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Many of our ancestors have at some point in their journeys,
spent time residing in Alabama. They crossed the Atlantic and
ventured south for many reasons and on through the
midwest.
Some came through Georgia down the Old Federal Road
towards Montgomery, some settled in Pike County and others in
Chambers County or other areas near it.
Tracing our roots can
be very time consuming, and extremely addictive: each day we find a
new name to add to the list
of cousins. Each day we find a new
story to share and possibly a shocking fact!
Our Little
family has been researching a link to the sister of Pocahontas,
named Cleopatra, while some researchers say there is no
documentation proving she ever existed, they cannot prove she
didn't.
Grandma Anna Stone's husband managed the Fenn
Plantation in Eufaula, and we certainly read where Indians worked
the farm that was owned by Uncle Matthew Fenn They shared every day
together and intermarried. Some of the slaves on that plantation
adopted the last name of FENN.
My mother grew up as white but
learned very early in her childhood that she was different. She was
taught to run
hide whenever the KKK came down the road. Her
uncle was told to sit in the back of the bus during the days of
prejudice.
Now I search for the answers Mom was seeking - who
gave her this Cherokee heritage.
Names I am now searching
are: Clora Jane Miller Cochran, Lottie Sadonia Little, Luella
Coonfield, Peter Edward Bozeman (Bosman), Josiah Marion McClain
(McLain), Annie Lee Stone Fenn Carter, William Frank Fenn, Cecil
Earl Carter, John Fann and Emeline Harrel, Nancy Jane Anderson, Sara
Mills with Joseph Stephens, Mordicai Bozeman of 1700, Martha Young
Coonfield, Mary Epperson Coonfield, Barsheba Clark Coonfield, and
several Moons as well.
We all connect thru our old ones and
find we are all cousins!
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- James
Stephens, Half Blood (197 KB)
So
easy to see his Cherokee features.
- Robert
Lee Fenn (13 KB)
William Fenns'
son never appeared on census yet he was known as Uncle LEE and was
buried beside his brother Frank Jr in Elmore County AL
- Joe
McClain (22 KB)
So easy to see his
Cherokee features. Uncle Joe was told to sit in the back of the
bus !!!
- Nancy
Jane Anderson Bozeman b 1843 (19
KB)
wife of Peter Edward Bozeman buried in Greenwood
Cemetery
- W
E Stephens (72 KB)
So easy to see
his Cherokee features. They all ventured from the Carolinas and
settled into Ramer Alabama
- Charles
Wayne Brooks b 1981 (19
KB)
1-4-2003
- death
certificate of Wm Fenn b 1855 Tuskegee (449
KB)
parents John and Emeline Fenn from Georgia to
Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama
- Alice
McClain (21 KB)
had Cherokee
grandmother
- Frankie
Lavern Cochran (58 KB)
1-4-2003
- Obituary
1939 Cecil Earl Carter (30 KB)
Who
is Walter Stone listed as pall bearer and the others??
- Charles
Allen McClain with son Walton (25
KB)
Farmers in Ramer Alabama, Charlie is buried at
Dublin Church of Christ cemetery
- Frankie
Lavern Cochran jr (58
KB)
6-29-1956 born in Mesa AZ
- Uncle
William Little (874 KB)
brother to
Lottie Cedonia Little
- William
Lawrence Carter b 1935 in Oklahoma (42
KB)
Played harmonica, had Carter Roofing Company in Enid
Oklahoma
- Charles
Wayne Brooks weds Kathy Cochran in 1972 (36
KB)
Montgomery Alabama
- Georgia
Alice Little Nelson b 1853 (169
KB)
sister of John Wright Little, daughter of Hiram
Lucius Little
- 1934
Walton McClain holding Annie Carter (16
KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery Alabama where
they moved to Highland Avenue
- Matthew
Cochran b 1998 (13 KB)
with his
great Aunt Pamela Anne Cochran Fuller b 1961
- Lattie
Cedonia Little b 1871 (32
KB)
surrounded by photos of her family and husband Ben
Coonfield
- 1940
Charlie McClain behind granddaughter Annie (13 KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery
Alabama where they moved to Highland Avenue...Annie Carter was
raised by her grandparents
- Kathy
Cochran 1970 (56 KB)
with cousin
Linda on Dexter Avenue in front of the capitol in Montgomery
Alabama
- Lucius
Powhatan Little (47 KB)
grandson
of Hiram Lucius Little, in Kentucky
- 1940
Charlie McClain with wife Lorena Bozeman (10
KB)
probably taken downtown Montgomery Alabama where
they moved to Highland Avenue...Annie Carter was raised by her
grandparents
- Kathy
Cochran finds great great grandpa's grave (34 KB)
W F Fenn buried in Montgomery, was born
in Tuskegee and his line traces to John FANN of NC who came from
England and married Mary STone
- John
Wright Little Family (195 KB)
with
his children
- Kathy
Cochran with sis and family (56
KB)
Frankie Cochrans girls and grands
- Mary
Ella Coonfield b 1871 (2
KB)
sister of our Benjamin Wallace Coonfield
- Cochran
Twins (24 KB)
There are many twins
in our Coonfield - Cochran line
- Cochran
Family, Frank and Anne (19
KB)
with her brothers at the bottom
- Annie
Carter on left about 1940 (5
KB)
with Ethel Coley, who was raised by Katie McClain
Coley
- Charles
Wayne Brooks b 1953 d 1998 (28
KB)
married Kathy Cochran in 1972
- Victoria
Carter d 2000 (23 KB)
daughter of
Cecil Earl Carter Jr b 1932
- Martha
Ann Wright Little b about 1810 (13
KB)
married Douglas Little and had son Powhatan
- Grandpa
Cecil Earl Carter - "Fenn"adoptedbyCarter (15 KB)
son of Wm Fenn and Ann Stone was born
1899 or 1900 was in USArmy and died on Columbus Street in
Montgomery Alabama at age 39
- Marriage
License (232 KB)
Luella Ellen
Coonfield married Frank D Cochran
- Billy
Carter and Victor Cochran (45
KB)
in Montgomery AL
- My
flutist child (38 KB)
Musicians
are abundant in our family and ancestry
- Frankie
Lavern Cochran 1968 (39 KB)
family
- Cochran
Guys (41 KB)
in Montgomery AL
- Mama
Annie Carter Cochran by Darrell Cochran (27
KB)
Broken Arrow, Tulsa Oklahoma
- Frank
Delbert Cochran (8 KB)
wedding day
- Cochran
Girls (45 KB)
in Montgomery AL
- Mark
(5 KB)
son of Uncle Cecil Carter in North
Carolina
- Frankie
Lavern Cochran (10 KB)
1952
- Cochran
Grands (8 KB)
Frankie Lavern
Cochran's Grandson and great grandson
- Annie
Carter b 3/14/1934 (16 KB)
Mom
- Lattie
Coonfield and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield (402 KB)
headstone
- 1930
census Labette Kansas (1097 KB)
my
dad and his family
- Indians
in Barbour County History on Fenn Farm (116
KB)
Evidence they were here! They worked together and
died together.
- Chester
Coonfield headstone (41 KB)
x
- Dec
1786 (42 KB)
Married in SC Peter
Bozman left in 1826 for Alabama.
- Cecil
Carter death cerificate Proves his parentage (216 KB)
Now we know his real parents !
- Lavern
Coonfield headstone (16 KB)
x
- DAR
Peter (500 KB)
Jimmy Ray's
daughter in the DAR - finally in Jan 2008 they recognized our
Grandfather who settled in Hope Hull by 1827
- Cook
School Class Photo (90 KB)
x
- Charles
Wayne Brooks b 1953 (13 KB)
died
on 6-1-1998 |
