In the 1885 book "Sketches of Bozeman"
it only mentions three sons of Mordecai, but he can only describe the life of James who remained in Darlington. Mordecai was born about 1735 in the new colony of North Carolina in Bladen which was just across the PeeDee River from Darlington South Carolina. His father Samuel had many sons with his wife Mary white and she had a brother named Mordecai White. Now wonder why we know so much about this time but nothing about who her son Mordecai Bozeman married or how many children he truly had??!!
Nothing is known about the wife of Mordecai, but the son John is being researched as a half blood native american, who married an indian and moved to Mississippi and they write that Mordecai's son Peter went to Alabama. The book also mentions on several pages how one Bozeman married his first cousin or how another married his second cousin and that is certainly obvious as we continue the study.
Mordecai may have had several other children and also be kin to the Mary Bozeman Fountain as that name is always around.
Several Fountains are seen by Peter in Darlington and in Montgomery. In 1790 Peter and Sarah have 3 daughters, yet she must be pregnant with Meady since he was born that year; they had Lucy, Ellenor?, and one unknown girl; then Jesse M. born 1793, William Henry in 1802; and Peter E. in 1807, twenty years after their marriage date; no other babies are recorded, yet there are several years between Henry and Jesse. Their mother could be near 40 by now but still a young woman.
Then we are finding many others naming their children by the same names and have to wonder just how closely related they might be. Many other Bozemans journeyed to other parts of Alabama and used the SAME names for their children. There is a Meady across the creek in Lowndes County but not ours.
Peter and Sarah may also have had several other children we have not discovered. Only the three sons that we know followed him to Alabama are represented in the DAR library. Meady had deceased in Darlington about 1821 and his descendants have not come forward. His son Peter H. died in MS as a Captain in the Confederacy.
However, we must be so very greatful to Jimmy Ray's persistence and his daughter Allison's dedication to ask the DAR to honor our ancestor. Then Jimmy joined us in Dublin to rake through the woods to locate the tombstone of Peter Edward b 1834 who was buried by his cousin R. L. Hill and daughter in law Alice Lorena Stephens Bozeman and they had such beautiful home made tombstones. Dora Stubbs told us there are about 50 others buried in that forgotten, neglected cemetery.
We believe in giving credit to those who deserve it!
I have received so many emails with stories and new contributions and love them all; thank you James, Richard, William, Sharon, Yvonne, Elizabeth, Wayne and everyone involved.
Only one shows up when he dies so the others marry and move away? Ellenor went to Clarke County, AL but not to his estate sale. Lucy Campbell did attend but later moved away to Talladega. Did the other marry a Mason, Lewis or Lide? These guys are all around us! Was Lucy actually named Lucretia?
research done by Jimmy Ray Bozeman in 2005. In 1800 there appears to be 3 sons and 3 daughters in Peter's household so now we know that we missed something!!http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1800-Peter4plus4-then.Jesse.must.be.a.younger.brother-PUGH-FOUNTAIN.jpg
In 1809 a Jesse Bozeman buys 200 acres of land from Jonathan Wright. Now if the tombstone in Montgomery belongs to Peters son Jesse M. then this cannot be him because he (Peters son) was born in 1793 and would have only been 17 at the time. His son is found listed as Jesse M. so must be named after Mordecai. The other Jesse could have been Peter's brother or even the father. Wondering why Peter named his first born son Meady in 1790, and this son named his boys Peter Henry and Jesse, yet young Meady died about 1821 and his wife as well.
In 1810 Darlington a James and a Chapman both names a son Jesse.....oh are they sons of Mordecai???http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1810-Peter.jpg
WOW!!! even a Lucy!!
In 1818 Peter sells land to James Erwin.
The plot thickens in 1820 with his two married sons on the next census page, with those other FAMILIAR names.
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/1822-WmHenry-Joiner-Witness.jpg
. 1820 Peter's brother James married Flowers and remained in Darlington and had a son Jesse and a John Henry.
We also know that they were all still in SC in 1826, because KC found a land survey online in the SC archives. The archives webpage has a ton of information including or about the Bozeman life in many ways, and quite fascinating because Peter's name is involved in many other community activities and witnessing for other soldiers of their military service!
Need to see if there are any documents found on this family between 1829 and 1838 in Montgomery, Alabama. Peter had an estate, the children divided the land in 1838,so paperwork is obviously missing here!! The estate is handled by son Jesse M. in 1829 and again in 1838 and again for his brother Henry in 1847 and other brother Peter in 1851 and then his own son Jesse A. handled his father's "Jesse M." estate in 1855 and took in the minor children..Jesse A. had married Missouri Flinn and when he died her family handled his estate for her. Somebody joined the DAR from this line who is unknown to me.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1830-HENRY-n-EdmundLewis-Nathaniel.Williams-Lavinia.Anderson.jpg Lavinia Anderson connects us to Doty of the Mayflower and Nathaniel Williams is worth researching. Henry chose to live by Lavinia, and by Edmund Lewis and Benjamin Lewis!!!
Jesse and Peter in 1830 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1830-Jesse-Peter-Anderson-Lewis-Shackleford-Sellers.jpg and here again I believe that Jesse married a Lucy Anderson!
James Bozeman of the Philemon line had family south of ours in Covington at this time http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1830-Covington-RachelRoe-LewisBozeman.gif Was this the brother of Mordecai?
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1848-Carter.and.Calloway.BuysLand.gif Tom Carter married Jesse's daughter Lacy Jane, and he has an awesome family background from South Carolina and the war. His daughter married a Calloway. Aunt Sissy Brooks grew up with a grandmother Carter who was the second wife of Tom and knew the Calloways, who remained on that land for a long time and their son John Butler Calloway was a postman; but after his death nobody took care of that cemetery. Sissy's son did some research in Hope Hull, writing an article of it in the Montgomery Heritage and thank you Clarence for showing us our way :) At that time there were many more tombstones to see that were not neglected nor damaged as was during my visit. Jesse's second wife was the widow Frances Freeman and their son James Freeman Bozeman died in the civil war and is buried behind Lacy Jane and a huge tree has fallen by it and his stone is cracked yet hers remains standing tall. An epidemic took Lacy and some infant children buried all around her. Tom served in the war and was ill in a Virginia hospital and he also married a Virginia lady Mary Josephine Herreferd, and had Sarah Elizabeth Carter. Sarah married a guy who worked on her dads farm, Levi Benjamin Cooper and had Susie Mae who was Sissy's mother, so my stories are real. Susie Mae married James Brooks and took in both of their mothers when they became widowed and Aunt Sissy remembers them and their stories and sent me photos.
Sissy's grandmother buried Tom there by Lacy. Two Carters are on the 1820 census of Talladega with many sons, most coming to Montgomery.
A "group" of descendants gathered at Dublin to search the woods with Dora Stubbs in 2009 as she told us stories of John Hill and Nathaniel Dillard. The Dillards came from the line of Pocahontas.John Hill had a nice plantation and many children who started the family cemetery behind the Hills Chapel Church they also built. John Hill was the grandfather of our Peter Edward Bozeman and his mother moved them onto that land when Henry died. John had a son named John who signed for Nancy Jane to get Peter's civil war widows pension. So now we have grandpas Anderson, Bozeman, and Hill.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1850-JHHill-RobertBuriedByPeter.gif
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1831GrandpaJohnHill.LAND.where.his.son.buried.by.peter.bozeman.gif
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1850-MarthaHillBozeman-beside-her-sisters.jpg many siblings from SC in the Hill family and Martha moves near them when she leaves Hope Hull and we see our Peter Edward in her household while Jesse remained in Hope Hull with his daughter Lacy Jane Carter who now owned Martha's land. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/1850-JesseBozeman.Lucy.Carter.Elijah.age.40.ANDERSON.jpg
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/Cousin%20Elizabeth%20Norman.html
Cross the road to Peter's farm and another church and cemetery we have not yet visited.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/MORDECAI-Sketches130-Peter.John..James.jpg the book only listed three sons because that is all they had heard of......could be more.!
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~southernbranches/B/BOZEMAN/LUCY.campbell.html
We are reminded often of the Campbell name on legal documents as well as a David Calloway. Lacy Jane's husband T R Carter bought a piece of Henry's estate in 1849 as well as Calloway so why is Calloway involved......worth investigating. Henry's was the son of Peter, yet Henry's heirs sold their share one by one as their mother Martha Hill moved them to Dublin by her own family and where we found the grave of her son Peter Edward b. 1834.
Henry's daughter Martha Matilda Bozeman married her cousin Norman Campbell
while his grandson Meedy married cousin Leila Campbell ....they are buried at Greenwood by Nancy Jane. When I talked on the phone with Peggy Gibson, daughter of Aunt Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson, I was told that Peggy married her first cousin Glen Gibson, whom she had never met before they "courted". So it was quite customary. Ethel's husband J C was first cousin to Charles McClain who married Lorena Bozeman, as both men had Broadway mothers who were sisters; then Lorena's son Joe Ed married Georgia Lou Broadway and had a son James Edward McClain. Ethel and Lorena's mother was Alice Lorena Stephens and their brother was named Rollie Stephen. Their stepmother named her daughters Nancy Jane and Alice Lucy