Cochran Genealogy
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.
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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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
The Ballards were previously in the Carolinas, as were the
Bond, and Ward families.
*
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.
*
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.
*
*
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.
*
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.
*
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.
*
Frankie Cochran was born in Kansas a son of Luella
Coonfield of Arkansas and Frank Delbert Cochran.
*
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.
*
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.
*
Luella Coonfield's parents were married in Arkansas, Lattie
Cedonia Little of KY and Benjamin Wallace
Coonfield of ARK
*
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.genealogy.com/users/c/o/c/Frankie-Cochran/
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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