I am pasting an exerpt from a letter I received about the Morris' and Mckinley's...Does anyone recognize any of the names?? TIA...Deanie ken Ross, wrote: "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. I know about some of the McKinleys, but there are large gaps in the record, as is the case with the Morrises."