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1850 Kentucky census of Bullitt County
Cochran Family Tree




Ironically his family lived in Texas too
like my grandpa Hiram Lucius Little.

Like some Indians who went to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, some returned to their old home towns later on.  Some chose not to move to Oklahoma and claimed to be white - sadly we have to respect their choices and live with those decisions.

Our kin have been trying to document their Native American blood for the past hundred years because the family stories have been such.

Family lineage listed below....
Contributing information to the www.usgenweb.com
research webpage. Each link is a text file but inside the webpage is another URL to see the photograph that has been posted on usgenweb.

1. Mom  and her Death Certificate
Mother's line:




Mordecai Bozeman of North Carolina
Peter Boseman of Darlington South Carolina census was in the REV WAR and so was Ralph Boseman but their kinship is uncertain.

Charles McClain of Virginia married Elizabeth Moon and was in the American Revolution.  Some of their descendants went to Oklahoma Indian Nation but not my line.


Josiah Marion McClain married Julie America King in GA - she was rejected by the Cherokee rolls...
  He also married Elizabeth Broadway in Montgomery Alabama and had my grandfather Charles McClain who was in WWI, married a Bozeman and had my Uncle Joe who was so dark that he was told to sit in the back of the city bus with the colored.

I found several Bozeman graves in Montgomery's Greenwood Cemetery including grandma Nancy Jane Stephens Bozeman.

Also in Virginia were the Sellers, Anderson, Brack, Doty families that we trace south as indian unrest made it dangerous to live on the east coast and some even wanted freedom of religion during a time where the Church of England was in rule.  We know that some indians were peaceful but some were not!

When these families got into Georgia, they found Cherokee and Creek indians that were soon giving up land because of the Indian Removal or Trail of Tears but some of these indians hid in the hills and were known as the Lost Tribe. Then there was the Creek Indian War of 1812 and the Seminole War so there must have been several different tribes in GA and AL.

Eleazor Brack is listed on the familysearch.org page as being a Cherokee

Miss Doty is our connection to Edward Doty who arrived on the Mayflower.







Funeral book of grandpa McClain
Father's lineage:




Was Polly Jones married to Charles Weatherford in Charlotte VA perhaps before he ever went to Alabama to marry Indian maiden Sehoy. Mother of Charles Weatherford appears to be known only as Mary Half Blood. Perhaps Charles did not attend Catherine's wedding because he was in Alabama with Chief Red Eagle ( his son William Weatherford ) preparing for the Creek War of 1812.

Catherine G Weatherford, daughter of Charles and Polly? Family researchers
take them back to Thomas Jones of Henrico VA in Bermuda Hundred





Dorline Gray Teegarden asks about indian blood - her sister Verna sent me a photo of my daddy when they were all very young.

Joseph Little in 1790 Colonel Brandon's regiment, son of Capt George Little
Grandpa Jonas Little in 1830 Kentucky Census


Powhatan Little letter of 1912 tells of George Littles' migration to the Carolinas and enlistment into the American Revolution




L P Little on 1900 census of Kentucky includes his 88 year old widowed mother Martha Ann Wright Little, who's grandfather was the above mentioned Charles Weatherford.



George and Mary Little from Scotland with at least ten children in South Carolina. He fought in the Revolutionary War, was wounded and crippled, and when widowed, he married his son's widowed mother in law, Mary Handley Douglas. Found on the 1790 census of Union SC - Mary Handley's mother was Martha Mason from Ireland.   Mary's sister Rachel Handley married Anthony Thompson and you will see his name in the newspaper clipping about the DAR and George Little.   They are buried in Anthony Thompson Graveyard in Kentucky.

We later find the Little, Handley, Hunt families in Kentucky in 1810 census - Captain John Handley a surveyor went into Kentucky, ( just like Daniel Boone did,)   with his brother in law Alexander Douglass, a Scottish merchant and as they parted on the way home, poor Alexander was murdered possibly by Indians, and his widow took the young children and moved into Newberry South Carolina where she later met a widowed Captain George Little.



Jonas Little, son of George, had Hiram Lucius Little and they all lived in Kentucky until Hiram's wife died - then he went to Texas and married a Rebecca Brooks and had more children.  Hiram's son John Wright Little did not go to Texas with his father, yet stayed behind with his uncle Douglas Little until he married.



John Wright Little enlisted in the Kentucky Infantry in the Civil War as a blacksmith, making guns.  Later he moved his family to Arkansas claiming to be a white man hoping to find land and a better job.  His daughter Lattie Cedonia Little married Benjamin Wallace Coonfield and had our grandmother Luella Coonfield who married Frank Delbert Cochran.



Isaac Coonfield was in Kentucky about 1810 and we find his wife
Barsheba Clark Coonfield in 1830 probably widowed. It is hard to trace the original parent of Isaac,  Robert Confeld or Coonfield who was in Pennsylvania.



Simmons, Swearingen and Crigler families were in Kentucky census 1810
Reason Roby on 1820 census of Shepherdsville, Bullitt, Kentucky


LONG BEFORE THE TRAIL OF TEARS !!!!  We even find an Anna Little from Tennesee and her husband Mr Little of Kentucky living in Chickasaw Nation OK


Many of these last names are found registered in the Indian Nation but no direct connection to Jonas yet.



Alexander Cochran of Ireland on 1850 census along with sons William and Alexander in Pennsylvania....someone said to research a town there called Cochranville - some say the Irish fled to Scotland before coming to America and this could be the cause of confusion as I am finding two Alexanders on the nations first 1790 census.  It is also possible that Alexander's siblings followed him later which would explain so many Irish Cochrans on the first Ohio census.






widowed Barsheba Clark Coonfield on 1830 census by Archelus/Archibald and near Obediah - were they siblings?


Martha Young before she married Ben Coonfield and Photo


Luella Coonfield married Frank Delbert Cochran


Michael Carpenter in 1810 census Kentucky

 

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