Charles Wayne Brooks  1953-1998

married Kathy Cochran in 1972 and they have several common ancestors found in Montgomery  200 years ago. The wagon trains flowed into Alabama Territory while it was still a vast wilderness full of indians and wild beasts, which was once a part of the Mississippi Territory.

Grandfathers who had served in the American Revolution received Bounty Lands in South Carolina and Georgia, and then migrated into Alabama about 1820. Mom's grandpa Peter Bozeman was captured at the Fall of Charleston along with Dad's grandpa George Little. It is written in the South Carolina Roster.  They received land and a small pension for their services and later began to migrate away from the indian unrest of the east coast. They had resided amongst many famous indian names, like Guist, McIntosh, McGillvary,McQueen, Rogers, Weatherford, mostly marrying into the Creek tribe, except for the Cherokee George Guess who was known as Sequoyah of TN. Pickett's History of the Creeks tell us much about those many families and how Chief Red Eagle, brother of Catherine, was born in Coosada, which we drive thru now nearly every week.

Dad said his mom was half indian and that my mom was too.  Nothing on paper as proof; just the many wonderful stories passed along that keep us believing. We have to remember that the Cherokee of the East Coast, while some stood their ground and kept their reservation, some fled southwest.  The Carter family were tall, copper skinned, large featured, beautiful people. Grandpa Cecil Carter's Aunt Letitia joined the indian rolls of Oklahoma.  His sister Carrie married a Choctaw and they went to Oklahoma about 1930. Cousin Clyde Stephens wrote of our grandpa marrying a full blood Cherokee maiden in the 1700s and coming to Alabama and some of the pictures are overwhelming.  Her Anderson family of the 1700s were listed as full blood on the LDS page when I searched them a few years ago.

I have a large collection of images that I paid for in my subscriptions, yet now that ancestry is buying up so many genealogy groups, I hope that all of the work is not lost in the future.

Many of the books are online in the google library and the LDS library to read, copy, and share.

usgenweb.com is a free search of many old records in the archives which will amaze you.

It has each state listed and I did upload a lot of my work to them. all free to see

The Parkers came through New York Indian Country and the Teffts in Rhode Island history with King Phillip,with a great family migration outwest, where our Dr. Parker is found in the Iowa Territory history of early settlers.

The Cochrans and Coonfields first settled in Pennsylvania 1700s.  Alexander married Sarah Adams;  was she kin to a president?

They met up and married with the Longs, Hendersons, Sturgeons, Tracy, Clark, families and migrated into the Ohio military lands and Kentucky after Daniel Boone had checked them out.  A Squire Boone lived nearby on the KY census.

So much left to explore, maybe find gold.  And they tried and moved on.

So many stories to tell. So few left to share them.

Some paid cash for land; some took the homestead option.  Jacob Cochran was the first homesteader of Hill City, Graham, Kansas,  where he is buried.  John Little's homestead was in Arkansas.

The Bozeman plantation of Hope Hull in Montgomery was large and extended close to Maxwell AFB including the Memorial Cemetery off Bozeman Drive, at Simmons Road.  Uncle Robert Bozeman started this as a family cemetery managed by his nephew Eugene Johnson. The majority of mama's family is buried there, including my great granny Lorena Bozeman McClain and her many children.

We met up with a group of Bozeman and Gibsons in south montgomery at Dublin's Hills Chapel Church to locate Lorena's grandpa Peter Edwards grave.  He had served in the civil war and this was quite an emotional experience as we also found the grave of Lorena's indian mother near Peter.  They had home made tombstones which were quite lovely.  All hidden in an old family graveplot behind the church in the woods.

Nobody knew until that day that we are all related to the one man from the American Revolution, Peter and many began to join the DAR.  His son William Henry had a large family in Hope Hull who remained and multiplied and his niece Lacy married a Thomas Randolph Carter, who purchased a piece of the property after Henry died in 1847. After his wife and several babies died in an epidemic he went to war and was found sick in a Virginia hospital where he met his second bride Mary Josephine Herreferd and thus began the Brooks - Cooper lineage. Mary's daughter married a Cooper and had Mamaw who married a Brooks. A Brooks grandson found the cemetery at Hope Hull and wrote an article of its neglect in the Alabama Cemetery Preservation.com and it's history, which is quite remarkable. thanks Butch!

 

21 Generations. Two were on the Mayflower!!

 
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Researching one's family tree is a long process 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 census records, cemetery records, etc. available to verify those.

Some may not be verified and need further research. I have ordered a few death certificates, browsed through boxes of our old family photos with names and dates on them, cards, letters, and notebooks, to put this together, yet am quite certain there are still many corrections and additions to come. 

Dozens of new cousins have emailed me with some detail about their connection to my lineage and it's been wonderful getting to know you all. Some want me to show them their indian blood which is impossible, I only know my own. I know that my dad was one quarter Cherokee and his sister calls her son Regal Eagle and my mom's great great grandpa Stephens married a full blood Cherokee in SC before his journey to the Dublin / Ramer area where I have visited a few times to do my research. Her great great grandmother Nancy Anderson has two grandmothers from Cherokee blood and maybe more.

Both of my parents had Cherokee blood but it is highly possible there was some other native american blood in their lineage. Many of my mother's ancestors lived among the Creeks in the 1700s and my father's lineage was in Kentucky 1800 where many tribes had migrated, yet soon after, they all began to migrate to Iowa Territory and Indiana, ending up in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

it's been said that my dad's great grandfather John Wright Little refused an indian land allotment however he did uproot his family from their Kentucky roots to migrate to a homestead in Arkansas and his descendants ended up in Alabama. 

When I was looking into my husband's line I was told that his mom's grandmother Partridge was an indian from Georgia and I did find her families on census there before they all moved into Elmore County.

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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/Ancestors/Westbrook/1.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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  • Grandma Lorena's cousin (210 KB)
    James Stephens, family of great grandma Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman and her mom was Mary Sue Broadway.
  • dar (1047 KB)
    mine
  • Beverly Anne (238 KB)
    Locating Mamaw's ancestors in Hope Hull. Susie Mae Cooper Brooks had a grandpa Carter in the civil war and buried here.
  • 1983 newspaper clipping (441 KB)
    Brooks, Broadway, Lane and Sides may not be a connection, just a coincidence. We knew an insurance salesman, Billy Brooks, who was not our relative.
  • Missouri Flinn Bozeman (318 KB)
    married to peter's grandson by jesse
  • http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/f/a/m/K (441 KB)
    Research
  • Lorena Emma Bozeman McClain (336 KB)
    great granny, a daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman.
  • Lorena Bozeman with Charles McClain (855 KB)
    Annie Alice Carter on 1940 census, the daughter of Emily Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Carter
  • Frank Cochran (1861 KB)
    Daddy on 1940 census, son of Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran.
  • James Edgar Brooks (2497 KB)
    1940 census, son of Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar Brooks, Sr.
  • Cold Springs (122 KB)
    hwy 143 elmore county Thorntons first settlement amidst their many other surnames.
  • Kathy Lorena meets Norma at DAR (197 KB)
    sharing and joining the DAR we are descendants of Peter Edward Bozeman and Nancy Jane Anderson. Norma continues her work to join the Mayflower Society since Nancy was the great great grand.daughter of Benajah Doty....descendant of the famous Edward Doty of 1620s very first Thanksgiving at Plymouth.
 
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 Tom Carter's father was John Wise Carter of South Carolina and nothing is known of his mother. John's father, Captain John Carter, served in the American Revolution with a John Wise. The daughter of John Wise was Elizabeth and she married Captain John Carter in South Carolina. Captain John may have had a brother named Captain Thomas, explaining how he named his own son Thomas Carter.

It is unknown why Tom left his family in Talladega and moved into Montgomery. He was buying land off the Bozeman Estate to make a home for his own family.

Tom lost his first wife and several children in the small pox epidemic, some say the flu epidemic. Only two children survived, Lucy Carter Calloway and William Henry Carter. Military records indicate that Tom was sick in a Virginia hospital at one point and ironically married his second wife, Mary, from Virginia. Perhaps they had met in Virginia and she followed him, their story is unknown.

Mary had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Carter Cooper, and wanted no more with Tom. When he died she buried him by his first family and she moved in with her daughter.

Mary may or may not have filed for his military pension, thus far, a record is not found.
Name: THOMAS Carter
Date: 01 09 1860
Location: AL, 
Document #: 13796A
Serial #: AL1560__.463
Sale Type: CASH ENTRY SALE
Acres: 40.2200
Meridian or Watershed: ST STEPHENS
Parcel: Township 9N, Range 3E, Section 15 

Thomas R. Carter (First_Last) 
Regiment Name 2 Alabama Cavalry 
Side Confederate 
Company K 
Soldier's Rank_In 2 Lieutenant 
Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Lieutenant 
Alternate Name 
Notes 
Film Number M374 roll 8 
CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
Authority: Muster in roll, signed by T. R. Stacey, not dated
Remarks: Sick at Gen Hospital, Lynchburg, Va, Dec 7, 1861. 
2nd Regiment, Alabama Cavalry 


 
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A small beginning of my genealogy:
Marengo County was created by the Alabama Territorial legislature on 1818 Feb. 6, from land acquired from the Choctaw Indians by the treaty of 1816 Oct.24. The name of the county was suggested by Judge Abner Lipscombe, and was given as a compliment to the first white settlers, expatriated French citizens and commemorative of Napoleon's great victory at Marengo over the Austrian armies on 1800 June 14.Marengo County is situated in the west-central part of the state.It is bordered by Hale, Greene, Perry, Dallas, Wilcox, Clarke, Choctaw,Sumter.

George Grauer born 1801 Germany married Sophia Porter born 1801 North Carolina and migrated into Marengo County Alabama. Perhaps with a group of brothers and sisters, they all seemed to have settled closely together, even with Sophia's father Mark Porter and his families.

Sophia's daughter Elizabeth was born in 1827 Alabama and she married James Westbrook in Marengo County, a son of Moses.

The Westbrook families were also from 1700s North Carolina and may connect to a Richard Westbrook who served in the N C Militia in 1754.

It appears that Elizabeth Westbrook was a widow with one son, William, on the 1850 census so she must have been pregnant with George Grauer Westbrook that year. In 1879 her son George married Marsella Braswell, who's families were also early settlers of Marengo County; her mother was Mary Glass, also another family of early settlers. Mary's mother was Hannah Holt, a daughter of Cader Holt, a big plantation owner who was buying land in Marengo in the 1820s. The others mentioned above have land deeds dated 1830.

Elizabeth Westbrook remained a widow for many years and always took care of her mother Sophia, who we find together on the 1870 census when Elizabeth has remarried, to Mr. Lawson and had more children...Elizabeth's son George and his wife Marcella had several children, including Clarence Grauer Westbrook in 1879, who married Carrie Etheridge. Carrie named a son Bruce Garland Westbrook in 1919 and he married Christine Holley. Christine's son married Penton, a daughter of Lige Bennett Penton and Gertrude Jones starting their own legacy in Elmore County. 

 
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  • 1830 John Porter (389 KB)
    Marengo census - John could be brother or son of Mark Porter
  • 1837 Land Purchase (58 KB)
    Mark Porter of North Carolina in Marengo County Alabama
  • 1830 Cader Holt (688 KB)
    Marengo County, he resides next to his son in law Willis Glass and near a Joseph Grier who may be the father or brother of George Grauer of the same county.
  • 1824 Land Purchase (36 KB)
    Cader Holt of North Carolina in Marengo County Alabama
  • 1830 Moses Westbrook (542 KB)
    Fayette County Georgia beside Yancy Westbrook
  • Clarence Westbrook (866 KB)
    1930
  • 1850 Moses Westbrook (775 KB)
    Marengo County and his son James is in this household - living next to Lipscomb
  • 1830 George Grauer (383 KB)
    And Williamson Glass in Marengo County
  • 1850 John Grower (739 KB)
    Marengo County and he is listed on the next page after Moses Westbrook. Grower is from Germany and could be the brother of George - note that the children have the same names as those of George. Just adds to the theory that several Grauers settled here together.
  • 1830 Willis Glass (373 KB)
    And Hannah Holt and her parents
  • 1840 - MYSTERY LADY WESTBROOK (802 KB)
    Sarah Westbrook has one daughter and two sons in this census - could she be the wife of Moses? Where is Moses? He is back in the picture in 1850 so we know he has not deceased - perhaps he traveled?
  • Moses Westbrooke (60 KB)
    1837 Land Purchase of 40 acres in Marengo County
  • 1837 John Ethridge Land Purchase (56 KB)
    John had bought land in Dallas County 1834 and now bought land in Marengo
  • 1930 (888 KB)
    Lige Bennett Penton
  • 1850 Braswell (746 KB)
    William and Mary Glass Braswell live next to her parents
  • 1830 Mark Porter (386 KB)
    Marengo census and Lawson is on this page
 
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  • Civil War Notes (826 KB)
    Most of our ancestors served in the Confederate War in the Alabama Infantry, some were in the same troup together.
  • Land (32 KB)
    Cader Holt made several land purchases in Marengo County
  • Land (76 KB)
    1860 purchase by George Grauer and another by Elizabeth Westbrook
  • Penton Land Purchases (12 KB)
    1834 Coosa County and Crenshaw County
 
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Many of our families were the early pioneers when Alabama first became a state, after being part of the Mississippi Territory which was then mostly Choctaw land. South Alabama was Creek but slowly most tribes were moving westward. Georgia did not allow plantation owners to employ indians but Alabama did. The land was cheap and fertile so the migrations began. Most used Biblical names for their children yet some named them after popular native americans. Several are recorded in various county history books and the Pintlala Historical Assn has many in their webpage whom we are very proud of. As we stand on the capitol steps and admire the star where Jefferson Davis took his oath as President of the Confederacy, we can look around and know that many of our relatives also stood nearby to witness this wonderful moment. And across the street we can walk through his home, which had actually been moved from Ramer, where he resided near our families. Our families were honored to serve. 

In the north we have a grandpa Cochran married to a Hannah Adams in the 1700s but we do not know if she was connected to the political, historical Adams families. We have a Stone in 
1700 Maryland but did his daddy sign the Independence. Then our cousin Joshuah Tefft was killed by King Phillip 1600s. So many possibilities when we dig a little deeper :) 

 
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Brooks Families of the South. 
......Hans Brooke had three boys and one girl....Henry, Edward, John and Lula Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl was adopted...John, our grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to learn that trade....He was very unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia TN about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860 census in TN working as a tailor but as John Brooks...That year he married Roxanna Permilia Smith 

She was just breaking up with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith and fell in love with John Brooks...John and RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were born...... 

...John died in 1882 of tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas to marry her and bring her back to TN. They lived and died in Sandy Hook, Tennessee.

Their son John married Annie Clark Ballard and had only one child, James Edgar Brooks - soon they moved to Montgomery Alabama.

The Smith and Ballard families came out of North Carolina about 1800 migrating into Tennessee's Indian Territory.

Permilia named her first son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no Walter in the lineage,so why use this name? and another son JOHN Edwin but the census looks like his middle initial was H., and JOHN married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they moved to Alabama being transferred with the railroad and then lived on Adams Avenue near the train station. Annie had only one child, James Edgar Brooks, who became a bookkeeper with the State, and later married Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son James Edgar Brooks Jr., a daughter Christine . Susie was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Chambers County AL.

Annie's photo shows dark black hair and coal black eyes. Annie's parents were both born in Tennessee, James Calvin Ballard and Willie Eudora Craig but their ancestors migrated from the Carolinas. "Dora's" mother was Rebecca Caroline Pennington and she married William Craig in 1860. Rebecca's mother was only known as "Gracy" who married William Pennington, and his mother was only known as "Kezziah" born about 1750 in South Carolina.

Her mother was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of North Carolina. Parents of Caroline Bond ( who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone. Many researchers are looking into the Stone name as being of Cherokee Blood.

In Georgia was Joseph Baxley born 1815 married to Mary Evans and making their way into Alabama. Their son James married Louisa Miranda Holt and they resided in "Holtville" in Elmore County AL. Also in Elmore County was L. W. Hood who married their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley. Ella's daughter Bessie married a Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County. Elijah's parents also came out of Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge amd George Thornton. Elijah's daughter Mary Ella married James Brooks. Mary Ella's granddaughter married Westbrook.
In the WAR a Colonel Thomas Carter and Captain John Carter with their many children migrated from SC to Talladega, AL and even named their sons after each other. Those sons and grandsons served in the Civil War and John's son, Thomas Randolph Carter went to Montgomery where he married Lacy Jane Bozeman.Her dad Jesse and his siblings had inherited Peter's estate, so as they died off, Thomas made a big land purchase off Henry's share in 1848. So when you look at the monuments of Lacy and Thomas, know that you are standing on the old plantation of Peter Bozeman, in lands formerly owned by the Creeks.
Now step back and study the facts and read the clues between the lines. Study those who lived in indian territories and learned from them, survived thanks to them. Study the ladies they married and if they had a last name; most did not. 

 
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  • Sarah (143 KB)
    Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper with her children including Susie Mae
  • Carter , John Wise (35 KB)
    1821 Land Record
  • Gilly Bozeman (114 KB)
    Wife Of Peter born 1807
  • Thomas Randolph Carter (46 KB)
    With first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
  • Thornton, George (56 KB)
    1839 Land Record
  • James E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton (6 KB)
    Her parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton.
  • Partridge, George (51 KB)
    1858 Land Record
  • Baxley James H (483 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service
  • Baxley James H (64 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service1
  • 1888 James H. Baxley (56 KB)
    Land Record - Homestead
  • Baxley James H (351 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service2
  • 1930 census of Brooks and Cooper (1512 KB)
    Both their widowed mothers live in this household which includes James E Brooks Jr who later married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie in 1953.
  • Baxley James H (618 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service3
  • 1930 census Milton Elijah Thornton (446 KB)
    Bessie Mae Hood his wife with children include Mary Ella Thornton who married James E Brooks Jr
  • Baxley James H (398 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service4-Judge Smith
  • 1840 John Wise Carter (360 KB)
    Talladega Alabama census, father of Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper - great grandfather of Mamaw
  • Baxley James H (796 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application
  • 1914 (72 KB)
    John Edward Brooks with Annie Clark Ballard, parents of James Edgar Brooks, of Tennessee. James married Susie Mae " Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. - Jr married Mary Ella Thornton.
  • Baxley James H (451 KB)
    Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application 2
 
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  • Lee and Cooper in 1840 Chambers County AL (107 KB)
    Elijah Lee born 1777 married Malinda Phillips and their daughter Sarah F. Lee married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County. Charner's parents were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Charner's son was Levi Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope Hull on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter and married the man's daughter.
  • Ramsey to Herriford and Carter (29 KB)
    Mary Josephine Hereferd's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia.
  • John and Roxanna Brooks families (155 KB)
    listing
  • Thornton - Partridge (54 KB)
    Research on Mary Ella Thornton - Brooks' ancestors on her father's side.
  • Carter, Thomas Randolph (47 KB)
    Hope Hull visit to find the tombstone of the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks and he was the great grandfather of James Edgar Brooks Jr.
  • Westbrook (161 KB)
    Beverly's inlaws
  • Baxley, Grandmother Ella Olivia (11 KB)
    A visit to the Cain's Chapel cemetery to locate the tombstones of Ella and her husband L W Hood plus her parents buried down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in "Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa Miranda Holt. These were ancestors of Mary Ella Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother of Bessie Mae Hood - Thornton.
  • Carter in South Carolina (99 KB)
    father of Thomas was John Wise Carter and his dad was Captain John Carter of the American Revolution who married Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John Wise.
  • Baxter, Rowena Densy (20 KB)
    Grandmother of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie
  • Mary Ella Thornton, wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr (258 KB)
    Her father was Milton Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie Mae Hood. This focus on the Thorntons as they migrated out of Georgia into Elmore County Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline Partridge.
  • 1786 Marriages (66 KB)
    Peter Bozeman and Sarah Brown were the parents of Jesse and William Henry Bozeman, plus another son named Peter E. Bozeman who married Gilly
  • Hood - Thornton - Brooks - Smith (29 KB)
    Tracking family from North Carolina to Alabama through Tennesssee
  • Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820 SC (6 KB)
    Civil War Records............father of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper ..........grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
  • Hans Brooks of Holland 1800 (25 KB)
    John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks.
  • Partridge, Mary Angeline (4 KB)
    Parents of Angeline were Mildred Smith and George Partridge of Georgia. Her husband was George Thornton of Georgia and his parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and Charles Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha Blackstone born 1814 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears.
  • Joe Stephens -Civil War (4 KB)
    Joe and Sarah Mills Stephens of Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John T Bozeman but she died soon after giving birth to their 4th child.
  • Stokes Cemetery on Bozeman Land- Hope Hull (39 KB)
    Jesse Bozeman's daughter Lacy is buried here near her husband Thomas Randolph Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of Am Rev Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's father was Peter Bozeman a soldier in the American Revolution. Lacy and some of the children died in an epidemic. Jesse and his wife's tombstones have been separated by a large tree and the stones are broken. The top of Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but Lacy's monument stands tall. The Carters and Bozemans once owned large plantations here. Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In fact Jesse's brother William Henry Bozeman was Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is not found ( yet )
  • Ballard, James Cal of Tennessee (80 KB)
    Father of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks was married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee. Parents of James Ballard were Rowena Densy Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about 1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears began.
  • Colonial Records (3 KB)
    Saving a few documents relating to my ancestors.
  • Cooper and Lee (49 KB)
    Chambers County Records
  • Bond, John Baptist (80 KB)
    Father of Caroline Bond Smith was married to Catherine Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times in Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith was the father of Roxanna Smith - Brooks. Notes on this page include Henry Smith, father of Thomas and then the Ballards of North Carolina - Larken Ballard's mother was Kizziah Dickens.
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    Father of Levi Cooper
  • Herriford of Virginia (50 KB)
    Mary Josephine Hereferd was the second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their daughter was Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper ( mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died, Mary had him buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their children.
  • Anderson in Civil War (30 KB)
    Father of Nancy
  • Carter in Civil War (9 KB)
    T. R. Carter father of Sarah
 
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Marriage into the Westbrook family, now there are many new names to study like Grauer, Glass, Holt, Braswell, Penton, Jones, Holly. Daddy, Charles Brooks had dozens and dozens of ancestors migrating into Alabama in the early 1800s. Joseph Baxley born 1815 Georgia or possibly as some speculate, in SC., married Mary Evans and named a son James H. - the tombstone of James has the middle name as Hardie. James served in the Civil War and married Louisa Miranda Holt and resided in "Holtville". Their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley married L. W. Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood who married Milton Elijah Thornton. Elijah's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge, an indian, and George Thornton, a mixed blood from Georgia, who had settled in Central, Elmore County, Alabama. Elijah's daughter, Mary Ella Thornton married James Edgar Brooks Jr. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E Brooks Sr. James and Susie are listed on the 1930 census with both their widowed mothers. Susie's ancestors were in Chambers County about 1830: Andrew Cooper and "Alsey" from SC living near Malinda Phillips and Elijah Lee born 1777 SC. Their children Sarah F. Lee married Charner P. Cooper, a soldier from the Civil War, and had a son named Levi who moved to Hope Hull working on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter, where he fell in love with the daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Carter. Parents of Thomas were "Mary" and John Wise Carter of SC who had migrated to Talledega. Thomas is buried in Hope Hull on his old plantation by his first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman. Her name was Lucy on census but Lacy on her tombstone. Thomas served in the Civil War and his grandfather Captain John Carter served in the American Revolution, along with his own father in law, John Wise of South Carolina....The second wife of Thomas Carter was Mary Josephine Hereferd of Virginia and she was the mother of Sarah Elizabeth Carter...Mary was not very happy with this marriage and had only the one child. She buried Thomas by his first wife. Some of Mary's family settled in Alabama and some moved on to Texas. Mary's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia..Parents of James Brooks were Annie Ballard and John Brooks of Tennesse and they are all buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama. John was a railroad man, born to Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and a John Brooks born 1837 Pennsylvania. John 1837 died of tuberculosis in Texas. Parents of Roxanna were Caroline Bond and Thomas Smith. Parents of Annie Ballard were Dora Craig and James Ballard of TN. Some of these families migrated into Tennessee about 1800 from the Carolinas living amongst the Cherokee Indians and Chickasaw so they could have been mixed blood. Annie's picture shows she was a dark lady with black eyes and black hair and so was her husband's features very dark but I would suspect his from the Smith side of the family....Charles Brooks wed Kathy Cochran in Montgomery Alabama. She was at least one eighth Cherokee blood. Her parents were Anne Carter and Frank Cochran. Anne's parents were Alice Emily McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter. Emily was called Emma,Ellie, and Emmer by her parents Lorena Bozeman and Charles McClain Lorena's parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman. Charlie's parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. The father of John Bozeman was Peter Edward Bozeman, a Civil War Soldier who married Nancy Jane Anderson, and her father was Seaborn Montgomery Anderson, another Civil War soldier. Seaborn had married Lavinia Jane Sellers....Cecil Carter's parents were Anna Lou Stone and William Franklin Fenn. Frank was born in Tuskegee to Emeline Harrell and John Fenn a Civil War soldier of Georgia. Anna's parents were Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus Marvin Stone of Georgia. Anna divorced Frank Fenn about 1901/1902 and remarried to a Carter, then to a Dasher, as found in Georgia census records..Studying Marengo County finding Elizabeth Grauer Westbrook in 1850.


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  • Anne Carter 's Grandpa's Death Certificate (458 KB)
    Montgomery Alabama 1922 death certificate of William Franklin Fenn born 1855 in Tuskegee, Macon County Alabama, former Creek Indian Nation to Emeline Harrell and John Fenn of Georgia - John had served in the Civil War and moved his family to Alabama in the 1860s.
  • Anne Carter 's Uncle Frank Fenn (18 KB)
    Her daddy's brother born 1895 resided in Coosada, had a farm on Airport Road, a family cemetery and the Church Cemetery he donated, and later his land became Coosada Elementary School. Frank served in WWI and worked for the railroad and he was the father of Bob Fenn, the principal of Robinson Springs School around 1987. Frank's tombstone is next to his brother Robert's in their family graveplot. Robert never appeared on a census record but was known as Uncle Lee. Franks' features are very much like those of Billy Carter and of Mark Carter.
  • Anne Carter and Frank Cochran (54 KB)
    1953 by the cactus in Arizona - They married in 1951 and moved to Tulsa Oklahoma for a while, then to Arizona, and then back through Mena Arkansas and Chetopa Kansas before returning to Alabama.
  • Frank Cochran (212 KB)
    Family photo about 1937 with Frank on the left
  • Mary Angeline Partridge Thornton (300 KB)
    Mother of Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County Alabama and the granny of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks.
  • Frank Cochran and Son Frank Jr and son (30 KB)
    Family in Montgomery about 1993
  • Minnie Lee Gibson (83 KB)
    Daughter of Ethel Mae Bozeman's daughter Ruby Gibson - Minnie's daughter contacted me and sent the picture; please do write again. It has been such a joy hearing from my new found cousins.
  • Frank Cochran's father as a child with Jacob (108 KB)
    Family in Kansas - "Pop" Frank Delbert Cochran was a handsome little lad with much resemblence to the pictures of his many grandsons, born to parents Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran - both had become widowed in Iowa 1870s and married there before migrating to Hill City of Graham County Kansas in 1882 .
  • Sam Little (984 KB)
    Uncle Sam was the son of John Wright Little and a brother to Lattie. Lattie told her children stories of their Indian Heritage while Uncle Sam would deny them all - he didn't want to be indian.
  • Frank Cochran's mother Luella (119 KB)
    Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. Lattie was born in Kentucky and Ben's family had been born in Indiana both with ancestors mentioned in those states' history books .
  • John T. Bozeman (3 KB)
    Son of Peter and Nancy, married Alice Stephens, having Ethel Mae and Lorena Emma Bozeman, this photo may have been taken around 1890. John is buried at Hills Chapel Cemetery in front of the church at Dublin beside his brother Peter James, who died of suicide.
  • Frank Cochran's mother Luella's MOM Lattie (63 KB)
    Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. This picture of Lattie shows her indian features quite nicely. Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War.
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  • Frank Cochran's great grandmother Crigler (323 KB)
    Luella was the daughter of Lattie Little and Ben Coonfield born in Arkansas. Lattie Cedonia Little was born in Kentucky to Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little, who had served in the Civil War. This picture of Lattie as a small child with her sister Sadonia and their mother Catherine Crigler of Kentucky. Catherine was the daughter of Catherine Roby and Abraham Crigler who were of Mixed Blood.
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  • Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W. Little (479 KB)
    John Wright Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in 1811.
  • Home (45 KB)
    Westbrook Surnames: Grauer, Braswell, Glass, Holley, Penton, Jones, Johnson, and more.
  • cousin (128 KB)
    Mark
  • cousin (15 KB)
    Brad
  • Tombstone of Elijah Lee (28 KB)
    One of the many grandfathers of Charles Brooks was born in 1777 SC and settled in Chambers County Alabama by 1830 is buried beside his wife and his son at Old Harmony Church. Elijah's daughter Sarah Lee married her neighbor Charner P . Cooper, a Civil War soldier and had a son named Levi Benjamin Cooper who settled in Hope Hull on T. R. Carter's plantation as a laborer and then married Carter's daughter.
  • Frank Cochran's great grandfather John W. Little (26 KB)
    John Wright Little military description, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, served in the Civil War, made guns, was a blacksmith, born in Kentucky 1843 to Catherine Wright and Hiram L. Little. John's family refused Indian Land Allotment. Catherine Wright Little was the daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John Wright of Charlotte VA as they married there in 1811. This picture of John as he got older and grey.
  • John W. Little's cousin Lucius Powhatan Little (40 KB)
    John Wright Little's mother had a sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky History books.
  • Lucius Powhatan Little's Mother (33 KB)
    John Wright Little's mother had a sister Martha who married Douglas Little, a brother of Hiram. Martha named her son Powhatan in honor of their indian blood. Powhatan was a writer, lawyer and a judge in Owensboro Kentucky History books. This picture of Martha Wright is all we have of that lineage, lovely lady with indian features died of euthanasia according to old records of LP and his daughter Laura.
  • John Wright Little Family Photo (39 KB)
    About 1900 he moved them all to Marble, Arkansas after his wife died and appeared on the 1900 and 1910 census
  • Baxley, James H. (483 KB)
    One of the many grandfathers of Charles Brooks, served in the Civil War and had a farm in Holtville, Elmore County. Much information of Grandpa Baxley was sent by cousin Glenda, a new found email pal with extensive Baxley family research.
  • Kathy Cochran wed Charles W. Brooks (33 KB)
    Photo taken about 1995 before he got sick with colon cancer. Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr
  • Frank (30 KB)
    with Cecil Jr.
  • Charles W. Brooks' parents (6 KB)
    Charles was the son of Mary Ella Thornton and James Edgar Brooks Jr - Parents of Mary Ella were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper and James E. Brooks.
  • Susie Mae Cooper's dad (50 KB)
    Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama.
  • Susie Mae Cooper (40 KB)
    Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Levi's father Charner Cooper had served in the Civil War and married Sarah Lee of Chambers County Alabama. Sarah Lee's father was Elijah Lee born 1777 South Carolina and had served in the War of 1812, then married in Georgia to Malinda Phillips, settled in Chambers County upon land purchased directly from a Creek Indian and they are buried there - tombstones found at the Old Harmony Church beside their son James Lee who died in the Civil War..... This picture of Susie Mae with her spouse James E. Brooks.
  • Susie Mae Cooper with her mother Sarah (68 KB)
    Levi Cooper married Sarah Elizabeth Carter and had Susie Mae. Sarah was the daughter of Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia and Thomas Randolph Carter of SC who had settled in Hope Hull. Thomas served in the Civil War and it is written that he furnished his own horse and it is written that he spent time in a Virginia Hospital during a sickness and one can only wonder if that is where he met the beautiful Mary Hereferd because her entire family soon moved into Montgomery Alabama.
  • Susie Mae Cooper 's granny (58 KB)
    Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. Mary's parents were Jemima Ramsey and John Herriford of Virginia, all migrated to Alabama.
  • Grandpa Stone (90 KB)
    Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter - parents of Augustus were Sarah Davies and Benjamin Wilburne Stone but census transcribers listed him as Stowe......all born in Georgia they are found in 1850 Macon Alabama and the father of Benjamin resided beside him named Michael Stone born in Maryland 1700s.
  • Grandma Stone (88 KB)
    Augustus was the father of Anna Stone Fenn Carter and his wife was Mary Ann Hendrick of Georgia - her father was Christopher Columbus Hendrick, who moved on from Alabama into Texas after his daughter left home.
  • Annie (440 KB)
    Annie Carter was named after her grandmother Anna Lou Stone. Annie was Kathy's mother. Annie had open heart surgery in 1980 just weeks before Beverly was born but managed to walk into that hospital to hold her first grand daughter with amazing strength and pride in her family.
  • Grandpa Charles McClain (1888 KB)
    Death Certificate - his daughter Alice married Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, the son of Anna Stone. Charlie raised the children of Alice and Cecil when they died by 1939. Charlie was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Census records show the date of birth of Charlie was 1886 and all other records seem to differ because his wife was not very educated. Few could read or write back then. His funeral memorial booklet shows the names of his parents, wife, and many children. Served in WWI but has no headstone on his grave at Dublin Church of Christ. Grandpa had lazy eye but none of the children inherited it.
  • Susie Mae Cooper 's grandfather (35 KB)
    Mary Josephine Herriferd married T R Carter and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. This picture of Thomas shows his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their family before the epidemic. When Thomas died, Mary had him buried near Lacy and their children and Mary never married again and never had any more children.
  • William Marion McClain (1713 KB)
    Charlie's cousin by his father's first marriage. They all connect to Josiah Marion McClain born 1838. Josiah was first married to Julia America King in Georgia who bore him several children - Josiah served in the Civil War, injured at the Battle of Franklin TN and apparently sent back to Alabama to recover but obviously forgot about his family and remarried. Julia filed for divorce for dessertion in 1872 and tried to apply into the Cherokee Nation Rolls. His second wife Elizabeth filed for a Widows Pension in 1897.
  • James Brooks' mother (72 KB)
    Annie Clark Ballard of Tennessee married John E Brooks and had only one son named James. This beautiful Annie's parents were Dora Craig and James Ballard of Tennessee early 1800s history.
  • Charles McClain's wife Lorena Bozeman (11 KB)
    Not sure who posted her as his mother on his death certificate. Lorena was the daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman of the Dublin/ Ramer area in Montgomery County and she had indian blood.
  • Cemetery at Hope Hull (1 KB)
    Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge pasture on the right.
  • Lorena's sister Ethel Mae Bozeman (91 KB)
    with husband Jace Gibson who was also first cousin to Charlie McClain because their own mothers were sisters ( Broadway ) Ruby on horse - Ruby was mother of Elizabeth who we met in Dublin at the Hills Chapel Church. Ethel's children and grandchildren are still living in that Dublin/ Ramer area and can lead you to much of their heritage.
  • Cemetery at Hope Hull (21 KB)
    Thomas R Carter buried near Lacy Jane Bozeman's monument but the top of his has fallen. He served in the Civil War and owned a plantation in Hope Hull. He buried her parents here in this cemetery. Cemetery located off I-65 Hope Hull Exit on the McLean Road in huge pasture on the right.
  • Clopton Gibson (184 KB)
    Ethel's father in law came from South Carolina
  • Tombstone of Jesse Bozeman, father of Lacy Carter (264 KB)
    states he was born 1793 and a tree separates him from one of his wive's graves. He came from Darlington South Carolina with his father Peter who had served in the American Revolution and their many families to settle in Hope Hull in 1826. Jesse bought 160 acres in 1827 while his father wrote letters found at the Probate Office where he expected free land for his military service. Peter died in 1829 and is buried closeby one would expect - his grave is not yet found. Jesse is buried near his daughter Lacy's very large monument and his son James Freeman Bozeman who died in the Civil War, and many of Lacy's children.
  • 1920 Anna Lou Stone Fenn Carter Dasher in Macon GA (133 KB)
    Apparently she is now widowed and taking care of her mother - Cecil was in Fort Bliss in the Army.
  • Tombstone of Peter Edward Bozeman (1350 KB)
    Son of Martha Hill and William Henry Bozeman of Darlington SC who also settled in Hope Hull.....William was born about 1802 a son of Peter and brother of Jesse. Wm's son Peter Edward was married to Nancy Jane Anderson and he served in the Civil War and she got his pension - papers at Probate Office - Nancy had son named John Thomas Bozeman who married Alice Lorena Stephens. This tombstone is found in Dublin behind the Hills Chapel Church while his son John is buried in front of the church.
  • James H Baxley (871 KB)
    Tombstone - Civil War Soldier - married Louisa Holt and had Ella Olivia Baxley who married L W Hood and had Bessie Mae Hood. His father Joseph Baxley was born about 1815 in Georgia and was married to Mary Evans, in 1841 Chambers County Alabama, - all found in 1850 Macon County Alabama but in 1860 were back in Muskogee Georgia
  • Tombstone Ella Olivia Baxley Hood (94 KB)
    Mother of Bessie Mae - Ella was daughter of James Baxley in Holtville, Elmore County, Alabama
  • Tombstone L. W. Hood (58 KB)
    Cains Chapel Cemetery at Slapout - father of Bessie Mae Hood Thornton......L. W. was called Wesley.
  • Tombstone Bessie Mae Hood Thornton (34 KB)
    Cains Chapel Cemetery at Slapout - mother of Mary Ella Thornton Brooks was nicknamed Bubber. Bessie was married to Milton Elijah Thornton and Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L. W. Hood. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton of 1800s Georgia who had settled in Cold Springs, Elmore.
  • 1830 Alabama Creek Nation (38 KB)
    The Indian Territory that our ancestors traveled through in 1830
  • 1870 Uncle William Stone (384 KB)
    Tallapoosa County Alabama
  • Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman (78 KB)
    Dublin burial, mother of Lorena McClain
  • 1930 James Brooks (1512 KB)
    Montgomery Alabama - wife Susie Mae Cooper. Susie bore him a son James Jr. and called him Bubba.
  • Anne Carter Cochran (18 KB)
    Married to Frank Cochran, she had Kathy in Broken Arrow Oklahoma and then they moved to Mesa Arizona where her sons were born
  • Beverly at Coosa River (816 KB)
    Surveying the Cemetery where the Baxleys are buried
  • Anne Carter Cochran (59 KB)
    Birth Announcement from Montgomery Advertiser
  • Holt - Baxley (794 KB)
    Louisa Miranda Holt born 1847 was granny to "Bubber" Bessie Mae Hood Thornton and great great granny of Charles W. Brooks
  • Anne Carter Cochran's Daddy was Cherokee (25 KB)
    Cecil Earl Fenn Carter born 1900
  • Cemetery Survey (213 KB)
    Beverly photographs tombstones of her great great grandparents tombstones, Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton, the parent of Milton Elijah Thornton near Santuck, in Central at the Mount Hebron Primitive Baptist Church.
  • Anne Carter Cochran's Mother was mixed blood (19 KB)
    Alice Emily McClain Carter, daughter of Lorena Bozeman and Charles Allen McClain
  • Clora Jane Miller (102 KB)
    Frank Cochran's granny was married to Jacob Cochran and named a son Frank Delbert Cochran. When Jacob died the widow made her rounds, spending a few months with each of her grown children's families. She smoked a pipe, read the ashes and taught them to pop corn. her ancestors of Ireland had settled in Rockinham Virginia where we find Rev. Alexander Miller of the 1700s buried at Cooks Creek Cemetery. Clora's mother was Mary Clara Parker of Ohio, who some say made medicine with the indians, born to Sara Tefft and Archelaus Parker of the New York Indian County. Tefft has a wonderful 1600s history in Rhode Island, where one of the Uncles was hanged by King Phillip.
  • Anne Carter and Frank Cochran (60 KB)
    Montgomery Alabama about 1950
  • Nancy Jane Anderson Bozeman tombstone (29 KB)
    Widow of Peter Edward Bozeman, is buried by two of her sons in this family plot, not far from the Brooks and Coopers and Fenns who are also buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery Alabama.
  • Anne Carter 's Daddy's Death Certificate (230 KB)
    Montgomery Alabama 1939 death certificate confirms his parents to be Ann Stone and Wm Frank Fenn as witnessed by his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn
  • Walton McClain (35 KB)
    with Charlie McClain on the farm in Ramer about 1930 - Walton joined the military for most of his life and earned his PHD. buried at Alexandria VA
  • Frank Delbert Cochran (50 KB)
    Son of Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran served in WWI while Jacob was a Civil War soldier of the Ohio Infantry.
  • Uncle Cecil Earl Carter born 1932 (33 KB)
    Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter was the father of Victoria Carter, all buried at Memorial Cemetery except Vickie who was cremated by her half sisters.
  • Uncle William Lawrence Carter born 1935 (25 KB)
    Son of Alice McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter he was the brother of Anne and Cecil Jr. Alice died giving birth to "Billy". Billy spent most of his life in Indian Territory Oklahoma.
  • Anne Carter and Frank Cochran in Arizona 1957 (447 KB)
    Pictures taken by Billy Carter, Anne's brother, accompanied by Lillian, Billy's first wife.
 

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Thanks for visiting I am researching many of my grandparents. Hans Brooks of Holland and his son John Brooks born 1837 in Pennsylvania. John Baptist Bond, Caroline Bond and Thomas Smith, grandson of John Smith, Annie Clark Ballard, granddaughter of Larkin Francis Ballard, Rowena Densy Baxter, Peter Bozeman of the American Revolution, his son William Henry to Peter Edward, Elisha Anderson to Seaborn Montgomery Anderson, Lavinia Brack, Hester Doty, William Sellers, Charles McClain and Josiah, Gideon Moon, Elijah Lee, Andrew Cooper, Frank Cochran, Isaac Coonfield, Captain George Little of Scotland, Christopher Coonfield of Holland, Alexander Cochran of Scotland, Abraham Crigler, Lydia Carpenter, Polly Duval, Jesse Simmons, Kitty Stone, Hester Ward, James Young, Charles and Catherine Weatherford of Virginia, John C. Wright, John Wright Little, Reason Roby, John Fann of England, Zachariah Fenn, Anna Lou Stone, Frank Fenn, Augustus Marvin Stone, Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton, Milton Elijah Thornton, Bessie Mae Hood and Ella Olivia Baxley, and many more. 

 
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  • 1850 Roxanna Brooks - Grandmother with her Mom. (714 KB)
    Her mom was Caroline M. Bond, daughter of Mary Catherine Stone and John Baptist Bond from 1700s North Carolina History....Our grandmother Caroline married several times, here with Mr. Dunham but she has her two children with her Roxi Smith and John Smith and possibly her own mother Mary Catherine Stone from North Carolina who has obviously remarried too...........Three generations on this document !
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My grandpa Cochran had a grandma Catherine Weatherford,in VA, a daughter of Charles, but Charles was in Alabama when she got married in 1811 with his son William (Red Eagle). Well my mom's family was here in 1830 by John and two Daniel McQueens, one married to a Rachel Lewis and here I was researching the possibility that one of Peter Bozemans daughter may have wed a Benjamin Lewis, who had owned the land in 1822, which later became the property of Peter and his heirs, including Lacy's husband Thomas Carter. Edmond Lewis and Benjamin had many descendants all around them. Lucy Bozeman Campbell had a daughter Martha who may be the one who married Mathew Stokes who also owned a piece of this land at one time. Lacy's daughter married a Calloway. Jesse Bozemans son married a Flinn, who's family worked for McGee. They all married into the Sellers, Anderson, Dillard, Gibson, Goodson, Hill, McClain, Stephens, Stacy, Broadway , Fenn, Stone, Carter,families, from Pintlala into Ramer and Pine Level, they farmed and struggled to survive, while defending their country in every war that arised. Several of these names were Justices of the Peace or attorneys as we see their signatures on many documents. One signature was Nathaniel Williams and my parents had seen Hank as a young one playing guitar on his porch. Some came from Chambers County and Talladega, while some went back. St. Clair county was quite popular, as was Marengo county. Then I found the Thorntons and Hood families in Elmore county with Holt and Baxley. All of these soon met the Brooks families who came out of Tennessee. And the Lee and Cooper families were buying up land in Creek country of Chambers, while one McQueen married a Creek and Mr. Thornton had married an indian Miss Partridge in Georgia before migrating into Elmore. Miller, Parker, Little, Douglass, Handley, Coonfield, Young, Wright, Weatherford, into Kentucky about 1800 soon went west, becoming a part of the Cochran heritage. I have recently noticed that the eldest Alexander Cochran in PA who served in the Am. Rev War, has a daughter listed in the DAR, but they have added inserts that he may not be her dad, so family history is always a fun mystery. I see about 20 of our grandfathers listed on the DAR webpage, but may not ever have enough paperwork to prove my direct lineage. But I have joined thru my grandma Bozeman's line. When I found her family on the 1830 and 1840 census of Montgomery County, AL, and studied the many families and neighbors around them, I realized that many of these intermarried and created our great city. They also spread around each of the counties nearby, but we have to keep in mind that most of the land was creek nation and tiny counties were just beginning to form. The train station downtown is along the river, and there are currently many historical markers that this was once an indian village. I am finding our ancestors in many Early History or Pioneers books of various states and it makes me very proud.

 
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  • 1950? Brooks (30 KB)
    Mary and James
  • Carter (22 KB)
    Michael and Jeri, advised me that Jeffrey Earl had passed away and I gave them info to contact Bradford Earl.Also made contact with Cecil Mark :)My uncle Cecil married several times and this helps me to understand why there are so very many Carter families in my research. They had many brothers, even back to John Wise Carter of 1800.
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    Tommy
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    Charlie
  • John Brooks photo (20 KB)
    John Brooks married Annie Clark Ballard in Tennessee and had only one child, James Edgar Brooks in 1895, who married Susie Mae Cooper of Montgomery Alabama. The census shows us that both widowed mothers lived with them ( Annie and Sarah )
  • James Edgar Brooks born 1895 (40 KB)
    Photo with his wife Susie Mae Cooper who was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper. Susie's son was James Edgar Brooks Jr. who married Mary Ella Thornton. Mary had Tommy and Charles. Charles married Cochran. Tommy married a Ms Dennis. At one point in the 1920 census records, Susie had taken in both their mothers who had become widowed. The parents of Sarah were Mary Josephine Hereford of Virgina and Thomas Randolph Carter of Hope Hull. The Coopers had an early settlement in Chambers County before coming to Montgomery.
 
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    1850 death and 1862 estate, this couple also has descendants joining the DAR, as do his brothers.
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  • 1865 (37 KB)
    our great grandfather charles mcclain had a grandfather named james
  • great grandpa charles mcclain has my moms nose (67 KB)
    he also served in ww1, had two sisters who died before he was born, could not read nor write and was never certain of his age, a small short type of guy, with lazy eye, was very spiritual. His nose is very much like the famous creek chief calvin mcghee but i find no mcghee in my lineage so who was his mother hmmmmm
  • 1840 watkins and calloway (342 KB)
    our GG great grandfather Henry Bozeman lived amongst some of the most influential people of the county but he is never mentioned in the history books....his land was divided and sold when he passed away in 1847 and a Thomas Carter bought a portion which we can still see and visit the family cemetery as Tom had married Henry's niece Lacy Bozeman, the daughter of Jesse and possibly Lucy Anderson...this is also the only place where uncle Jesse had his middle initial M....so he could have been named jesse mordecai after his grandpa......also note that peter has the family....he has moved near the Anderson family......he is closer to Lavinia Jane Sellers Anderson......also our family
  • 1968 (13 KB)
    standing on dexter avenue where my elders once came upon this old dirt road to sell cotton or tobacco after a good harvest and also where they watched jefferson davis take his oath as president of the confederacy
  • PEB setting the record straight (584 KB)
    PeterEdward's original home made grave stone shows the year of his death to be 1895......his wife filed for his pension in 1896 and so in error we assumed the wrong dates.
  • 1920 grandpa carter (15 KB)
    mom never knew her dad, in fact she was orphaned at age 4 and raised by her mcclain grandparents but always told that her daddy was cherokee
  • 1949 funeral record (264 KB)
    proof of mcclain parentage gave me something new to research and then i could amend his death certificate for any future researchers...this also helped provide information for his wife's parentage so that I could have her death certificate amended and it also shows my sweet granny Emily Carter who died at age 19.
  • Levi Cooper (50 KB)
    Mamaw's daddy sure resembles frank and david....the coopers have a lot of history, migrating into creek territory of chambers county and then into montgomery.Levi also married a carter, so was he kin to me maybe
  • 1824 Grandpa Isaac Coonfield (298 KB)
    Daddy's mom's side came out of Pennsylvania 1700s into KY 1800 and then 1824 Indiana history books of migrations
  • 1890 Lorena (336 KB)
    I knew the granny who raised my mother and traced her on the census records, and personal records indicate her death certificate had many errors so I personally sent the information to have her legacy correct for future generations of the Bozeman family and her mother Lorena Stephens
  • 1895 uncle frank fenn (18 KB)
    we had visited his huge farm in coosada when i was a child.....he must resemble his mother anna stone and his daughter was martha fenn cook mcclain whom i also met and interviewed for our family history....she knew my mother and her brothers
  • 1838 heirs (173 KB)
    the Bozeman heirs name Lucy and Sterling Campbell but look closely.....is it LACY??? and of course it mentions our grandpa HENRY and then the minor heirs of meedy who resided with ellen and vincent joiner who did not remain in montgomery county.this does not include the third daughter of peter so she may not have survived the journey to alabama. but do take note of the CAMPBELL surname as it begins to appear quite often in the next several years of our family; perhaps cousins marrying cousins.....or not..
 
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Their descendants were in Montgomery County by 1850 

Elijah Lee was born in 1777 South Carolina. He married Malinda Phillips in Greene County Georgia, the daughter of Mark Phillips.

They settled in Chambers County Alabama about 1830 not far from Andrew and Alsey Cooper also from South Carolina.



Marriage: Charner P. Cooper and Sarah F. Lee



Sarah's son was Levi Benjamin Cooper and he married Sarah Elizabeth Carter in Montgomery and had Susie.

Sarah's father also came from South Carolina, born 1820 Thomas R. Carter's parents bought land in Talladega. His father was John Wise Carter of South Carolina and his parents were Elizabeth Wise and John Carter.


 
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  • More of Our Family Connections (1 KB)
    Sarah Lee and Charner Cooper married - he served in the Civil War and their son Levi moved to Montgomery and worked on the farm of Thomas R. Carter and fell in love with Carter's daughter Sarah, whom he married and had a daughter named Susie Mae Cooper. They came from the Lee and Cooper families of Chambers County and lived not far from each other. Family says that Elijah Lee might have bought his land from a Creek Indian and they surely lived in Creek Indian Territory.
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    C P Cooper
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    Families from SC
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Alabama Bozeman families found on many census records, married to Dillard, Gibson, McClain. Census records allowed only black or white as race, sometimes mulatto if they weren't sure, but you never see Red or Native American. 

 
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    many ancestors of her children shown Elizabeth must have been sister to Rebecca Broadway Gibson Lorena Bozeman McClain listed other Broadway's deaths in her Bible and referred to Elizabeth as Bettie Gardner who had remarried to John Gardner
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    Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson was sister to Emma Lorena Bozeman McClain - their husbands were Cousins -
  • Alice McClain ancestry (60 KB)
    notes from the LDS site, Rootsweb, and census records.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~samanthasgenealogy/

John, Thomas and Henry, perhaps a Benjamin Carter found in 1700 North Carolina, received Bounty Lands in South Carolina for serving in the American Revolution.

Due to Indian unrest some migrated beyond those lands and the many tribes were battling over the territory. Many of these families were mixed with indian blood but had to protect their families from the hostiles.

1820 Alabama census shows Thomas Carter and a John W. Carter with large households and John named a son Thomas that year, so we can assume the first two were brothers. These Carters went back and forth across the south and young Thomas served in the civil war, married a Bozeman and secondly a Mary.

Cecil Earl Carter's mother Anna Stone married a Carter about 1905 and his name is not yet found, but she was widowed and staying with her mother in 1920 Macon GA. Cecil married Emily McClain, daughter of Charles, and Cecil's niece, Martha married a Henry McClain.

 
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    Records of Carter and Boling.......was the mother of Thomas a Boling???
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    Many Carters began migrating to Alabama in 1821, brothers and sons, prospering, farming, and growing their own families from Talladega to Montgomery and some back into GA and SC, even the elders of the 1700s traveled back n forth.
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    do we connect to Pocahontas??? who did John Wise Carter marry? we know nothing about the mother of his many children.
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Soldiers and Sailors Database - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

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    1820s map.. built on my mom's grandfather's plantation
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    Inauguration of Jefferson Davis. Did my ancestors attend? They sure fought in the war with him..
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    Selling Cotton My family was there.... My mom's family grew and sold cotton and hauled it to Dexter Avenue to sell and spent the night in a hotel that was probably one of the projects of Abner McGee.
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    Confederate Memorial Day in Montgomery
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    1970 Montgomery Capitol Kathy and Linda are cousins from the same granny Lavinia Jane.
 
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    James Stephens, family of great grandma Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman and her mom was Mary Sue Broadway.
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    mine
  • Beverly Anne (238 KB)
    Locating Mamaw's ancestors in Hope Hull. Susie Mae Cooper Brooks had a grandpa Carter in the civil war and buried here.
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    Brooks, Broadway, Lane and Sides may not be a connection, just a coincidence. We knew an insurance salesman, Billy Brooks, who was not our relative.
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    married to peter's grandson by jesse
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  • Lorena Emma Bozeman McClain (336 KB)
    great granny, a daughter of Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman.
  • Lorena Bozeman with Charles McClain (855 KB)
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  • Frank Cochran (1861 KB)
    Daddy on 1940 census, son of Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran.
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    1940 census, son of Susie Mae Cooper and James Edgar Brooks, Sr.
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  • Kathy Lorena meets Norma at DAR (197 KB)
    sharing and joining the DAR we are descendants of Peter Edward Bozeman and Nancy Jane Anderson. Norma continues her work to join the Mayflower Society since Nancy was the great great grand.daughter of Benajah Doty....descendant of the famous Edward Doty of 1620s very first Thanksgiving at Plymouth.
 
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1830s Pennsylvania, bound out to learn the Tailor trade, he ran away after his parents died, losing touch with his siblings.

1861 married in Giles County TN

1870 John removed to Paris Texas -census shows wife as R.P who was Roxanna Permilia Smith of TN and that his father Hans was from Holland and mother from France. When John died Roxanna went back to TN and remarried. John Jr married Anne Ballard and named a son James and they migrated to Montgomery Alabama. James was a bookkeeper working for the State and married Susie Mae Cooper, naming a son James Jr in 1925. James Jr. married Mary Ella Thornton and had sons, Johnny, Tommy, Frank and Charlie.

Tracing the many surnames intermarried with the Brooks families. 

 
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    grandpa Carter on left with gun at ft bliss tx
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    Brooks of Tennessee married Annie P. Smith, legally named Roxanna Permilia.
  • 1821 (212 KB)
    Grandfather Carter John Wise Carter bought land in St Clair County. Son of John Carter of the Am Rev War who had married Elizabeth Wise in SC, thus the name of her son. Elizabeth Carter bought land in 1822, then Thomas in 1839 so was this also her son. John Wise Carter also named a son Thomas Randolph Carter who served in the civil war.
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    James McClane in the civil war
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    LEVI COOPER came from Chambers County. His daddy served in the civil war. Levi married Sarah Carter. Her daddy Thomas Carter of SC served in the civil war, after his family migrated into Alabama. Levi resembles a few of his great grandsons in the Brooks family.
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    authorization for her brother in law to be her attorney and handle her late husbands estate in 1851
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    family tradition
  • 1820 census (58 KB)
    uncle Thomas Carter found near John, explains why John named his son Thomas in 1820. apparently the brothers migrated to Talledega together, had many sons, and very many grandsons.
 
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Round and round we go from the east coast to the west. Before we had many grandfathers in the American Revolution, we had those fighting king phillip in the northeast, those settling in the 1600s into massachusetts and new york indian country and of course, two that we have discovered on the first mayflower landing at plymouth, doty and fuller, who's descendants migrated south. Such a joy following their wagon tracks as they journeyed through the wilderness making their contributions to the new country of freedom.

Montgomery AL itself was an indian village yet became the spot of Jefferson Davis taking oath as president of the Confederacy and his home has been moved to be near the capital, where that took place, on the street where our ancestors went to sell their crops and served in the war with Davis. A gold star is still on those capitol steps where he took oath. This Dexter avenue was dirt at that time, full of horses and buggies, then brick for many years, yet paved around 1970.

Blessed with the many contacts and emails to further my journey of family research, many of us have joined the mayflower society, the daughters of the revolution and our sons of the confederacy, thanks to all who led me, to all who have passed on, and here is hope that our loved ones will continue on this path as our elders would have appreciated. 

 
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http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/JONAS.html

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~brooksgenealogy/IndianPrincess.html

 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/L/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/L/Book-Little-Weatherford-429.bmp Captain George Little in KY history

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