Cecil's brother was Wm Frank Fenn Jr of Coosada who's land was sold to build a new school by Frank's son, Bob Fenn. Bob was once the principal at Robinson Springs School who was previously married to a Martha Cobb. Bob's sister was recently found living in Millbrook Alabama and I had a wonderful visit with her. The Fenns all had a beautiful dark complexion and dark brown eyes. Grandpa Cecil was described on his military discharge as a tall, dark ruddy complected man with dark brown eyes. Bob says that his fathers home in Coosada caught fire once and most photos and documents burned. I do remember my parents visiting Uncle Frank in Coosada. Uncle Frank's brother, Emmett Marvin Fenn, had left something to my mom when he died.
Cochran was born to Miller and Cochran marriage
Grandpa Frank D Cochran married Luella Ellen Coonfield; his parents were Clora Jane Miller and Jacob Benjamin Cochran. The Coonfield sisters all had long black braided hair and dark brown eyes, just like Clora and these women smoke corn cob pipes~~ Other researchers write that Clora's mother, Mary Clara Parker Miller was a medicine woman among the indians.
Great Grandpa William Frank Fenn married Anna Lou Stone in 1893, divorced about 1900 and both remarried. His parents were Emiline Harrell and John Fenn of Georgia who moved into Tuskegee. Her parents were Mary Ann Hendrick and Augustus M Stone. - Augustus was born in Alabama to Sarah Davis and Benjamin Wilburn Stone = Benjamin's father was Michael Stone from Maryland who had married a Polly Wells in Putnam Georgia. It is unknown if he was related to Catherine Stone in the Brooks/Ballard ancestry.
Great Grandpa Charles Allen McClain married Emma Lorena Bozeman in 1908 His parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Her parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman. Charles was a small man, a farmer who cleaned the church and also made caskets as the epidemics took so many.
Great Grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran and his second wife Clora Jane Miller came from Iowa to Kansas about 1890 and had Frank Delbert Cochran. On the 1880 census we see that Jacob has a ten year old grandson named Frank but he only had six daughters at the time so this is a big mystery and we have no clue what happened to that Frank.
Great Grandpa Benjamin Wallace Coonfield married Lattie Cedonia Little in 1891; his parents were Martha Frances Young and Benjamin Wylie Coonfield. Her parents were Mary Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little. The Littles and Coonfields were once in Kentucky and migrated into Arkansas. John's father, Hiram Little, moved to Bosque Texas and remarried and had a new family. John Little said that he was Cherokee and his beautiful black haired daughter, Lattie Cedonia Little told her children that she was Cherokee. Fortunately I have met many new cousins on the internet researching this line ! They say the Coonfields were all very dark complected, with black hair that had a blue/green shine.
Kentucky `1850 census shows the Criglers as free persons of color?? they were not white and not black eh? Our photo of grandma Crigler indicates she could have been an Indian.
John Wright Little's mother was Nancy Catherine Wright who married Hiram Lucius Little. Catherine's parents were Catherine Georgia Weatherford and John C Wright who were married in 1811 Charlotte VA. Catherine Weatherford's father was Charles Weatherford but not at her wedding so was he in Alabama at that time?
Daddy's aunt writes that John Little's son, or Uncle Bill, looked just like an indian man who visited often on his horse. She also writes that John's daughter, Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield, cooked the best skunk meat in town.
Great Great Grandpa John Fenn/Fann married Emeline Harrell in GA and had our William Frank Fenn in Tuskegee Alabama in 1855
Great Great Grandpa Dempsey Harrell stayed in Georgia?
Great Great Grandpa Josiah Marion McClain left his first wife in GA and came to Alabama in the Civil War and married Elizabeth Broadway in Ramer Alabama and had our Charles Allen McClain. "Bettie Broadway's" family came from South Carolina.
Great Great Grandpa John Thomas Bozeman married Alice Lorena Stephens in Ramer Alabama and had our Lorena Emma Bozeman. John's parents were Nancy Jane Anderson and Peter Edward Bozeman, son of William Henry and to William's father Peter Boseman who was married to Sarah Brown.
Cochran, Jacob, said his ancestors came from Scotland and he was born in Ohio while his father was born in PA.
Millers came from Ireland, where Reverend Alexander Miller is found in Rockingham Virginia and Charles Weatherford is found in Charlotte VA in the 1810 census just one year before his daughter married John C Wright. Near Charles Weatherford is Patsy Weatherford with children and she could be the Polly Jones Weatherford that we have been looking for. The Weatherfords had a lot of Indian Roots.
Several other family names were in Pennsylvania Quaker areas, New York Indian Country, Rhode Island and Massachusetts and they all ended up in Ohio
and Kentucky around 1800. They began to move west and some served in the wars and some searched for gold. Jacob had gone to California in 1849 with five brothers but he only returned with socks full of gold dust. Jacob Cochran apparently became an apple farmer in Kansas and he was the first homesteader there in Hill City. However, Jacob and his first wife Mariah White and six daughters first moved to Iowa, where Mariah is buried and where he met Clora Jane Miller.
Charles McClain married Elizabeth Moon in VA and they moved into the Carolinas and we find them on the Spartanburg SC census. Their son Josiah was born there and he married Nancy Wood and had James W McClain. James married an Anna and had a son called Josiah Marion McClain.
John Fann of England married Mary Stone in VA and their children moved south as some were Indian Traders. It is unknown if Mary Stone is related to Michael Stone above or to the Thomas Stone who signed the Constitution but this is what makes our genealogy even more exciting.
The Bozemans/ Bosmans are found in the 1600s Maryland and VA where they got together with the Stephens, Andersons, Brack, Sellers and even a Doty which connects us to the Mayflower. There are many stories writen about our Edward Doty who attended the first Thanksgiving.
John Stephens came from Florida to the Carolinas to fight in the Rev War
and married A full blood Cherokee, before coming to Alabama. Some researchers suspect he was Johann Stephans of Germany but we will never know.
Captain George Little of Scotland was in the American Revolution in South Carolina and went to Kentucky about 1800 with his second wife. His son Jonas married Betsy Douglass, his step sister, and had Hiram Lucius Little and another son Douglas Little. Hiram and Douglas both married granddaughters of Charles Weatherford.
Mary Ella Thornton was born to Thornton and Hood marriage
Milton Elijah Thornton married Bessie Mae Hood
John Brooks, a tailor by trade, married Roxanna Permilia Smith in Tennessee about 1860; John came from Pennsylvania and his father was from Holland and his mother was from France. John's son, John, married Annie Clark Ballard in Tennessee and they moved into Alabama and are buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
Cooper, Levi Benjamin married Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Carter in 1884 in Montgomery AL and his family came from Chambers County Alabama. Sarah Cooper is buried by Annie Ballard as they both were widowed and living with James Brooks in the Montgomery census records. And of course we never traced the adoptive father of Cecil Earl Fenn Carter, and do not know if they were relatives of this Sarah Carter.
Hood, Bessie Mae's parents were Wesley Hood and Ella Mae O. and they are all buried at Caine's Chapel Cemetery in Holtville, Alabama.
Thomas S Smith married Caroline M Bond in 1840 Maury Co, TN
John Brooke of Holland had John, Christine, Edward and Henry.
James Calvin Ballard married Willie Eudora Florence Craig in 1876 TN
Charner P. Cooper of South Carolina married Sara F. Lee in 1845 Chambers AL and had Levi Benjamin Cooper who married Sarah Elizabeth Carter.
Thomas Randolph Carter married Mary Josephine Hereferd about 1861 and had Sallie Carter. After Mary passed away, Thomas married Lacy Bozeman, daughter of Jesse Bozeman. Now we have no idea how many children Lacy Bozeman had but they would be cousins to our Lorena Bozeman McClain wouldn't they :)
Charner Cooper's mother is only known as Alsey. His father was Andrew Cooper of South Carolina.
Elija Lee of South Carolina married Malinda Phillips about 1830 in Greene County GA and the moved into Chambers County near the Coopers. There are several families listed on the census with these surnames so perhaps many came to Alabama by wagon train and settled there, as the Creek Indians began to give up their lands. Chambers County was once Creek Indian Territory.
John L Hereford married Jemima Ramey about 1818
John Wise Carter came from South Carolina to Talledega Alabama which is named for a Creek Indian Village.
William M Craig married Rebecca Carolina Pennington in 1860 in Tennessee. which is rich with several indian tribe's history.
Larkin Frances Ballard married Rowena Densy Baxter in 1847 TN
James Baxter Jr married Hester Ward of NC in 1829 TN
James Milton Ballard married Kissiah Dickens of NC abt 1820
North Carolina had several indian tribes and still has a Cherokee Indian Reservation that my daughter has visited; it has a wealth of information for genealogists.
William Pennington married Gracey
David C Craig married Catherine Connelly of NC in 1832
These families are all living close together on the census records.
This author is reminded of a story told about one ancestor who married an indian
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