Family
Genealogy http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/Searchme.html
Native Americans of South Carolina VERY IMPORTANT
FIND: 1719 South Carolina Assembly in determining who should be "indian"
for tax purposes (Indian slaves were adjudged at a lower tax rate than
negro slaves..so the idea is to get as much tax as possible...remember,
censuses were also intended to assess the taxable citizens in any given
area, so race was determined by what the census enumerator felt that the
person should be taxed as.) The Act passed that year stated "And for
preventing all doubts and scruples that may arise what ought to be rated
on mustees, mulattoes, etc. all such slaves not entirely Indian should be
accounted as negro." Inference: persons of Indian blood less than
full-blood would be legally documented as "negro". It is apparent that by
the time of the founding of Fort Christana at the NC/VA border, a large
segment of the Siouan/Tuscarora/Algonquin Indians which were settled there
and put to work as miners, were already mixed with white and Portuguese
blood. By the time of the closing of the Fort, and the migrating of these
Indian mixed-bloods to the shores of the Pamunkey River at around 1720,
many of the families were so mixed and acculturated, that they were no
longer legally or socially regarded as "Indian"....of course, they still
had a high degree of Indian blood, and a strong Indian identity, but for
the most part they went about their lives much like their white neighbors,
farming, raising cattle, acquiring and titles, etc.
By the 1750's when these
Christian, English-speaking, literate, industrious, mixed-blood families
began to spread to southern NC and northern SC, those white colonists
didn't know what to do with these people. Usually when they
'toed-the-line' socially, financially, and legally, these is little
documentation to distinguish them from their white neighbors... its only
when someone crosses the line that their is some legal case, tax dispute,
violent confrontation, etc., etc., which of course documents these
peoples' ancestry in the darkest possible light.
The single most important
point here is this.......it wasn't the "mixed-blood" factor that held
these people together as separate communities (there are many families of
mixed black/white ancestry or white/Indian ancestry that melted into the
larger white or black population) ... it wasn't the Portuguese ancestry
that held these people together as separate communities (many of the
families did not claim Portuguese ancestry, and the majority did not claim
it as their first choice of racial identity)...it was the Indian ancestry
that was the identity and motivating factor which caused them to live
separately from their white and black neighbors.
http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/NativeAmericans.html
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- 1915
Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson (135
KB)
sitting with baby JC, with husband Jason to the right and
Ruby on horse....dark haired Roscoe Money with his step daughter / Ethel
Mae was the daughter of John Thomas Bozeman and Alice Lorena Stephens of
Dublin / Ramer/ Alabama
- Uncle
Walton McClain (25
KB)
with great grandpa Charlie McClain about 1930- Charlie's
parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Josiah had
another family with his first wife in Georgia, Julia America King who
was rejected by the Cherokee Rolls.
- 1908
Lorena Bozeman weds Charlie McClain (17
KB)
They lived with his mother and step father on 1910 census
record in Ramer. Lorena was allergic to Bees.
- Uncle
Joe McClain (22 KB)
with his only son, James Edward McClain that
nobody ever talked about. We only recently discovered that Uncle Joe had
two marriages.
- 1955
Uncle Joe (52 KB)
Joe Edd Mcclain had one son named James Edward
McClain about 1949
- Stephens,
Luke and Edgar (597
KB)
1910 Etowah Alabama
- Katie
and Roscoe Coley (30
KB)
daughter of Charles and Lorena McClain
- Brooks,
Nimrod William (221
KB)
World War I Registration Card
- Family
Photos (130 KB)
Annie Carter Cochran family
- Alice
Emma McClain (46 KB)
with her brother Joe
- Susie
Mae Cooper Brooks age 17 (763
KB)
1920 census of Mulberry Street, Montgomery, al
- Family
Photos (23 KB)
Annie Carter Cochran family
- Susie
Mae Cooper Brooks with James (1086
KB)
1930 census of Fourth Street, Montgomery, al
- Sisters (26
KB)
Cochrans
- Lillie
Mae McClain (17 KB)
Mrs H O Duncan
- Annie
Carter and Frankie Cochran (38
KB)
about 1950 in Montgomery Alabama
- Katie
and Alice (29 KB)
McClain sisters before 1930
- Cochran
Kids (32 KB)
about 1970 in Montgomery Alabama
- Annie
Carter Cochran 1954 (23
KB)
Frank and Kathy with Annie in mobile home, Broken Arrow,
Tulsa Oklahoma, they lived on Mingo Road
- Cochran
and Charlie Brooks (35
KB)
about 1973 in Montgomery Alabama
- Annie
and Frankie Cochran (21
KB)
about 1973 in Montgomery Alabama
- Alice
McClain Carter about 1934 (18
KB)
with husband Cecil Earl Fenn Carter and baby Cecil Jr, and
baby Annie...she could be pregnant with William Lawrence Carter or our
Uncle Billy
- Mark
Carter (5 KB)
son of Cecil Earl Carter Jr
- Brad
Carter (34 KB)
son of Cecil Earl Carter Jr
- William
Lawrence Carter (45
KB)
about 1973 in Montgomery Alabama
- Billy
Carter (42 KB)
son of Cecil Earl Carter
- 1930
military Carter (3792
KB)
Grandpa's re-enlistment
- Junior
Carter (35 KB)
son of Cecil Earl Carter
- Minnie
Lee Gibson Money (103
KB)
daughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson
- Grandpa
Cecil Carter (13 KB)
son of William Franklin Fenn and Anna Lou
Stone born about 1900, died in 1939
- WWI
Charles Allen McClain (194
KB)
apparently not his handwriting since an X mark is on the
signature line and the date of birth is incorrect and it shows his wife
as Lorena Emma - have seen her signature as L E McClain.
- Uncle
Frank Fenn (10 KB)
brother of our grandpa Cecil Earl Carter -
Frank stayed with his father when their mother left with the baby Earl
on a train to Macon GA
- Uncle
Joe McClain military (179
KB)
shows Pearl Harbor and also his allergies.....note
PENICILLIN and Tetanus.....might add that most of this family was
allergic to Penicillin and that Joe's mother's sister, Ethel Bozeman
died of an allergic reaction to Penicillin. His mother Lorena was
allergic to BEES
- 1930
Military Discharge (131
KB)
Grandpa Cecil Carter
- 1930
Military Discharge (13
KB)
Grandpa Cecil Carter
- Annie
Carter 1935 (31 KB)
with her aunt mary and cousin ethel
- 1939
death certificate (216
KB)
Grandpa Cecil Carter and his parents are listed
- Annie
Carter elementary school days (69
KB)
about1945
- Joseph
Stephens age 4 (683
KB)
1850 census
- Elisha
C Stephens and Nancy Hilliard in 1850 (683
KB)
Montgomery census, she must have been widowed with two
girls when married to Stephens |