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Brooks married Cochran in 1972 Cochran born of Carter and Cochran marriage Frankie Cochran married Annie Lee Alice Carter in 1951; his parents were Luella Ellen Coonfield and Frank Delbert Cochran of Chetopa KS Brooks born of Brooks and Thornton marriage - James Edgar Brooks Jr married Mary Ella Thornton Carter was adopted but was born to Fenn and Stone marriage Grandpa Cecil Carter married Emma Alice McClain; His parents were Anna Lou Stone and William Franklin Fenn of Macon AL 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. 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. 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. Great Grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran and his second wife Clora Jane Miller came from Iowa to Kansas about 1890 and had Frank Delbert Cochran. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Cochran apparently became an apple farmer in Kansas and he was the first homesteader there in Hill City. 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. 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. John Stephens came from Florida to the Carolinas to fight in the Rev War and married A full blood Cherokee, before coming to Alabama. 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. | James E Brooks was born to Brooks and Ballard marriage James Edgar Brooks married Susie Mae Cooper Thornton was born to Thornton and Hood marriage Milton Elijah Thornton married Bessie Mae Hood John Brooks 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. Thornton and Hood and Cooper headstones 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 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. Charner Cooper's mother is only known as Alsey. His father was Andrew Cooper of South Carolina. Elija Lee married Malinda Phillips about 1830 John L Hereford married Jemima Ramey about 1818 John Wise Carter came from South Carolina to Talledega Alabama. William M Craig married Rebecca Carolina Pennington in 1860 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 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. Bond John Baptist Bond married Catherine Kitty Stone of NC in 1819 TN - X Henry Smith of a Virginia John Smith lineage married Sinia Evans in 1819 TN | ||||||||||
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