Alabama Territory 1819...
The lands of Montgomery County were put up for auction at the Federal Land Office in Milledgeville, Georgia in 1816. Larger parcels were sold to developers who subdivided the land into lots for urban commercial and residential use, predetermining a major city on the banks of the Alabama River at Montgomery. A hardy and superior class of people penetrated the wilderness. Settlements and towns sprang into existence everywhere. The City of Montgomery, which became the county seat in 1822, was built on the side of the Indian town Ikanatchati (Econachatee), which means red ground, and Towasa on a high red bluff known to Alibamu Indians as Chunnaanaauga Chatty.

I have taken pictures of the historical markers found downtown about the former Indians who lived here along the Alabama River and near the train station, but keep in mind there was another train station in Ramer on the east side of Montgomery County where the First Little White House of the Confederacy was placed and Ramer was the home of many large plantations in this research.

Hundreds of families began their journey into the state with many settling in Montgomery County long before it became civilized and left a legacy for us all to be proud of.

John Hill, John Stephens, Benjamin Lewis, Howell and Richard Mason, Peter Bozeman, John Stacie, Abner McGehee, Abner Broadway, John Stephens, Elisha Anderson, William and Alfred Sellers, David Campbell, Matthew Stokes, John McQueen, George Gibson, William Chisholm, George Bush, Bunberry Flinn, James Moon, Deer, Norman, Hampton Hilliard, Henry Graves, etc.

Dozens of my ancestors served in the Civil War and many lost their crops or farms but they bounced back. Some even tried the new land in Texas after the Alamo but most returned to their native home in Montgomery.

When the train finally came through down by the river, families loaded their wagons and hauled their crops down the old dirt road called Dexter Avenue to sell or ship out.

• Aunt Ethel's Home (128 KB)
  This tiny home was built by Aunt Ethel and her husband Jace Gibson and my picture was taken when my sister Pam and I visited the area around 2005 after hearing the story from her daughter Peggy whom we lost not long afterward to kidney cancer. Peggy's story was that Ethel and Jason had several children at the time, all living in a tent on this farm, while they built their new home around 1930. It seemed to be one of the oldest homes still standing in 2005. Ethel and Jace are buried down the road at Hills Chapel Cemetery on the Long Road close to her father John Thomas Bozeman and his 4th wife Sara Ellen Bean. Sara raised these children after their mother died young and told them stories, like she was related to the hanging Judge Roy Bean. She was a wonderful stepmother who also gave them four more siblings before she passed away. Many of these descendants still remain in Dublin, Ramer, Grady, and Hickory Grove.
• Pam's husband Larry Fuller passed away in 2008 (75 KB)
  His mother was Hazel Richards, buried at his foot.
• Confederate Pension Application (869 KB)
  April 1896 Grandmother Nancy applies for Peter's pension the first time.
• Bev at Dublin (275 KB)
  Stepping around a tiny tombstone

• Aunt Ethel Notes (68 KB)
  Since her sister was my great grandmother and Ethel had many surviving but elderly children in the Dublin and Ramer Communities, I located and contacted a few for information. I managed to meet several of Ethel's descendants in May 2007 at Hills Chapel Church which was a marvelous gathering of cousins. We exchanged research and took many photos.
• Meeting New Cousins (1 KB)
  Locating Lost Family Graves
• Aunt Ethel's Granddaughter (41 KB)
  Elizabeth and her daughter researching our ancestry of Grandpa John Thomas Bozeman.
• 1830 (214 KB)
  Study of my families in Montgomery 1830
• Anne (123 KB)
  Tracing our roots and branches.
• Images (57 KB)
  Finding other items related
• Elisha Anderson of NC died in 1834 (51 KB)
  His will is found probated in Montgomery, mentions his wife, daughters and son Elijah - Elijah had our Seaborne Montgomery Anderson who had Nancy Jane. Seaborne had a brother named Elijah who died in the Civil War 1861 and home was listed as Hickory Grove. Hickory Grove is also where our Grandpa McClain lived. Some researchers think that Elisha Anderson was the son of Elmore Anderson and a full blood indian all born in 1700s North Carolina, near the Sellers and Pool families who were also of mixed blood.
• 1880 (366 KB)
  Study of my families in Montgomery 1830
• Anne (160 KB)
  Tracing our roots and branches.
• Bozemans in Montgomery (46 KB)
  Notes, Files, DNA, census
• Meet The Folks (38 KB)
  Relatives and Research
• 1850 (23 KB)
  Following my ancestor's path.
• Charles (155 KB)
  Roots and Branches.
• Bozemans lost daughter (8 KB)
  Notes, Files,
• My Family (323 KB)
  Documents
• Wares Ferry Road A Shawnee Village (16 KB)
  1821 Several indian villages were found like Sawonagi and indian burial mounds still exist in that area.
• Westbrook (223 KB)
  Grauer, Holt, Glass, Brasswell, Holly, Penton, Jones, Johnson
• Sellers -Anderson - Bozeman (52 KB)
  Pioneers
• Our Ancestors Speak (521 KB)
  One clue after another as we follow their trails.
• Yellow Fever (9 KB)
  yes it also struck Montgomery and some of our kin
• 1840 (74 KB)
  Montgomery Transcription has my Abner Broadway, John Carter, Daniel McQueen, Lewis, Stokes, Ross, Gunter, Hill, Bozeman, Graves, Anderson, Sellers, Johnson, Mills, and many others, including George Bush and a John Booth, of course the John Wilkes Booth you've heard of actually performed in a theatre downtown Montgomery. There are actually some old fish ponds in south Montgomery County where you know who George Bush comes to go fishing with old friends..........So very many of their children and grandchildren were intermarried, that we may all be cousins way back when.
• Various Pages (28 KB)
  Found on the web
• Our Ancestors Speak (15 KB)
  Continuing with the Carters
• Dublin, Ramer, and Hope Hull (23 KB)
  All up and down these old country roads, were once our family plantations and some graves were recently found.
• Meeting New Cousins (100 KB)
  Tracing Our Roots in the early days of Montgomery
• Other counties (394 KB)
  census study of other family members in other surrounding counties
• DNA of Jimmy (111 KB)
  Jimmy Ray and Alan's DNA test to the local Bozeman family is a perfect match.
• Uncle Meady Sells Share of Plantation (41 KB)
  Our connection to cousin Wayne Bozeman through Grandpa William Henry's son Meade. Meade was the brother of our Peter Edward whom we found buried at Dublin.
• 1786 (62 KB)
  Marriages before the migration to Montgomery include Lacklan McIntosh, Peter Bozeman
• Brooks and Westbrook (310 KB)
  Includes Thornton, Blackstone, McClain, Holt, Grauer, Porter as they migrated into Montgomery
• Census Notes (138 KB)
  Montgomery Bozeman Families
• Uncle Meady Descendant (31 KB)
  Richard and William researching the Montgomery families is also cousin to Wayne of Elmore.
• Bio of Aunt Ethel (18 KB)
  Ethel Bozeman married J Gibson, the son of Clopton Gibson and Rebecca Lou Broadway ( Grandma's sister) they lived in Dublin/ Ramer Community, after you leave Hwy 231 which is known as Warrior Hill Road.
• Census Notes Updated (138 KB)
  Montgomery Bozeman Families
• Uncle Meady's brother Peter (35 KB)
  Sharon is researching William Henry's other brother who married Gilly and moved to Louisiana and died in 1851 of the cholera.
• Graveyards (9 KB)
  Taking photos of old tombstones

• Maps and Old Records
• Sellers, Brack, Anderson, Doty, Bushyhead, Scrimpshire
• Stone, Harrell, Fenn, Davies
• Cemeteries in Alabama, search Montgomery County
• Notes
• Digging Up Our 1700s Carolina Roots
• Photo Album
• Carter baby
• Indian Roots
• Frank came from the midwest
• Guestbook
• Links
• Rena's files
• Search feature
• Our Southern Roots
• The Family Tree
• Images
• Headstones
• Elisha Anderson's Will dated 1834 and son Elija
• Mother
• 1847 Estate of Grandfather William Henry
• Research
• McClain, Broadway, Carter, Stephens
• Research
• Search My Files
• History by John Leeds Bozman
• Southern Branches
• N J 1
• N J 2 with John Hill
• Political Graveyard
• Shiloh Church
• Josiah McLain
• P E B 1834
• J M B 1793 - 1855
• McClain funeral book 1949
• Cemeteries - Tombstone Photos
• Family Home Pages
• Broadway, Cooper, Carter
• Carter in the Alabama Infantry 1861
• Caroline Stephens and Mary Broadway in Ramer
• Thornton from GA to Cold Springs Elmore to Hull Street
• 1829 Inventory of Peter's Estate
• Great links about our ancestors
• Bozeman Book
• Census Collection
• Thank You

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