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Welcome! My
family tree has nearly 18,000 members so one can certainly get lost
in the midst of the many names involved but the searchbox will help
locate almost any name or location that I have researched.. I
managed to locate my dad's parents Luella Coonfield and Frank
Delbert Cochran on a few census images, the one in 1930 included my
daddy at age 3 and then the four great grandparents were also traced
back a ways. Frank Delbert's parents were Clora Jane Miller, a pipe
smoker who could read the ashes and Jacob Benjamin Cochran, a Civil
War Vet who had moved his family to Kansas in 1882 from Iowa..
Luella's parents were Lattie Cedonia Little born in Kentucky
and Benjamin Wallace Coonfield of Indiana, but his parents had
migrated to Arkansas many years before..
I had found that
Jacob Cochran was born in 1822 Ohio to parents from Pennsylvania,
Martha Henderson and William Cochran, a son of Alexander. Apparently
William and Alexander were the only two Cochrans in Guernsey Ohio at
that time. Clora Jane's parents were Mary Clara Parker and James
Madison Miller of Illinois, while Mary's father was a Doctor Wanton
Horatio Parker, so the story is told that Mary would help the
Indians with medicine needs.
Benjamin's family of Indiana
were Benjamin Wylie Coonfield, another Civil War Vet and Martha
Frances Young and the photos of this family indicate they mixed. The
Youngs and Coonfields go way back into 1800 Kentucky.
Lattie
Little's parents were Mary Catherine Crigler and John Wright Little,
a Civil War Vet, both having family in early Kentucky history books,
pages I have copied into my webpages. Catherine's parents were Nancy
Catherine Roby, (daughter of Reason Roby) and Abraham Crigler.
John's parents were Catherine G. Wright ( daughter of Catherine
Weatherford) and Doctor Hiram Lucius Little.
Hiram's parents
were Betsy Douglass and Jonas Little who were married in 1798 Union
County South Carolina. Hiram was widowed young and moved to Texas
with a very young teen bride ( 14 !! ) and started a new family in
Bosque County.
Most of these families also had a great
grandfather who served in the American Revolution.
My
mother's side was a little difficult to trace at first, since she
was orphaned at age 4, but it soon came to light. Her parents were
Alice Emma McClain and Cecil Earl Fenn Carter but he did not use the
name Fenn, since his mother Anna Lou Stone had remarried a few
times. Cecil's death certificate was signed by his brother Emmett
Marvin Fenn who added the parents names of Annie Stone and William
Franklin Fenn, so I ordered William's death certificate and found
his parents were Emily Harrell and John F. Fenn of Tuskegee, Macon
County, Alabama, and census records show they were born in Georgia
in 1829.
Anna Stone's family also came out of Georgia into
Macon, Alabama on the 1850 census, Augustus Marvin Fenn and Mary Ann
Hendrick.
Parents of Alice McClain were Lorena Emma Bozeman
born 1890 Ramer, Alabama and Charles Allen McClain born 1886 Ramer.
His parents were Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain, a
Civil War Vet, but I never found a marriage record. Elizabeth's
parents were Mary Susan Stephens and Abner Broadway. Lorena's
parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and John Thomas Bozeman of Ramer,
Alabama. Elizabeth Broadway had a sister, Rebecca Lou Broadway who
married Clopton Gibson and had a son named Jason
Gibson.
Jason Gibson married Lorena's sister Ethel Mae
Bozeman, and had a daughter named Ruby Gibson.
When I talked
with Ruby and her sister Peggy, on the phone years ago, she told me
that Charlie McClain and Jason Gibson had talked about being first
cousins so this gives a better confirmation to this research.
When I began researching my husband's family tree, his
cousin Clarence helped out a lot, sending old photos and letters.
Clarence had studied a cemetery in Hope Hull where one of their
grandfathers was buried but it was also on property once owned by my
Bozeman ancestors.
My husband's parents were Mary Ella
Thornton and James Edgar Brooks, Jr. Mary's parents were Bessie Mae
Hood and Milton Elijah Thornton. Milton's parents were Mary Angeline
Partridge and Charles Thornton of Georgia. Bessie's parents were
Ella Olivia Baxley and L. Wesley Hood of Holtville Alabama and
Ella's mother was a Holt. The parents of James were Susie Mae Cooper
and James Edgar Brooks of Montgomery. Susie's parents were Sarah
Elizabeth Carter and Levi Benjamin Cooper of Hope Hull, Alabama.
Sarah's parents were Mary Josephine Hereford of Virginia and
Thomas Randolph Carter, a Civil War Vet, but he had been widowed
from his first marriage to Lacy Jane Bozeman. Parents of Levi were
Sarah F. Lee and Charner P. Cooper, both from Chambers County
Alabama until he moved after serving in the Civil
War.
Parents of James Brooks came from Tennessee, Annie Clark
Ballard and John E. Brooks. John's parents were Roxanna Permilia
Smith and John Brooks. Parents of Annie were Dora Craig and James C.
Ballard, all with rich Tennessee History of the early 1800s.
All of these families are linked within this webpage
where I have a little study on each of them and on this
page and for a much longer list of documents
that I have collected click
here and the memorial I made for my husband is
here
Credits: My children and my sister. My daughter's
mother in law My dad's sisters and cousin Stanley. My Gibson
and Bozeman cousins in Montgomery AL My cousin Jimmy Ray
Bozeman My cousin Wayne Bozeman who is married to my husband's
cousin. LDS USGenWeb My cousins Dick
and Connie Rootsweb Charlie's
cousin Glenda Baxley Charlie's cousin
Clarence who introduced me to Hope Hull and his article in Alabama
Cemetery Preservation and their cousin D.J. Smith who has the nice
webpage on Rootsweb.
And many more who corresponded by email
when they viewed my family tree
webpages!
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