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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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