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  • "I have Cherokee blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!"Will Rogers
  • amazing quote by Rogers - his mother was a Scrimpshire.....Rogers and Scrimpshires were indian and almost everywhere I go in my genealogy research and my daddy's family resided in Rogers County Oklahoma in the 1920s.
     
    Alice Lorena Stephens married John Thomas Bozeman in Dublin, Montgomery, Alabama.

    Their daughter Lorena Emma Bozeman married Charles Allen McClain in Ramer. Charlie's parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain as noted in his 1949 funeral memorial book.  Elizabeth's parents were Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway.  Abner's mother was a "Nancy".

    Their daughter Alice Emma McClain married Cecil Carter.

    Their daughter Anne Alice Carter married Frank Cochran and named a daughter Lorena.

    The Stephens great grandfather had married a full blood Cherokee in North Carolina after serving in the American Revolution. But soon after the war, many of this line left SC and migrated to Alabama. Anderson, Bozeman, Brack, Carter, Fenn, McClain, Moon, Sellers, Stephens, Stone
     
     
     
     
     
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  • Charles Weatherford (153 KB)
    as mentioned in history book
  • 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.
  • Freelon Cochran died in Korea 1953 (19 KB)
    military - brother of Frankie Lavern Cochran
  • census Peter E Bozeman from Mississippi to Alabama (700 KB)
    this is not our great great great grandfather Peter Edward Bozeman but most likely a cousin to him and to us
  • Martin Weatherford in Georgia History (178 KB)
    finally some evidence of Martin is recorded in history
  • 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.
  • census 1910 Montgomery AL, Brooks family (1012 KB)
    on Hull Street , Sami's great grandfather James E Brooks family and his father in law.
  • Coonfield and Clarks in Indiana History (148 KB)
    refers to Archibald Clark and Isaac Coonfield who was married to Barsheba Clark.
  • census Alexander Cochran born 1850 (343 KB)
    wife Nancy, both from Ireland in Missouri 1910
  • 1860 Clopton Gibson (104 KB)
    Family in Alabama
  • census with my daddy on it (96 KB)
    Frankie Lavern Cochran born 1927 Kansas
  • 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.
  • John (479 KB)
    Little
  • Coonfield Families in 1918 (26 KB)
    great grandmother Lattie Cedonia Little was married to Benjamin Wallace Coonfield in Arkansas
  • ALB (94 KB)
    tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman, wife of John Thomas Bozeman in Dublin AL
  • Coonfield (17 KB)
    great great grandfather Isaac Coonfield
  • PEB (99 KB)
    tombstone of Peter Edward Bozeman, father of John Thomas Bozeman in Dublin AL - son of William Henry and Martha H Bozeman.
    Following a Path (43 KB)
    Research Notes
     
  • Civil War (9 KB)
    Thomas Carter in Alabama
  • George Little history notes (11 KB)
    history and will
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  • Coonfield Research notes (36 KB)
    finding Isaac in 1800 Kentucky tax lists but never finding his father anywhere
  • Civil War Message Board (135 KB)
    Alabama families share their findings
  • Civil War (16 KB)
    Peter Bozeman in Alabama
  • Civil War (70 KB)
    Josiah Marion McClain in Alabama
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    Seaborne Anderson in Alabama
    Followup (82 KB)
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    Meeting at Hills Chapel 2007
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    Describes my family very well, faith and loyalty got them through the bad times.
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    Describes my family very well, faith and loyalty got them through the bad times.
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  • Hood and Thornton buried in Elmore County near Baxley
  • Peter Bozeman, born 1758 son of Mordecai moved to Hope Hull
     
    • 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.
    Tracking our roots, cross country. Many records or legal documents were lost when courthouses were burned, during the war, yet there were many adoptions or marriages that were never legalized as people simply changed their last name. Alabama didn't even start recording birth certificates until about 1908 and Kansas had a lot of errors on the birth certificates of my family...Nicknames confuse the process and back then there were many Buds, Marys, Pollys, Dolly, Sallys, Kitty, Bettie, and usually these nicknames had nothing to do with their legal name, and often times the legal name was totally forgotten by relatives and friends. Mom heard that her dad was often called Nick. His mother's name was Anna Lou yet called Annie Lee. This causes many errors on legal documents such as their death certificate...Cecil's death certificate shows his wife was Ellie McLain but she was legally named Alice Emma McClain and her mom called her by Emmer. Her great grandpa James McClain married a woman only known as Anna and we ask why didn't anyone ask about her maiden name or did she have an indian name before she got married....My Uncle Mat Fenn is listed as Mathew at the cemetery yet his real name was Madison and his mother Emeline was shown as Emily on the census records plus his sister Ida Fenn was listed as Ida Fennel; Fenn was actually Fann in the 1700s. Then I believe that my grandpa William Frank Fenn was really named Franklin... My Dad was Frank but was mostly known as Bud. My Uncle Cecil was mainly known as Junior. My grandmother Luella was called Lue or Rue while her sister Amy Marie was known as Aunt Mae. Luella's death certificate shows her mother's name was Gladys but it was Lattie Cedonia. My grandpa Carter's death certificate shows his wife's name as Ellie but it was Alice Emma and I always heard that her name was Emily. My husband's Aunt Billie was legally named Glennie Thornton and her sister Tutor was legally named Loraine, so I guess very few knew.
    Then some liked to use their middle name, like my Uncle Billy preferred to be called Larry...Another issue we deal with is when those native americans were baptised, they were given an English name, so if you were searching the indian rolls, which name would be used? Some just married an indian and "gave" them a Christian name...Indians also liked hearing new names and simply switched names on their own. Plus we had other families who enjoyed changing the spelling of their name like McClain became McLain/McLean/Mc Lane, or the Cochran became Cochrane and Boseman became Bozeman or Boozman or even Bosman and once found on a census looking like Bogeman and then Brooke became Brooks.
    Think about Pocahontas - she was called Rebekah. Sequoyah's real name was George Guess, which was derived from Guest or Guist and we find Gist among our relatives in the Carolinas about 1800. Chief Red Eagle was really William Weatherford, the son of Charles, yet some say previous generations spelled it as Whitherford. Then about Chief Powhatan, nobody will ever know the many names of his wives and children, nor where they migrated and the Little/ Weatherford research of Kentucky had focused on a young indian bride named Cleopatra.Few had education, could not read nor write, did not know their date of birth and many did not know their parents nor where they came from. My granny Lorena, known as Aunt Rena, had her numbers mixed up on several papers, but much of her time was spent out on the farm and not in a classroom. Her son Charles Henderson could not read nor write, signed his name with an X mark and he is buried in an indian cemetery near Fort Mitchell. Then we have the prejudiced census takers who wrote down only what they heard instead of the official spelling of names or even the racial problems they had, like the only races were black or white, and anything other than that would be called Mulatto, which really is not fair to the Native Americans that we are seeking. Indians
     
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  • Welcome !!!
  • Jacob Benjamin Cochran
  • Cochran Webring
  • Headstones of Brooks and Cooper at Greenwood in Montgomery
  • Grandpa Boseman born 1735
  • Links
  • Headstones of our McClain families
  • Our Native Roots
  • Grandpa Bozeman
  • Grandpa Reverend Alexander Miller and Sarah Crawford
  • Alabama Land Records
  • Rotsweb Family Tree page
  • Headstone of John Thomas Bozeman
  • Bozeman and Gibson buried in Hills Chapel Cemetery
  • Family photos, Bozeman, Carter, Gibson, Fenn, Cochran
  • Headstones of Elijah and Martha Rich Fann
  • Cemetery listing of Emma Fenn, wife of Madison
  • Elijah Anderson research
  • Granny Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton in Coosa County
  • Ella Olivia Baxley Hood in Elmore County
  • Grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran went to Iowa and Kansas
  • my Kansas note page
  • Sara Tefft and Grandpa Parker
  • Grandpa Reverend Edmund Tefft
  • Granny Mary or Mercy Sweet
  • Sturgeon on the Indian Rolls
  • Mariah White and Jacob Cochran in Ohio
  • granny Catherine Weatherford Wright
  • Cherokee Thomas Jones story - do we connect?
  • blog Cochran Links
  • blog Kathy Cochran Links
  • Anne Carter and Frankie Cochran wed 1951
  • census images worth viewing to prove our research
  • Virginia Records #76 Kitty Weatherford m John Wright
  • Trails of George Little and the Coonfield - Cochran families
  • cousin Sara Tefft story of oldest headstone
  • granny Luella Ellen Coonfield Cochran
  • Kathy had Sam
  • Jacob Benjamin Cochran, father of Frank Delbert
  • freepages
  • Kathy's Cochran and Brooks pages
  • Gail's Carter - Fenn family tree page
  • Annie's father, Cecil Carter, death certificate
  • Cecil's brother's headstones in Coosada
  • granny Alice McClain Carter died 1935 at age 19
  • his great great grandpa Charles McClain born about 1750
  • headstone of grandpa John Thomas Bozeman
  • John Fenn of GA settled in Tuskegee, Macon County, AL
  • Several family members Military Records
  • granny Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton
  • granny Ella Olivia Baxley Hood
  • Baxley and Hood in South Carolina
  • Headstones of Brooks, Ballard, Cooper, Hood, Thornton
  • Our Family Tree on Rootsweb
  • McClain family headstones
  • Grandma Lorena Bozeman McClain's relatives
  • Grandpa Isaac Coonfield listed in Indiana History & Robert
  • Grandpa Crigler, Roby and Little
  • various links and notes
  • Bozeman, McClain and Gibson pictures
  • Uncle Bob Bozeman photo
  • Augusta, Montgomery, Alabama story
  • Family Bible Records
  • my addition to Iowa history page about grandpa Jacob Cochran
  • several grandparents listed here
  • pictures of our elders, Cochran, Coonfield, Weatherford,Boze
  • John Lee and the Weatherford House in Virginia
  • Jacob Cochran
  • grandpa Anderson with Sellers were mixed native american
  • military registrations and census images
  • grandpa William
  • grandpa William Henry Bozeman, son of Peter and Sarah B
  • Grandpa Fenn
  • Brooks in Tennessee
  • Search Land Records
  • Aunt Ruth Coonfield, sister of Luella
  • Samantha's Ancestors
  • Hood, Thornton, Brooks, Ballard
  • Alabama Gen Web
  • Lacy and Thomas Carter
  • Alice Emma McClain
  • free search site
  • Frank Cochran
  • Montgomery AL photos to AlabamaGenWeb
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  • Kentucky Family
  • Grandfather Jacob Cochran
  • Grandmother Lorena McClain
  • Charlie's picture
  • Charlie's grandfather Baxley in Holtville married a Holt
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  • Macon County Links include Elisha Fann
  • Sweet Home Alabama Baby
  • John Little (479 KB)
    Civil War Papers describes him as dark - he said that he was a Cherokee indian by blood, but was that through both of his parents......
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran family (44 KB)
    Anne Carter Cochran and children about 1965
  • headstone of Tige Stone (48 KB)
    William Arthur Stone, our cousin from Macon Georgia, played one season with the St Louis Cardinals.
  • Isaac Coonfield b 1827 Indiana (83 KB)
    Indiana history
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran family (27 KB)
    Anne Carter Cochran and children about 1968 - my Cherokee grandmother
  • Grandpa Levi Benjamin Cooper (50 KB)
    Son of Sarah F Lee and Charner P. Cooper of Chambers County - Levi worked the farm of Thomas Randolph Carter and Mary Josephine Hereford and married their daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Carter in Hope Hull, Montgomery, Alabama. - Levi fathered Susie Mae Cooper - Brooks( Mamaw )
  • 1880 granny Anna Stone (124 KB)
    on census with parents Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus Marvin Stone, has a brother Arthur.
  • Isaac Coonfield b 1827 Indiana (83 KB)
    Indiana history
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's daughters (36 KB)
    2004 out tracing our roots
  • Grandma Susie Mae Cooper and James Brooks (40 KB)
    Daughter of Levi
  • Freelon Cochran (19 KB)
    Military - died in Korea
  • Isaac Coonfield and Archibald Clark (147 KB)
    Indiana history about the Kentucky families settling in IN
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's mother's headstone (27 KB)
    Luella Ellen Coonfield Cochran
  • Grandma Mary Ella Thornton (6 KB)
    Daughter of "Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton and wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr. - His mom was Susie Mae Cooper Brooks
  • Martin Weatherford (178 KB)
    Early Georgia History
  • Isaac Coonfield and the Clarks (195 KB)
    Indiana history, better copy///
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's brother died in Korean Wa (33 KB)
    Freelon Cochran, son of Luella and Frank Delbert Cochran
  • Grandma Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper (68 KB)
    Daughter of Mary and Thomas R Carter - mom of Susie Mae Cooper shown standing.
  • Cochran, Aunt Eunice with Kathy (22 KB)
    Mesa AZ 1954
  • Isaac Coonfield photo (17 KB)
    Indiana history to Arkansas, nice picture of grandpa Isaac
  • Frankie Lavern Cochran's great uncle Sam Little (29 KB)
    Sam Little was brother of Luella's mom, Lattie Little
  • Grandma Mary Josephine Hereferd Carter of Virginia (58 KB)
    married Thomas Carter and had Sarah
  • 1887 Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield (309 KB)
    Arkansas
  • Isaac Coonfield photo (17 KB)
    Indiana history to Arkansas, nice picture of grandpa Isaac
  • 1842 IRWINTON Ala stampless letter FENN, GEORGIA (21 KB)
    The letter reads: "I give to Adaline Griffin thirteen head of stock Cattle and mark and brand mark crop and half cross in the left year [sic] and two under betts [?] in the side Recorded by me and brand A G." Apparently, Fenn was out of town, and so addressed this letter to himself, and the Post Master at the General Store (or such) in Bainbridge had probably been told to open his mail in Fenn's absence, and the Post Master took this to the courthouse, where the county clerk signed noted it "recorded" and signed it "A.D. Smart, Clk." Decatur county. It's a quarter of a full lettersheet. Maybe there was a shortage of paper, or there was other writing that was torn off and long gone, who knows. Postal marking cover is all there.
  • Grandma Annie Ballard Brooks (21 KB)
    She married John Edwin Brooks in Murray County Tennessee and may have Indian Heritage - She has a strong line of Carolina ancestors migrating into Tennessee about 1800 - John's father was from Pennsylvania and had a Dutch background
  • Jacob Cochran photo with Clora Jane (113 KB)
    Arkansas
  • Coonfield families (26 KB)
    1918
  • Headstone of George W Thornton (542 KB)
    spouse of Mary Angeline Partridge, found in Central, Elmore County, AL at the Mt Hebron East Baptist Church about 5 miles from the caution light.
  • Grandpa Thomas Carter with his first wife (35 KB)
    Another with a strong South Carolina ancestry - and his mother was unknown - his father died in Talledega Alabama - Thomas lost most of this family in Hope Hull during an epidemic and then served in the Civil War - was hospitalized in Virginia - then met Mary of Virginia and married her - they had Sarah "Sallie" Elizabeth Carter Cooper
  • Aunt Nancy Bozeman (765 KB)
    sister of Lorena, daughter of John
  • Anne Carter Cochran (18 KB)
    1953 with Kathy
  • Headstone of Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton (300 KB)
    spouse of George W Thornton, found in Central, Elmore County, AL at the Mt Hebron East Baptist Church about 5 miles from the caution light............Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton who had married Bessie Mae Hood - Grandma Partridge was an Indian from Georgia - possibly Creek indian by blood.
  • Marriage License (16 KB)
    Coonfield and Lattie Little
  • Charles Weatherford and Sehoy (153 KB)
    Early Alabama History
  • COONFIELD (142 KB)
    Isaac Coonfield on the 1800 Kentucky Tax List
     
    Researching our Elders (236 KB)
    A Journey into the Past
     
    In January 2008 the DAR has finally listed Peter Bozeman. Several should be establishing their memberships now based on his records, including Jimmy Ray and Hazel :)

    Mordecai Bozeman born 1735 NC, while there were only a few colonies on the coast, while it was still Indian Nation and his son Peter born 1758 served in the American Revolution. Documents show that both were paid 4 pounds for their service. Nothing more is found on Mordecai but his son Peter moved his family to Montgomery Alabama about 1826 - 1827. His son William Henry is my connection.
    However, we must note that Peter's second son was named Jesse in 1793. There was another Jesse in the Revolutionary War who lived by Peter on the 1800 Darlington Census so there is a strong possibility they were brothers. Or that Mordecai went by another name, middle name, and could have been there. Peter's first son was named Meade so that might have some connection to his mother or his mother in law - perhaps their maiden names....
    William and Martha Hill ( daughter of John Hill of South Carolina) had Peter Edward Bozeman who married Nancy Jane Anderson ( daughter of Lavinia Jane Sellers, who's mother was Lavinia Brack) and had John Thomas - John married Alice Lorena Stephens and had Lorena Emma Bozeman - Lorena married Charles Allen McClain, the only son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Their daughter Alice Emma McClain married a dark handsome Cherokee named Cecil Earl Fenn Carter about 1931 and had Anne Alice Carter in 1934. Cecil's parents were Anna Stone and Wm Franklin Fenn. Anne was orphaned at the age of 5 and lived with her McClain Grandparents. Anne Carter married Frankie Lavern Cochran in 1951.

    Frank was the son of Luella Ellen Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran of Chetopa Kansas and Frank had one eighth Cherokee blood. Luella's parents were mixed Cherokee, Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of Arkansas. Frank Delbert's parents were Clora Jane Miller of Illinois and Jacob Benjamin Cochran of Ohio. Clora's parents were Mary Clara Parker of New York and James Miller of Rockingham Virginia. Parents of Mary Clara were Rosannah Lemmon and Archelaus Parker, a son of Sarah Tefft and Archelaus Richardson Parker of Massachusetts and New York Indian Country 1600s.

    Anne Carter Cochran's daughter Kathy married Charles Wayne Brooks of Montgomery Alabama. His parents were Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks. Mary Ella's parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E Brooks Sr. Parents of Susie were Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper. Parents of Milton were George Thornton and a native american named Mary Angeline Partridge out of Georgia.
    Parents of James Sr were Annie Clark Ballard and John Edwin Brooks from Maury County TN. John's parents were Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and John Brookes of PA and his family came from Holland. The Ballards were from North Carolina 1700s.

    Thus all of the Brooks children descend from many surnames including the Bozemans and Carters.
  • Lorena's daughter Alice (19 KB)
    Alice Emma McClain married Cecil Carter and she died at the age of 19 giving birth to their third child.
  • Henry Boseman (225 KB)
    Rev War Land Grant
  • 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
  • Richard Boseman marriage of 1778 (531 KB)
    Frederick County Maryland
  • Jacob Boazman (167 KB)
    Rev War Land Grant
  • 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
  • 1880 William Thomas Bozeman (684 KB)
    4 Jimmy Ray - William is staying with Stacy
  • Jesse and Gabriel Bozeman and Brack (151 KB)
    Rev War Land Grant
  • 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.
  • Georgia Land Grants (104 KB)
    Bozeman and Brack - Rev War Veterans
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    Rev War Land Grant
  • Peter James Bozeman Tombstone (14 KB)
    brother of John Thomas, son of Peter Edward and Nancy Jane Bozeman in Ramer.
  • 1779 Peter Bozeman (103 KB)
    Lorena's great great grandfather in the American Rev resided in Darlington SC before Alabama
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    Rev War Service
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    Rev War Land Grant
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    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.
  • Ralph Bosman (147 KB)
    Rev War Land Grant
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    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.
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    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"
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    Colonial Soldiers of the South
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    Grandpa Edmund Anderson and his sons - descendant Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman
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    Lorena's father born and died in Ramer, John Thomas Bozeman was married to Alice Lorena Stephens
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    Rev War Land Grant
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    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
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    Colonial Soldiers of the South
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    Historical Sketches of North Carolina
     
     
     
     
    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.
     

    • 1885 (386 KB)
      Sketches12-14 This Samuel Bozeman was probably the brother to our grandfather Mordecai Bozeman, and they were sons of Samuel Edward Bozeman.
    • 1885 (392 KB)
      Sketches16-17
    • Isaac Coonfield death record (436 KB)
      Mortality List
    • 1885 (420 KB)
      Sketches14-15
    • Death Certificate of Anne Carter (440 KB)
      wife of Frank Cochran. On that last night with her she told me to go home to my babies because a "lady in white" had visited her and told her that she was about to "go home"
    • 1885 (383 KB)
      Sketches18
    • 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.
    • 1885 (440 KB)
      Sketches20
    • Anne Carter Cochran in Arizona (6 KB)
      They lived in Mesa near Aunt Eunice Cochran in 1953
    • Grandpa Augustus Marvin Stone (90 KB)
      Father of Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter Dasher - grandfather to Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.
    • 1885 (314 KB)
      Sketches24
    • George Little of Scotland in SC and KY (24 KB)
      S C Roster shows Frank Cochran's grandpa and probably the brothers of George Little.
    • 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.
    • 1885 (429 KB)
      Sketches22
    • John Stephens (23 KB)
      S C Roster shows Anne Carter Cochran's grandpa - also grandpa to Lorena Bozeman
    • Catherine Crigler and her baby girls (53 KB)
      wife of John Wright Little
    • John Franklin Fenn 1862 (7 KB)
      Macon County - Civil War
    • 1885 (352 KB)
      Sketches28
    • 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.
    • Catherine Crigler 's son Sam Little (43 KB)
      son of John Wright Little
    • 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
    • Aunt Ethel and her Gibson husband (22 KB)
      With my great Grandmother Lorena
    • Bowsman Peter (22 KB)
      S C Roster shows grandpa Peter Bozeman
    • 1 (118 KB)
      Kat
    • John Carter - married Elizabeth Wise (33 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia
    • 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
    • Chester Coonfield (43 KB)
      Ben Coonfield 's son, brother of Lattie
    • John Wright Little photo (26 KB)
      father of Lattie
    • Bond (34 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia - Edgecombe County - our John Baptist Bond went to TN into the Brooks lineage
    • John Wright Little photo (67 KB)
      family in Arkansas
    • Ballard and Smith (35 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia - Granville County - our Ballard went to TN into the Brooks lineage
    • Amy Coonfield (38 KB)
      Ben Coonfield 's daughter - sister of Luella and Ruth
    • Grandpa Zachariah Fann (35 KB)
      1700s Georgia Rangers also includes John Hill
    • John Wright Little pension (403 KB)
      Civil War Service
    • 1885 (343 KB)
      Sketches129-130
    • Holley (34 KB)
      1700s Granville North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Westbrook lineage of Alabama
    • John Little Pension (144 KB)
      Civil War, Kentucky Infantry
    • 1885 (299 KB)
      Sketches130Alabama
    • Westbrook (34 KB)
      1700s Onslow North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Westbrook lineage of Alabama
    • John Wright Little family (39 KB)
      Civil War Service
    • Cooper and Lee (35 KB)
      1700s Edgecombe North Carolina Muster Roll - to the Susie Mae Cooper Brooks lineage of Alabama
    • Isaac Coonfield photo (22 KB)
      Louisville KY
    • Grandpa John Stephens (35 KB)
      1700s Edgecombe North Carolina Muster Roll
    • 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 Thomas 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. Father of Thomas was John Wise Carter, a son of Elizabeth Wise and John Carter of South Carolina. Serving in the American Revolution was a John Wise, a John Carter and a Thomas Carter who may have been a brother to John.
    • 1885 (394 KB)
      Sketches50
    • 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 Hans 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 )
    • 1885 (410 KB)
      Sketches52
    • 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. Researching Charlotte Virginia, I found a young Charles Weatherford who could have been her brother and then a Patsy Weatherford who might have been her mother. Family legend is that John's family refused a land allotment in Indian nation Oklahoma, but it is a mystery as to why he chose to move to Arkansas.
    • Amy Coonfield Gray (32 KB)
      Joseph Gray
    • 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 in Arkansas. Lattie named her daughter Luella Ellen. Luella married Frank Delbert Cochran and had my daddy, 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.
    • Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and Lattie (14 KB)
      holding Luella
    • 1821 John Wise Carter (212 KB)
      3 land records exist in St Clair County
    • John Thomas Bozeman, son of Peter Edward (386 KB)
      Born 1866 in Dublin Alabama, married Alice Stephens and had my great granny, Lorena Emma 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. When William died, Martha Hill Bozeman moved to Dublin near her brother John Hill, who created the Hills Chapel School and Church........ 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.
    • Marriage License (58 KB)
      Eureka Kansas
    • 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. His mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Mary Stephens and Abner Broadway, and when Josiah died about 1897, she remarried to John Gardner of Dublin. Elizabeth and John and Charlie are found on the 1900 census, then again in 1910 with Lorena.
    • Uncle John Coonfield (39 KB)
      brother of Ben - the Coonfields had very black hair with a blue shine to it
    • 1837 Grandpa Abner Broadway Land Record (58 KB)
      Montgomery, Alabama. Grandpa Abner and Grandma Nancy migrated from South Carolina.
    • Hood and Baxter (34 KB)
      1700s Anson North Carolina Militia
    • Document - Bozeman (26 KB)
      copied from book
    • Cochran siblings (26 KB)
      Frank Delbert Cochran's brothers and sisters.
    • 1834 Grandpa Elisha Anderson (207 KB)
      Land Record in Alabama
    • George Hill, Smith and Clark (35 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia
    • Document 2- Bozeman (1061 KB)
      copied from book
    • Freelon Cochran (400 KB)
      brother of my daddy, died in Korea - dad had told him to stay home
    • 1900 Grandpa John W Little (66 KB)
      Land Record
    • Abner Hill, Carter and McGeHee (34 KB)
      1700s North Carolina Militia
    • 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.
    • 1823 Uncle John Bozeman (32 KB)
      Land Record - Peter's brother went to Mississippi
    • Contents page of book (21 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Aunt Eunice Cochran (26 KB)
      dad's sister had alzheimers
    • 1824 Lewis Bozeman (197 KB)
      Land Record
    • 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
    • Benjamin Sellers - Wm B (35 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Preface (49 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Ward, Simmons, Jones (34 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • Georgia Settlement (27 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • 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. Peter was the son of Mordecai and moved his family to Alabama about 1826
    • 1824 Lewis Bozeman (197 KB)
      Land Record
    • 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.
    • LAND RECORD (59 KB)
      Grandpa Isaac Coonfield
    • 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. My daddy always called my mother his darling little 5'2" indian squaw.
    • 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
    • LAND RECORD (86 KB)
      1837 Isaac Benjamin Coonfield
    • 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. Named William Lawrence Carter, he loved being called Billy or Larry. Obviously named after his grandfather William Fenn.
    • William Sellers Land Grant (445 KB)
      ended up in Alabama
    • 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
    • LAND RECORD (176 KB)
      1831 Grandfather John Hill
    • 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
    • 1756 John Bozeman is 18 (101 KB)
      Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • LAND RECORD (35 KB)
      1832 Alexander Cochran, either the brother or the father of William, land purchase in the same township as William.
    • Harrell -Bryant - Gunter (33 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • 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. Walton wrote to Kathy very often, calling her his little princess. His title was Doctor, PHD.
    • 1748 George Bozeman in Maryland (64 KB)
      Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • LAND RECORD (220 KB)
      1834 Uncle Meady Bozeman
    • George Bell - Henderson - Westbrooks (35 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • 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
    • LAND RECORD (61 KB)
      1837 Uncle Peter Bozeman
    • Parker - Carter - Vann - Rogers (33 KB)
      1700s Colonial Soldiers of the South
    • 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.
    • LAND RECORD (34 KB)
      1834 Uncle John Coonfield
    • 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.
    • Continental Paper Money (121 KB)
      6 dollar bill
    • LAND RECORD (83 KB)
      1920 Grandpa Joseph C Stephens
    • Bond (20 KB)
      S C Roster shows Charles Brooks grandpa John Bond
    • Smith (24 KB)
      S C Roster shows Charles Brooks grandpa Henry Smith
    • 1885 (277 KB)
      Sketches10-11
     

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    • Civil War - Bozeman (16 KB)
      Peter Edward Bozeman married Nancy Jane Anderson
    • Read First (288 KB)
      1
    • 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.
    • Read 2 (450 KB)
      1
    • Bozeman (8 KB)
      Samuel and Luke in 1730
    • 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.
    • Anderson Sellers Bozeman (53 KB)
      Alabama Pioneers of the 1820s.
    • Caleb Bozeman (7 KB)
      Kentucky
    • 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.
    • Anderson Sellers Bozeman... (53 KB)
      Alabama Pioneers of the 1820s resided near George Bush and John Booth.
    • Bozeman 1600 (18 KB)
      Timeline
    • Links (53 KB)
      A Few documents
    • Stepping Stones (2334 KB)
      Step by Step
    • Bozeman 1700 (9 KB)
      Edgecombe County NC
    • Notes (1005 KB)
      Everything I read and research is saved on a webpage for future reference.
    • Anna Stone (1485 KB)
      Grandmother born 1875 Macon Alabama.
    • Bozeman 1700 - Micajah (11 KB)
      Northampton County NC
    • 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
    • Bozeman - Michael (10 KB)
      Lowndes County Alabama and into Arkansas
    • Kentucky to Arkansss to Alabama (136 KB)
      Frank Cochran and Luella Coonfield's lineage to the Brooks.
    • Bozeman - Michael (13 KB)
      Lowndes County Alabama and into Arkansas
    • Bozeman - 1700 (15 KB)
      Timeline continued
    • Bozeman - 1700 (10 KB)
      David J. was son of Luke
    • Westbrook Genealogy (12 KB)
      Penton, Jones, Johnston, Braswell, Grauer, Porter, Glass, etc
    • 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"
    • Abner Broadway (936 KB)
      Born by 1800 in SC his son Abner born about 1830 in Dublin or Ramer Alabama.
    • 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.
    • Page 6 (1752 KB)
      Roots and Branches
    • Grandpa Cochran (3 KB)
      Family Group Sheet
    • Ancestors (163 KB)
      The many ancestors of the Brooks children.
    • List 1 (546 KB)
      Images
    • 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
    • List 2 (141 KB)
      Images
    • Grandpa Brooks and Bond (27 KB)
      from the Carolinas to Tennessee to Texas and then 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
    • Notes (695 KB)
      Research of related families
    • Mordecai Bozeman and sons (6 KB)
      Account being audited for claims of Am Rev War
    • Many Names in my family (161 KB)
      My Family Jewels
    • Related Links (911 KB)
      Collecting Family Webpages
    • Captain George Little (28 KB)
      to Jonas to Hiram to John to Lattie to Luella
    • Related Links (3 KB)
      Collecting Family Webpages
    • Kentucky Census (63 KB)
      Following my Littles into Kentucky 1800
    • Westbrook (140 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Census (53 KB)
      Following the Littles out of Kentucky
    • Westbrook (10 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Alabama Relatives (3 KB)
      Tracing my roots in Alabama
    • Westbrook (11 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (143 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (6 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (162 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • 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
    • Mordecai Bozeman's son Peter in SC (11 KB)
      Peter and Ralph received Land Grants
    • Ancestral Index (887 KB)
      Many Names and photos
    • 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
    • Brooks in Montgomery (3 KB)
      Ancestors of Kathy and Charles
    • Mordecai - White - Meade (12 KB)
      Interesting notes on these families in 1700
    • Documents (47 KB)
      Marriage Licenses, Death Certicates, Articles of Interest
    • 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
    • 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)
      John married a Cherokee in SC and moved to MS
    • Westbrook (32 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • 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.
    • Westbrook (1 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Luke Bozeman married an indian (5 KB)
      Ward - Bozeman
    • Westbrook (351 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Indian Town Creek 1700 (6 KB)
      Samuel Bozeman, White, Parker
    • Westbrook (92 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Louis Bousman (3 KB)
      Indian Territory and Billy The Kid.
    • Westbrook (19 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • John and the Indian Wife (5 KB)
      John Bozeman and Elizabeth in MS
    • Westbrook (170 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (6 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (159 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
    • Westbrook (187 KB)
      Cemeteries in Alabama
     

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