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My
genealogy has led me to many new places, meeting many new
faces, and taking me on a long journey through time; a
worthwhile journey that I hope my children will someday
treasure.
My Mother: Anne Alice Carter born
1934
My Father: Frankie Lavern Cochran born
1927
My Spouse: Charles Wayne Brooks born
1953
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James Edgar BROOKS
Sex: M
Birth: 1925 in Montgomery,
Alabama
Death: JAN 1992 in
Prattville Cemetery
Father:
James Edgar
BROOKS b: 1895 in he
was their only child, was in WWI , was born in TN
Mother: Susie Mae
COOPER b: 12 DEC 1902
in Alabama
Marriage 1 Mary Ella
THORNTON b: 1 MAR
1927 in Montgomery, Alabama
Children
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Kathy
Ahnentafel, Generation No.
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Anne Alice
CARTER was born
14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama, and died
27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL .... She was buried in
Memorial Cemetery. She was Cherokee by blood. She
was the daughter of 6. Cecil Earl Fenn
CARTER and 7. Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN. |
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Children of Anne Alice CARTER
and Frankie Lavern COCHRAN are:
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i. |
Living
LORENA.
She married Charles Wayne
BROOKS,
son of James Edgar BROOKS and Mary Ella THORNTON.
He was born 1 JUL 1953 in Montgomery, Alabama, and
died 1 JUN 1998 in Brookside Cemetery.. Kathy has
three children and two
grands. |
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ii. |
Living
COCHRAN.
He married Living
WARD,
daughter of Living WARD and Virginia Marie
HENDERSON. Frankie Jr has three children and
several grands. Jr. looks a lot like Grandpa Ben
Coonfield. |
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iii. |
Victor Daniel
COCHRAN
was born 20 OCT 1957 in Mesa, Maricopa County, Az,
and died 17 JUL 2007 in VA Hospital, Birmingham,
AL, burial at Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery
Alabama. He married Living
DEAVERS and had only one
child. |
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iv. |
Living
COCHRAN.
She married Larry
FULLER,
son of John Edward FULLER and Hazel Elizabeth
RICHARDS. He was born 28 FEB 1952 in Jefferson
County, Alabama, and died 4 OCT 2008 in Montgomery
Alabama. Pam now resides in our parents'
home where Dad's family used to come visit
often. | |
Ahnentafel, Generation No.
3
| 5. |
Luella Ellen
COONFIELD was
born 8 FEB 1897 - one quarter Cherokee blood, Benton
County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in Kansas City MO
Med Hospital. She was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery,
Chetopa Kansas. She was the daughter of 10. Benjamin Wallace
COONFIELD and 11.
Lattie Cedonia
LITTLE. Luella said they had
other indian blood mixed in but she didn't know from
which tribe so she could have been half
blood. |
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Children of Luella Ellen
COONFIELD and Frank Delbert COCHRAN are:
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i. |
Bernice Pauline
COCHRAN
was born 24 JUL 1915 in Mason Valley, Benton,
Arkansas. She married Homer
CLARK. He
died in Grandby MO. She married Homer Gordon
CLARK 16
OCT 1934 in Chetopa, Lebett, Kan, son of Bert
CLARK and Bessie Jane SMITH. He was born 1912 in
Prosperty Jasper Missouri, and died 1979 in Mesa
AZ. |
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ii. |
Eunice Irene
COCHRAN
was born 24 JUL 1915 - Twin, born Mason
Valley, Benton County, Arkansas, and died 19 MAR
2004 - had alzheimers. She married
Charles Thomas
HARAUGHTY, son of Stephen HARAUGHTY and Ida
Frances FIZER. He was born ABT 1900. She married
Malloy Thomas
ROSS. He
was born 1917 in Oklahoma, and died 1981 in
Phoenix AZ. She married Charles Thomas
HARAUGHTY
6 MAR 1933 in Oswego Kansas, son of Jack EDWARDS
and Ida Francis FIZER. He was born 1913 in Labette
KS, and died 1956 in Mesa AZ.
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iii. |
Cleo Stanley
COCHRAN
was born 7 JUL 1917 in Prosperity, Jasper,
Missouri, and died 1 FEB 1992 in Parsons, Lebette,
Ka. He married Lucretia
SHORT 25
FEB 1949 in Bentonville, Arkansas, Usa.
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iv. |
Frances
COCHRAN
was born 25 NOV 1919 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas,
and died 25 NOV 1919. |
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v. |
Fran
COCHRAN
was born 4 JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn,
Benton, Arkansas, and died 4 JUL 1920 in Vaughn,
Benton, Arkansas. |
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vi. |
Harley
COCHRAN
was born 4 JUL 1920 an adjoined twin, Vaughn,
Benton, Ark, and died 4 JUL
1920. |
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vii. |
Irmajean Cedona
COCHRAN
was born 19 SEP 1921 in Vaughn, Benton, Arkansas.
She married Frank Charles
MILES
1940 in Chetopa. He was born 1917 in Chetopa,
Labette, Kansas, and died in unknown.
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viii. |
Joy Benjamin
COCHRAN
was born 12 NOV 1923 in enlisted WWII 1946,
Vaughn, Benton, Ark, and died 26 JUN 1998 in ,
Chetopa, Labette, Kansas. He married
Living
JARMAN.
He married Vida Marie
JARMAN
1940 in Kansas. She was born 1925, and died 2004.
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ix. |
Bonnie Mae
COCHRAN
was born 4 MAY 1925 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark. She
married George Lemuel
KNOTTS
1948 in yates Center KS. He was born 8 OCT 1924,
and died 1967 in Wichita Kansas. She married
Living
MATTHEWS. She had Regal
Eagle. |
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x. |
, daughter of Cecil Earl
Fenn CARTER and Alice Emma "Ellie" MCCLAIN. She
was born 14 MAR 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama, and
died 27 JAN 1992 in Montgomery AL ....
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xi. |
Mary Lou Ruby
COCHRAN
was born 1 NOV 1929 in Chetopa, Labett County,
Kansas, and died 27 JAN 2006. She married
James F
MOUNT
1953 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He was born 1931 in
Welch, Craig, Oklahoma, and died in unknown.
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xii. |
Freelon Larraine
Coonfield COCHRAN was born 3 NOV 1932 in Chetopa,
Lebett, Kan, and died 4 JUN 1953 in Korean War
Fatality. |
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xiii. |
Darrell Dean
COCHRAN
was born 12 OCT 1936 in Chetopa KS, and died in
Alive and well. He married Living
WALBEE.
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xiv. |
Wanda Deloris
COCHRAN
was born 20 DEC 1938 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas.
She married Howard Lee
RIDDLE in
Nowata Oklahoma, son of Ernest Paul RIDDLE and
Jimmie Grace MOORE. He was born 3 OCT 1934 in
Chetopa KS, and died in unknown.
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Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN was
born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died 10 OCT
1935 in Columbus Street, Montgomery, AL. She was buried
in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. She was the
daughter of 14. Charles Allen
MCCLAIN and 15. Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN. |
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Children of Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN and Cecil Earl Fenn CARTER are:
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i. |
Cecil Earl
CARTER
was born 22 NOV 1932 in Montgomery, AL, and died
in Montgomery AL. He married Jean
MCNEIL.
She died in Montgomery AL. He married
Living
CHRISTINE, daughter of DAD. He married
Living
JERRI.
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ii. |
, son of Frank Delbert
COCHRAN and Luella Ellen COONFIELD. He was born 7
MAY 1927 in Chetopa, Labette, Kansas ( one eighth
Cherokee), and died 25 DEC 1996 in Montgomery,
Alabama. |
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iii. |
William Lawrence
CARTER
was born 9 OCT 1935 in Montgomery, AL, and died
1975 in spent most of his life in Enid OK,
Montgomery AL. He married Living
WIVES.
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Ahnentafel, Generation No.
4
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Jacob Benjamin
COCHRAN was
born 22 FEB 1822 in Oxford Township, Guernsey, Ohio, and
died 24 NOV 1902 in Civil War Vet Ohio Infantry, and
First Homesteader of Hill City, in 1882 Graham,
KS. Miner and farmer, he was was buried in Hill
City Cemetery. He was the son of 16. William
COCHRAN and 17. Martha Patty
HENDERSON. |
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Clora Jane
MILLER was born
12 OCT 1852 in Bloomington, McLean, Ilinois, and died 6
DEC 1931 in Hill City, Graham County, Kansas. She was
buried in hill City Cemetery. She was the daughter of
18. James Madison
MILLER and 19. Mary Clara
PARKER. Clora Jane
smoked a pipe and read the ashes. She taught her
grandchildren how to make popcorn by the
fire. |
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Children of Clora Jane MILLER
and Jacob Benjamin COCHRAN are:
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i. |
Clora Ann Doll
COCHRAN
was born 13 MAR 1880 in Meringo, Scott, Iowa, Usa,
and died 1970 in Colorado. She married
John
OSMAN.
She married Williiam
HETZEL 30
JAN 1898 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, Usa. He was
born ABT 1880 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas, Usa,
and died 1921 in unknown. |
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ii. |
Jacob Madison
COCHRAN
was born 17 DEC 1881 in Maringo, Iowa, and died 26
JUL 1954 in Corvillis, Benton, Oregon. He married
Nancy Ellen
COOK 1907
in Hill City, Graham County, KS, daughter of Isaac
Newton COOK and Mary Belle PERSONETT. She was born
7 JUL 1890 in Benkleman, Dundy Co, Nebraska, and
died 1954 in Corvallis, OR. |
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iii. |
Ky
COCHRAN
was born 15 NOV 1883 in Partis, Smith, Kansas,
Usa, and died 6 MAR 1973 in Plainsville, Rook,
Kansas, Usa. He married Sophia Madeline DE
MURRY
1907 in Partis, Smith, Kansas. She was born 10 SEP
1892 in Palco Rook KS, and died 1959 in
Plainville, Rook, Kansas. |
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iv. |
Mary Jane Emmaline
COCHRAN
was born 20 SEP 1885 in Hillcity, Graham, Kansas,
and died 2 DEC 1989 in Vancouver, Clark,
Washington. She married Gustave
BERTRAND
16 APR 1902. He was born 1870 in Hill City KS. She
married Edward
WALKER
1921. He was born 1881, and died 1962 in Mich.
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v. |
Dasie Violetta
COCHRAN
was born 19 APR 1887 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas,
and died 19 APR 1890 in Hill City, Graham,
Kansas. |
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vi. |
Benjamin Harrison
COCHRAN
was born 18 FEB 1889 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas,
was christened in Mesa, Az, and died 14 JUN 1963
in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona. He married
Clara Ann
PENTICO
1913 in Goodland, Graham, KS, daughter of John
Edward PENTICO and Annie RYMAN. She was born 1891
in Agenda, Republic, KS, and died 1956 in Mesa. He
married Ina
MORGANSIN
20 DEC 1913 in Goodland, Graham, Kansas, Usa.
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vii. |
Della Floydell
COCHRAN
was born 10 FEB 1891 in Lenora, Morton, Kansas,
and died OCT 1920 in Hillcity, Graham, Kansas. She
married George F
HETZEL 13
JUL 1905 in Hill City, Graham County, KS. He was
born ABT 1887 in Hill City, Graham, Kansas. She
married Robert Henry
WALLACE
1909 in Hill City, Graham County, KS. He was born
ABT 1888 in New Zealand. |
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viii. |
Frank Delbert
COCHRAN
was born 20 JUN 1893 in Hill City Graham County
Kansas, and died 20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk,
Arkansas. He married Luella Ellen
COONFIELD
2 SEP 1914 in Arkansas, daughter of Benjamin
Wallace COONFIELD and Lattie Cedonia LITTLE. She
was born 8 FEB 1897 in one quarter Cherokee blood,
Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in
Kansas City MO Med Hospital.
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Lattie Cedonia
LITTLE was born
14 JAN 1872 in Bardstown Junction, Kentucky, and died 23
JAN 1933 in Vaughn, Benton County, Arkansas. She was the
daughter of 22. John Wright
LITTLE and 23. Mary Catherine
CRIGLER. |
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Children of Lattie Cedonia
LITTLE and Benjamin Wallace COONFIELD are:
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i. |
Benjamin Harrison
COONFIELD
was born 9 SEP 1892 in Benton AR - World War I,
and died 21 MAR 1971 in Vaughn, Benton, Ark. He
married Inez Violet
GRAY,
daughter of John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie"
Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT. She was born 1895 in
Kansas, and died 1985. |
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ii. |
Amy Marie
COONFIELD
was born 30 JAN 1895 in Hawasser, Benton, AR, and
died 15 FEB 1952 in Los Angeles, CAlifornia. She
married Joseph Monroe
GRAY
1911, son of John Thomas Knox GRAY and "Carrie"
Anna Caroline Fisk WRIGHT. He was born 19 APR 1890
in Barnes Kansas, and died 28 JUN 1967 in Eureka
KS. |
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iii. |
Luella Ellen
COONFIELD
was born 8 FEB 1897 in one quarter Cherokee blood,
Benton County, Arkansas, and died 11 MAY 1945 in
Kansas City MO Med Hospital. She married
Frank Delbert
COCHRAN 2
SEP 1914 in Arkansas, son of Jacob Benjamin
COCHRAN and Clora Jane MILLER. He was born 20 JUN
1893 in Hill City Graham County Kansas, and died
20 DEC 1956 in Mena, Polk, Arkansas.
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iv. |
Ruthe
COONFIELD
was born 1900, and died 1957 in Chetopa KS. She
married George
BATES
1922, son of Peyton BATES and Mabel HENRY. He was
born 1902, and died in Car accident.
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v. |
Eula
COONFIELD
was born 1902. She married WILLIAMS. |
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vi. |
Carl Newton
COONFIELD
was born 1906 in 1930 census shows him still at
home with parents, and died 1972. He married
Mary
RENO.
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vii. |
Jewel( Virginia)
COONFIELD
was born 14 JUN 1907 in had Alzheimers disease.
She married George Lee
SAVAGE.
She married Ruel Taft
MILLER
1949 in Los Angeles CA. He was born 10 JAN 1909 in
Gainesville, ozark Missouri, and died 9 SEP 1972.
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viii. |
Eva Irene
COONFIELD
was born 1908, and died
1911. |
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ix. |
John Chester
COONFIELD
was born 1912 in 1930 census shows him still at
home with parents, and died 2003. He married
Thelma
WRIGHT.
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Anna Lou
STONE was born NOV 1871
in Alabama, and died ABT 1933 in Macon, Bibb,
Georgia. She was the daughter of 26. Augustus Marvin
STONE and 27. Mary Ann
HENDRICK. Known as Annie,
she divorced Fenn and married Carter, then widowed, she
married Dasher and signed as witness to her mother's
death certificate. |
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Children of Anna Lou STONE and
William Franklin FENN are:
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i. |
, daughter of Paul
WALRAVEN. She was born 1896 in GA, and died 1972
in Coosada Alabama. |
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ii. |
Carolyn Lee
FENN was
born SEP 1894 in Thompson Station, Greenwood
Township, Bullock AL, and died ABT 1934 in on 1930
census in Creek County, Oklahoma. She married
Benjamin Franklin
JOHNSON,
son of Nathaniel B. JOHNSON and Nancy America
Emmaline MILLS. He was born 1887 in 1900 census
shows his family in Choctaw Nation Texas, and died
in oklahoma. Ben signed the affidavit
stating his mother was Full Blood and he was born
in Choctaw Nation. |
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iii. |
Robert Lee
FENN was
born 16 MAR 1896 in Thompson, Bullock County AL -
found in 1920 census of US Navy Hospital, and died
1 JUL 1974 in Coosada, Elmore Co., AL. He married
MARY. She died in unknown.
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iv. |
Arthur Lee
FENN was
born ABT 1897, and died ABT 1925. He married
UNKNOWN. |
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v. |
Emmett Marvin
FENN was
born 26 SEP 1898 in WWI Vet born in Thompson
Station, Bullock County AL, and died 10 MAY 1959
in New York. He married NONE. |
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vi. |
Cecil Earl Fenn
CARTER
was born 1901 in Thompson Station, Bullock,
Alabama, and died 4 FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL. He
married Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN
APR 1932 in Montgomery County AL, daughter of
Charles Allen MCCLAIN and Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN. She was born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin,
Alabama, and died 10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street,
Montgomery, AL. Cecil and Alice died very
young and the children went to
Lorena. | |
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Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN was
born 11 JAN 1892 in Ramer Alabama, and died 12 JUN 1982
in Memorial Cemetery off Bozeman Drive, Montgomery AL.
She was buried in Memorial Cemetery, Montgomery, AL. She
was the daughter of 30. John Thomas
BOZEMAN and 31. Alice Lorena
STEPHENS. |
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Children of Lorena Emma "Rena"
BOZEMAN and Charles Allen MCCLAIN are:
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i. |
Mary Ruth
MCCLAIN
was born in Montgomery AL, and died ABT 1975 in
Montgomery AL. She married Walter B
CURLEE.
He died in Montgomery AL. |
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ii. |
Charles Henderson
"Buddy" MCCLAIN was born in Could not read nor
write; had only one daughter, and died 11 JAN 2002
in Ft Mitchell Military Cemetery, near Ft Sill,
Alabama. He married Lena
HAINEY.
She died 1991. |
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iii. |
Lillie Mae
MCCLAIN
was born 18 OCT 1909 in Ramer Alabama, and died 28
JUN 1985 in Dublin AL Church Of Christ Cemetery.
She married Hubbert
DUNCAN,
son of D C ? DUNCAN and LIZZIE. He died in Dublin
AL. |
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v. |
Jimmie Lee
MCCLAIN
was born 17 SEP 1913 in Dublin AL, and died 1932
in Dublin AL. She married HAYES. He died in unknown.
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vi. |
Alice Emma "Ellie"
MCCLAIN
was born 27 MAR 1916 in Dublin, Alabama, and died
10 OCT 1935 in Columbus Street, Montgomery, AL.
She married Cecil Earl Fenn
CARTER
APR 1932 in Montgomery County AL, son of William
Franklin FENN and Anna Lou STONE. He was born 1901
in Thompson Station, Bullock, Alabama, and died 4
FEB 1939 in Montgomery AL. |
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vii. |
Dr. William Walton
MCCLAIN , PhD was born 20 APR 1920 in Ramer
Alabama, and died ABT 1972 in Arlington
Cemetery. |
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viii. |
Joseph Edward
MCCLAIN
was born 24 MAY 1926 in Ramer AL, and died ABT
1975 in USNavy, Pearl Harbor, Memorial Cemetery,
Montgomery, AL. He married Living
DORTHY.
He married Living
BROADWAY,
daughter of John W BROADWAY and Jessie MAE.
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My
daddy always called mom his little 5'2" indian squaw and spoke
of his mother being part indian as well. He spoke of his
mother sitting in the fields digging up roots and picking
herbs to fill her apron and that she smoked a pipe but his
daddy's mother also smoked a pipe, taught them how to make pop
corn, and then that one's mother helped the indians make
medicine. His line has some fascinating stories throughout
Rhode Island 1600s history and into New York Indian
Country before migrating into Ohio and Kentucky by 1800.
Daddy's great great great grandmother descended from the line
of Tefft families involved with King Phillip, an indian, who
hanged Joshua Tefft and the Parker families involved with
indians kidnapping a Cindy Parker who became the bride of an
Indian Chief having his son Quanna Parker.
I found
Alexander and William Cochran in 1790 in Pennsylvania and then
in 1810 Ohio where Jacob was born in 1822. He was a miner and
a farmer and went to California to search for gold, returned
and moved his family to Iowa Territory. His second wife
Clora Jane Miller said she was born in Illinoy.........to Mary
Clara Parker and James Miller. There are stories of Jacob
Cochran's grandparents helping the indians in Ohio and
starting a school.
In
1800 Kentucky I found records of Isaac Coonfield, who's great
great granddaughter Luella would later marry Frank Cochran.
Isaac war born about 1770 in Pennsylvania to a Dutch,
Christopher Confeldt. It is not known how many sons
Christopher had but suspect one was John as I found him listed
near Isaac, then Isaac named a son John and a son Isaac Jr. in
1808. The Coonfields were still in Kentucky census in
1820 but in 1830 found in Indiana. In 1856 Isaac Jr.
bought land in Arkansas and had a son Benjamin Wylie
Coonfield. Isaac had married Lydia Epperson of Kentucky
and she had Ben and died so Isaac married her sister
Mary Epperson. Ben married Martha Frances Young of
Indiana and her family had come from Kentucky. Martha named a
son Benjamin Wallace "Wally" Coonfield and he married Lattie
Cedonia Little of Kentucky, while in Arkansas.
Most of
these men served in the Civil War. I have Ben
Coonfield's registration and Lattie's father's, John Little,
and also Jacob Cochran I have found a land deed where
John Little took a homestead in 1900 Arkansas and do not know
why he left Kentucky but in 1910 his father in law Abraham
Crigler had followed them. John's father Hiram Little
had moved to Texas and married a young 14 yr old Rebecca and
started a second family.
My
mother's lineage goes back to the Mayflower to Edward Doty,
since his descendant married an Anderson in North Carolina,
where I then researched Anderson, Bozeman, Stephens, Fann,
Stone, McClain, Moon as they journeyed into Alabama Territory
by 1820. In Virginia and Maryland 1600s the Bozemans were
given more land by the King of England when they "transported"
new families into America and there is a story of one of the
Bozemans there being the son of an Indian Princess. In
1790 I began to find them in North Carolina and in South
Carolina as a few of the colonies began to develop amongst
many indian tribes which are very interesting to read
about. Peter Bozeman was born about 1758 to Mordecai and
"wife" and Peter's brother married a full blood and migrated
into Mississippi in 1823 while Peter moved his family to Hope
Hull.
So
while studying the Carolinas I also found my daddy's ancestor,
Captain George Little in Union County SC who moved to Kentucky
in 1802. His grandson Hiram Little married Catherine
Wright, a daughter of Catherine Weatherford, whom I traced
into Charlotte Virginia records, to a Patsy Weatherford found
in 1810 with three daughters. Patsy must have been the
former wife of Charles Weatherford who moved into Wetumpka,
Alabama and married Sehoy, the Creek Indian mother of Chief
Red Eagle. Picketts History of the Creeks along the
Alabama River shares much detail about the Weatherfords.
Hiram
Little's nephew, Lucius Powhatan Little had a daughter, Laura,
who did extensive family research and tried to connect us to a
daughter of Chief Powhatan of Virginia, so we can suspect that
Patsy Weatherford was of Indian Blood.
There is more written about the father of
Charles Weatherford, Martin. Martin left Virginia and
was a loyalist, on the side of the British, and received a lot
of land in Georgia, where it is written that he was a wealthy
planter who employed indians to work his crops, but was so
very outspoken for the British, that the State of Georgia
kicked him out and he moved to the Bahamas.
It is just
hard to imagine that one of my daddys grandfathers was here in
Alabama in 1800 so close to my mother's ancestors. After the
American Revolution, there was a land office in Georgia, able
to sell the new lands available in Alabama Territory and many
of her ancestors did just that, since the lands were so good
for planting crops like cotton and corn. They hauled
their crops to Dexter Avenue to sell, back when it was a nasty
bumpy dirt road.
The crops
could be shipped out by steamboats along the Alabama River and
then the Train Station was developed. Her daddy Cecil
Carter was adopted around 1905, by the unknown Carter in Macon
Georgia. His mother Annie Lou Stone had married his
father William Franklin Fenn in 1893, divorced about 1901,
married a Carter and then a Dasher, but probably never
returned to Alabama. Annie Lou's great grandfather was Michael
Stone of Maryland 1700s and I tried to connect him to Thomas
Stone who signed the Declaration of Independence but have not
been able to trace that far back. However I was able to trace
the Fenn family back to Virginia where John Fann married a
Mary Stone in 1698.
My
husband's line also has Stone, a MaryCatherine
Stone in Tennessee, who married John Baptist Bond about
1800. She had a daughter Caroline Bond who married
several times, but her daughter Roxanna is the one who married
John Brooks in 1860. Roxanna's son John married Annie Clark
Ballard, and these women have a long history from the
Carolinas into Tennessee about 1800, where many indian tribes
existed. There are many grandmothers included, with
names only known as Kezziah or Gracey, that we may never know
anything about. There was one named Hester Ward and while I do
not find the parents' names I do know there was a famous
indian called Nannie Ward and wonder if there was any
connection. Annie's son James Edgar Brooks would be
related to all of these found in early Tennessee
history, but his family moved to Montgomery Alabama with the
work on the railroad and he married Susie Mae Cooper in
1923. Susie's families also had come out of South
Carolina, some settling in Chambers County and some in
Montgomery but her granny Mary Josephine Hereford Carter was
born in Virginia in 1844. Mary was the second wife of
Thomas Randolph Carter and had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth
Carter who married Levi Benjamin Cooper. Levi's parents
were born in Chambers County, Charner P. Cooper and Sarah F.
Lee but their parents were from South Carolina also.
Thomas Carter was born in 1820 SC to John Wise Carter and
unknown wife ( here we go again ) and the first wife of Thomas
was Lacy Bozeman of Hope Hull. Often I have wondered if
Thomas was somehow kin to my grandfather Cecil Carter.
James
Brooks Jr. married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie.
Mary's grandmother Mary Angeline Partridge was an indian out
of Georgia, according to Lorraine "Tutor" and her daughter Sue
Carol Bozeman.
When I go
back and study those old records, I find many of our families
residing very close to several famous indian names, like my
Cochrans living near Will Rogers in Rogers County Oklahoma and
his ancestors Rogers living by my Peter Bozeman in Darlington
long before that. Even found Sequoyah's ancestors, Gist,
Guist, Guess in South Carolina as well, along with McQueen,
Hildebrand, McGillvary, McIntosh, and many others who
married an indian bride.
When my
grandmother Lorena Bozeman's "Grandma Sellers" migrated to
Alabama, there was a connection to Nathan Sellers who married
one of the indian Schrimpshire girls and another Schrimpshire
girl married Chief Dennis Bushyhead and another Schrimpshire
girl was the mother of Will Rogers, all quite fascinating
history. Our grandma Lavinia Sellers married Seaborn
Anderson in Montgomery Alabama and his great great grandfather
Anderson is listed as full blood Cherokee on the Latter Day
Saints research page. Other researchers online are
looking into the indian heritage of the Sellers family of
North Carolina as well. Lavinia Janes' daughter Nancy
Jane Anderson married Peter Edward Bozeman in Dublin and had
John Thomas Bozeman in 1865, and John married Alice Lorena
Stephens. The Stephens great grandfather had married a
full blood Cherokee in the Carolinas during his service with
the American Revolution and then migrated into Dublin.
There were several Stephens plantations found in Dublin and
Ramer in the 1800s. John and Alice had Lorena Emma
Bozeman in 1890, my great granny. Lorena was a very
special, gifted, Christian lady. She could touch, pray
and heal those in need. My daddy once talked about a man
hurt and bleeding from a car accident, and daddy carried the
man to Lorena, who touched the man and prayed for him, and my
daddy witnessed the healing, the bleeding stopped
immediately. There was a day when I was about 20 and
found a lump in my chest that needed surgery,and Lorena said
show me, so she placed a hand on my chest and prayed, and my
surgeon said the lump came out benign and I do believe she
helped me. There were many special moments in our lives,
and those with premonitions who helped many, and my daddys
sister Irma being born with a veil over her face was an
amazing story. The doctor removed it and it came right
back, then he removed it again and it came back, but the third
veil was taken by Irma's mother and placed in the Family
Bible, where it still remains. Whenever something was
wrong, the veil would "sweat".
I have
gathered stories and letters and names to get this family tree
growing, and then collected census records, death
certificates, marriage licenses, military documents, and other
things to verify the branches and continue to add to it every
so often. Some send me emails after reading the family
tree on rootsweb.com and let me know how they connect to us
and share whatever stories they have found. One was
about my grandpa Cecil Carter's sister, Carolyn / Carrie Fenn
who married an indian named Ben Johnson and moved to
Oklahoma. Ben had signed an affidavit stating his mother
America Mills was born a full blood indian in Alabama, but his
daddy Nathaniel Johnson would not allow them to register on
the indian rolls. Mills is an important name in my
Stephens line as well. However, Johnson, sometimes
spelled as Johnston, is also in my son in law's lineage in
Macon County. Nathaniel's line was back to a David
Johnston married to Mary Macon, of the family this county was
named after.
In
my husband's line there is Holtville Community or Town named
after one of his grandfathers, where James H. Baxley married
Louisa Miranda Holt in Elmore County and we found their graves
at Coosa River Primitive Church by an elder J. Holt born 1806
who must have been her father.Miranda's daughter Ella Olivia
Baxley married L. W. Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood who
married Milton Eligah Thornton. Bessie's daughters were
Mary Ella Brooks, Tutor Lorraine Jeffcoat and Olivia Angeline
Cox. There is a Glenda Baxley who emailed me with her
findings on James at Coosa River and sent me his Civil War
papers.
Clarence Bearden is the son of Aunt
Sissy Elizabeth Brooks and sent me a package of records found
on the Brooks side, including some beautiful pictures. His
article and research of the cemetery at Hope Hull is posted
online at the Alabama Cemetery Preservation page. That
page has other information that a Benjamin Lewis once owned
that plantation around 1820 and it was sold a couple of times
before Peter Bozeman arrived. I also speculate that
Benjamin Lewis or his son married one of the daughters of
Peter Bozeman. Most of these people are listed in the
South Carolina Archives, some in North Carolina in the 1700s
but then again in Montgomery Alabama in the 1820s and
1830s. Peter died in 1829 and his estate sale lists many
of these people attending. In 1848 Peter's son William
died and his articles are also found in the Montgomery
Archives, estate sale, and writ of dower for the widow. The
marriage licenses of William's children are also found,
including his son Peter Edward Bozeman born 1834, served in
the Civil War and married Nancy Jane
Anderson.
Elisha Anderson's will is found in 1834
Montgomery.
So
many of these elders are found in the DAR records where they
were in the American Revolution, that it will take forever to
get it all organized, and am greatful that cousin Jimmy Ray
Bozeman's daughter joined the DAR based on Peter Bozeman's
record. Jimmy joined the Sons of the Revolution and now
cousin Hazel Bozeman has joined the DAR. I find it so
rewarding meeting these new cousins, Hazel met us at Dublin
where we found the grave of Peter Edward Bozeman and his
daughter in law Alice Lorena. Hazel is the daughter
of Uncle Bob Bozeman and we met cousin Elizabeth, the
granddaughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson. Ethel's son
Buster said that my grandpa Charlie McClain had no tombstone
ever at Dublin's Church of Christ, which seems odd since he
served in WW1. Charlie's daddy was Josiah Marion McClain
of Georgia who served in the Civil War, got wounded and forgot
that he had a wife and children in Georgia so he married
Elizabeth Broadway of Dublin and had Charlie. Elizabeth
was born in 1853 to Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway - ironic
since Charlie married Lorena Bozeman and her mother was also a
Stephens. When Josiah McClain died, his widow filed for
his military pension and when Peter Edward Bozeman died, his
widow also filed for a pension and it was signed by Peter's
Uncle John Hill.
So much to do and so little
time.
SITE NAVIGATION
Our ancestors met before the
Civil War. They came together in Montgomery sharing cotton
plantations in the fields you now see when passing
through Montgomery 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.
1700s Georgia
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Brooks and Ballard and Smith
Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook Lawson
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- Pike, Dallas, Lowndes, Mtgy
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1830
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Land Records and Civil War Search
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Transcription
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Many Files and Documents
- Various family records (1 KB)
Grandpa McClain's ex wife Julia
filed to the Indian Rolls in 1896
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Many Files and Documents
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Research
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Many Files and Documents
- Research (102
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Links
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Many Files and Documents
- Research2 (24
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Links
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Many Files and Documents
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Tracing Our Roots.
- 1820s 1830s (1
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Many Files and Documents
- Bozemans (27
KB)
Tracing their branches
- Grandpa Wm Fenn's Aunt Letitia and Indian
Rolls (1 KB)
Many
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More
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Early Settlers . Baby Carter . Family History Album
Search Box . FILE/0017page.html . Family Connections
pioneers . Notes.. .
Brooks and Cochran Family .Notes . Websites Of Interest .
files . Coonfield Interview . Webpages . My Family . Enjoy!! .
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Resources . Bits And Pieces . Links .
Weatherford . Charlotte County Miscellany . Ancestors . DAR
Bullitt Co. KY Genweb: Quick Notes
SA-SN . Kathy's Genealogy
FILE/0003page.html .
Bozeman in Alabama . DNA of Jimmy Ray to Peter and Mordecai
Bozeman . Census Notes of Peter's Children
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- 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. Julia filed for divorce, based upon desertion, and
then sent her application to Indian Nation to join the
Rolls.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- McClain, Josiah Marion - Civil War
Record (3 KB)
My
great great grandfather married Elizabeth Broadway and had
Charles Allen McClain
- Grandpa Brooks and Bond (27 KB)
from the Carolinas to Tennessee to
Texas and then Alabama
- Indians in Virginia (10 KB)
Wm G Bozeman
- Grandpa John Stephens -Am Rev War
Soldier (16 KB)
from
Florida to the Carolinas, he fought for Independence,
married a full blood indian and migrated to Alabama
- Bozeman - Shawnee Tribe (4 KB)
Reid married Bozeman
- Some of the other Bozemans in Georgia sent applications
to join the Indian Nation.
- Westbrook (144
KB)
Cemeteries in Alabama
- 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)
- and Much More!!
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Pioneers of Montgomery County .
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Genealogy of Baby Carter
Includes Brooks, Cochran,
Grauer, Westbrook, Penton, Holley
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Ancestors of Jimmy Ray
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