Freda, I haven't a clue who this Benjamin Bonner is. I will contact ken and see what he can tell me. Will post when I find out more. This is all I have on Benjamin Bonner. Maybe someone else on the list may know. Deanie "The first McKinley in the county, as far as I've been able to determine, was old Isham McKinley, born about 1785 in GA. He brought his large family there around 1820 or before, because I've seen his name in connection with land grant applications around Fountain in the early 1820s. One of his sons was Jackson McKinley, my g-g-grandfather. After Jackson McKinley married Linnie Bonner (daughter of Benjamin Bonner) in 1842, all of the McKinleys seem to have relocated to the Franklin area, where they remained."