The Cochran and Coonfield lineage of the midwest. Alexander Cochran raised his family in Pennsylvania and soon settled into Ohio, possibly Quakers, with several sons joining the Civil War and even living in California during the Gold Rush. Later these young men moved to Iowa to farm the new land, and after several years, Jacob Benjamin Cochran moved to Kansas with second wife Clora Jane Miller, a daughter of Mary Clara Parker.
Many of these mixed migrations were referred to as Pennsylvania Dutch.
Family lore is that Mary shared medicine with the indians and research shows that her ancestors were in the 1600s and 1700s New York Indian Country as well as Mass and Rhode Island, with one cousin, Joshua Tefft was killed by King Phillip. One Mr Sweete was banned from England as a Catholic Priest and lived in exile in France. These cousins from the 1600s do not really count but it is really touching to know they had something to do with our being on this earth.
As far as documenting the Cochran lineage, I have none beyond Jacob to prove the names of his parents or grandparents. Locating a census record or a will or more would help to prove this lineage.
Perhaps Jacob told his children about his parents but reading the census records, I can safely say there were dozens of Williams, Alexanders, and Jacob Cochrans in Pennsylvania and Ohio and even those who migrated to Iowa Territory. Apparently William Cochran married Martha Henderson in Ohio and had Jacob but this author has not located a marriage record. Several Cochrans came out of Pennsylvania and Maryland into Ohio and causes a bit of confusion in tracing our own.
Fortunately for many other lineages, those before us have done a lot of research that I can go back and verify for myself leaving reason to believe most of what I can see.
Isaac and Barsheba Clark Coonfield spent many years in early Kentucky and then moved to Indiana with their grown children. She was found widowed on the 1830 census. Her son Isaac Benjamin Coonfield moved his family to Arkansas. This family is mentioned in the book of the Early History of Morgan County Indiana.
There was a John Martin Coonfield born about 1795 in Pennsylvania following Isaac who could have been a brother, surely not his son, but also found in KY and OH. There was a John McMasters Coonfield born 1796 Kentucky who might be the son of Isaac and Barsheba but at this point, it is so confusing. Those early 1800 census records did not give age nor location of birth, and it did not list the number nor names of the children, so we really do not know when nor where Barsheba Clark married Isaac Coonfield and thus far we can only guess at the names of their parents and surely Barsheba would have at least one son named after her own father which was the custom.
One of their daughters married an Obediah Clark, and one married Arch Clark, and I am thinking of how royalty preferred to keep it in the family. Both Clarks followed Barsheba to Indiana.
Now I wonder why the move? They leave their established homes and farms in Kentucky to start over and this is before 1830.
Grandma Barsheba also had a son named Isaac who married Lydia Epperson, named his son Isaac, while that John Coonfield named a son Isaac and Barsheba's other son James, also named a son Isaac, so we must be careful reading those census images.
Lydia died young and her sister Mary Epperson married Isaac and they moved to Arkansas having more children, and may have lost three sons in the civil war.
Lydia's son Benjamin Wylie Coonfield married Martha Frances Young in Indiana and moved to Arkansas, having a son named Ben. My Aunt Deloris Cochran said that Ben's hair was so black that it looked blue.
Martha's parents were possibly Minerva Evans and James Young of Kentucky and there was a George Young on the 1860 census in their household, probably a brother of James. Martha named sons George and James so this is only my theory of her genealogy. Martha's father and uncle appear to have been born in Pennsylvania while her mother if from Kentucky. Then the 1850 census shows us that the Uncle George was bron in New Jersey and that the first son of James, named Edward, was born in Iowa so now we get to research that state as well. There was only one James Young found in 1840 Iowa Territory, and he was in Des Moines.
When I look into 1820 Clark County Kentucky there are several Youngs and Evans families close together and even an Epperson family.
1810 shows Eddward, 2 James, William, Robert, John and Mr Original Young !! Original seems to the the elder and with no children in household. Also finding Peter, James, Abrahama nd a Mabra Evans. Then 1800 M Evans is in South Carolina.
Name: Original Young
State: VA
County: Fauquier County
Township: Rental Rolls
Year: 1777
Record Type: Rent Role
Database: VA Early Census Index
Name: Original Young
State: KY
County: Clark County
Township: No Township Listed
Year: 1800
Record Type: Tax list
Database: KY Early Census Index
Name: Original Young
State: OH
County: Army Lands
Township: VA Millitary Dist
Year: 1801
Record Type: Tax list
Page: 111
Database: OH Early Census Index
Great Grandpa Benjamin Wallace Coonfield married Lattie Cedonia Little and they had Amy, Ruth and Luella Coonfield, Harrison and several other children. Amy married Joe Gray and I had corresponded with their daughter Verna, who forwarded copies of her late sister's research ( Dorline Gray Teegardin ) who was trying to connect this lineage to Chief Powhatan. Cousin Verna even sent me a p;icture of my dad, Frankie Cochran, when he was very young. On the phone she was very sweet and glad that I was working on our lineage, saying that much of Dorline's work had been loaned out and there was not much she could copy for me to learn from, but thought that her sister, Dorline had joined a Pocahontas Club.
Dorline had also been corresponding with our cousin Martha in Arizona, who also shared a great amount of research with me regarding L P Little. L P Little had a great way of leaving a trail of his elders by giving each child a middle name of one of his ancestors and I am honoring him and his work by writing about him on the Kentucky webpage. In fact Lucius had written articles about others that he knew and I would love to find a copy to add to my little collection of things in our genealogy.
Arkansas land records indicate that Isaac Coonfield bought land in 1856.
Hiram Lucius Little, son of Betsy Douglas and Jonas Little, had lost his wife, Catherine Wright, in Kentucky and moved to Texas. His son John Little served in the Civil War as a blacksmith, married, had several children, lost his wife and then moved his family into Arkansas.
Our grandma Betsy was found widowed and living with her daughter Betsy Roberts on the 1850 census.
Hiram Little married Rebecca Isabella Adams in Bosque County Texas and had more children including a Hiram jr. Most are buried at the Meridian Cemetery. Hiram's headstone refers to him as a doctor and a mason.
Apparently some of the brothers of grandpa Jonas had already removed to Texas by 1800 and our Hiram had joined them. Our Texas migration needs further study.
Betsy Douglass Little had another son named Douglass Little who married Martha Ann Wright, his sister in law. Martha named her first son, Powhatan and he was a lawyer, and a judge, who was a great writer and did a lot of research on his lineage; as did his daughter, Laura Simmons Little.
They traced Mary Handley to parents Martha Mason and George Handley of Ireland, noting that Mary was born asea, on the trip over. Mary's brother was Captain John Handley. Their notes also chart a Thomas Jones settling in the 1600s on James River in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico County, Virginia and wrote about a Polly Jones who may have been the wife or companion of Charles Weatherford, but then again their work was blurred and Polly could have been related to L P's mother instead.
Mother of the Wright sisters was Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Charles Weatherford in Charlotte VA. Alabama land records indicate land sold to a Charles in 1841 if this is his grandson by Red Eagle. So far records only indicate one Charles Weatherford born in this time period and it is quite possible that he had more than one wife than history would like for us to believe and if he was indian trader, he probably had many children that have not been noted.
History also indicates that the father of Red Eagle was from Scotland, and a his grandson on the creek indian mailing list says that Charles fathered many children with many women and then went back to Scotland but we may never know the facts. Some family trees indicate that Charles was the son of Martin Weatherford and an indian woman called Mary in Charlotte Virginia who migrated to Georgia and I did find documentation in the Georgia Archives onlne that show Martin was a wealthy planter and it mentions nothing at all about Scotland. Martin was a loyalist, very outspoken and the state of Ga banned him so he moved his family to the Bahamas and more documentation is found to prove that.
Hopefully something will surface to resolve the mystery.
Laura Little joined the DAR and had a monument dedicated to her great grandfather, Captain George Little in Kentucky. Laura's granddaughter, Martha, in Arizona has assisted with this research. Laura had studied the Weatherfords, Wrights and Chief Powhatan. Laura had joined the American Genealogical First Families. leaving a fantastic paper trail for her descendants to follow.
Parents of Betsy were Mary Handley and Alexander Douglass who were married in PA. MMary's brother Captain John Handley became a surveyor like Davy Crockett and on one trip to the new land in Kentucky, before 1800, his brother in law, Alexander Douglass went with him and never returned. Alexander was murdered by indians on his way back home. His wife took her girls and moved into a scottish settlement in South Carolina, where her daughter married Jonas little. Later the father of Jonas, George Little, married his son's mother in law. Both had become widowed but they had no children together that we know of.
Ironically there was an older Jonas Little in South Carolina, who's descendants moved southward and into Alabama and we can only suspect there may be some connection to George. The 1790 census of Newberry, Union, South Carolina shows George with a housefull of children but it also shows others around his home named Jonas, Joseph, William and John who could also be his Scottish siblings. Some of those came through Alabama and Texas but it is hard to configure.
Hiram Little's son was John Wright Little who married a Mary Catherine Crigler. John lived with her family before the marriage, with her parents Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler.
Abraham's parents were Lydia Carpenter and Owen Crigler. Catherine's parents were Kitty Simmons and Reason Roby. These families left Virginia to settle in the new land of Kentucky about 1800 among friendly indians who were also migrating westward.
John and Mary were beautiful, dark complected, had black eyes and black hair and they had Cherokee blood.
The Battle of Alamo lists a soldier named Hiram Little and there is a possible connection to our lineage as some of the decendants are found in Texas census records. and one receiving a land grant in Texas.
Much of my research is being added to usgenweb.com
Descendant of all of these was Frankie Lavern Cochran born 1927.and Kathy Cochran who was born in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma later moved to Montgomery Alabama after spendng a few years in Arizona. Frankie had dark hair and blue eyes like his father and his younger pictures resemble his father, but as Frankie aged, he resembled his grandpa Coonfield very much.
Pictures of Catherine Crigler and then those of the Coonfield women show us they all had long dark hair in braids and dark eyes. Luella Coonfield and her mother in law Clora Jane both smoked pipes. The pipes are in the possession of cousin Stanley.
Aunt Irma talked of granny Clora Jane Miller Cochran being a sweet old lady who stayed with them for a while when grandpa Jacob died. Clora stayed with each of her children, taking turns, as she had no place to go. She taught them about corn and how to pop it. She mysteriously read the ashes of her pipe. Aunt Irma was the child born with a veil over her face. The doctor removed the veil twice as it seemed to grow back and on the third veil, her mother Luella took it and placed it in the Bible where it still exists to this day.
Frankie's sisters have assisted with this research. There are many documents, pictures, census records, letters marriage licenses, death certificates, land records, wills, and our other research posted on Kathy's webpage at
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochransgenweb/Lorena.html
www.hometown.aol.com/kc90853/Links.html
Annie Carter as a baby being held by her Uncle Walton McClain shows us how very dark the McClain boys were just like their father with black eyes and black hair so it is
quite possible that the McClain lineage was of indian blood. Annie 's school picture shows that she had long straight black hair and black eyes, even though she had it curled up in this photo of her in 1953 pregnant with Kathy in Tulsa OK.
Looking at Annie's grandmother, Lorena Bozeman's lineage, I wondered repeatedly about her father's name, John Thomas Bozeman, and how it may have originated. His great grandfather Peter married a widow, Sarah Brown and she named her first son Meade so that may have been her maiden name; then a son was named William Henry and that could have been her father's name; so looking back at the 1790 census of South Carolina, I do find a William Meade and a Thomas Meade so this may be another clue in our mystery of names. We know that William Henry Bozeman might have been the first to name a son John Thomas Bozeman and wonder where the name Thomas came into play.
Digging through mom's letters and cards, I found an article from the newspaper of 1956 that listed Lorena McClain having surgery at Maxwell AFB hospital and later found that grandpa McClain had served in WWI. The article also listed Anne Cochran and family were relocating to Mesa Arizona and it listed her cousin James Duncan was going to San Antonio. These were found in Anne's old blue diaper bag that she used in Mesa AZ and brought back with her to Montgomery Alabama.
Arizana is a small memory in my mind. We had a lot of burritos that mom cooked, took pictures in the desert and grand canyon, went swimming in the Verde River, Coonsbluff, and drove thru well lighted mountain tunnels. Most of our friends and neighbors were indian or mexican and we spoke a little spanish that I have long since forgotten. My cousin Frankie Haraughty was a daily playmate since his mom Eunice Cochran lived nearby. We played with strange bugs and creatures of the land and watched the daily irrigation of the fields when our front ditches filled with water every afternoon at 4. Frankie's brother Frances was called Chigger by my dad. Chigger was the one making home movies of us back then.
One of Lorena Bozeman 's distant cousins married a Jordan which is a line leading directly to Pocahontas and some of the Jordans settled in Elmore County. Lorena's uncle Peter Bozeman married a Dillard and that line also connects to Pocahontas.
Cousin Elizabeth helped with the Bozeman lineage as her grandmother Ethel was the sister of my great granny Lorena. Ruby Gibson told me that Charles McClain and Jason Gibson were cousins and we connected their mothers as Broadway children of Abner Broadway and I verified through census records. One of the Gibsons had marched in Governor Wallace's inaugural parade. Ruby also told me that my grandfather Cecil Carter was still in the military when he married my granny Alice McClain but I have not been able to verify.
We do not know if there were any suvivors benefits for Cecil's children as Lorena Bozeman McClain raised them but do know the McClains left Ramer and lived on Highland Avenue for a while. Cecil's adoption records have not been found, but his children knew of his Fenn family and I have contacted some of the Fenn relatives.
Cousin Martha Fenn had only a few blurred pictures of Cecils' siblings and told me where Uncle Frank and Uncle Robert were buried in Coosada, Elmore County, AL.
Her brother, my cousin Bob Fenn, talked about his family on the farm there is Coosada.
I found another cousin, Nancy Fenn, in Montgomery, who connects to the Mathew Fenn who owned the plantation in Eufaula.
Our great grandfather William Frank Fenn had married Anna Lou Stone and his great grandfather Michael Stone came to Alabama from Maryland. There is a Banister Stone in my McClain / Moon family of South Carolina but I have not made any connection; then my husband's lineage in Tennessee has a Catherine Stone of the Carolinas who married John Baptist Bond.
Michael Stone had married Polly Wells in Putnam, Georgia and they are found on a census living in a Captain John Stone's District. Their son Benjamin Wilburne Stone married Sarah Davies and had Augustus Marvin Stone. Augustus married Mary Ann Hendrick, a daughter of Mary Ann Winters and John Hendrick. The 1850 census of Macon County Alabama shows us Michael living next to son William and son Benjamin with their children's names listed.
Anna's brother was Arthur Augustus Stone and his son was William Arthur Stone, known as Tige to the St Louis Cardinals of 1923.
The obituary of grandpa Cecil lists a Walter Stone as a pallbearer. His death certificate is signed by his brother Emmett Fenn. Cecil is buried at Memorial Cemetery in Montgomery and Emmett is buried at Greenwood by their father. Their father's brother Madison is buried by them without a headstone. Madison was known as Uncle Mat. Uncle Mat had married and moved to Texas and never had any children, but came back to Montgomery after his wife died. Mat's brother Thomas had
also gone to Texas.
After taking pictures of their headstones at Greenwood, getting close to the exit I discovered the Bozeman family plot, with Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman buried by her sons Robert and Meady and their families.
My husband's great grandparents Annie Clark Ballard and John Brooks of Tennessee are also buried at Greenwood by Susie Mae Cooper brooks. I would love to learn more about those TN families who had migrated from the Carolinas, during a time of indian removal . Indian Wars also caused many friendly indians to move westward..Annie Ballard was a beautiful dark featured lady who only had one child. Mary Josephine Hereford was from Virginina and her family all moved into Alabama and she wa also another beautiful dark featured lady.
http://www.hometown.aol.com/mrsbrooks2/9.html
In the beginning land in Alabama was only $2.00 an acre.
http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/alagenweb
http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/n/c/Samanthas-Ancestors/
www.angelfire.com/blog/kathybrooks.com
.http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/o/c/Frankie-Cochran/.
.Elijah Lee and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina born 1770s brought their families to Chambers County Alabama, former Creek Indian Lands, before 1840. It has been said that Elijah paid an indian directly for his land. Elijah had married Malinda Phillips of Green County Georgia and some believe the Phillips were of indian blood. Andrew Cooper may have also married an indian woman named Alsey and her last name had never been discovered. On the 1840 census Alsey appears to be widowed with children. 1840 shows Elijah Lee living near a John Phillips. The Alabama Land Records show that Elijah bought land in 1823 so it was long before the Trail of Tears.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~alchambe/grpsht.html
The Lees are buried at the Old Harmony Baptist Church cemetery and the graves of the Coopers are not yet found. Aunt Sissy says that grandpa Levi Cooper is buried by his sons at a church cemetery in Cecil, Alabama. They had resided in Whitehall according to Aunt Sissy. She and her son Butch have been a great help!
Descendant Susie Mae Cooper Brooks is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. Her descendant Charlie Brooks is buried at Brookside Memorial in Millbrook, Alabama.
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Charner P Cooper, son of Andrew, married Sarah F Lee, daughter of Elijah, and their son Levi Benjamin Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter, a daughter of Thomas Randolph Carter and Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia. Mary had a beautiful complexion, black eyes and black hair. The grave of TRC born 1820 was found in Hope Hull, Montgomery, Alabama by his first wife, Lacy Jane Bozeman and I really appreciate my daughter driving us through that cow pasture to find that little cemetery hidden behind the pond, and it really deserves a historical marker.
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The Bozemans came from South Carolina and NC 1700s moving into Alabama as some of the Indian Tribes moved west in the early 1800s. Lacy's father Jesse's headstone shows that he was born 1793. Apparently Jesse had been married twice . Many legal documents exist in Montgomery County regarding the Bozeman families.
Jesse Bozeman was the brother of William Henry Bozeman and administrator of his Estate. Their father was Peter Bozeman of Darlington South Carolina who served in the American Revolution along with his own father, Mordecai Bozeman. Peter and his wife Sarah, had moved their families into Alabama about 1820 and they are probably buried in Hope Hull, Montgomery County, Alabama. Several Bozemans were buying land in Alabama in the 1820s and 1830s.
Just imagine the many wagon trains flowing in..
William Henry named his sons, Meady, Peter Edward, and John Thomas Bozeman. John's descendant, Jimmy Ray has assisted with this research. Meady's descendant Wayne and his wife Sue Carol have also assisted. Wayne and Jimmy have had many years of genealogy work before me and were so kind and proud to share with a new cousin.
*Thomas Carter was the son of John Wise Carter who some say was buried in Talladega Alabama. John was born 1792 South Carolina, the son of Elizabeth Wise and Captain John Carter who may have served in the War of 1812 and the American Revolution. John bought land in Alabama in 1821.
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Susie Mae Cooper's husband was James Edgar Brooks Sr and their son was James Jr. The parents of James came from Tennessee with the railroad and they resided downtown Montgomery Alabama near the Union Station. They were Annie Clark Ballard and John Brooks, all buried at Greenwood. John's father was also named John, born in Pennsylvania to Dutch parents. He was found in the 1860 census of Giles TN, the same year he met and married Roxanna Permilia Smith.note Our cousin Clarence and his mother Sissy have assisted with this research and contributed to the Montgomery Cemetery research with his survey of Carter-Stokes cemetery in Hope Hull, which should be appropriately named Carter and Bozeman Cemetery.
The Smith families connect to a Captain John Smith of Virginia.
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The Ballards were previously in the Carolinas, as were the Bond, and Ward families.
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James Edgar Brooks Jr married Mary Ella Thornton and had a son named Charles in Montgomery Alabama. He also worked a while with the railroad while living on Hull Street near my grandpa Fenn but the Brooks soon moved to Millbrook and had a huge garden and seven boys and one daughter. Mr Brooks became an exterminator for a few years before he joined the John Deere dealership. They are buried in Prattville by their son Johnny.
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Mary Ella's parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton and they are buried in Slapout/ Holtville, in Elmore County AL at the Cain's Chapel Cemetery near many other family members.
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Elijah's parents came from Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton; we found their graves behind an old primitive Baptist Church in Central, Elmore, AL on the way to the Lake.Mary Ella's sister, Lorraine said that Mary Angeline was an indian and my daughter took me to the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Central to locate those headstones.
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Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and Allen Wesley Hood but his headstone has an L W on it. His parents are hard to trace and prove. Hers were James and Marnda Baxley of Cold Spring, Elmore, AL and thus begins the brick wall in our research.
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Charles Brooks married Kathy Cochran, daughter of Anne Carter and Frankie Cochran.
*Anne Carter was the daughter of Alice Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter.
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Frankie Cochran was born in Kansas a son of Luella Coonfield of Arkansas and Frank Delbert Cochran.
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Alice McClain's parents were Lorena Emma Bozeman and Charles Allen McClain of Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama. The parents of Charles were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain ( Civil War Soldier of GA). Josiah's ancestors were Elizabeth Moon and Charles McClain of Virginia 1700s. Josiah's father James was found in Alabama on the 1860 census and had possibly married an indian named Anna. The Broadways came out of South Carolina and Elizabeth's father Abner had married Mary Susan Stephens of Alabama.
Lorena's parents were Alice Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman. Alice Stephen's great great grandfather John Stephens had married a full blood Cherokee in North Carolina and began a journey to Alabama where many of his grandchildren settled in Ramer.
Parents of John Bozeman were Nancy Jane Anderson and Peter Edward Bozeman. Peter was the son of William Henry Bozeman. Our Bozeman family says that Peter Edward is buried behind the Hills Chapel Church in the woods where there was once a cemetery many years ago.
Nancy's parents were Lavinia Jane Sellers and Seaborn Anderson. Lavinia's sister married a Cooper. Seaborn Anderson's ancestors and his father Elijah had settled in Lowndes County before moving to Montgomery, Alabama. Elijah's parents were Lavinia Brack and Elisha Anderson who's Will is located at the Montgomery County Archives. This line connects to the Mayflower's Edward Doty.as Lavinia Brack's mother was Hester Doty, a daughter of Benajah Doty and Elizabeth Farr.
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Cecil's parents were Anne Lou Stone and William Frank Fenn of Bullock County Alabama. Tracing back to Michael Stone of Maryland and William Stone of Virginia. Some of the Fanns were Indian Traders into Georgia before settling in Alabama.
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Luella Coonfield's parents were married in Arkansas, Lattie Cedonia Little of KY and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of ARK
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Frank Delbert's parents were Clora Jane Miller of Iowa and Jacob Benjamin Cochran of Ohio who settled in Kansas. Jacob had six daughters by his first wife, Mariah, who would also be related. 1880 census shows he had a grandson named Frank by one of those girls.
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Back in the old days stories were shared
and notes were written and if we are
fortunate enough to place our hands
on these or perhaps an old family
Bible we can learn much more about our
pioneer ancestors to pass on to our grandchildren.
I have been amazed at the many little notes my mother and her granny had
jotted down over the years and even saved newspaper clippings. Apparently her granny kept up with her children's illnesses, allergies and every little scratch.
Our families immigrated from many different countries
bringing their skills, talents, and beliefs which
they shared with their new neighbors.
Some of their new neighbors were the original
Native Americans; they lived closely together,
worked and struggled together to survive, and intermarried with these
beautiful strong spirited people.
They had to create their own medicine to fight the many
new diseases brought to our country and some
had the divine gift of healing.
USGenWeb.com has vast amount of history
being contributed by volunteers all over the country,
along with many of the state's old records for us to search through
and I am adding my own research to their website.
NARA and CherokeeNation.org can lead one to find
the images of original registrations of our Native Americans
as they signed up in the new Oklahoma Indian Territory. Locating
your ancestors on these "Rolls" can lead you to becoming a member of
the Indian Nation, and you can order their application
packets to review if you are not sure.
One can also prove their Indian Blood
and become a member of their First Families which is something I would
love to do with our lineage but I am merely a few years into our genealogy
and have much more to learn before taking that step.
NARA can also lead one to find military records, as
we all had ancestors in the American Revolution,
and the Civil War, so you might even locate their pension
records. Joining the DAR would be very rewarding for our children
and grandchildren.
This author was never a good history student but has recently
become very interested in the locations of her ancestors
and the lives they had back then.
Most of my ancestors landed in Virginia,
and have claimed ancestry from Chief Powhattan
yet with his very many wives and dozens
of children, only a few were probably documented,
and we may just have to live with the legend of our
Indian Blood.
North Carolina was Cherokee Nation
and our ancestors spent much time there
before venturing into South Carolina
and Georgia; then it appears they all lived in
Alabama at some point in time.
Georgia was mostly Creek Territory and all of my
mother's family came through there, settled there for a while and
some married there. Some were Indian Traders, some were only
searching for gold, some continued to travel west.
Thousands of pioneers and indians had to leave
their homelands, due to the many battles
happening around them.
While some were Indian Wars, we will find
that some left because of their beliefs or religion;
some left to explore new land for food or to
find gold.
Many moved to find food and peace in the land.
Some Colonial church records indicate who did or did not pay their tithes, and many
new families did not want to join the Church of England which seemed to rule the new land.
Fascinating information can now be found on the internet
and we can build webpages to help others
connect as new cousins, and share
new important information.
One link leads to another
and mine begin here,
some factual, some family legend, which
I can only pass on with hope of finding the truth.
Our Cherokee Research with many pages linked
Polly Jones married Charles Weatherford and had our Catherine G Weatherford who married John C Wright and how does Thomas Jefferson fit into this picture or perhaps Chief Red Eagle
There are many stories on the net about our ancestors and one can easily put their names into a Search and read about them.
Captain George Little of Scotland, widower, married his son's mother in law
and they moved from South Carolina into Tennesee, then Kentucky
by 1800 and I have been able to follow his path through the census records. In fact in 1840 I found his son Jonas Little living near most of his grown married children all on one page at Panther Creek in Kentucky. George and a man named Jonas Little served in the American Revolution and I suspect this was his brother since it was also the name of his son. The elder Jonas lineage went south through Georgia and Alabama. There are many Little families found in early Texas which may come from both of these gentlemen.
Thomas Jones immigrated from England around 1619 and settled
in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico, Virginia, according to research done by our cousin L P Little but this information may connect to his mother and not ours. His paper trail is blurred and hard to follow.
John Bozeman started the Oregon Trail
and may be a distant cousin to my great granny
Lorena Bozeman.
A book "Sketches of Bozeman" did not include the Alabama lineage but the
author knew and wrote about the ones who moved from SC. I have gathered
enough information on the Alabama Bozemans to
fill another book.
Charles McClain left VA for SC due to Indian unrest. There were friendly indians who feared the ones seeking war.Some McClains moved into Kentucky and some moved to Oklahoma Indian Territory, but
mine came to Alabama during the Civil War.
Charles had a son named Josiah
who had a son named James. James married an indian woman he called Anna in Georgia and named their son Josiah Marion McClain. JMM married
Elizabeth Broadway in Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama and their
son Charles married Lorena Bozeman.
I found where grandpa Josiah served and was wounded in the Civil War and his widow received his pension. By 1910 she had remarried and I found her on a census with son Charles and his wife and their first baby.
Some Bozemans applied to join Indian Nation and were rejected.
Great Great grandpa John Thomas Bozeman of Ramer Alabama married four times, his third being Sarah Ellen Bean, cousin of the famous hanging Judge Roy Bean.
Martin Weatherford and Mary Half Blood were banished from the state
of Georgia and fled to the Bahamas. I managed to locate some Georgia history about Martin being a wealthy planter.
John Stephens descendants eventually went back to Florida
then on to Cuba and Panama to grow and sell banana crops, even today they are doing well and have written a book about our lineage. Grandpa John
had served in the Revolution and married a full blood Cherokee. Their granddaughter Alice Stephens married John Bozeman and they had Lorena.
Jacob Cochran was one of the very first families to homestead in
Hill City, Kansas after they left Iowa. His daughter Clora kept my Aunt Bernice
informed of their history. The Cochrans had some awesome sky blue eyes and the men never went bald like we see some families like the Brooks men who had lost their hair before the age of 30.
Several Cochrans went to Arizona or California seeking gold. My father followed his family there seeking work, milking cows at the dairy and driving a tractor helping to clear some land and we went frog gigging in Mesa or swimming at Coonsbluff.
Matthew Fenn employed Indians on his plantation
in Eufaula Alabama yet might have been killed by one of them
and buried on his land. He is mentioned in the book " Early Settlers of Bullock County Alabama"
Many years later when the Fenn Plantation was sold, the
new owners lost a case in court to move
his grave. My cousin Nancy Fenn once worked at the courthouse
and traced her line to Matthew and fought to protect that legacy.
The Fann / Fenn line of England started in Virginia as some were found in Georgia as Indian Traders.
My grandpa Elijah Fenn married a Martha Rich in Emanuel GA and her mother was only known as Abiah of the Cherokee Nation East.
Abiah Rich was born about 1760 in Creek Territory Georgia.
Elijah's son John was found in Macon Alabama in 1860 which was former Creek
lands.
John and Matthew Fenn were cousins.
Many of these families were given land through the
Georgia Land Lottery and some
had land grants from the King of England
if they settled in Virginia or the new colonies. Some received even more land if they returned to England to bring back more of their family to help develop this new country. The thought of finding gold had folks rushing in.
Many land grants were given to the soldiers of
the American Revolution and a pension if they served at least 90 days.
Mariah White Cochran on Ohio census
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/1.html
Joseph White next to Henderson in Ohio 1850 census
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/4.html
Jacob and John Henderson Cochran in California census
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/2.html
William Cochran in 1820 census of Ohio next to Hendersons
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/3.html
1830 Alexander and Jacob in Ohio
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/4.html
William and Alexander are sons of Alexander Cochran in 1830 Ohio
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/6.html
An Alexander Cochran in 1850 Ohio could be a cousin or uncle or maybe no relation
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/7.html
Joseph Cochran
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/8.html
Benjamin Cochran in 1840
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/9.html
Brice Cochran
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/10.html
Thomas
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/11.html
Alexander and Eliza in Iowa
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/12.html
1870 census with Jacob and Mariah in Iowa
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/13.html
Clark Burningham Cochran in 1870 Illinois
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/14.html
Jonas Little ij 1840 and his grown married children on same page
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/15.html
Coonfield Notes
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/16.html
Freelon Cochran
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/Freelon.html
Frankie Lavern Cochran settled in Alabama with Anne Carter
http://www.hometown.aol.com/cochrangenealogy/index.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/mrsbrooks2/01.html
http://www.hometown.aol.com/kathycochran2/Family.html
Unrelated but interesting find is the famous Will Rogers being born in Rogers County, Oklahoma in 1890 and I found my grandparents Frank and Luella living in 1920 census of Rogers OK. Will's family had come from Georgia Cherokee Nation East and his mother's siser had married into Kathy's mothers lineage wayyyout on another branch of the family tree where Sellers met Scrimpshire, Anderson and Bozeman...
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