Broken Arrow is a city located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, primarily in Tulsa County.Our Cochrans and Coonfields landed in Pennsylvania and migrated south into Ohio and KY.Many relatives lived in this area due to their indian heritage. Grandpa John Little refused indian land offers, according to Aunt Bernice, but chose a homestead on a mountain, Big Sandy, in Arkansas. His grandchild Dorline joined the Pocahontas club. His family started in SC then went to KY in 1802 where his great grandpa George Little then married his sons mother in law Mary Handley Thompson. Many have that mixed up. George had ten kids with his first wife, but he and second wife were too OLD to have kids. Coonfields left KY for Indiana in 1824 history books of IN. Grandma Miller-Cochran is in the book of VA and mentions her son Frank.James Millers wife Mary Parkers dad Dr. Parker came from NY indian territory, into Ohio, then Michigan indian territory, on to Iowa..His mom Sara Tefft also written about in Rhode Island history with King Phillip!. Mom's family was in Wagon Tracks by Fenn and the Sketches of Bozeman by Woodruff, also the Hope Hull/Pintlala history assn. mentions several more. Carters were everywhere!!!Index of Carters on the 15 Cherokee rolls and explanation of the rolls, to include the 13 Carters on the "Trail of Tears." Of the 15 rolls, Carters were found on all of the rolls with the exception of 3. 
Our family history research has been so fascinating, just knowing they are also found in BOOKS!!..plus two go back to the first Mayflower voyage. moms's cousin Norma has joined the mayflower society, we have joined the DAR and the sons of the Confederacy. I have also found usgenweb has a ton of their archived history free online 

 
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  • obituary (62 KB)
    Mary Lou
  • BEN (259 KB)
    Ben Coonfield 1920 with wife Mort Little.
  • obituary (177 KB)
    Teegardin
  • Wally and Lattie (278 KB)
    Ben Coonfield 1920 with wife Lattie Little in Mason Valley. note the Tate neighbor from Oklahoma and read your Creek indian history.
  • funeral 1996 (79 KB)
    Mary Lou
  • 1914 marriage license (192 KB)
    POP
  • 1821 (197 KB)
    Jacob's dad, William Cochran gets land in Guernsey Ohio 1821. Other immigrating cochranes did not settle here!
  • 1895 (8 KB)
    Frank Fenn
  • 1920 (25 KB)
    my mom's dad on left standing was cherokee
  • 1993 (13 KB)
    Frankie Laverne Cochran b. 1927 on rt. then Junior and his son Frankie Daniel holding Matthew Allen C......all resembling grandma Luella's side.
  • obit (26 KB)
    Carter
  • 1946 (77 KB)
    dad preparing for korean war
  • 1956 (232 KB)
    Frankie Laverne Cochran life in Arizona; living next to Eunice and some of the other siblings joined them.
  • McClain (21 KB)
    civil war choctaw
  • 1980s (36 KB)
    Stan, Darrell, Dad, Frankie Daniel holding Matthew Allen, Victor Daniel.
  • 1940 (1861 KB)
    Frankie Laverne Cochran on census with his parents
  • Stone (201 KB)
    Macon Alabama
  • brother (45 KB)
    Frankie Lavern JR....
  • Ben in civil war (21 KB)
    Frankie Laverne Cochran's grandfather from Indiana Infantry.
  • 1890 (28 KB)
    Lattie and Ben
  • mom (48 KB)
    Frankie and Eunice in AZ
  • POP (27 KB)
    Frankie Laverne Cochran's dad, Frank Delbert
  • L P Little (619 KB)
    Douglass was the son of Jonas. George had ten children with his first wife. His second wife brought three girls and they all joined Captain John Handley in Vienna, Kentucky 1802. These Handleys came from Ireland.
  • Gilly (1352 KB)
    1851 - moms line
  • POP's wife Luella Coonfield (23 KB)
    Frankie Lavern Cochran's momt
  • 1890 (26 KB)
    POP's siblings, Cochran family
  • Luella Coonfield's sister holding the twins (37 KB)
    Frankie Lavern Cochran's Aunt Mae
  • Laura Little (563 KB)
    1932 cousin working our genealogy
  • Ben (27 KB)
    Luella's father Benjamin Wallace Coonfield "wally"
  • 1824 (111 KB)
    Coonfield
  • Luella Coonfield's mom sitting on her mothers lap (231 KB)
    Catherine Crigler of Kentucky died young and spouse John moved to Arkansas, and her daddy Abraham soon joined John and the children.
  • 1827 (48 KB)
    Coonfield
  • 1937 Cochrans (117 KB)
    family photo
  • tombstone (53 KB)
    Jacob Cochran, Hill City KS
  • Frank Delbert Cochran with his parents (48 KB)
    family photo....wow did he ever change as he aged
  • book (191 KB)
    Coonfield
  • John Wright Little (13 KB)
    his black hair has grayed yet he was still handsome. Father of Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield. Luellas grandpa.
  • McClain (130 KB)
    family record
  • Aunt Martha Ann Wright Little (19 KB)
    She and Douglass raised John and his siblings after their mom died young. She was Martha's sister, Catherine G. Wright and had married a brother of Douglass, Dr. Hiram Lucius Little. Virginia records show Charles WEATHERFORD's daughter, Catherine, married John C. Wright in Charlotte 1811.
  • McClain (27 KB)
    Anne's grandpa raised her.
  • Uncle Sam Little (984 KB)
    Lattie's brother.
  • Weatherford (88 KB)
    Charles
  • Martin Weatherford (106 KB)
    father of Charles left Virginia and served in the war. He led the CREEK INDIANS....where is charles?? in alabama???
  • BEN (251 KB)
    Ben Coonfield 1920 with Graham family - do we connect?
  • Dorline Gray Teegardin (73 KB)
    note to cousin Martha Hawes in Arizona, a grandchild of L P Little who said the Powhatan named had been passed along to others in her family. Martha found me online on the message boards and sent me many copies of valuable notes and records.
  • Lattie (23 KB)
    beautiful Kentucky lady with probable indian blood. Aunt Bernice said that Lattie's father John Little had been offered indian lands in Oklahoma yet refused them.. Then he moved to a homestead in Arkansas and I have to wonder if that was somehow connected to indian territories in 1900.
  • Weatherford (150 KB)
    1774 Georgia Gazette included our Catherine Weatherford's virginia grandfather.
 
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Alabama Bozeman families found on many census records, married to Dillard, Gibson, McClain. Census records allowed only black or white as race, sometimes mulatto if they weren't sure, but you never see Red or Native American. 

 
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  • Elizabeth Broadway McClain born 1853 (32 KB)
    many ancestors of her children shown Elizabeth must have been sister to Rebecca Broadway Gibson Lorena Bozeman McClain listed other Broadway's deaths in her Bible and referred to Elizabeth as Bettie Gardner who had remarried to John Gardner
  • Gibson Families (25 KB)
    Ethel Mae Bozeman Gibson was sister to Emma Lorena Bozeman McClain - their husbands were Cousins -
  • Alice McClain ancestry (60 KB)
    notes from the LDS site, Rootsweb, and census records.
 

John, Thomas and Henry, perhaps a Benjamin Carter found in 1700 North Carolina, received Bounty Lands in South Carolina for serving in the American Revolution.

Due to Indian unrest some migrated beyond those lands and the many tribes were battling over the territory. Many of these families were mixed with indian blood but had to protect their families from the hostiles.

1820 Alabama census shows Thomas Carter and a John W. Carter with large households and John named a son Thomas that year, so we can assume the first two were brothers. These Carters went back and forth across the south and young Thomas served in the civil war, married a Bozeman and secondly a Mary.

Cecil Earl Carter's mother Anna Stone married a Carter about 1905 and his name is not yet found, but she was widowed and staying with her mother in 1920 Macon GA. Cecil married Emily McClain, daughter of Charles, and Cecil's niece, Martha married a Henry McClain.

 
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    Many Carters began migrating to Alabama in 1821, brothers and sons, prospering, farming, and growing their own families from Talladega to Montgomery and some back into GA and SC, even the elders of the 1700s traveled back n forth.
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