Peter
Bozeman Descendants
in Alabama by
1827
Jimmy
Ray Bozeman and his daughter Allison of South Carolina
combined the efforts and records of many of us to complete the submission of Peter into the
Daughters of the American Revolution. Jimmy joined the
Sons of the American Revolution. Thank you so much for paving
a path for us.
Researching one's family tree is a long
process and and only the ones close to your heart and in your
life can be verified in the beginning.
Browsing
through the many other family trees on the internet we
can find thousands of new cousins, and thankfully there are
many church records, military and census records, cemetery
records, state archives, etc. available to verify
those.
The Alabama journey must have began in
1826 when Peter had his lands surveyed. He had sold some
in 1822 and gave some to his orphaned grandchildren in 1824
when his own son Meady died. In that Deed Gift he also
gave land to a granddaughter, Julian Joiner. That record was
found by Jimmy Ray when he drove to the SC Archives. He
personally came up with a lot of information to
share.
Even
though the book published in 1885 "Sketches of Bozeman"
mentions Peter, John and James as sons of Mordecai, there is
always a possibility of them having siblings. I find it
shocking that the wife of Mordecai is not recorded. Even
the 1790 census shows four females in Peter's home. So they
would have married and moved on or Peter would have built them
a home on his land. His first son Meady was born in 1790 and
this was a popular name in the Bozeman history, and used very
often with his descendants. The name is also found in
the North Carolina archives of revolutionary soldiers as Meede
and as Media so he must have been a very honorable
man.
As children grow
and marry and leave the household, the census records cannot
give us an accurate number of children born to Peter and
Sarah. Born in N.C. they had settled in Darlington, S.C.
alongside many other popular names of the war, who follow them
to Alabama.
Peter married Sarah Brown in
1786
daughter Ellenor married Vincent Joiner
and had a daughter, Julian, as noted in 1822 Vincent
witnessed, and signed many legal documents before moving his
family to Clarke County, AL.
daughter Lucy married Sterling Campbell,
had four children, and eventually moved to Talladega, where
she remained with her children, after Sterling died. None of
their descendants have joined the
DAR.
the third daughter
of Peter is unknown but she may have married and followed them
to Montgomery.
son Meady born 1790 married and had
two sons Peter H. and Jesse, but they became orphans before
1822 and raised by Ellenor. None of Meady's nor Ellenor's
descendants have joined the DAR.
Jesse M. born 1793 married Lucy A.
and had Jesse A. and after Lucy died, he married Frances
Freeman and had James Freeman Bozeman. James is buried beside
Lacy Jane, while Jesse and one of his wives are buried
directly in front of Lacy. Lacy had married T. R. Carter b.
1820. Jesse A. married Missouri Flinn, daughter of Bunberry
Flinn as mentioned in the Alabama archives, Bunberry worked
for Abner McGee. Then Watson Flinn handled the estate of
Jesse A. for his sister.
One of Missouri's descendants has joined
the DAR.
William Henry born 1802 married Martha
Hill and had Peter Edward, John Thomas, Martha Matilda, and
Meedy G "Mat". Henry signed many legal family documents before
he died in 1847 and his brother Jesse handled the estate,
before the widow had moved to Dublin to be near her father
John Hill, another important figure in our family history.
Several descendants have joined the DAR.
Peter E born 1807
marry Gilly Goodson, often seen written out as Gilead Azar
Goodson. They had lived in Greenville for a while after his
mother died, before moving to Louisiana where he died of
cholera and his widow wrote to Jesse asking him to handle
their property in Alabama. Two descendants have joined
the DAR.
Many of Peter and
Sarah's grandsons served in the Civil War, as noted in the
military records and in the book
"Sketches".
Lacy Jane Bozeman Carter has a
lovely, ten foot tall monument in their Hope Hull family plot,
and Clarence Bearden found this cemetery many years ago and
wrote an article about it and his research of it because he is
a descendant of Thomas Randolph Carter. Bearden's article is
currently found on the webpage for the Alabama Cemetery
Preservation. Lacy and Thomas had many children, one
named Lucy A. around 1845 and then she married William David
Calloway. Lucy's son John Butler Calloway born in 1874
worked for the post office and took very good care of the
family cemetery until his death in 1958. After a bad house
fire, Lucy and David Calloway rebuilt their home on this
property.
The "Sketches" book makes
several statements of one Bozeman marrying his first cousin,
others married a second cousin, as was the custom of that era.
Then in Montgomery a few married Andersons, or Sellers who had
Anderson wives, then Campbell, and Calloway, so the custom
continued.
After the death of Lacy Jane
Carter, Thomas served in the Civil War, and remarried to a
Virginian born Mary Josephine Hereferd, and they had only one
child, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie". Thomas employed friends
he met during the war, Charner Cooper and son Levi Benjamin
Cooper and it was Levi who spent time with Sallie, pushing her
on the swing. They married in 1884 and had Susie Mae
Cooper in 1902 Sallie is found in the 1930 census living
with Susie and spouse and also Susie's mother in
law.
Thomas Carter was the son of
John Wise Carter of Talladega. John was the son of a
Revolutionary soldier, Captain John Carter who had married
Elizabeth Wise, who were found in Edgefield SC 1790.
Thomas was born there in 1820 and named after his uncle
Colonel Thomas, who had also bought land in Talladega in
1821 near
John. So very many children and
grandchildren born to these families of Carter and several
settled in Montgomery near the Bozemans. Thomas and Lacy
purchased a piece of land from her uncle Henrys estate in
1848.
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Mordecai
was probably born about
1735 in
North Carolina according to the Sketches of Bozeeman book, and
possibly had an uncle Mordecai White as we study this lineage.
The NC archives of gthe American Revolution names many Bosman
and Bozeman soldiers like Ralph, Shadrack, Jesse, Gabriel,
Josiah, Media, Medeah, Samuel, Levin, Brittin, Etheldred and
Meedy; plus the Anderson, Brack, Carter and Broadways who
intermarried with the descendants and followed Peter to Hope
Hull.
1760 birth of John, brother of Peter
listed in the book. John moved to Choctaw Territory,
Mississippi and has a large list of descendants researching
his journey.. The author admits he knows nothing more about
the family of Mordecai.
1779 Peter enlisted with John and then Ralph in 1760 on page 92,
which I found in ancestry.com
1782 South Carolina Roster shows
Mordecai, Peter, John, Ralph, Philip, Paul on page 85 and a
Booth
1784
Peter receives 100
acres Cheraws
District
1786 Evan Pugh diaries of marriages in
church
1790 paystub for Mordecai found
by Jimmy
Ray Bozeman
in the SC archives
page two for Mordecai.
Peter in 1790 Heads
of Families of Cheraws
District
In 1796 Peter Bozeman acquired the estate of a
Zebulan Chance. Reads like it is for a debt owed. It was for
200 acres.
1800
census shows
Peter has four males and four females.
In 1809 a Jesse Bozeman buys 200 acres of land from
Jonathan Wright. Now this could be Peter's brother or
uncle Jesse.
In 1812 Peter sells some land to Thomas Mason. The
Masons are everywhere with the Bozemans so we can speculate
some intermarried.
In 1816 Peter buys land from Mary Rowell (maybe
Powell).
In 1818 Peter sells land to James Erwin.
In 1820 Peter sells land to Williams Side
(Lide).
Meady is last seen on the 1820 census near brother Jesse, the Masons and the
Fountains in Darlington, next page to their dad,
Peter.
8-21-1822 Peter sells land to
Jesse and Henry is witness as was Joiner
1823 Peter's brother JOHN buys land in
Mississippi
15 February 1824
Deed Gift to grandchildren; Meedy's orphaned sons Peter and Jesse
plus Julian Joyner.
6/9/1826
Peter has
231 acres surveyed. Is this when his journey to Alabama
began? So many Bozemans are listed in this page from the SC
archives, it
is simply overwhelming.
1700 Samuel
April 22, 1829 Jesse
announces the death of Peter and his heirs are signed as V.
Joiner, Henry and Peter Bozeman, then Sarah makes her X
mark. This
item found by Wayne Bozeman in the
Montgomery Probate in 1994.
June 24, 1829
appraisal of Peter's estate signed by John Stacy, Benjamin Lewis and
Nathaniel Williams.
1829 Peter had three slaves on his estate whom he son Peter purchased.
Edmund Lewis of SC attended along with Howell Mason,
David Campbell, John Stacie, Joseph McCool, and Owen
Shackleford, all from SC. Stacy's son married a Sarah
Bozeman. 1820 Talladega census
with John Wise Carter
1820 census with Thomas Carter in
Talladega
census outline by Barry Bozeman and
Charles Ingram about Peter's journey
1840 Cooper married Lee in Chambers County, then Cooper wed Sarah
Carter
Tombstone of Lacy Jane Bozeman Carter in Hope
Hull
1839 Peter Henry, Meady's son in the book "Sketches" and
grandpa Peter
1760 birth of John, brother of Peter
listed in the book. John moved to Choctaw Territory,
Mississippi and has a large list of descendants researching
his journey.. The author admits he knows nothing more about
the family of Mordecai.
1827 land purchase by Jesse of
Montgomery
1830 census shows Benjamin Lewis
and Alfred Sellers and Elisha Anderson along with our
Bozemans. Sellers married Anderson's daughter.while
Jesse M. Bozeman's wife was Lucy A. and her son named Jesse
A.
1830 Henry lives by Edmund
Lewis
1831 Land purchase by John Hill of Montgomery and his
family created Hills Chapel which also served as a school with
a family cemtery plot in the back and a large public cemetery
in the front.
1838 Jesse lists heirs of Peter and Sarah: Henry,
Peter, Lucy, as well as Meedy's orphans but not the
granddaughter Joiner.
1831 land purchase by John Hill
1834 land purchase by Elisha
Anderson.
1840 Jesse M., Henry, Lucy, by David Calloway,
Nathaniel Williams,
1830 - 1840
my own personal transcription of Montgomery census
and we find brother Peter and Gilly have moved
away from the
family farm.
1850-1860 state
census
1850
Nancy Jane with parents Lavinia
Sellers and Seaborne Montgomery Anderson; his father
Elijah Anderson in 1840 near Edmund
Lewis
20 November 1847 Death of our William Henry Bozeman and his brother manages the estate stating
that it should be SOLD
26 Nov 1847 Orphans of Henry are named with a blur on
Martha but she shows clearly on another copy as a
minor.
19 April 1848 widow's dower - Wayne Bozeman found several
documents in this folder.
11 Jan 1849 Meedy sells share to
Jesse.
1848 land parcels of Henry's estate sold to Thomas Carter
and David Calloway.
26 April 1849 Henry's son John Thomas sells his share to
Jesse and Carter is the witness
.1850 John H. Hill with son John A. Hill in Montgomery census,
along with son Robert age 12 who died in the civil
war.
1850 Martha Hill Bozeman with her children, has moved by
her sisters.
1850
young Joe Stephens, becomes
father in law to John Thomas Bozeman
.
1850 Peter Henry, Meedys orphan, has
started a family in Mississippi near his Uncle
John.
1 July 1854 Robert dies and both
Jesse M and Jesse A work on this estate and his sister Mary, a
minor. Jesse A. became guardian of his sister Ellen while
Thomas Carter was guardian of Sarah. When Sarah grew up
she married a John Stacy.
1860 by Wayne
Bozeman
1855 marriage of John Thomas and Nancy K. Hill witnessed by
Meedy provided by Wayne.
1855 Tombstones of Jesse M. and wife
are damaged by tree growing up between them in Hope
Hull.
1861 marriage of Peter Edward to Nancy Jane Anderson with
cousin John H. Stacy and David
Campbell.
1860
marriage of
Peter's sister Martha to Norman
Campbell
1855
marriage of
his brother Meedy to Rebecca Brewer
1867 the estate of Jesse A. Bozeman
by Watson Flinn and Judge David
Campbell
1870 Peter Edward and Nancy Jane have a John Thomas and Peter
James
1880 now with more
children
1880 ThoCarter has remarried, living
by John T.,Nancy K and her mom, Charlottie
Hill.
1880 Meedy and Rebecca in
Birmingham
1855 Jesse A. married
Missouri Flinn
1860 Peter buys land in Butler County , maybe John
Thomas and Nancy Kizar Hill Bozeman are his parents. Probably
the lineage of cousin Alan Bozeman who did the DNA testing
along with Jimmy Ray.
1870
Mat / Meedy and Rebecca
in Ramer census beside his sister Matilda Campbell..near
Barfoot and Urquhart.
8
April 1896 Nancy
Jane's first attempt for Confederate Widows
Pension.
1900 Nancy Jane's son, John Thomas with his second
wife Ellen, in Pine Level, with Ethel, Lorena, Rolley and
Ellen has named her first child Nancy
Jane.
1900
Rebecca Scott with son Charles
Eugene in Dublin by Hill
1900 Lucy Carter Calloway
with brother Wm Carter; the children of Lacy
Jane.
1900
Nancy K living
with children on Eugene
St
Peter Edward and Margaret go to
Tennessee in 1900 - Alan's
line.
1910 John and Sarah with
Leon -
Meedys line
1930
Leon and
Zalena and de leon
1910
Rebecca Scott, widow of Wm Thomas in
Shelby County with her son Charley. Wm was son of Nancy K. .
Jimmys line from Henry's son John Thomas born
1828/
1920
Luther Bozeman in
Shelby County, great grandson of Henry, thru Meedy "Mat" and
Rebecca son of their John Thomas and Sarah Ann Edwards Bozeman.
When John Thomas died, Governor Bibb Graves was a pall bearer
and also John had a son named Jesse Graves Bozeman; several
descendants are working this lineage now include cousin Wayne,
Richard and Professor William and I sure appreciate the
information and photos they have
shared.
Emma Lorena Bozeman
McClain photo 1941
Peter Edward and Margaret photo of
Tennessee -
Alan
1910 Lorena Bozeman
McClain 1910
Nancy Jane with her
son
1918 Lorena's father John
Thomas Bozeman died and buried
in Hills Chapel cemetery.
1920
M C Stubbs
married Dora Dillard Bozemans girl Dee and had
Norma.
1930 Lorena's great uncle
Robert Henry by his children in Montgomery census. he was
brother to PEB. Some of Robert's land was used to make the
Memorial Cemetery and when his girls got married he would name
a street after each one, so the cemetery is on Bozeman Drive
at Simmons.
1940 Lorena Bozeman
McClain raising her grandchildren including Anne Carter. Anne
married Cochran.
1940 Lorena's sister, Ethel
Mae Bozeman Gibson with daughter
Peggy. Peggy married her first cousin Glen Gibson
according to my personal phone interview. Elizabeth is
researching Ethel.
1940 Jesse Graves Bozeman near POGUE in Montgomery and
cousin Norma Pogue has researched this
one.
1940 Lorena's half brother
James Thedro Bozeman married Voncile Broadway by Register and
Gibson.
1940 Lorena's brother
Rollie Stephen Bozeman married Alberta Money living on Mt
Meigs Rd.
1940 her Uncle Millard
Milton married Nettie Barrow.
1940
Walter Coy Bozeman married
Ruby Slauson and had Richard,
Carolyn, a John Thomas who named his daughter Carol on Hull
St.
1820 Talladega census with John Wise Carter
1820 census with Thomas Carter in
Talladega
census outline by Barry Bozeman,
Diana, and Charles Ingram about Peter's
journey
1840 Cooper married Lee in Chambers County, then Cooper wed Sarah
Carter
Tombstone of Lacy Jane Bozeman Carter in Hope
Hull
1940 census with Sallie Carter Cooper
family
The Coopers served with the
Bozemans in Shelby County as
Confederates.
ALB tombstone of Alice Lorena Stephens, first wife of John
Thomas in Dublin
Alice Lorena Stephens
Bozeman in the DAR files and daughter
Lorena.
12 December 1829 estate sale includes Sarah,
Jesse, Henry, Peter, Boothe, Shackleford, McGee, Lewis -
document sent to me by Wayne
Bozeman.
1840 Lacy Jane Bozeman
Carter family photo.
1851 Gilead asks for attorney , from Sharon,
Yvonne.
1861 uncle J. A. HILL , son of John Hill of
Dublin, in alabama history with a
Carter
John A. Hill signs affidavit in
1899 for Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman, widow of
Peter Edward b 1834, for a widows pension from the civil war. Peter's mother would have
been John's sister, and Peter is buried on the Hill plantation
behind Hill's Chapel
beside Robert Hill and Lorena Stephens Bozeman. typo shows that Peter died in 1895 his daughter in law's tombstone has
only ALB My darling and her father Joe also served.
1890 Lorena's death
certificate proves mother as Lorena Stephens and family record
lists Alice Stephens Bozeman in 1949
1949 mother in law of Lorena was a
Broadway
1955 Lorena Bozeman McClain's
son, JOE married his cousin, Georgia
Broadway.
mcgee switch
1830 Rachel Roe and Lewis
Bozeman, the Philemon line that James Bozeman is researching
in Covington County and he also discovered a Bozeman Cemetery
there.
1880
John and
Matilda in Covington County, thanks to Rev. James Bozeman, who also
found their cemetery.
Emily Alice McClain Carter, wife of
Cecil (2
KB) Uncle Emmett Fenn Obit
1959 (21 KB) Grandpa
Cecil's brother
Cherokee Stephens
Family (170
KB) Montgomery Alabama, from NC
Charles Allen McClain wed Lorena Bozeman
1908 (17 KB) Ramer
Alabama
Stephens, W E (72 KB) Ramer
Alabama
McClains, Charles and son
Walton (25 KB) Ramer
Alabama
OOTCHA Annie
Broadway (49 KB) Ramer
Alabama
1850 (683 KB) Joe
Stephens age 4 served in the Civil War and had a daughter
named Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman - our Grandfather Joseph
later bought land near Talladega in his elder years, while
many of his Stephens relatives migrated into Florida and
Panama.
1968
best friend and I discover we
are cousins as descendants of Lavinia Jane Sellers Anderson,
mother of Nancy
J. Bozeman.
2004
Sis and I visit the First
Little White House of the Confederacy and it's chilling to
know that our grandfathers rode with, supported, and battled
with the President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis;
then we are off to visit the
Archives.
Meeting
Jimmy Ray behind Hills
Chapel he discovers a tiny headstone where our elder cousin
Dora says at least 50 family graves are in this very neglected
cemetery which was once part of the John Hill plantation and
it is so possible that Peter's mother Martha is one of
them. Elizabeth invited her Gibson
cousins to join us .
Cleaning the original home
made stone of PEB which shows he
actually died in 1895. Lying nearby was a second
stone with a
different date that someone before us had done. Beside his
first stone was the one for Robert
Hill who was
killed in the civil war.
Cattle walk all about the
Hope Hull graves. Those
trees are
falling all about the monuments and headstones ruining the
beauty of our history. Lacy's husband's stone
has fallen over. Her monument remains standing
amidst her infant children as a tree lies behind
them.
Tombstone of John Lewis Bozeman
b 1819 married Matilda, found by James in
Covington
- Research 7 (13 KB)
List
-Lavinia Brack and Elisha Anderson to their daughter Lavinia
Sellers, plus Elisha's Will of
1834.
- Research
8 (17 KB)
List -
Military Registrations plus a few census
records
- Tombstones (1 KB)
Visiting
Cemeteries to add data and
photographs
- Research
28 (26 KB)
List
-Photos of McClain, Carter
- Research 12 (6 KB)
List -
Grandpa Cecil
Carter married Lorena's
daughter
- Research 30 (27 KB)
List -
Maps and Old Records
- Research 13 (6 KB)
List -
Some 1830 Alabama census records
- Research 31 (39 KB)
List
-Brooks, Thornton, Baxley, John Carter, John Baptist
Bond
- Research 14 (5 KB)
List -
Elijah Lee born 1777 SC buried Chambers County AL- his
daughter married Cooper
- Research 33 (38 KB)
List -
Land Records
- Research 35 (25 KB)
List -
Anderson, Sellers, Scrimpshire, see Chief Bushyhead when you
wonder about our indian blood because his mom was a
Schrimshire born in Alabama.
- Grandpa
Charles (380 KB)
Born in
Ramer to Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Charles
married Lorena Bozeman in 1908
- Grandpa
Abner
Born in Ramer
born to Nancy and Abner Broadway of SC; POW in American
Revolution
- Bozeman in
Census (106 KB)
From
Darlington to Montgomery
- DNA Study of
Bozeman (111 KB)
Tracing
Mordecai's descendants to Jimmy
Ray.
- Montgomery's Early
Pioneers (16
KB)
Beautiful page of the early settlers who had served
together according to the North Carolina archives, Anderson,
Brack, Bozeman, Carter, Flinn, Sellers, most migrating into
our hometown. The Bozemans of the 1700s mentioned were
Jacob, Jesse, Gabriel, Media, and so many
others.
- Research 2 (16 KB)
List -
McClain, Bozeman, Gibson, Broadway
- Research 38 (104 KB)
List -
Sketches of Bozeman
- Research 4 (28 KB)
List -
Civil War, various records
- Bible
Records include James
Edward
- various colonial
records of
other Bozemans and the names Meed, Media, Meads started way
back in the 1600s
- Benjamin
Lewis
- TEAM
EFFORT
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/PETER'S%20ESTATE%20OF%201829/00..html
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