Many years of study into our family tree and meeting so many new cousins my own parents did not know has been so rewarding, so helpful. My Dad was Frankie Lavern Cochran 1927-1996 from Chetopa, Kansas, the son of Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran who married in Arkansas, where Grandpa had gone to look for work & found his true love. FD's parents were Clora Jane Miller, (daughter of Mary Parker) and Jacob Benjamin Cochran of Ohio and Iowa where he served in the Civil War then moved to Kansas, as the first homesteader in its history. There is a book about Cochran Clan but its Hugh and he is no place in our family tree names ever. Hugh had a land grant on one side of Ohio while Jacob's family was on the other side - no kin at all. Jacob's dad was William, the son of Alexander and these names are used often!!! There was a Jacob killed in the Civil War but not mine. Our Alexander had several children and grandchildren who migrated north and west, wherever the farming and the mining work was best. Now FD has one child left in Kansas, while his grandchildren are there, some in Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, and Alabama. Frankie L was injured in the Korean War and ended up stationed in AL at Maxwell AFB by 1951, where he met my mom and they married. He bought an old black Hudson car and a tiny one bed travel trailer and they went west to see his family. From state to state they met one, then the others, and had me in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. There were several Cochran and Coonfield families in Oklahoma and mom enjoyed her new families. Luella had always said that her parents Lattia Little & Ben Coonfield were mixed blood with two different tribes as they had come from Kentucky 1800 into Indiana 1824 and Arkansas 1837. Both of their fathers had served in the Civil War. Dozens of these great grandfathers in the branches of our family tree served in the War for Independence and some battled before that as many new pioneers including the Pilgrims landed on the new America. While Luella's husband refused to claim he married a mixed indian, her sister claimed it: Daddy's Aunt Virginia Jewell Savage as Cherokee mix Indian in Oklahoma 1930. Her Kentucky heritage was no shame to her family. Their family even settled near Daniel Boone, buying land soon after he had explored Kentucky and his daughter married into our line***Frankie Lavern Cochran Luella Coonfield Cochran Benjamin Wallace Coonfield m. LATTIE LITTLE. Martha Young Coonfield Minerva Evans Young Selah Scholl Evans Levinia Boone Scholl DANIEL BOONE We have many fascinating connections in our Family History !
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1790 George Little in Union County, SC by Hunt
1790 Jonas Little
1790 Joseph and John Little
1834 Elisha Anderson Last Will
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Grandma Anna Stone had a grandpa Michael of Maryland in Alabama
Stone, Fenn, Carter, Cochran great grandchildren in Alabama
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