her
grandparents were Alice Emma McClain and
Cecil Earl Fenn Carter/
and
Luella Ellen Coonfield
and Frank Delbert Cochran.
Grandpa Cecil was a Cherokee. and Grandma Luella
said she was Cherokee
mix.
parents
of Frank
Delbert Cochran were Clora Jane
Miller ( daughter of Mary Clara Parker and James
Madison Miller)
and Jacob Benjamin
Cochran ( son of Martha Henderson and Alexander
Cochran)
Parents
of John
Wright Little were Catherine G Wright and
Hiram Lucius Little born in Kentucky.
Parents of Catherine were Catherine Weatherford and John
C Wright. Parents of Hiram were Betsy
Douglass and Jonas Little. Parents of
Betsy
were Mary Handley and
Alexander Douglass - parents of Jonas were Mary and
George Little of
Scotland.
John
Wright Little had married Mary Catherine Crigler, a
daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham
Crigler. Catherine was the daughter of Reason
Roby
and Kitty Simmons. Kitty was the
daughter of Rachel Wells and
Jesse Simmons.
It is
told that the families of John Little refused a land
allotment in Indian Territory Oklahoma. He
claimed to be white and moved to Arkansas, where he
is buried on some unknown mountaintop. His daughter
Lattie Cedonia told her children and my granny
Luella that they were mixed Cherokee from
Kentucky
Ben
Coonfield's parents were Isaac
and Lydia Epperson Coonfield
It is told
that Miss Stephens' grandfather John was in the American
Revolution and then married a full blood Cherokee in SC
and gave her a Biblical name, before migrating to Ramer
AL
Parents of Josiah were
"Anna" and
James McClain who
descends from
Elizabeth Moon
and
Charles McClain. This unknown Anna may have been born in
Creek Nation. Parents of James were Nancy Wood and
Josiah McClain of Spartanburg
SC
William Henry was the son of
American Rev War Soldier Peter
Bozeman and
Sarah
Brown
Lavinia's parents were Levinia Anderson
and
William C Sellers, while Levinia's parents were Lavinia
Brack and Elisha Anderson - a
brother of Elijah Anderson - parents of Lavinia Brack
were Hester Doty and
George Brack.
parents of
Mary Clara Parker were Rosanna Lemmon and Wanton Horatio
Parker ( son of Sarah Tefft and
Archelaus Parker)
parents of
James Miller were Sarah Boyd and James T Miller ( son of
Sarah Crawford and Reverend Alexander
Miller
)
parents of Sarah Tefft were the
Reverend Edmond Tefft and Mary Mercy Sweet - one of
their elder cousins Joshua Tefft was hanged and
quartered by King Phillip. One of their elder Sweet
cousins was exiled from England for being a Roman
Catholic Priest.
parents of
Martha Henderson Cochran were
Nancy Clendenning and William Henderson ( son of Martha
Long and John Henderson)
Nancy Clendennings parents were
Sarah Sturgeon and John
Clendennin
Parents of Bessie Mae Hood were Ella
Olivia Baxley ( daughter of Maranda and James H Baxley)
and L Wesley Hood
Parents of
Milton Elijah Thornton were Mary Angeline Partridge
and George Thornton. Partridge were indians from
Georgia.
( daughter of James Cal Ballard and
Willie Eudora Craig) and John
Brooks
(son of
John Brooke and
Roxanna
Permilia Smith) John Brookes father came
from Holland to Pennsylvania with a french
wife.
"Dora"
Craig's parents were Rebecca Carolina Pennington and William
M Craig while the parents of her husband James Ballard were
Rowena Densy Baxter
and Larkin Francis Ballard.
Parents of
Roxanna Smith Brooks were Carolina Bond ( daughter of
John Baptist Bond and Kitty
Stone) and Thomas Smith ( son of Siniah Evans and
Henry Smith
)
Father of Charles
Weatherford married Mary Half Blood and Charles fathered
Chief Red Eagle ( Wm Weatherford
)
Martin
Weatherford was banned from the state of GA
(178 KB) he could have been the
grandfather of our granny Catherine Weatherford Wright
in Charlotte Virginia. Some of the Weatherfords were
Indian Traders and some moved on to the Bahamas. Martin
was the husband of Mary Half Blood and father of
Charles.
