the indians who lost their lands during the Trail or Tears and that we also had ancestors serving in the American Revolution. We had ancestors in the Civil War with some in the Union and some in the Confederacy. There is a documented soldier or patiot in most of my surnames of this lineage.
Years ago when I first started this family tree, I downloaded a Cochran file online and thanks to Richard for his hard work on my Dad's lineage and the rest is my own labor of love. I took what Richard had posted on rootsweb and began my own census search to verify each family in the line and found even more to add, especially the Jacob Cochran file I received from cousin Chuck. Soon my little family tree became an addiction to genealogy.
I have met many new cousins on the internet and shared stories and pictures. Much of my research has been found on usgenweb and the lds websites and I do thank my Bozeman cousins for meeting with me on 5/2/2007 and helping us find the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman. I have visited many cemeteries and ordered death certificates to prove my lineage.Elisha Anderson's will was probated in Montgomery 1834, Several marriage licenses and estate sales, even confederate applications. The first Peter Bozeman born 1758 has letters filed here in 1828 where he wrote to the revolutionary office.
Many books have been written about our families and my own book sits on my desk and is being added to each day but will never be published.