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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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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Census
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Lineage (26
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Families from SC
- 1820-
Elijah Lee in Georgia (106
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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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Osiyo
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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Family Tree (14
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Searching the past, for our children's future
- Cecil
Earl Carter Jr (37
KB)
Dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, several wives
and several children, all very dark complected
- Frank
Fenn 1920 (38
KB)
my Uncle Frank was Grandpa Earl's brother
- Frankie
Lavern Cochran weds Annie Carter (38
KB)
Montgomery Alabama 1951
- FENN
KILLED BY INDIANS IN EUFAULA (116
KB)
While our William Fenn worked this plantation, he is
probably connected to this famous Fenn in Barbour County history.
The story of Indians in our line is confirmed, they worked
together, and it confirms the location. It is said that our
grandparents were Cherokee...
- census
1910 Kansas, Cochran (281
KB)
Wm and Mary
- DEATH
CERTIFICATE of Wm F Fenn, father is JOHN FAN(449 KB)
amazing links to the past....John
Fann/Fenn of Tuskegee Alabama back to Elijah Fenn of Georgia
- Kathy
and children 2005 (53
KB)
update
- census
Coonfield (313
KB)
Harrison and Inez
- DEATH
CERTIFICATE of Cecil Carter , father WFenn (216
KB)
another clue....Cecil was adopted !!! as his mother
Annie lee Stone was leaving her family behind, Frank Fenn held a
crying baby Cecil in his arms and said YOU might as well take this
one with you !!! Annie remarried, but so did FENN Cecil Earl was
always coming back to visit his father and brothers.....they said
he was MEAN, so hard to get along with.....military and
drunk.....wow
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update
- census
1870 Emeline Fann (339
KB)
wtih Sarah
- Cecil
Carter MILITARY DISCHARGE (525
KB)
receiving travel pay from Beaumont Texas back to his
bonafide home in Macon Georgia.....description shows DARK RUDDY
COMPLEXION
- Clora
Jane Miller Cochran (15
KB)
Smoked a pipe and read the ashes. Her ancestry came
from New York Indian Country
- census
Clark-Cofield-Cochran (301
KB)
1920 Kansas
- Dorline
Gray (59 KB)
another cousin researching our Powhatan
connection
- Jacob
Benjamin Cochran (18
KB)
A Western Pioneer! Some researchers think his
mother's line intermarried with native americans.
- census
Alexander Cochran (287
KB)
1920 Kansas, with Sarah, both from OHIO
- Powhatan
Little (619 KB)
grandson of Jonas Little...does the
name Lucius appear often in this line? perhaps Jonas's ancestry
has a Lucius in it.
- James
Henry Stephens, half blood Cherokee (197
KB)
John Stephens took a North Carolina Cherokee full
blood wife and gave her a Biblical name and they fled to
Alabama....some went to Florida and into Panama becoming the
Banana People of today.
- census
Thomas Coonfield (267
KB)
1910 Arkansas, with Julia
- Walter
Stone 1939, Leo Logan, Charles Dickey, ?? (30
KB)
Pall Bearers at Cecil Carter's funeral in
1939...with A J Stough, Willie Prescott, who are they??? Cecil's
mother was Annie Lee STONE and she was not surviving....his
brother Emmett signed his death certificate
- Alice
McClain Carter d giving birth to 3rd child (21
KB)
Beautiful granny died so young. In labor wanting to
call her mother for help, he pushed her down the stairs and she
lived only a few hours after giving birth to William. Both her
parents have native american ancestry and strong spiritual
lives.
- census
Charles Coonfield (299
KB)
1920 Arkansas with Dona
- Mary
Catherine Crigler (45
KB)
Mother of Lattie Cedonia Little, and the wife of
John Wright Little
- John
Chester Coonfield (98
KB)
with Cochrans
- Fenn
Graves (34 KB)
So who is Preston ORR who owns these
plots?
- Harry
Cochran (15
KB)
Harrison
- Jacob
B Cochran (74
KB)
Harrison's father, & Frank Delbert's father
- Joe
McClain, brother of Alice (22
KB)
Uncle Joe, native american, was told to sit in the
back of the bus with the blacks...US Navy man and Montgomery
Alabama Fire Fighter in 1954
- Charles
Allen McClain weds Lorena Bozeman 1908 (17
KB)
Descends from Charles McClain and Elizabeth Moon of
Virginia with several unknown brides in that line, lead us to
believing his native american background.....Lorena's Bozeman line
does the same, with Stephens, Anderson, Brack and Doty
backgrounds
- William
Lawrence Carter born 1934 (28
KB)
Cherokee beautiful dark man, loved music and women,
never had any children, died in a car accident on Wetumpka
Highway
- Cochran
Twins (24 KB)
children of F D Cochran and Luella
- Frank
Delbert Cochran weds Luella Coonfield (60
KB)
my great grandparents, he was an apple farmer and
she picked herbs in the field, smoked a pipe and gave birth to a
daughter with a veil on her face
- Elijah
FANN and Martha Rich headstone (287
KB)
Fann Cemetery now called Mother's Home
- Littles (47
KB)
unsure
- Lattie
Cedonia Little m Benjamin Wallace Coonfield (32
KB)
Descends from DAR Captain George Little
- 1910
census James E Brooks (384
KB)
James Edgar Brooks
- Marriage
License Cochran (192
KB)
Luella Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran
- Carters
and Cochrans (23
KB)
Descends from DAR Captain George Little and Edward
Doty of the Mayflower
- 1900
census image Bozeman (283
KB)
Nancy with J T Bozeman
- BOZEMAN,
Mordecai receives pay (61
KB)
for his service in the Militia of the American
Revolution
- Ethel
Bozeman with Jason Gibson 1915 (135
KB)
Ramer Alabama
- 1800
census image McClain (192
KB)
Charles McClain in South Carolina
- BOZEMAN,
Mordecai receives pay (61
KB)
for his service in the Militia of the American
Revolution
- Annie
Lee Alice Carter in 1915 (26
KB)
Highland Avenue, Montgomery Alabama Cherokee
- cencus
image John Thomas Bozeman (280
KB)
with Samantha
- 1934 (44
KB)
Cecil Earl Carter...was a FENN until adopted as a
child with his children
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image 1920 Coonfield (299
KB)
Ben Coonfield
- 1887
Benjamin Coonfield weds Lattie Cedonia Little (12
KB)
His dark black hair had a blue shine to it
- census
image Coonfield (321
KB)
and Little
- census
image Coonfield (312
KB)
Wallace, Lattie, Sam
- census
Wm Cochran (380
KB)
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Allen McClain WWI registration card
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Rev War records
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Anderson Last Will and Estate Sale
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Fenn, Bozeman family research
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Fann and Rich family research into Georgia
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