Jonas married Betsy Douglass in 1798 Union County South Carolina and his brother John and their father George Little migrated to Barren Kentucky to a place called Vienna, later moving to the Green River area in Calhoun, McLean County, which was formed from part of Ohio County, then the area was called Daviess County. The Little Campground is what the area was called. Mary Handley's brother Captain John Handley had previously surveyed this area and invited them to join him at Vienna, offering his sisters Mary and Rachel several acres of land and John soon became a Legislator. Parents of the Handleys were Martha Mason and George Handley of Ireland, and Martha's mother was Martha Worthington and we see many of their family names in Kentucky.

Jonas Little was born in 1780 in Newberry, Union, SC to Scottish parents Mary and George Little and his mother died a few years after his birth.

About 1802 his father married his mother in law, Mary Handley Douglass who was also widowed. Her husband Alexander Douglass died on a survey trip to Kentucky with Mary's brother John Handley. Mary's other two daughters married Hunt and Minton.

George had daughters who married Humphrey, Hunt, Spray, and they all moved the entire clan to Kentucky, as found on the 1810 and 1820 census records along with several other names from Newberry who accompanied them on this journey.

John Little eventually moved to Tennessee, then Texas, followed by a son of Jonas, named Dr. Hiram Little, a doctor from the Civil War. Another Hiram Little served in the Battle at the Alamo but may have been the son of John or one of the other Littles found in 1790 Union SC.

The sons of Jonas were very successful men, masons, businessmen. Wesley owned a hotel but was shot in the back when he called a man a liar. Douglass made plows and wagons in his own shop, but soon became an attorney and Judge. Hiram was a Mason and a Physician/ Surgeon in the Civil War. Hiram and Douglass both married daughters of Katherine Weatherford Wright, daughter of Charles and possibly grand-daughter of Mary Half Blood. We do know that Douglass named a son Lucius Powhatan Little, so there is some indication to their native blood.

1790 indicates another Jonas Little who might have been the father of George Little or a brother, and a John and a Joseph who must be all kin. When Captain George Little arrived in Kentucky in 1802, he encountered many popular families whom others are researching.

 
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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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Alexander, William, Jacob, Cochrans of Pennsylvania into Ohio.

Was the Captain Alexander Cochran of the American Revolution my ancestor?

Uncertainty about Hugh Cochran of 1700s Maryland but he also named a son Alexander. Yet they may all connect to Clan Cochran of Europe.

My Alexander and William were the only two Cochran families in Guernsey Ohio in 1800 and 1810, then their sons began their own legacy of Cochran.

Family tale is that two went into Canada and never returned. Some settled in Iowa Territory for many years, then California, Kansas and Arizona, with descendants in Colorado and Alabama. 

In 1913 Arkansas a nice blend of genealogy began with the marriage of Frank and Luella, and once again in 1951 with Frank and Anne.

1972 with the marriage of Charles and Kathy, the surnames in the family tree doubled, and their daughter's marriage with Westbrook increases the number of Grandparents to baby "Carter".

Carter has a strong ancestry, full of faith and patriotism, honest, hard working individuals who have created a loving legacy for him to continue. 

 
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Working with family stories of the old days, tales of medicine women, and their beloved soldiers of the many wars in our country, I may not be able to prove or officially document
our Native American ancestry, yet knowing it is in my heart and in my spirit, is all that is really important.

The stories consist of one great granny who was a well known healer in Dublin, Alabama; one who could read the ashes after smoking her pipe; one aunt born with a veil over her face ( which was removed three times) which was the sign of a seer. The amazing intuition of my father, who left work immediately when it thundered, knowing that his baby was about to be born, and yes, I was born that day, in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Then we are told of Mr Ward, working in his field, as a strong 
thunderstorm approached, he slammed his axe into the ground,
and the skies cleared.

Our families pass on many interesting stories but they all 
spoke the English language, yet practiced good survival skills.


I would love to learn more about their culture and language, and teach our children to respect these and the ways of our elders. Yet we have the stories to pass on and the love, truth and respect that were taught to me. 


When Indians learned about Christianity, they welcomed new knowledge of GOD and the afterlife with their elders. They were in awe, learning of Jesus, and of course we were told the Mormons believe that Jesus appeared to the Old America, so perhaps this faith was quite welcomed by most the tribes when the Europeans arrived.

So when they were Baptized, many were given new names to use and they are almost impossible to trace now. Some Indians changed their name more than once during their lifetime.

Our Stephens line in 1760 married an unknown full blood Cherokee woman in NC and gave her a Biblical Name.

Due to Indian unrest and the Trail of Tears, many Eastern Band Cherokee fled south or up into the mountains (OverHill) to escape the laws and disease of the white man. Our family believes that Charles Weatherford "may" have fathered our Kitty Weatherford in Virgina before moving to Alabama and fathering Chief Red Eagle. We also might connect our Cochran, Little, Wright lines to Cleopatra, sister of Pocahontas. Many of this line came from South Carolina and Virginia into Tennesee and Kentucky before moving to the Midwest.

Mother's line in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina came into Alabama for quite some time before some moved west.
(Moon, McClain, Bozeman,Anderson, Stephens)

Census takers were very prejudiced and would not recognize Indians owning property so they put most down as blacks or mulatto - in some cases the Indian feared the government finding them so they called them selves blacks or whites.

After the Trail of Tears, they believed that no Indians existed in other areas, so no Indians appeared on census records, and had to be found on the Indian Nation Rolls in Oklahoma.

Thus we hope to find our ancestors registered on the Indian Rolls, somehow, but it sure seems to be an endless journey.

Wa do 

 
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