This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLain, McClain, Agee, Hardin, Mullen, Mullins, Fletcher, Harmon, Riley, Fry, Smith, Tewell, Tuel, Cissel, Cecil, Mosier Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.arkansas.counties.independence/474.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please tell me about your McLAIN line ...from your most distant McLAIN ancestor. My most distant known McLAIN was my gggg grandfather Charles b about 1785 (?) and wife Elizabeth Unknown. We know he was in Gallatin IL prior to coming to Tennessee, we suspect he (or some of his family line) were in VA and KY prior to TN. He and a son Charles (my ggg grandfather) were signers on a Legislative Petition to State of TN to establish Weakley Co TN from Henry Co TN in 1823. Other given names in the line in West TN were John, James, Allen, Newburn (Nuborn, etc), Joseph, William. My ggg grandfather Charles came to Lawrence Co AR prior to the 1850 census, but on his brother John's line, some descendants went to Independence County, and also on descendants on John's line, some were in western AR and then OK. So the line was large and scattered to several locations not long after the death of the senior Charles in TN. Several of us researching are participating in the Clan MacLEAN DNA project at FamilyTree DNA and have proven our links with the Weakley County TN line ...but that is as far back as we can yet prove ...with the exception that we know they were in Gallatin IL ..where it is likley my ggg grandfather was birb *the son Charles (Jr) of Charles (Sr) Some personal notes and family lore place them in Ky ...or at least brothers, uncles and cousins ...and probably also in VA. Just no proof yet. Charles Jr b about 1808-09 IL was mar. to Perlina A. UNKNOWN (Polina A.) b about 1811 TN. She died 1860 Lawrence Co AR. In 1866 he remarried Sarah Harmon Fry Riley in Lawrence Co and when he died 1869 she is named in the Loose Probate Records ...as is his daughter in law Susan E. MULLEN/ MULLINS who had by then remarried Wm. H. FLETCHER as her husband David W. McLANE (McLAIN) had died prior to 1855. Also, 2 people in my line married people from Loogootee area of INdiana ...married a MOSIER and a TEWELL with ties to CISSELL / CISSEL / CECIL line. TEWELL various spellings ranging from TUll to TUEL, etc. Also SHARUM / SCHRUM / SHEARUM figure in these lines ...all from Kentucky prior to coming to around Martin / Loogootee Indiana. Hope to hear from you. Audrey in East TN