This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MacElyea Brogden Evans Hudson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4gC.2ACE/959 Message Board Post: I am searching for data on the following: Clayburn Brogden born in AL 1828, and spouse Mary Ann Ryan John MacElyea, born 1776 in Virginia, Tennessee, or North Carolina. John MacElyea, descendant of the above, born around 1859?. Missouri Jane (Brogden) MacElyea and later Evans, born March 1865 in Athens, AL or Jackson Co., AL., and married to John MacElyea (above). Ida Maude (MacElyea) Hudson, born 1882. Oida Beatrice (Hudson) Hollis, born 1908, Bivens, TX, Cass Co. In 1880, John & Missouri Jane were in Limestone Co., AL., had two sons, Ruben E. (2 yrs.), and Joseph Oscar (4/12's year) [Missouri Jane was 22 & John was 28]. On the same acreage, but in a different house, lived Missouri Jane's mother Mary Ann (Ryan) (Brogden) McDaniel and her husband JW McDaniel, and children James Brogden (18), John (16), Charles (12). Mary Ann was evidently 13 years older than Mr. McDaniel. After Mr. MacElyea died, Missouri Jane's farm was confiscated by either the State of Alabama or the town of Twickenham. She left Alabama with her children, married Mr. Frank Evans, and lived the rest of her days in Henderson, TX. She is buried on a prairie near Henderson. Her daughter, Ida Maude MacElyea, Married Mr. Louis Richard Hudson from Ireland. They had several children, the youngest one, and last surviving sibling at the age of 95, is Ouida Beatrice (Hudson) Hollis. The MacElyea's are thought to be Cherokee or Choctaw, and the Brogdens are supposed to be Choctaw. I have found Thomas C. MacELyea #40584 in Tennessee, Charlotte Brogden #31181 in Tennessee, Lilly AF Brogdon #2260 in Georgia, on the Eastern Cherokee Roll of 1909. Thank you for your help.