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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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