Our Old Family Root Cellar is so full of interesting surnames who traveled, explored, and struggled for a long time before settling in the area around Montgomery Alabama.  There were many battles and adventures, with many recorded in our history on letters, military documents, family Bibles, and census records and land records, but along with the hard times, our families also had good times, they sang and danced, attended church socials, and enjoyed sharing with their new neighbors. 

Often I find they intermarried with neighbors, some even married cousins.  Poor John Bozeman, my great great grandfather had so many children that he married four times to keep a wife in the home to take care of things, while he did the farming. Yet then we have the grandfathers who simply loved women and had more children than they really knew about.

The Four Winds guided their journey to this beautiful part of the country with it's flowing rivers and rich soil, where they could find food and grow their crops, raise their children, and succeed. Most of my ancestors had connections to Montgomery County. The lands of Montgomery County were put up for auction at the Federal Land Office in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1816. Larger parcels were sold to developers who subdivided the land into lots for urban commercial and residential use, predetermining a major city on the banks of the Alabama River at Montgomery. A hardy and superior class of people penetrated the wilderness. Settlements and towns sprang into existence everywhere. The City of Montgomery, which became the county seat in 1822, was built on the side of the Indian town Ikanatchati (Econachatee), which means red ground, and Towasa on a high red bluff known to Alibamu Indians as Chunnaanaauga Chatty.

Many served in the Civil War http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/CivilWar.html

Here are some of my surnames:

Elijah Anderson and Lavinia Brack Anderson ( daughter of Hester Doty ) , Seaborn Montgomery Anderson, Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman,  Annie Clark Ballard, Peter Bozeman,  Abner Broadway, John Edwin Brooks, Thomas Randolph Carter and Lacy Jane Bozeman, John Wise Carter, Mary Josephine Hereferd, Frank Cochran ( son of Luella Coonfield), Andrew Cooper, Levi Benjamin Cooper of Chambers County, John and Matthew Fenn of the Eufaula Plantation, James Edgar Brooks, Susie Mae Cooper, Emeline Harrell, Allen Wesley Hood, Milton Elijah Hood, Elijah Lee, Malinda Phillips, James and Josiah McClain, William Calvin Sellers, John Stephens in Ramer, Nat Dillard in Dublin, John A. Hill in Dublin, Cecil Earl Fenn Carter of Thompson, Bullock County, Michael and Benjamin Stone, Augustus Marvin Stone, George Partridge of Central, Elmore County, James Baxley of Cold Springs, Elmore County, and George Thornton of "Kiliga".  These families came from many other states around 1800 to settle in Alabama http://www.hometown.aol.com/alabamagenealogy/2.html

Continued..... (http://www.hometown.aol.com/montgomerygenweb/Ancestors.html-http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/FILES/DAR.htm )

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Photos/BozemanLineage.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/scrimshire.txt

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/AbnerBroadway2Elizabeth.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/CharlesMcClain.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/CharnerPCooper.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Cecil.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/Cochran.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/JohnBROOKE.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/ELISHaANDERSON.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/alicestephens.txt

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/FamilyJewels.html
Grandma Stone>http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/e/n/Anna-S-Fenn/

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