This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gordon/McMillan/Belser/Claunch/Turner/Kennedy Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/887 Message Board Post: I am posting here with hopes others might add additionsl info. > >Thomas James McMillian/McMillan Sr. b. 1804 Scot (came to America in 1820 on Ship Jane at age 16 to Camden SC) m. 1830 in Camden Louisa Rogers Ray (dau of Capt Peter Ray and Mary Flint) moved 1832/4 to Mobile AL which is where he died in 1878. They are both buried at the Springhill Cemetery in Mobile. He had 10 children with Louisa >1. Mary Elizabeth b. 1831 d. 1856 m. Charles Bridges >2. Thomas James Jr d. 1920 m. Rowena Carey >3. John Blair d. 1885 m. Elizabeth Douglas >4. Martha Ray m. C Flectwood Westfeldt >5. Louisa Rogers >6. Robert m. Nannie Mayo? >7. Emma Ray m. Chauncey Drummond >8. Ellen "Nellie" Marion b. 27 Nov 1847 d. 5 Apr 1931 m. 27 Apr 1870 William Elliot Gordon Sr >9. William Blair m. Fannie Howard >10. Henry Blair b. 1861 m. Clara Richards Thomas was an Elder at the Government St Presbyterian Church in Mobile. Was also in the Cotton business with his home in the Springhill area. His brother-in-law, John<>James Blair, was his neighbor and good friend. That is why many of his children had the Blair middle name and same in the Blair children being McMillan. >After death of Louisa m. Elizabeth James of Scotland and had another daughter Elizabeth that m. Chauncey Drummond, husband of deceased half sister, Emma Ray. >The senoir Thomas had two brothers that came from Scot a few years after his arrival and stayed with Thomas in Camden before moving elsewhere. One was Anthony, I believe went to Boise Idaho and David that went first to Knoxville TN then to Wilcox Co AL (leaving a son Thomas B. in Knoxville). It could be that Thomas married a Fanny Anderson in Knoxville, but have not proved as of yet. Thomas' parents were Robert McMillian and Elizabeth Kennedy of Scotland. Several of Thomas' Kennedy cousins also came to Camden. Two married in to the Dobey family (sisters). Not sure if any removed to Mobile with him. > >If anyone has additional info on this family, please email me at southerncomfort1@msn.com > >Mary Gordon Smith