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Book-RedEagle My families settled all around him. His name was William Weatherford, son of Charles. My daddy had a grandmother Catherine Weatherford, daughter of Charles.

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Cousin Elizabeth Norman

  • Grandma (16 KB)
    Ellie McClain
  • Ootcha Broadway (71 KB)
    Indian cousin buried down the road at another cemetery
  • Ellie's brother Joe (49 KB)
    Named after both of his grandfathers, Joseph Edward McClain, was a very dark mixed indian. Had one son named James in Ramer by Georgia Broadway.
  • Ellie's grandson Brad (52 KB)
    Carter
  • Ellie's Aunt Ethel (128 KB)
    First Gibson house in Dublin
  • Ellie's granddaughter (29 KB)
    Pam
  • Ellie's daughter (54 KB)
    Anne
  • Ellie's father in law (39 KB)
    Graves at Greenwood
  • Ellie's great grandfather (1076 KB)
    1838 William Henry is named as an heir of Peter's estate
    • Old Family Photos (1 KB)
      Old Records
    • Files (309 KB)
      Research
    • Graves (1 KB)
      Cemetery Visits
    • Files (23 KB)
      Research
    • Relatives (44 KB)
      Stories
    • Anderson and Bozeman (604 KB)
      1810 forward.
    • Introduction (1801 KB)
      Some explanation of the grandfathers found in our family history and their locations or journeys
    • Deeds (243 KB)
      Land
    • Anderson and Bozeman (5 KB)
      1810 forward to 1850.
    • Soldiers and Patriots (104 KB)
      Several in our lineage, some served in the war and some shared food or supplies with the troops making them a "patriot" and all were recognized for their efforts in gaining our independence. So if one wanted to join the DAR or SAR, just prove lineage to that person, which is what cousin Jimmy and his daughter have done with grandpa Peter's military records.
    • Files (606 KB)
      Records
    • Bozeman Tracks (8 KB)
      Only Time Will Tell.
    • Records (44 KB)
      Various Notes of Interest
    • Files (19 KB)
      Records
    • Bozeman in Alabama (45 KB)
      Descendants of Mordecai settled in Alabama about 1826-1827
    • Records (903 KB)
      Various Notes of Interest
    • Files (66 KB)
      Records
    • Notes (214 KB)
      Records of Interest
    • Files (380 KB)
      Records
    • Records (47 KB)
      Various Notes of Interest
    • Files (16 KB)
      Research
    • Records (34 KB)
      Various Notes of Interest
    • Notes (15 KB)
      Research
    • Files (16 KB)
      Research
    • Files (82 KB)
      Research
    • Files (66 KB)
      Research
    • Records (36 KB)
      Various Notes of Interest
    • Files (41 KB)
      Research
    • Thank you! (10 KB)
      Come back soon!
    • Files (31 KB)
      Research
    • Roadtrips (12 KB)
      Meeting with others.
    • Files (41 KB)
      Research
    • Grandpa (4 KB)
      Mom's father.
    • Files (52 KB)
      Research
    • Grandma (3 KB)
      Mom's mother
    • Files (9 KB)
      Research
    • Bozeman (33 KB)
      Hickory Grove
    • Files (363 KB)
      Research
    • Resources (4 KB)
      Hickory Grove
    • Files (35 KB)
      Research
    • Resources (1 KB)
      Links
    • Census (107 KB)
      Tracking Peter and William Henry
    • DNA (111 KB)
      Tracking Peter and William Henry to Jimmy Ray and Alan
    Reverend Alexander Miller born 1777 Rockingham Virginia to Irish parents Sarah Crawford
    and Alexander Miller. All are buried in Cooks Creek Cemetery. Some of them served in the War of 1812 as t
    he many children married and spread out across the country.

    The Reverend married a Sarah and had James who also married a Sarah and named a son James Madison Miller
     in 1823 - J.M. married Mary Clara Parker and had Clora.

    Pages 26 & 28 of Milo Custer's "The Reverend Alexander Miller of Virginia and Some of His Descendants".
    Enlisted in Co. B, 4th Ill. Inf. (Mexican War)

    "Archelaus R. Parker and His Descendants" by Milo Custe

    1900 United States Federal Census
    Name: Clora J Cochran
    Home in 1900: Graham, Graham, Kansas
    Birth Date: Oct 1851
    Birthplace: Illinois
    Race: White
    Relationship to head-of-house: Wife
    Father's Birthplace: Tennessee
    Mother's Birthplace: Ohio
    Spouse's Name: Jacob B
    Marriage Year: 1879
    Marital Status: Married
    Years Married: 21
    Residence : Graham & Pioneer Townships, Graham, Kansas
    Jacob B Cochran 78
    Clora J Cochran 42
    Jacob M Cochran 18
    Mary E Cochran 14
    Bengerman H Cochran 11
    Flora D Cochran 9
    Frank D Cochran 6.12
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    1930 United States Federal Census
    Name: Clora Cochran
    Home in 1930: Center, Norton, Kansas
    Age: 77
    Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
    Relation to Head of House: Mother
    Jake Cochran 47
    Ellen Cochran 39
    Claude Cochran 19
    Merle Cochran 14
    Bernie Cochran 12
    Wayne Cochran 10
    Eldon Cochran 8
    Clora Cochran 77
    Newton Cook 69
  • 1880 (852 KB)
    Clora and Jacob have one child together as they married in 1879 in Iowa.
  • 1900 (2349 KB)
    Clora and family live next to her married daughter's family in Kansas.
  • 1870 as a young teen (449 KB)
    With her parents in Iowa, James Miller of Virginia and Mary Clara Parker of Ohio....Mary's parents were Rosannah Lemmon
  •  and Dr. Wanton Horatio Parker and Wantons' parents were Sarah Tefft and Archelaus Parker of New York Indian Country
  • - 1850 United States Federal Census about Archelaus Parker Name: Archelaus Parker Age: 72 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1778
  •  Birth Place: Massachusetts Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Harpersfield, Ashtabula, Ohio
  • 1860 (678 KB)
    Clora Miller as a young child with many other relatives on this census, Millers and Parkers and her Uncle Robert Miller is on the
  •  next page - this page indicates that Clora was born in Illinois...........
  • Resources (1032 KB)
    Helpful Websites
  • Branches (803 KB)
    Others near Miller migrated Southward.
  • Sarah Tefft (14 KB)
    Rhode Island History
  • Research (427 KB)
    Resources
    SITE NAVIGATION
    From Bullock County Alabama to Montgomery, Carrie married after 1920 to Ben Johnson of Choctaw Nation, Texas. They are found on the 1930 census of Creek, Oklahoma.

    Her parents were Anna Stone and Wm Frank Fenn who had married in 1893 Bullock County and they had six children before divorcing soon after the 1900 census, where Anna joined her parents in Macon, Bibb, Georgia. Carrie was the first born child, then Frank Jr., Arthur, Robert, Emmett, and Cecil who claimed to be Cherokee. They were all very tall, dark and handsome. Family lore is that Frank Jr., told his children that Carrie and Cecil were only his "half" sibling.....

    Ben's parents were America Emeline Mills and Nathaniel B. Johnson of Alabama, who moved around a lot, into Arkansas, and into Texas, where the census indicates some children born in Indian Territory. Some of Nathaniel's siblings may have also been born in Indian Territory.

    Nat named a daughter Ellen after his sister.

    Ellen Gray Johnson, b July 12,1856 Springfield Alabama, d April 26,1952 Monument, Lea County New Mexico, she married William Fletcher Weir, on Dec 16,1881, Brady , Mc Culloch County Texas( I have original Certificate) William Weir wa sborn Dec 19,1854 Polk Missouri, d August 8 ,1937 Monument , lea County Texas, they lived in Texas until early 1906 , when they went by covered wagon with their 8 children to Lea County NM, William purchased the famous, historical Hat Ranch.

    Nat also had a sister named Louisa Powell.

    Nathaniel's mother was Mary Ann Macon and her ancestors had something to do with the founding of Macon County Alabama. Ironically Carrie Fenn's father was also born in Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama.

    The story of Ben returning to Alabama is unknown. It is also unknown how he met our Aunt Carrie. They had only one child, a daughter named Dorothy and how her name is special to them, is another mystery to uncover.
  • Johnson Notes (110 KB)
    Taking notes from friends and trying to verify
  • Marriage Record (1 KB)
    David Johnson and Mary Ann Macon ( Macon County)
    • 1920 Grandma Luella (1080 KB)
      My family in Oklahoma
    • 1930 Grandma Luella (901 KB)
      My family in Oklahoma and dad is age 2
    • 1930 Grandma Lattie (1207 KB)
      Arkansas- often mispelled at Lottie
    • 1910-Grandma Elizabeth (513 KB)
      With Charles and Lorena on Hickory Grove
    • 1900 Grandma Elizabeth (846 KB)
      With second husband John L. Gardener and her son Charles McClain
    • 1850 Elizabeth Westbrook (764 KB)
      Back with her parents she must have been pregnant with George when her husband left her with baby William - Westbrook sometimes comes up as Westbrooks but it could be because of the loopy penmanship of the census taker...In 1870 Elizabeth is married to Lawson and caring for her mother......James also had remarried to Johanna and they named a son Osceola...........but then he vanishes during the Civil War and that family goes to Florida
    • 1830- Elizabeth Westbrook's father in Alabama (383 KB)
      George Grauer and Sophia Porter in Marengo County before 1830 with his several brothers in same county
    • 1900 Grandma Clora (984 KB)
      Her parents were James Madison Miller and Mary Clara Parker who had settled in Bloomington Illinois before Iowa where she met my great grandpa Jacob
    • 1900 George Westbrook (901 KB)
      son of Elizabeth and James
  • Census Images (76 KB)
    My collection of census images relating to my family
  • Dad's Research (1 KB)
    Midwest cousins
  • Dad's Research (959 KB)
    Midwest cousins
  • Midwest Research (959 KB)
    Cousins and Connection
  • Genealogy (5 KB)
    Cochran of Ohio into Iowa
  • Books (27 KB)
    Documents and Resources
  • Southern Research (211 KB)
    Path of my Elders
  • Land Records (40 KB)
    George Grauer and his father in law Mark Porter buying land in Marengo County and then the daughter of George, Elizabeth Westbrook buying 160 acres of her own in 1860 for herself
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • Research Records (3 KB)
    Documenting the trails of the old ones.
  • Chief Red Eagle (27 KB)
    May have been my grandmother's half brother.
  • From Virginia and South Carolina (30 KB)
    Into Kentucky, or Alabama, they migrated in 1800, 1810, 1820, and their paths are documented.
  • Many Old Records (1 KB)
    Documents, Colonial Records and Census Files
  • Quick Links (3 KB)
    Changes in cyber space altering urls
  • Baxley, Hood, Thornton
  • Anne and Frank
  • Georgia
  • Land
  • Dust Bowl
  • Our Native Roots
  • Civil War Search
  • Grandmother Luella Cochran
  • Post Em Joanna Hartley
  • Our Bible Belt of the South Ancestry
  • Charlie's many Grandfathers
  • Surnames in my family study
  • Various related webpages
  • Marengo County Cemeteries
  • Alabama Families on the Internet
  • Marengo County Family Webpages
  • Alabama Archives to Research
  • Mary Musgrove -Queen of the Creeks
  • Georgia Biographies
  • Benjamin Hawkins and the Creeks
  • Indian Land Cessions
  • George Grauer and Sophia Porter 1800
  • My Georgia Links
  • My Montgomery Ala ancestors before the Civil War & During
  • Cousin Laura Little in Kentucky Research & Dorline in Ark
  • Our Family Jewels
  • Grandma's family in and around Ramer
  • Grandpa's family from Guernsey Ohio to Kansas
  • Their records from the Colonial Days
  • Carter, Fenn, Stone, into Montgomery
  • Crigler and Little in Kentucky 1810
  • Picture of John Wright Little
  • Record of John Handley and sister Mary Handley Little
  • Mary Handley's daughter Betsy married Jonas Little in 1800
  • DAR dedication by Laura Little
  • Civil War Papers of John Wright Little born 1843
  • Bullitt County Quick Notes, Crigler, Roby, Little, Carpenter
  • Betsy Douglass Little son's Hiram Lucius and Douglass
  • Catherine Crigler Photo
  • Jonas Little and father George in Kentucky 1802 from SC
  • Isaac Benjamin in KY 1800 from PA
  • Honoring the Old Ones
  • Grandpa Carter at Hope Hull
  • Ballard Baxley Hood Brooks and Thornton
  • Kentucky-Bullitt Daviess McLean Ohio-Crigler Handley Little
  • Search Cochran
  • Lorena McClain
  • Charles McClain
  • Elizabeth Broadway
  • Elijah Fann and Martha Rich
  • John Fenn and Emeline Harrell
  • TennesseeGenWeb
  • ArkansasGenWeb
  • KansasGenWeb
  • Genealogy Resources
  • L. Little
  • Hiram Little, father of John
  • Montgomery
  • Douglass Little
  • Stepping Stones
  • South Carolina Research
  • Old Letters from Brooks
  • Sarah Cooper's father's burial
  • Martha Wright Little, daughter of Catherine Weatherford
  • Charles Wayne
  • Charles Wayne's granny
  • Charles Wayne's son
  • Kentucky Footsteps - Little and Handley
  • Family Group Sheets
  • John W. Little refused land allotment
  • Coonfield Research
  • Coonfield Graves
  • WebTree
  • FamilyLink
     
    Welcome... Tom Carter's father was John Wise Carter of South Carolina and nothing is known of his mother. John's father, Captain John Carter, served in the American Revolution with a John Wise. The daughter of John Wise was Elizabeth and she married Captain John Carter in South Carolina. Captain John may have had a brother named Captain Thomas, explaining how he named his own son Thomas Carter.

    It is unknown why Tom left his family in Talladega and moved into Montgomery. He was buying land off the Bozeman Estate to make a home for his own family.

    Tom lost his first wife and several children in the small pox epidemic, some say the flu epidemic. Only two children survived, Lucy Carter Calloway and William Henry Carter. Military records indicate that Tom was sick in a Virginia hospital at one point and ironically married his second wife, Mary, from Virginia. Perhaps they had met in Virginia and she followed him, their story is unknown.

    Mary had only one child, Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Carter Cooper, and wanted no more with Tom. When he died she buried him by his first family and she moved in with her daughter.

    Mary may or may not have filed for his military pension, thus far, a record is not found.
    Name: THOMAS Carter
    Date: 01 09 1860
    Location: AL,
    Document #: 13796A
    Serial #: AL1560__.463
    Sale Type: CASH ENTRY SALE
    Acres: 40.2200
    Meridian or Watershed: ST STEPHENS
    Parcel: Township 9N, Range 3E, Section 15

    Thomas R. Carter (First_Last)
    Regiment Name 2 Alabama Cavalry
    Side Confederate
    Company K
    Soldier's Rank_In 2 Lieutenant
    Soldier's Rank_Out 1 Lieutenant
    Alternate Name
    Notes
    Film Number M374 roll 8
    CONFEDERATE ALABAMA TROOPS
    Authority: Muster in roll, signed by T. R. Stacey, not dated
    Remarks: Sick at Gen Hospital, Lynchburg, Va, Dec 7, 1861.
    2nd Regiment, Alabama Cavalry
  • Carter Family (99 KB)
    Tracking their footsteps
  • Civil War (6 KB)
    Record of Tom
  • Anne Carter (1 KB)
    Could there be a connection way up the line?
  • Background (262 KB)
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  • Files (350 KB)
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  • Supportive Information (130 KB)
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  • Supportive Information (161 KB
     
  • Family
  • The Cemetery Preservation Alliance
  • Carter - Stokes Cemetery needs adoption and care
  • Introduction
  • Search
  • Surnames
  • layered backie
  • pink sidebar
  • outline
  • Visiting Tom Carter's grave
  • 1850 Tom Carter with Lacy living next to her father Jesse
  • 1850-next page to Tom is brother Henry Carter
  • Carter notes
  • 1848 Carter buys Wm H Bozeman's estate
  • 1880 Tom Carter with Mary Josephine Hereferd and Sarah
  • Carter - Bozeman Family Jewels
     
    Our early Pioneers traveled through Indian Territories, and even lived among them or intermarried. Some were Indian Traders, or agents and the history of that time is really fascinating.

    The old maps help us realize what their journey was like. For a long time South Carolina was part of North Carolina as only the coast was being settled by the whites. Before Mississippi Territory included Alabama, all of that area was previously called Louisiana and was home to several tribes.

    Many were forced to leave for Oklahoma in the 1830's but many were hidden in the hills or protected by their white spouses.


    While mine were never traced to any Indian Roll, some of their relatives were.

    They were excellent farmers until the Civil War and Wilson's Raiders destroyed much of the south and our elders had to start all over again.

    Today when we ride through Wetumpka, down Red Land Road or visit the indian mound at Fort Toulouse, and then pass by Pickett Springs after crossing the Tallapoosa River, and passing Red Eagle Farm, or play in Line Creek, then travel the old Meriweather Trail through Montgomery, or perhaps Coosada, Tallassee, Tuskegee, we can only imagine what the area was like 200 years ago for our ancestors.

    I am standing in those old footprints.
  • 1785 (151 KB)
    Heirs of Jesse + Gabriel land grants
  • Meady A. (65 KB)
    1841
  • 1824 (145 KB)
    Peter to the family
  • 1838 (173 KB)
    Henry, Peter E., Lucy, Jesse
  • John (191 KB)
    1823
  • 1822 (443 KB)
    Peter witnessed by son in law Joiner and son William Henry.
  • 1838 (173 KB)
    Lucy, Henry, Peter E., Jesse
  • John, Paul, Ralph, Phillip, Peter, Mordecai (127 KB)
    1776-1783
  • SAR (1566 KB)
    Peter's son William Henry and grandson John Thomas are traced.
  • 1838 (173 KB)
    Lucy, Henry, Peter E., Jesse
  • John, Ralph, Peter (63 KB)
    1776-1783
  • 1849 (167 KB)
    Meedy
  • John, Paul, Ralph, Phillip, Peter, Mordecai (19 KB)
    1775-1783
  • 1849 (67 KB)
    John T.
  • John, Ralph, Peter joined Marion (22 KB)
    1775-1783
  • 1849 (699 KB)
    W. H. orphans court
  • 1829 (265 KB)
    Sarah, Peter E., W.H., and Vincent
  • 1765 (207 KB)
    Map of NC SC GA FL includes the many Indian Tribes
  • 1850 (318 KB)
    Missouri and Jesse
  • 1822 (2030 KB)
    Deed to Jesse
  • 1778 (82 KB)
    Richard
  • 1824 (172 KB)
    Peter to Meade's children and to Ellen Joiner's c
  • Home Page
  • Data
  • Cousins Richard, Jimmy, Wayne, Sharon and Elizabeth
  • Census Records
     
    ......Hans Brooke had three boys and one girl....Henry, Edward, John and Lula Christine....They settled in Reading PA. The parents died leaving minor children, and the little girl was adopted...John, our grandfather, was bound out to a tailor to learn that trade....He was very unhappy and ran away, arriving in Columbia TN about 1860 and we find him on the Giles County 1860 census in TN working as a tailor but as John Brooks...That year he married Roxanna Permilia Smith

    She was just breaking up with her other boyfriend, Doctor Crittendon Smith and fell in love with John Brooks...John and RP had Walter and Nora before joining a wagon train to Texas where John, Lula, Nimrod and Tom were born......

    ...John died in 1882 of tuberculosis and is buried in Paris TX. Roxanna went back to TN to marry Doctor Terry Crittendon Smith. He actually heard she was widowed and went to Texas to marry her and bring her back to TN. They lived and died in Sandy Hook, Tennessee.

    Their son John married Annie Clark Ballard and had only one child, James Edgar Brooks - soon they moved to Montgomery Alabama.

    The Smith and Ballard families came out of North Carolina about 1800 migrating into Tennessee's Indian Territory.

    Permilia named her first son Walter Brooks, and this author finds no Walter in the lineage,so why use this name? and another son JOHN Edwin but the census looks like his middle initial was H., and JOHN married Annie Clark Ballard in TN and they moved to Alabama being transferred with the railroad and then lived on Adams Avenue near the train station. Annie had only one child, James Edgar Brooks, who became a bookkeeper with the State, and later married Susie Mae Cooper who soon named her own son James Edgar Brooks Jr., a daughter Christine . Susie was the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Chambers County AL.

    Annie's photo shows dark black hair and coal black eyes. Annie's parents were both born in Tennessee, James Calvin Ballard and Willie Eudora Craig but their ancestors migrated from the Carolinas. "Dora's" mother was Rebecca Caroline Pennington and she married William Craig in 1860. Rebecca's mother was only known as "Gracy" who married William Pennington, and his mother was only known as "Kezziah" born about 1750 in South Carolina.

    Her mother was Caroline Bond, daughter of a John Baptist Bond of North Carolina. Parents of Caroline Bond ( who married 3 times? ) were John Baptist Bond and Kitty Stone. Many researchers are looking into the Stone name as being of Cherokee Blood.

    In Georgia was Joseph Baxley born 1815 married to Mary Evans and making their way into Alabama. Their son James married Louisa Miranda Holt and they resided in "Holtville" in Elmore County AL. Also in Elmore County was L. W. Hood who married their daughter Ella Olivia Baxley. Ella's daughter Bessie married a Milton Elijah Thornton in Elmore County. Elijah's parents also came out of Georgia, Mary Angeline Partridge amd George Thornton. Elijah's daughter Mary Ella married James Brooks. Mary Ella's granddaughter married Westbrook.
     
    • Sarah (143 KB)
      Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper with her children including Susie Mae
    • Carter , John Wise (35 KB)
      1821 Land Record
    • Gilly Bozeman (114 KB)
      Wife Of Peter born 1807
    • Thomas Randolph Carter (46 KB)
      With first wife Lacy Jane Bozeman.
    • Thornton, George (56 KB)
      1839 Land Record
    • James E Brooks Jr and Mary Ella Thornton (6 KB)
      Her parents were Bessie Mae Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Bessie's parents were Ella Olivia Baxley and L W Hood. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline Partridge and George Thornton.
    • Partridge, George (51 KB)
      1858 Land Record
    • Baxley James H (483 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service
    • Yours truly (368 KB)
      author
    • Baxley James H (64 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service1
    • 1888 James H. Baxley (56 KB)
      Land Record - Homestead
    • Baxley James H (351 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service2
    • 1930 census of Brooks and Cooper (1512 KB)
      Both their widowed mothers live in this household which includes James E Brooks Jr who later married Mary Ella Thornton and had Charlie in 1953.
    • Baxley James H (618 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service3
    • 1930 census Milton Elijah Thornton (446 KB)
      Bessie Mae Hood his wife with children include Mary Ella Thornton who married James E Brooks Jr
    • Baxley James H (398 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service4-Judge Smith
    • 1840 John Wise Carter (360 KB)
      Talladega Alabama census, father of Thomas Randolph Carter and the grandfather of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper - great grandfather of Mamaw
    • Baxley James H (796 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application
    • 1914 (72 KB)
      John Edward Brooks with Annie Clark Ballard, parents of James Edgar Brooks, of Tennessee. James married Susie Mae " Mamaw" Cooper and had James Edgar Brooks, Jr. - Jr married Mary Ella Thornton.
    • Baxley James H (451 KB)
      Certificate of Confederate Service-Pension Application 2
    • INTRODUCTION (1 KB)
      My Genealogy
    • Ramsey to Herriford and Carter (29 KB)
      Mary Josephine Hereferd's mother was Jemima Ramsey of Virginia.
    • Brooks Family (89 KB)
      So many other names in our genealogy, so many other locations to research.
    • Thornton - Partridge (54 KB)
      Research on Mary Ella Thornton - Brooks' ancestors on her father's side.
    • Brooks Family Tree (79 KB)
      A nice view of our ancestors and their children.
    • Amos (801 KB)
      Ancestors of Amos Westbrook
    • Westbrook (161 KB)
      Beverly's inlaws
    • Baxley, Grandmother Ella Olivia (11 KB)
      A visit to the Cain's Chapel cemetery to locate the tombstones of Ella and her husband L W Hood plus her parents buried down the road in Coosa River Cemetery in "Holtville" were James H Baxley and Louisa Miranda Holt. These were ancestors of Mary Ella Brooks, as Ella Olivia was the mother of Bessie Mae Hood - Thornton.
    • Stepping Stones (398 KB)
      Years Gone By
    • Carter in South Carolina (99 KB)
      father of Thomas was John Wise Carter and his dad was Captain John Carter of the American Revolution who married Elizabeth Wise, the daughter of Am Rev Soldier John Wise.
    • Mary Ella Thornton, wife of James Edgar Brooks Jr (258 KB)
      Her father was Milton Elijah Thornton and her mother was Bessie Mae Hood. This focus on the Thorntons as they migrated out of Georgia into Elmore County Alabama. Milton's mother was Mary Angeline Partridge.
    • Hood - Thornton - Brooks - Smith (29 KB)
      Tracking family from North Carolina to Alabama through Tennesssee
    • Hans Brooks of Holland 1800 (25 KB)
      John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks.
    • Brooks Genealogy Memo (5 KB)
      My research and a few extra notes
    • Brooks - followup (5 KB)
      John Brooks born 1837 to a father from Holland and a mother from France is what is found on the 1860 census when young John is a boarder in a home in Giles County Tennessee, where he met and married Roxanna Smith. Roxanna had a son named John who married Annie Clark Ballard and Annie then named a son James Edgar Brooks. Annie's father was James Cal Ballard. Roxanna's father was Thomas Smith and her mother was Caroline Bond...............James Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper, the daughter of Sarah Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper........Susie named her son James Edgar Brooks Jr. in 1927.
    • Stokes Cemetery on Bozeman Land- Hope Hull (39 KB)
      Jesse Bozeman's daughter Lacy is buried here near her husband Thomas Randolph Carter, a Civil War Soldier, and the grandson of Am Rev Soldier, Captain John Carter... Jesse's father was Peter Bozeman a soldier in the American Revolution. Lacy and some of the children died in an epidemic. Jesse and his wife's tombstones have been separated by a large tree and the stones are broken. The top of Thomas' monument has fallen to the side but Lacy's monument stands tall. The Carters and Bozemans once owned large plantations here. Peter Bozemans grave was not found ( yet ) In fact Jesse's brother William Henry Bozeman was Kathy's ggg grandfather and his grave is not found ( yet )
    • Ballard, James Cal of Tennessee (80 KB)
      Father of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks was married to Eudora Craig in Tennessee. Parents of James Ballard were Rowena Densy Baxter and Larken Francis Ballard born about 1830 in Tennessee long before the Trail of Tears began.
    • Brooks and Smith of Tennessee (150 KB)
      Another family researcher has a beautiful webpage to share.
    • Bond, John Baptist (80 KB)
      Father of Caroline Bond Smith was married to Catherine Stone - Caroline Bond married probably 3 times in Tennessee but her first husband Thomas Smith was the father of Roxanna Smith - Brooks. Notes on this page include Henry Smith, father of Thomas and then the Ballards of North Carolina - Larken Ballard's mother was Kizziah Dickens.
    • Tombstones (2 KB)
      Baxley, Holt, Hood, Thornton in Elmore County
    • Pictures and Letters (55 KB)
      James Brooks letter of WWI, pictures and letters
    • Lee and Cooper in 1840 Chambers County AL (107 KB)
      Elijah Lee born 1777 married Malinda Phillips and their daughter Sarah F. Lee married Charner P Cooper in Chambers County. Charner's parents were "Alsey" and Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Charner's son was Levi Benjamin Cooper who ended up working in Hope Hull on a farm owned by Thomas Randolph Carter and married the man's daughter.
    • John and Roxanna Brooks families (155 KB)
      listing
    • Carter, Thomas Randolph (47 KB)
      Hope Hull visit to find the tombstone of the grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks and he was the great grandfather of James Edgar Brooks Jr.
    • Tombstones (41 KB)
      Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
    • Photos (4 KB)
      Scanned photos of people and their tombstones
    • Tombstones (1 KB)
      Annie Ballard and James Brooks, Susie Cooper, Elijah Lee, several tombstones found in Alabama
    • Baxter, Rowena Densy (20 KB)
      Grandmother of Annie Clark Ballard Brooks and great great grandmother of Charlie
    • Kathy Brooks Kin (38 KB)
      Cochran and Carter, Bozeman and McClain notes
    • Thomas Randolph Carter born 1820 SC (6 KB)
      Civil War Records............father of Sarah Elizabeth Carter Cooper ..........grandfather of Susie Mae Cooper Brooks.
    • 1786 Marriages (66 KB)
      Peter Bozeman and Sarah Brown were the parents of Jesse and William Henry Bozeman, plus another son named Peter E. Bozeman who married Gilly
    • Partridge, Mary Angeline (4 KB)
      Parents of Angeline were Mildred Smith and George Partridge of Georgia. Her husband was George Thornton of Georgia and his parents were Nancy Katherine Culpepper and Charles Thornton. Nancy's mother was Martha Blackstone born 1814 Georgia, long before the Trail of Tears.
    • File (4 KB)
      Files
    • Miscellaneous (22 KB)
      Research Notes
    • Joe Stephens -Civil War (4 KB)
      Joe and Sarah Mills Stephens of Montgomery had a daughter Alice who married John T Bozeman but she died soon after giving birth to their 4th child.
    • Cooper and Lee (49 KB)
      Chambers County Records
    • Colonial Records (3 KB)
      Saving a few documents relating to my ancestors.
    • Herriford of Virginia (50 KB)
      Mary Josephine Hereferd was the second wife of Thomas Randolph Carter and their daughter was Sarah Elizabeth Carter - Cooper ( mother of Mamaw ). When Thomas died, Mary had him buried by his first wife Lacy Bozeman and their children.
    • Cooper in Civil War (86 KB)
      Father of Levi Cooper
    • Anderson in Civil War (30 KB)
      Father of Nancy
    • Carter in Civil War (9 KB)
      T. R. Carter father of Sarah
    Church (2270 KB)
    1820s map - church built on Peter Bozeman's land.
     
    • Weblinks (8 KB)
      Other helpful webpages.
    • List of Images (4 KB)
      Related Documents.
    • Research (22 KB)
      Notes and Links
    • Web Collection (45 KB)
      Many others involved in this research
    • Data (635 KB)
      Researching my native american ancestors includes several references to the Scrimpshire families who were indian by blood and had many connections to Indian Nation.
    • Data (645 KB)
      Research includes Westbrook and Grauer and Glass and Holt.
    • Files (723 KB)
      Articles and links of interest
    • Files and Records (202 KB)
      Followup