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Named after my great grandmother Lorena Bozeman McClain who was born in 1890 Ramer, Montgomery, Alabama, I have thoroughly enjoyed writing about this great lady and her heritage.
After my parents passed away and my husband died of cancer, I began to write about them and their family trees when I was unable to sleep.
Our families have traveled many miles and intertwined in the same communities, some knowing each other, many moons ago.
Lorena was named after her mother Alice Lorena Stephens and the story was that Alice's great grandfather was in the American Revolution and married to a full blood Cherokee, giving her a Biblical name. Indian unrest was so bad in the Carolinas, they packed up and moved to Dublin and Ramer in Alabama. Records indicate there were several Stephens Plantations in that area once, near many other migrating families like Broadway, Bozeman, Gibson, Timmons, Dillard, Money, Hill, Gardener, McClain, Anderson, Sellers, with most of their children intermarrying.
While tracing mom's family on the East Coast I also found my dad's lineage, many of whom migrated into Kentucky and Ohio about 1800. They soon migrated into Iowa Territory and or Arkansas.
It's all fascinating family history, some mentioned in books of old pioneers and such, plus so very patriotic, makes me proud.
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