By
horse and buggy, the families loaded up in wagon trains and followed the dirt
roads to the next stop of their journey, bringing along a couple of cows and a
few pigs and the spinning wheel to use once they succeeded with their first crop
of cotton, and of course they grew tobacco or corn, rice and wheat.
Some
of their estate sales included a gun, a jar, a grubbing hoe, a shovel, a feather
bed, and perhaps a lot of medicine, meaning perhaps a box of medicine. Those
attending the estate sales and those making the appraisals were usually married
into the family and lived nearby on their own plantations. The old roads used
were usually indian paths, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, but many were also
intermarried with our families.
Many
began in Maryland or Virginia, even in Jamestown, while some were also on the
Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock and then migrating southward along the east
coast. They came from many other countries to settle here and fight for their
Independence in 1776, being awarded Land for their service and a pension, most
often these documents are located in the Archives.
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page 528
Aug. 15, 1840, and was the daughter of Horatio Wanton and Rosanna
(Lamont) Parker, the former a native of New York, and the latter of
Ohio.
Six children have been born of this union: Martha W., the wife of
Dennis Bull, a farmer of Lime Creek Township; Nellie G., at home; Charles W.,
deceased; one who died in infancy; Robert Parker and James Mack. Mrs. Griffith
was the mother of four children by her first husband, William Hayes: Susan
married Philip Whetstine; Lucy J., deceased; Wanton, deceased; Laura, the wife
of James Coffey.
In 1876, Mr. Griffith bought seventy-nine acres where he resides, and now
owns 244 acres, all under a fine state of cultivation, with all necessary out
buildings for a well-regulated farm. He came to Iowa with a cash capital of
about seventy-five cents, and, with that as a start, by his own industry and
good management, has accumulated an abundance with which to smooth his declining
years. He is now turning his attention to stock-raising, and has on hand some
fine specimens of the Norman and Clydesdale breeds of horse, together with
Short-horn and Red-Polled cattle. He has set out between seven and eight hundred
fruit and a number of shade trees on his farm. Mr. Griffith cast his first vote
for Harrison, and was an ardent supporter of the war measures. Socially, he is a
member of the A.F. & A.M., Dayton Lodge. Politically, he is independent, and
religiously, both Mr. and Mrs. Griffith are members of the Christian
Church.
http://www.fgs-project.com/arkansas/sheets/c/cochran-frank-delbert.txt
http://www.fgs-project.com/arkansas/sheets/c/coonfield-benjamin-wallace.txt
http://www.fgs-project.com/arkansas/sheets/c/coonfield-isaac-benjamin.txt
http://www.fgs-project.com/arkansas/sheets/l/little-john-wright.txt
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- Cleopatra (14 KB)FINDING A SECOND
REFERENCE TO OUR INDIAN PRINCESS...
Around 1900 cousin Laura Little,
daughter of Lucius Powhatan Little, ordered research on Cleopatra, from the
American Genealogical Society and was told that Cleopatra did not
exist.....yet the Littles still believed in their indian blood, connecting to
Powhatan, thus the name was passed on through other generations. Genealogists
now believe that Cleopatra did exist. Powhatan may have produced dozens of
children that are not in the archives.
- Old
Federal Road (16 KB)
Interesting article about the early settlers of
Montgomery
- Judge
Little (62 KB)
History of Muhlenburg
- Dr
Wanton Parker (51 KB)
Interesting article about the early settlers of
Iowa. Parker's daughter Mary had married James Miller and had our granny
Clora Jane Miller Cochran. The Parkers and Teffts had massive
history in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York Indian Country. Dr.
Parker was adventurous, making his way down into Ohio, then Michigan
Territory and on into Iowa Territory; they must have met many indian
tribes on this very long journey.
- Little (62
KB)
History of Muhlenburg
- Uncle
Anthony Thompson (2
KB)
Interesting article about the early settlers of
Kentucky
- Little
and Duval (136 KB)
History of Muhlenburg
- Little
and his history of Green River (51
KB)
History of Muhlenburg
- Mounds (123
KB)
History of Muhlenburg
- Douglass
Little (33 KB)
Brother of Hiram in the History of Muhlenburg
KY
Wesley
Little (218
KB)Brother of Hiram in the History of Muhlenburg KY
Frank Delbert Cochran and Clora Miller
Dorline Gray (59
KB)
another cousin researching our Powhatan connection and her
mother was also a Coonfield and it's been said that cousin Dorline had joined
the Pocahontas Club. Dorline corresponded with many researchers working this
lineage of Coonfield, Little, Wright and Weatherford. Her sister Velma
sent me copies and also cousin Martha Hawes in AZ sent me copies of the things
they all exchanged long before I began my study.
- I continued the study to the 1600s to include the many other marriages of
the branches of this family tree.
- http://www.genealogy.com/users/c/o/c/Lorena-Cochran/FILE/0002text.txt Coonfield
notes with Dorlines remarks on the bottom of this page!!!
- Jacob
Benjamin Cochran (18 KB)
A Western Pioneer! Some researchers think his
mother's line intermarried with native americans.
- census
Alexander Cochran (287 KB)
1920 Kansas, with Sarah, both from OHIO must be a
nephew of Jacob.
- Powhatan
Little (619 KB)
grandson of Jonas Little...does the name Lucius
appear often in this line? perhaps Jonas's ancestry has a Lucius in
it.
- Draft
Card Cochran (197 KB)
Benjamin Harrison Frank's uncle.
- 1860
census Wm Little (52
KB)
Saline Missouri He was Frank's Uncle.
- census
Coonfield (697 KB)
great great great great grandpa Isaac
Coonfield
- Draft
Card McClain (193 KB)
Great grandpa Charles Allen McClain was born
1886 and died 1949 in Montgomery Alabama
- 1800
census Charles McClain (19
KB)
Spartanburg SC a great great great grandfather to Frank's
wife.
- Michael
Stone in Tennessee (584
KB)
1840 census image
- 1860
census YOUNG (35 KB)
Boone, Harrison Indiana shows Martha Young as
a child. History of Indiana books online mention the names of many of
our family as they migrated into this territory in the 1820s.
- Civil
War registration Jacob B. Cochran (25
KB)
Great grandpa Jacob Benjamin Cochran - Interesting
document, shows his wife Clora Jane. He served in the Ohio Infantry.
Must take note that another Jacob Cochran also served and died, but that
may have been a cousin. It would seem that our Jacob was well traveled,
as his first wife Mariah died in Iowa, and Clora Jane was in Illinois.
But Clora and Jacob went back to Iowa and then on to Kanas as the very
first homesteaders of Graham KS.
- 1850
census John C Wright (25
KB)
Kentucky A Virginian, great great great grandfather to
Frank. John's daughter married Hiram Little in KY. John was married in
1811, to Catherine Weatherford, a daughter of Patsy and Charles
Weatherford.
- 1870
census Hiram Lucius Little and Rebecca (927
KB)
Texas - new family, 6 new children plus two more from
Kentucky - Brooks family nearby - Hiram's baby is named Brooks.....Hiram
was the son of Jonas Little and Betsy Douglass. Jonas had a brother
named John who went to Tennessee and then on to Texas so it is possible
that Hiram followed his Uncle John Little. Rebecca was born in Tennessee
and could be Hiram met her while visiting his Uncle John.
- census
1860 Young (776 KB)
complete image to see the neighbors and I
wonder who the parents were of Martha's mom. She was Minerva Evans of
Kentucky, probably native american, married to James Young of
Pennsylvania, and his brother George Young lived with them. Some of the
younger neighbors could be related.
- 1850
census Grandpa Hiram Little (46
KB)
moved to Texas was widowed and remarried Hiram was brother
to Douglass, James and Wesley. Hiram was a surgeon in the civil
war!
- 1820
census Charles McClain (29
KB)
South Carolina
- Frank's
parents (295 KB)
Clora Jane Miller married Frank D. Cochran as
also written in Milo's book. Many photos exist of the Millers with the
Cochrans and that is because when Clora's family left Iowa for Kansas,
several of her Millers came with the Cochrans. So as my daddy played
with Roy or Leroy, or Jack or Wesley, lets keep in mind that they were
indeed cousins.
- census
1840 Georgia McLain families (703
KB)
Josiah and his son J.W.McLain families are here in
1840
- James
and Wesley Little, brothers of Hiram (59
KB)
census image Frank's uncles. Kentucky history writes of
the murder of Wesley.
- 1860
census Jacob Cochran (66
KB)
California- Frank's grandfather spent some time in the
gold rush but came back with a sock full of dust and then went to
Iowa.
- Weatherford,
Martin (251 KB)
grandfather of Catherine Weatherford Wright,
he married a native american, and migrated into Georgia as he served in
the American Revolution, becamed widowed, remarried, led 300 Creeks into
battle, and also ventured back and forth to the Bahamas. Each wife named
a son Charles and the first one moved into Alabama while the other went
to the Bahamas.
- census
1860 GA Josiah McClain is 70 (586
KB)
with wife Ann on census image
- John
Abraham Little draft card (176
KB)
census image
- Michell
Stone from Maryland (16
KB)
Alabama census Michael of Maryland was a GGG grandfather
to Frank's wife.
- 1850
census Cochran from Ireland (749
KB)
Alexander is 86 and living with another family
- Civil
War registration Grandpa John Wright Little (29
KB)
Military registration
- 1870
census Douglas Little (29
KB)
Kentucky Frank's uncle spent his entire life in KY as a
wagon maker, had his own shop according to the KY history books, then a
lawyer and a Judge. Uncle Douglass is mentioned in several history books
of Kentucky and it's counties. His son L. P. was also a judge and an
author who assisted in some of that history writing. They truly put our
Little family on the map so to speak. Douglass took in many family
orphans as his family died off.
- 1850
census Cochran brothers living together (691
KB)
Alexander living with William
- census
1790 Peter Bozeman (50
KB)
South Carolina Born in Bladen County NC around 1755, he
served in the American Revolution and was captured at the Fall of
Charleston as was also George Little. Peter settled a few miles away on
a plantation in Darlington County SC along the PeeDee River by his
brother Jesse. Peter married Sarah Brown in 1786 according to the Evan
Pugh Diaries, and had 4 daughters on this census. The SC Archives has
many records on Peter.
- 1850
census Catherine Wright Little (17
KB)
Kentucky The lovely grandma Catherine G. Wright married in
1811. ( G. for Georgia? as most of the men in her family had settled
into Georgia about 1783...so this must be a clue to her father. )
- 1900
census Jacob Cochran (985
KB)
with family
- census
1840 Kentucky (547
KB)
Little
- Charley
Little (211 KB)
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Frank Delbert Cochran left Kansas and went
to Arkansas to look for work. There he met Luella Ellen
Coonfield and married in 1914. Her parents were Lattie
Cedonia Little of Shepherdsville Kentucky andBenjamin Wallace
Coonfield of Indiana.
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parents were Clora Jane Miller of Illinois and Jacob
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