My Family History

Family history means so much to me.  My mother tried to research it but we now have access to so much new information which has been recovered or uncovered that we can do the task much easier. My mother was Cherokee, she said so, her family said so, her daddy said so, but when i study her mother's lineage, I do believe there was some Creek families there since the features were so much different, so much smaller and of course so many years in Georgia and Alabama would add to the clues. Mothers parents died young and she was orphaned by the age of four, living with her McClain grandparents on the 1940 census. They sent her to school since most before them and around them could not read nor write, so she was able to get a job at Kress's store on Dexter avenue when she became a teen.  Her brothers joined the air force.  I found their father on the 1920 census in the army in Texas but never found their mom on one.  I ordered grandpa's death certificate and found his parents to be Anna Stone and Wm Frank Fenn.  Grandpa's brother called Cecil a half brother, so he will always be a mystery.  I know his parents divorced about 1901 and she went to Macon GA leaving behind six children, yet taking baby Cecil.  the State of GA wrote back to me that they never found a marriage record of a Carter and Anna Stone / Fenn so possibly she told the child of his heritage. After finding her in 1900 with Fenn, I later found her with her mother in GA as Anna Dasher and widowed so she may have had children with him. We may never know about the Carter man she met; perhaps he was in Alabama and caused the divorce.

Our 1820 census shows a John and a Thomas Carter in Talladega and with many children, they would have many grandchildren and greats, and great greats who may have eventually met Anna.  We will never know.  They all went back and forth into GA and SC and we know the pres was a james earl and his brother was billy. Mother's brothers were Billy and Cecil Earl.....

Anna's great grandfather was Michael Stone born in the 1700s maryland and we know there was a Thomas Stone signing the Declaration.

Interesting mystery indeed.

I adored my great granny, Lorena Bozeman McClain. and spent many weekends with her, churning butter, or quilting, sewing and gardening. She had little education and an ugly handwriting but as i researched, all records show her birth as 1890 and not 1892 as she thought.  She had attended hills chapel church school on some days when not working the farm with her sister Ethel
Mae Bozeman Gibson.   I found many of their tombstones in Dublin, Ramer, and Hope Hull, and the Montgomery Memorial Cemetery on Bozeman/Simmons road was land donated by her Uncle Robert Henry Bozeman.  Both of my parents are interred there now and my brother and mom's brothers too.  Lorena and Charlie were both very spiritual;  she attended various churches until finding her place. She was well known for her gift of healing and my own dad was a witness to an awesome story of her saving a man who had been run over by a vehicle.

Dad met mom when he left the Korean war and became stationed at Maxwell.  As he walked downtown one evening, she was leaving Kress' and waiting for her bus home. They married in 51 and he left the air force in 52 and i was born in 53. I found her grandpa's funeral memorial book and much of the handwriting is hers, but her family helped her fill out the valuable information which helped me to get the death certificates of Charlie and Lorena amended for future researchers and I am so  greatful. Nobody ever knew that his mother was a Broadway, and this began a whole new journey into a new branch of our family tree.