Finally after more than twenty years of studying my grandfather, he is listed on his father's Will as Earl Fenn so he was apparently adopted when his parents divorced. We knew him as Grandpa Cecil Earl Carter but soon learned he may have been adopted by his mother's secon husband C. H. Carter. ON
his death certificate, his brother Emmett Marvin Fenn of Yancey Street, put the parents as Anna Lou Stone and Wm Frank Fenn. They had other siblings. Brother Frank Jr. bought 50 acres on Airport Road in Coosada and Mama loved to visit him when I was a kid. I have met Frank's two kids Bob and Martha of Robinson Springs. Bob was the principal at my daughter's school there, RSS and he told me stories about my Grandpa Earl.
They sold their daddy's land to the Board of Education to build the Coosada Elementary where my Grandchildren attend.
Great grandma Anna Stone Fenn Carter left it all behind when she took her new baby Earl to be with her parents in Macon GA and when her second husband died, she married Mr. Dasher but then he died, and she took care of her widowed mother. Anna's uncle Charles Stone named his sons Tecumseh and Osceola, but Earl told everyone that he was Cherokee; we are quite a mix. The Fenn boys were over 6 feet tall and very dark complexion, dark eyes and hair, handsome. We have no pictures of the Stone family due to Frank's house fire, but Bob remembered a cousin's picture on the coffee table, a Tige Stone in baseball uniform, played for St. Louis Cardinals after leaving Mercer U. Not much more is know about my Fenn family cousins, there should be many locally. There is a family cemetery on the land uphill beside the school, actually located behind the Zeigler cemetery. Just walk around and see that they are still adding to it.
Grandpa Earl married Emily Alice McClain in 1932, had a Junior late that year, then mama in 1934 & Billy ( William ) in 1935, but Emily did not survive. Grandpa was a great contractor after the Army but died of a broken heart in 1939 so the kids went to live with their Grandparents Lorena & Charles McClain. I cannot imagine being and orphan so young. But that is where I got my middle name. Lorena's parents were Alice Lorena Stephens and John Bozeman of Dublin. John's brother Pete married Dora Dillard. Charles was the son of Elizabeth Broadway and Josiah Marion McClain. Josiah had served with her dad, Abner Broadway in the Civil War and was badly injured with amnesia, forgetting his family back home in GA. His first wife Julia America King, filed for divorce/desertion and I saw her application to join the Cherokee Rolls. Julia had several children who may have later found Charles, possibly.
Driving through Dublin past the Church of Christ where Charles McClain is buried, down into Ramer to Hills Chapel where the Bozemans are buried, I found the grave of Alice Lorena Stephens behind the church in the woods beside her father in law Peter Bozeman which was beside his own cousin Robert Hill, son of John Hill. Peter's mother was Martha Hill, the widow of William Henry Bozeman, who had returned to her father's plantation with her young children according to the 1850 census. Her brother was also a John Hill, and witnessed papers for Peter's widow, Nancy Jane Anderson, to receive his pension. Henry Bozeman had died in 1847 on his father's plantation in Hope Hull. Hope Hull and Pintlala have much history of the earliest pioneers. I transcribed their 1830 census showing their many neighbors farming around them which included a John Booth & a George Bush. who may have moved to Texas to have a grandson to become President and my own son greeted his plane when he came back to go fishing with friends left behind.
Mama grew up and by age 15 was working on Dexter Avenue at the still standing KRESS store and while waiting for her bus to take her home, met my Kansas born daddy, Frankie Cochran. They had dinner at the popular Chris' hot dog shop many times. His parents were Luella Ellen Coonfield & Frank Delbert Cochran, the son of Clora Jane Miller & Jacob Benjamin Cochran. Luella's parents were Lattie Cedonia Little of Kentucky and Benjamin Wallace "Wally" Coonfield of Indiana but both had parents and grandparents from Kentucky 1800 near Daniel Boone.
Boone's daughter married into our family tree!
Lattie's father was John Wright Little, a blacksmith in the Civil War, who was offered an Indian land allotment. John was the son of Hiram. His great grandpa was in the Revolution, as Captain George Little of Scotland who came over with wife Mary and ten children. When Mary died, he married their son Jonas' mother in law Mary Handley Douglass of Ireland and had no more children. Her daughter Betsy had married Jonas, giving him many children like Hiram Lucius, Wesley, Elizabeth Roberts, and Douglass. Douglass named his son Lucius Powhatan Little, a famous author, lawyer, and Judge.
Dad always said his mother Luella's parents came from two different tribes in Kentucky but her spouse always put them as whites on a census. Her sister Virginia claimed Indian on census and all her children.
Powhatan's daughter Laura was researching and writing to find that connection but there was another connection to the Weatherford family, the father of Chief Red Eagle .
Hiram's wife was Catherine G. "Georgia" Wright, daughter of Catherine Weatherford and John C. Wright, while Douglass married her sister Martha, and a Mr. Waltrip married the other sister Mary Ann, all living close together in Kentucky with a Phillip Wright next door. As several passed away Douglass raised the orphaned children and housed his mother in law as well. Hiram, being widowed, left alone, went to Tennessee most likely to visit his Uncle John, but married Rebecca, having a little Hiram Jr and followed Uncle John to Texas. Some of Hiram's other children left Douglass and joined Hiram in TX. But Lattie and John and her siblings later are found in Arkansas by the Coonfields.
Dad's sister, my Aunt Bernice Cochran told me on the phone, that her Grandpa Ben Coonfield had the blackest hair ever seen, and the sunshine gave it a blue shine. All had very thick beautiful hair. His sister Eula really appeared to be native american.
The Cochrans and Coonfields, their wives, are all found in Pennsylvania 1700s, some branches from NY and RI ! The first Alexander Cochran of the Revolution married Hannah Adams & had Alex Jr & William. I wonder if Hannah was a relative of the President.
The men served in every War that occured and I found one Hiram Little in the Battle of the Alamo along with Davy Crockett in 1836 so I wonder if he was the son of Uncle John. Hiram could have been a special name in this family, possibly a grandfather in Scotland. Several Little brothers are found in the 1790 census of South Carolina and named their sons after each other, which happened so often in family trees. William Little was in Alabama in 1820, then possibly Texas - did he name a son Hiram?? .Brother Jonas remained in SC while George and John went into Tennessee in 1800 and Kentucky by 1802 but brother John went back to TN and then to Texas. Joseph has not been traced. A Nathaniel Gist is found on the census near them in SC who could be the father of famous Cherokee, Sequoya, or George Guess/ Guist.
Soldiers and patriots of the American Revolution received pay and Land for their service, many in the new colony of South Carolina and are found in the 1790 census. Some had received land in KY, Ohio, & Georgia.
Mother's Bozeman ancestors are found there as well, near McIntosh, McQueen, McGillvary and the Weatherfords. Martin Weatherford is found in Georgia with son Charles leading the Creeks against the British. Her grandpa Wm Fenn had great grandfathers Travis Fann/ Fenn and his dad Zachariah Fann were found in Georgia. Lots of her ancestors spent months or years in Georgia before moving into Alabama, following the historical Old Federal Road. A lovely Mary and Travis Fann had sons Elijah and Matthew. Matt is found in Alabama history in Eufaula, employeed Indians to work his farms because Georgia did not allow it. Elijah married Martha Rich, having John and Letitia. John followed Uncle Matt to Alabama, having William Frank Fenn, my great grandpa. Letitia married a Thomas Rich and registered on the Cherokee Rolls. Frank also had a son Madison, called Mat, who left to live in Texas, but returned when his wife died and is buried in Greenwood cemetery by Frank.
Cousin Clyde Stephens wrote a book about our family history donating a copy to the Ramer library whereas his research states a John Stephens landed at St. Augustine, and traveled to join the Revolution, married a Cherokee woman, ending up in Montgomery, AL with his boys and grandchildren having several farms in Ramer. I found a Clyde and Bertha registered on the Cherokee Rolls. Looking at my great great granny Stephens above, she probably was mixed, her mother being Sarah Mills, and I have an affidavit of America Mills - Johnaon of our area, resided a while in Choctaw Nation, Texas, stating she was full blood Cherokee, for her children to have to join if they choose. There were several tribes in Alabama as the early settlers arrived. Charles McClain had a grandfather James in the Civil War with the Choctaw artillery.
My visits to Dublin and Ramer cemeteries revealed an indian infant buried near my John Bozeman and another tombstone had the name of Annie OOcha Broadway on it. My next door neighbor and classmate in 1965 was a beautiful Apache in the Jackson family from Ramer.
My DNA test doesn't include it, but family folklore continues.
My husband's family also settled in Montgomery County, Alabama. A John Brooks was born 1837 Pennsylvania with a father from Holland, and mother from France as indicated on the census. He became a tailor and traveled to Tennessee where he married Roxanna Permilia Smith, daughter of a family from NC and often called Annie. Annie's son John Jr. moved to Alabama with his TN wife, Annie Clark Ballard and had only one child, James Edgar in 1895. Edgar married Susie Mae Cooper, known as Mamaw and named a son James Jr. in 1925. Mamaw's parents were Sarah CARTER and Levi Cooper and he came from Pike Road to work on her daddy's farm in Hope Hull ( Thomas Carter ). Thomas had married first to Lacy jane Bozeman, the daughter of my Uncle Jesse and Lucy, but she died there after giving him a few children, so after the Civil war he married Josephine Hereford of Virginia who had Sarah. That Carter family was first found in Chambers County, AL on the 1820 census, after migrating from Edgefield, SC after the Revolution. Other Carter brothers brought their family to town for a while, some going on to Georgia or back to SC, but Marion and his wife buried one of their children near Thomas.
Levi Cooper had a sister Savilla Ann who married Wm P McGee, son of Abner & Rachel, so a child was born, named Rachel McGee who married Eli Thompson and this young couple are also buried in the Bozeman cemetery in Hope Hull. Down the road is the Old McGee Road where Savilla is buried with her husband's family. Savilla McGee was once found living on Red Eagle Road in Atmore in the Creek Nation.
Ironically Chief Calvin McGee of that Creek Nation met with President Kennedy to have that city of Poarch recognized in our State. He also met with Gov. George Wallace. There are hundreds of McGee relatives in Poarch to this day.
Lucy A. and Jesse M. Bozeman also had Benjamin Media and Jesse. A. in Hope Hull before she died and he remarried to Frances Freeman who had James Freeman Bozeman. Ben moved his family to Texas and has descendants in the DAR. Jesse A. handled the legal paperwork to take care of his minor siblings when his parents died and he was married to Missouri Flinn, the daughter of Bunberry Flinn who had a job working for Abner McGee. The State Archives has them all in the history books of our early settlers. The Archives building also has a portrait of Dr. Nathan Bozeman hanging in the halls.
It would be logical that Jesse M.'s wife was Lucy Anderson and her brother Elija lived close to them. Her sister married Alfred Sellers and attended the Estate Sale of Jesse's parents. The mother Lavinia Jane Sellers Anderson also lived close by and her husband Elisha's will is probated in 1834 in our Probate Office. Lavinia is our connection to the Mayflower! Cousin Norma Stubbs Pogue joined and they sent me a membership application. Jesse M.'s brother William Henry Bozeman & Martha had a son Peter Edward in 1834 who married Nancy Jane Anderson. I found her grave near the left side of the entrance to Greenwood cemetery along with some of their children, a lovely family plot. Nancy is my great great great granny and her granny is Hester DOTY.
I met Norma Stubbs Pogue at a DAR meeting and she was such a sweet kind lady, my cousin! Her mother was Dora Dillard Stubbs who had guided a group of us to that family cemetery behind Hills Chapel in Dublin! Her mother was Dora Dillard Bozeman because she married my great great grandpa John's brother Peter James Bozeman and they are buried in the big public cemetery across from the front of the church. Dora Dillard's grandpa was Nathaniel who had a farm near the Hill family and he made saddles and bridles. Some of his children married and settled nearby. Sarah Dillard married Mr. Rollo. Oregon Dillard married a Rollo.
Ironic that John Bozeman named his first son Rollie.
This brings me back to our first Peter E. Bozeman, born about 1755 in Bladen, NC to Mordecai Boseman, the probable son of Samuel. Samuel was married to Mary White and had brothers Mordecai and Meada. The DNA connects Peter to Mordecai and its also written in the book "Sketches". Samuel descends from the Nottaway tribe and there was a Sheriff William Boseman who claimed his mother was Nottaway. Mordecai may have had several siblings, but also several of his own children, mostly Biblical names. Many of them are on the South Carolina Roster of the Revolution. Peter married Sarah Brown in 1786 in Darlington SC. The 1790 census shows Sarah had 3 daughters & a son Meedy was born that year, who married and died by 1821 leaving two sons, Jesse & Peter Henry as orphans, taken in by his sister.
Peter earned much land for his service and had it appraised in 1826. He was in Montgomery, Alabama in 1828 writing letters to the War Dept. for his money as being an Invalid in his old age, and got rejected the first time, but when he died the next year, he had lots of estate to divide. His Estate Sale of 1829 was witnessed by John Stacy, the husband of Mary Hill, a Nathaniel Williams and Richard Chisholm. John Stacy jr married a younger Sarah Bozeman. Then when Nancy Kizar Hill married our uncle John Bozeman, they briefly lived with Mary. Several named a son John, Peter, Jesse, so confusing!!
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