This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Grammar, McClendon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SS.2ADE/13.1.2.1 Message Board Post: John! Thank you so much for looking. Actually my great grandmother, Mary Belle, is located in Tennessee in the 1880 census: 1880 US Federal Census, Tennessee, Giles County, District 16, page 317 C. N.C. Grammar, Head, M, W, M, 36, AL, TN, TN, Farmer. Martha Grammar, Wife, F, W, M, 34, AL, TN, TN, Keeping House. Bell Grammar, Daughter, F, W, S, 5, TN, ---, TN The only incorrect thing I see here is that Martha's father was actually born in Georgia not Tennessee. According to family lore, Newell and Martha were on their way from Marshall County, Alabama, to live in Tennessee when they came across a man who had several children. Newell and Martha expressed interest in a little red-headed girl who was about 3 years old and the little girl's father said that Newell and Martha should take her since her mother had died anyway. Granny Belle always said her birthday was Jan 1, 1875, but I believe this is just an estimation. It would have been around 1878 when Newell and Martha took her in. Granny Belle also always claimed to have been born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and that that was where her real parents were from. There were a couple McClendon families in Marshall County, Alabama, but I think the McClendons that we are looking for would have been in Tennessee.