I AM LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON MY GG-GRANDFATHER JOHN GALE MERRELL B. 1830 MAYBE IN CALLOWAY COUNTY BUT MAYBE NOT? HE FIRST MARRIED PRESSA MCKINNEY WHO WAS FROM TENNESSEE AND FATHERED A SON NAMED JOHN B. MERRELL. 1850 CENSUS OF CALLOWAY CO. HAS HIM MARRIED TO PRESSA AND A FEMALE CHILD LOUSIA. HE LATER MARRIED PRESSA'S SISTER IN 1862 IN TENNESSEE NEAR PARIS OR OLD 23 DISTRICT AFTER PRESSA DIED IN 1860. THE SECOND WIFE WAS MARY FRANCES "FRANKIE" WHO WAS A WIDOW OF JOHN GALE'S BROTHER AND HER FIRST SON WAS NAMED JOHN CALVIN MERRELL BUT FRANKIE SPELLED HER NAME MERRILL. JOHN GALE AND FRANKIE HAD MANY CHILDREN AND ABOUT SOMETIME AFTER 1880 HE HAD A SUN STROKE AND WAS PUT IN A REST HOME AND NO RECORD SO FAR OF HIS TIME OF DEATH. PLEASE CAN ANYONE TELL ME ANY INFORMATION ON THE MCKINNEY'S OR THE MERRELL'S ??? E-MAIL TO NATHAN MERRELL AT sierra@planetc.com THANK YOU NATHAN