This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCann, Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QOz.2ACEB/751.9.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi again, Jan, The source for my information was, as I wrote earlier, simply a notebook in the Hacker's Creek [Pioneer Descendants] Library. This is a very active gen. society with a good library of their own. They cover many of the northwestern counties in WV. This McCan/McCann family had settled in Lewis Co., WV which was a part of Harrison County, if I recall correctly, and earlier a larger Monongalia Co. and before that Augusta Co. The early records are very sketchy. According to my calculations, this Patrick was my ggg grandfather's second cousin, assuming that all our speculations are correct. No, I have not located the children of this Patirck but I'm assuming that those who married into the Smith family were all his children since Patrick is the only McCan/McCann I've found in Roane County at that time. That's why I tried finding him in the 1870 census but was unsuccessful. Perhaps someone who descends from this branch will read your inquiry and respond with the details. R! egards, Jane