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From Bullock County Alabama to Montgomery, Carrie married after 1920 to Ben Johnson of Choctaw Nation, Texas. They are found on the 1930 census of Creek, Oklahoma.
Her parents were Anna Stone and Wm Frank Fenn who had married in 1893 Bullock County and they had six children before divorcing soon after the 1900 census, where Anna joined her parents in Macon, Bibb, Georgia. Carrie was the first born child, then Frank Jr., Arthur, Robert, Emmett, and Cecil who claimed to be Cherokee. They were all very tall, dark and handsome. Family lore is that Frank Jr., told his children that Carrie and Cecil were only his "half" sibling.....
Ben's parents were America Emeline Mills and Nathaniel B. Johnson of Alabama, who moved around a lot, into Arkansas, and into Texas, where the census indicates some children born in Indian Territory. Some of Nathaniel's siblings may have also been born in Indian Territory.
Nat named a daughter Ellen after his sister.
Ellen Gray Johnson, b July 12,1856 Springfield Alabama, d April 26,1952 Monument, Lea County New Mexico, she married William Fletcher Weir, on Dec 16,1881, Brady , Mc Culloch County Texas( I have original Certificate) William Weir wa sborn Dec 19,1854 Polk Missouri, d August 8 ,1937 Monument , lea County Texas, they lived in Texas until early 1906 , when they went by covered wagon with their 8 children to Lea County NM, William purchased the famous, historical Hat Ranch.
Nat also had a sister named Louisa Powell.
Nathaniel's mother was Mary Ann Macon and her ancestors had something to do with the founding of Macon County Alabama. Ironically Carrie Fenn's father was also born in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.
The story of Ben returning to Alabama is unknown. It is also unknown how he met our Aunt Carrie. They had only one child, a daughter named Dorothy and how her name is special to them, is another mystery to uncover.
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Brooks Families of the South.
......Hans Brooke had three boys and one girl....Henry, Edward, John and Lula Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl was adopted...John, our grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to learn that trade....He was very unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia TN about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860 census in TN working as a tailor but as John Brooks...That year he married Roxanna Permilia Smith
She was just breaking up with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith and fell in love with John Brooks...John and RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were born......
...John died in 1882 of tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas to marry her and bring her back to TN. They lived and died in Sandy Hook, Tennessee.
Their son John married Annie Clark Ballard and had only one child, James Edgar Brooks - soon they moved to Montgomery Alabama.
The Smith and Ballard families came out of North Carolina about 1800 migrating into Tennessee's Indian Territory.
Permilia named her first son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no Walter in the lineage,so why use this name? and another son JOHN Edwin but the census looks like his middle initial was H., and JOHN married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they moved to Alabama being transferred with the railroad and then lived on Adams Avenue near the train station. Annie had only one child, James Edgar Brooks, who became a bookkeeper with the State, and later married Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son James Edgar Brooks Jr., a daughter Christine . Susie was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Chambers County AL.
Annie's photo shows dark black hair and coal black eyes. Annie's parents were both born in Tennessee, James Calvin Ballard and Willie Eudora Craig but their ancestors migrated from the Carolinas. "Dora's" mother was Rebecca Caroline Pennington and she married William Craig in 1860. Rebecca's mother was only known as "Gracy" who married William Pennington, and his mother was only known as "Kezziah" born about 1750 in South Carolina.
Her mother was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of North Carolina. Parents of Caroline Bond ( who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone. Many researchers are looking into the Stone name as being of Cherokee Blood.
In Georgia was Joseph Baxley born 1815 married to Mary Evans and making their way into Alabama. Their son James married Louisa Miranda Holt and they resided in "Holtville" in Elmore County AL. Also in Elmore County was L. W. Hood who married their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley. Ella's daughter Bessie married a Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County. Elijah's parents also came out of Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge amd George Thornton. Elijah's daughter Mary Ella married James Brooks. Mary Ella's granddaughter married Westbrook.
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- Sarah (143 KB)
Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper with her children including Susie Mae
- Carter , John Wise (35 KB)
1821 Land Record
- Gilly Bozeman (114 KB)
Wife Of Peter born 1807
- Thomas Randolph Carter (46 KB)
With first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
- Thornton, George (56 KB)
1839 Land Record
- James E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton (6 KB)
Her parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton.
- Partridge, George (51 KB)
1858 Land Record
- Baxley James H (483 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service
- Yours truly (368 KB)
author
- Baxley James H (64 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service1
- 1888 James H. Baxley (56 KB)
Land Record - Homestead
- Baxley James H (351 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service2
- 1930 census of Brooks and Cooper (1512 KB)
Both their widowed mothers live in this household which includes James E Brooks Jr who later married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie in 1953.
- Baxley James H (618 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service3
- 1930 census Milton Elijah Thornton (446 KB)
Bessie Mae Hood his wife with children include Mary Ella Thornton who married James E Brooks Jr
- Baxley James H (398 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service4-Judge Smith
- 1840 John Wise Carter (360 KB)
Talladega Alabama census, father of Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper - great grandfather of Mamaw
- Baxley James H (796 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application
- 1914 (72 KB)
John Edward Brooks with Annie Clark Ballard, parents of James Edgar Brooks, of Tennessee. James married Susie Mae " Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. - Jr married Mary Ella Thornton.
- Baxley James H (451 KB)
Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application 2 |
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- INTRODUCTION (1 KB)
My Genealogy
- Ramsey to Herriford and Carter (29 KB)
Mary Josephine Hereferd's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia.
- Brooks Family (89 KB)
So many other names in our genealogy, so many other locations to research.
- Thornton - Partridge (54 KB)
Research on Mary Ella Thornton - Brooks' ancestors on her father's side.
- Brooks Family Tree (79 KB)
A nice view of our ancestors and their children.
- Amos (801 KB)
Ancestors of Amos Westbrook
- Westbrook (161 KB)
Beverly's inlaws
- Baxley, Grandmother Ella Olivia (11 KB)
A visit to the Cain's Chapel cemetery to locate the tombstones of Ella and her husband L W Hood plus her parents buried down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in "Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa Miranda Holt. These were ancestors of Mary Ella Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother of Bessie Mae Hood - Thornton.
- Stepping Stones (398 KB)
Years Gone By
- Carter in South Carolina (99 KB)
father of Thomas was John Wise Carter and his dad was Captain John Carter of the American Revolution who married Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John Wise.
- Mary Ella Thornton, wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr (258 KB)
Her father was Milton Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie Mae Hood. This focus on the Thorntons as they migrated out of Georgia into Elmore County Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline Partridge.
- Hood - Thornton - Brooks - Smith (29 KB)
Tracking family from North Carolina to Alabama through Tennesssee
- Hans Brooks of Holland 1800 (25 KB)
John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks.
- Brooks Genealogy Memo (5 KB)
My research and a few extra notes
- Brooks - followup (5 KB)
John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks. Annie's father was James Cal Ballard. Roxanna's father was Thomas Smith and her mother was Caroline Bond...............James Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper, the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper........Susie named her son James Edgar Brooks Jr. in 1927.
- Stokes Cemetery on Bozeman Land- Hope Hull (39 KB)
Jesse Bozeman's daughter Lacy is buried here near her husband Thomas Randolph Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of Am Rev Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's father was Peter Bozeman a soldier in the American Revolution. Lacy and some of the children died in an epidemic. Jesse and his wife's tombstones have been separated by a large tree and the stones are broken. The top of Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but Lacy's monument stands tall. The Carters and Bozemans once owned large plantations here. Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In fact Jesse's brother William Henry Bozeman was Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is not found ( yet )
- Ballard, James Cal of Tennessee (80 KB)
Father of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks was married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee. Parents of James Ballard were Rowena Densy Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about 1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears began.
- Brooks and Smith of Tennessee (150 KB)
Another family researcher has a beautiful webpage to share.
- Bond, John Baptist (80 KB)
Father of Caroline Bond Smith was married to Catherine Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times in Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith was the father of Roxanna Smith - Brooks. Notes on this page include Henry Smith, father of Thomas and then the Ballards of North Carolina - Larken Ballard's mother was Kizziah Dickens.
- Tombstones (2 KB)
Baxley, Holt, Hood, Thornton in Elmore County
- Pictures and Letters (55 KB)
James Brooks letter of WWI, pictures and letters
- Lee and Cooper in 1840 Chambers County AL (107 KB)
Elijah Lee born 1777 married Malinda Phillips and their daughter Sarah F. Lee married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County. Charner's parents were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Charner's son was Levi Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope Hull on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter and married the man's daughter.
- John and Roxanna Brooks families (155 KB)
listing
- Carter, Thomas Randolph (47 KB)
Hope Hull visit to find the tombstone of the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks and he was the great grandfather of James Edgar Brooks Jr.
- Tombstones (41 KB)
Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
- Photos (4 KB)
Scanned photos of people and their tombstones
- Tombstones (1 KB)
Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
- Baxter, Rowena Densy (20 KB)
Grandmother of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie
- Kathy Brooks Kin (38 KB)
Cochran and Carter, Bozeman and McClain notes
- Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820 SC (6 KB)
Civil War Records............father of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper ..........grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
- 1786 Marriages (66 KB)
Peter Bozeman and Sarah Brown were the parents of Jesse and William Henry Bozeman, plus another son named Peter E. Bozeman who married Gilly
- Partridge, Mary Angeline (4 KB)
Parents of Angeline were Mildred Smith and George Partridge of Georgia. Her husband was George Thornton of Georgia and his parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and Charles Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha Blackstone born 1814 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears.
- File (4 KB)
Files
- Miscellaneous (22 KB)
Research Notes
- Joe Stephens -Civil War (4 KB)
Joe and Sarah Mills Stephens of Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John T Bozeman but she died soon after giving birth to their 4th child.
- Cooper and Lee (49 KB)
Chambers County Records
- Colonial Records (3 KB)
Saving a few documents relating to my ancestors.
- Herriford of Virginia (50 KB)
Mary Josephine Hereferd was the second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their daughter was Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper ( mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died, Mary had him buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their children.
- Cooper in Civil War (86 KB)
Father of Levi Cooper
- Anderson in Civil War (30 KB)
Father of Nancy
- Carter in Civil War (9 KB)
T. R. Carter father of Sarah |
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- Cemetery (213 KB)
Mt Hebron Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery is very small. George Thornton and wife Mary Angeline Partridge graves are found here.
- Grandpa McClain (62 KB)
Emily Alice McClain's father stands with her brother. Charles McClain's parents and grandparents spent many years in Creek Territory.
- Cemetery (52 KB)
Stokes-Carter Cemetery has no official name, no Stokes buried here, mostly Carters and Bozemans. Tombstones being trampled and damaged by the cattle and falling trees.
- Charles McClain in 1908 (12 KB)
Married Lorena Bozeman
- Cemetery (816 KB)
Coosa River Primitive Baptist Church has some of the original settlers of Holtville born about 1800.
- Uncle John Coonfield (39 KB)
Uncle to Frankie
- Cecil Carter (230 KB)
Anne's father was born around 1900 - nobody is really certain - at Thompson Station in Bullock County - born to a Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his mother remarried in Macon Georgia. His father was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from former Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in the Army about 1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Found his father living in Montgomery Alabama and returned about 1931.
- Cemetery (865 KB)
Cain's Chapel in Slapout has many Thornton and Hood families from the early days of Cold Springs, Elmore County, Alabama
- Clora Jane Miller Cochran (15 KB)
Frankie's grandmother
- Cecil Carter (15 KB)
Anne's father was born around 1900 - nobody is really certain - at Thompson Station in Bullock County - born to a Fenn family he was adopted around 1910 when his mother remarried in Macon Georgia. His father was from Tuskegee Alabama and grandparents from former Creek Territory in Georgia but he claimed to be Cherokee blood. Enlisted in the Army about 1920 to 1930 stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso. Found his father living in Montgomery Alabama and returned about 1931.
- Cemetery (308 KB)
Dublins' old cemetery behind Hills Chapel hidden far off into the woods.
- Clora Jane Miller (327 KB)
Cochran Family
- Cecil Carter's brother Frank Fenn (51 KB)
born 1896 at Thompson Station in Bullock County - died in Coosada on his farm at Airport Road where the school now sits. His grave is on that land he had donated to the church for a cemetery. Frank worked for the railroad, his wife boiled his dirty clothes in a pot outside - he was in WWI and hauled POWs on the train.
- Cemetery (97 KB)
Dublins'new cemetery for the public is across the street from the front of Hills Chapel.
- Bill Carter (38 KB)
about 1970 - he was Anne's brother
- Cemetery (88 KB)
Dublin - old gravestone being cleaned with water and a brush
- John and Annie Brooks (72 KB)
Moved into Montgomery Alabama after 1900 and their son James married Susie Mae Cooper. They have a strong lineage into 1800 TN
- Cemetery (64 KB)
Greenwood in Montgomery, very large cemetery has graves of many of the Brooks, Cooper, Bozeman, Fenn families
- Jacob and Clora Cochran (34 KB)
Left Iowa for Kansas Territory after 1880 with son Frank Delbert Cochran on the left.
- Cemetery (18 KB)
Memorial has many of my relatives' resting places - land donated by Lorena Bozeman's Uncle Robert Henry Bozeman - located between Maxwell AFB and Hope Hull and Pine Level.
- Luella Coonfield (119 KB)
Arkansas - she is in the center of this photo just before she married Frank Delbert Cochran. She is Cherokee by blood. Her mother was Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky.
- Luella Coonfield's mother was indian (63 KB)
Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky - Lattie Little was born to Mary Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little.
- Cemetery (275 KB)
Dublin Old Cemetery has tiny tombstone markers with no names
- Cemetery (78 KB)
Dublin Old Cemetery behind the church - Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman, the Cherokee in grandma's lineage.
- Cemetery (1456 KB)
Dublin Old Cemetery behind the church - Peter Edward Bozeman of the Civil War - the clover design is a separate layer added to this homemade tombstone with penciled PEB our father added.
- Powhatan (40 KB)
Lucius Powhatan Little was Lattie's cousin in Kentucky - he was a lawyer, a judge, a writer, and a genealogist. They all had one common grandmother from Virginia, Catherine Weatherford.
- Cemetery (78 KB)
Indian Creek Cemetery in Georgia where James McClain born 1810 is buried - the father of Josiah is also the son of the elder Josiah
- Ben Coonfield's parents (68 KB)
Martha Frances Young of Kentucky married Benjamin Wylie Coonfield in Indiana. Their hair was so black that it looked blue in the sunshine.
- Cemetery (14 KB)
Hill City Cemetery in Graham Kansas is where my dad's grandparents are buried
- Mary Catherine Crigler (323 KB)
Born in Kentucky to Nancy Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler, she married John Little and had Lattie and Sadona in this picture.
- Cemetery (28 KB)
Old Harmony Primitive Church Cemetery has few graves but includes Elijah Lee born 1777 and his wife Malinda Phillips who came to Chambers County before 1830 buying land from an old Creek Indian and they are the great great grandparents of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
- Cochrans (106 KB)
Chetopa Kansas, the Cochran family includes Frankie, Freelon and Darrell
- Carter photo (46 KB)
T R Carter with his first wife and family - he is great grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
- Cochrans (26 KB)
Frank Delbert's brothers and sisters.
- Susie Mae Cooper Brooks (40 KB)
grandmother to Charles Wayne Brooks known as Mamaw. Her mother was Sarah Elizabeth Carter who married Levi Benjamin Cooper, a son of Charner P. Cooper of Chambers County.
- Frank Delbert Cochran (13 KB)
Funeral Home Receipt
- Anne Carter (28 KB)
On the left she stands by her granny Lorena, and Lorena's daughter Katie Bell McClain. They raised her after her mom Alice McClain Carter died. All buried at Memorial
- Frank Delbert Cochran wed Luella Ellen Coonfield (199 KB)
Married in Arkansas, moved to Missouri, then Oklahoma, then back to Chetopa Kansas where they had Frankie in 1927
- Anne Carter's mother (16 KB)
Emily Alice McClain was married to Cecil Carter and she died at the age of 19 after giving birth to her third child.
- Luella's father Ben (39 KB)
Those Cochran boys sure look a lot like their grandfather Ben Coonfield
- John Lewis Bozeman (1305 KB)
Buried in Covington County, may connect to Philemon
- Frank D. Cochran (50 KB)
Father of Frankie and Cleo and JB |
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Those I am studying
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Others involved in this research.
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"I have Cherokee blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!"Will Rogers
With so many families in former Creek Nation Alabama, it is quite possible we are mixed.
Frankie was honest, hard working and faithful, grew up on a farm, some education until he joined the Air Force. Baptised in a creek in Chetopa Kansas and read his Bible every day. His word was law and his friends knew that he always had a place at the dinner table for them or an extra chair by the fish pond.
He served in Korea as a copilot of a bomber plane and was wounded and sent back to Maxwell AFB in Alabama where he then told his brother Freelon that it was too hot for him to go there and Freelon went to Korea anyway and died in a truck incident.
Several in my family have had special gifts, the gift of knowing and seeing, the gift of healing or the ability to stop bleeding. Dad had several true premonitions and the night before he passed away, he held me in his arms saying I love you more than you will ever know and he was gone on that Christmas morning.
His sister was born with a veil over her face. His aunt heard ticking in the wall before a loved one died. His granny Clora smoked a pipe and could read the ashes. He witnessed many healings by my mom's granny and he was very close to her. Most made their own medicines. He spoke of his mother spending hours in the field gathering herbs.
He found peace at the fish pond, that is where he could be found on the weekends and I feel now that he is at peace with his elders and loved ones while guiding me along this journey of love.
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Little Family Tree Research : all things connected to Captain George Little of Scotland. There has been much speculation as to the birth dates of his children with a Scottish wife, Mary. My thoughts from browsing the 1790 Union District census records are: He was born 1733...age 21 when he came to America ( 1754 ) married and then 10 children.....was in war 1776 at age 43 for two years in the Third Regiment of the Colonial Army..was Sargent, Lieutenant, then Captain until Tarleton's men shot him in the hip causing disability......on 1790 census with 10 others in household....I would suspect that since I find no record of all of his daughters and their husbands that it is possible some married and stayed home to take care of the ailing father.
Wouldnt his wife be too old for childbirth after the war?
1790 census shows a Jonas, John, Joseph each in their own household...are they his children or brothers or no relation? They have children!! If Jonas did not marry Betsy Douglass until she was 18, perhaps he had a previous marriage...However if OUR Jonas Little was not born until 1780, as indicated on Laura Little's DAR lineage report, then the guy we see on the 1790 census is "someone else". I personally think that she estimated his date of birth as so many did back then.
Joseph and John Jr are in Colonel Brandon's regiment in 1790 so he is obviously married with family long before they all moved away from SC into TN and KY. So Joseph could have been born around 1750 and his brother's son about 1770 for them both to be in a 1790 regiment ! John shows 9 family members in his household so he's at least been married 10 years.
So the estimated birth dates on other family trees have to be incorrect - these men had to be born before the war and not after....besides at the age of their parents, it might be impossible. Perhaps locating the other sons, William and Thomas, will give us more clues.
George and Mary's daughters were born in the 1760s and I would feel certain that the sons were also........This couple had at least 20 years together before the war and the children were all likely born long before he became disabled. He apparently could not have children with Mary Douglass when they married - in fact there is no record of her having any children after being with Alexander Douglass.
The only other possible theory is that George Little might have come to America with several brothers and they all settled into South Carolina.
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