This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/349.358.361.363.379.380.430.1 Message Board Post: my lineage of McClain goes directly back to the ISLE OF MANN. I have this line back to about 1310. will have to search my files for these names. my health is bad nd i have done very little work on this in 3 years, mail me direct and i will help you all i can. lee lkerbo@brightok.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/349.358.361.363.379.380.430 Message Board Post: I am looking for a Henry McClain b ca 1750 from Ireland, married to Sarah Smith. They had a son John b 1804 in NJ who was married to Catherine Knepp. Family lived adult lives in PA and most of John's children moved to MI. I cannot find Henry or Sarah, just the listing on John's death certificate from 1904. Could they be part of your family? Thanks, Angela

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain, Carpenter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/1062 Message Board Post: Looking for the family of John S McClain b. 1860 KY d. 1939 buried in Wellington, TX, and Flora E Carpenter b. 1867 GA d. 1941 buried in Wellington, TX. Had 7 children all born in AR, Alpha, Robert, Josie, Lila, Maudie, Sidney Malcom, and Claud C. Flora was the sister of my g-grandfather.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain, Pierson, Compton, Leverett Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/1061 Message Board Post: Maurice Leslie (Jack) McClain was born at Lampasas, Texas on January 11, 1915. His dad was born at Pleasant Valley, Texas and his mother came to Texas at the age of nine. Jack was still an infant when his mother returned to Pleasant Valley. Jack is the son of Major Leslie and Amy Lou Pierson McClain. Major Leslie was born at Pleasant Valley about 1885. Major Leslie was the son of Thomas Jackson and Sarah Compton McClain. Thomas was born on January 21, 1835 in Pennsylvania and Sarah was born on May 7, 1845 in Monroe County, Kentucky. Jack's mother was the daughter of Samuel and Martha Leverett Pierson. She was born October 15, 1889 at Brundage, Alabama. Jack's dad, Leslie was killed when a car came over the hill and hit him during an ice storm in 1947. Jack now lives on Pleasant Valley Road, just a few hundred feet from where the accident occurred. Jack says that his grandfather Samuel Pierson took sick with typhoid fever while in Alabama. His fever was so high that all his hair fell out. Then his mind got bad. About that time a peddler came thru selling fruit trees. When Martha told the peddler how Samuel's mind had gone bad, the peddler said, "Let him go with me for a few days and we'll see what happens." When they returned, he was just fine. Jack was seven years of age when he began attending the two room school located at Pleasant Valley. He says that he already knew how to read by that time. Jack began complaining about the strange method used for teaching reading after the second day of class. His mother ask if he had told the teacher that he already knew how to read. When Jack returned to class on the following day and told the teacher that he already knew how to read, he was placed in the second grade. The school was for grades one thru eleven. Schools didn't have a twelfth grade back then. Jack says he went to Garland for high school. "About the only way to school was on horse back or in a Model T Ford. J. C. Compton was older, so my dad let him drive us to school. We'd make it just fine except when the roads were muddy. When it got real cold, we'd crank on that ole Model T till me, J. C. and my whole family wore out." Jack's first Sunday school teacher was Sally Newman McCallum. She taught the "card class" at Pleasant Valley Methodist Church. The teacher would hold up a card and you were asked to memorize the golden text. Sunday school superintendent back then was Earnie McCallum. Then it was Pard Pelton for the next 32 years. Jack says that his dad used to tell him about the time back in 1897 when Gus Garrison was leading singing at the PV Methodist Church. There had been hard feelings between Gus and Frank Jones. Frank, along with his brother Tom, walked into the church. Gus shot Frank and wounded Tom in the leg. The wounded Tom then shot Gus. Both Gus and Frank died. Tom recovered, but walked with a limp. Jack said that his dad nearly rode that horse to death trying to get home that day. Jack's grandfather, Samuel Pierson, was operating the Pleasant Valley store when Jack was just a teenager working for Roach Feed in Garland, Texas. Jack says that he was making nine dollars a week. "I got tired of loading those hundred pound feed bags into the turtle shell of them Model A Fords." His grandfather's health was failing and Jack figured he could make just as much by running the store. And that's what he did for the next thirty years. Jack says, "Times was hard in those days. This was during the depression. People didn't have jobs. The banks were taking everybody's property---and their house. Crops were poor. Ginned cotton wasn't but a nickel a pound. You could have all the cotton you wanted and it still wouldn't be any money." "Then they opened up the WPA and several from around the area got work. They made three dollars a day. Three days a week is all they were allowed to work though. Part of their pay was in coupons which was good for vegetables, fruit and the like. Some of 'em wouldn't have made it without the WPA." "The only way we made it was because Garland Creamery opened up. We had several milk cows and collected the cream. My job was to run the hand-operated milk separator. Then twice a week we were off to the creamery selling cream. That's the only reason we were able to provide for ourselves." "I grew up in Pleasant Valley, went to school in Pleasant Valley, and worked in Pleasant Valley just about all my life. I ran the store there for thirty years and now I'm selling used farm equipment on that same corner. Yes Sir, I"ve made a living on that same corner for sixty-six years. Pleasant Valley sure has been good to me."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/954.2 Message Board Post: Philip Bailey McClain was in Marion County in 1850, not sure where he was in 1840. He was father to my great-great-grandfather William Jackson McClain who crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Lone, McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/826.1.3 Message Board Post: I am related to a Matilda McClain who was married to Charles O'Lone - she was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Jan., 1905 so it must be the same Matilda McClain. I found her listed under Charles O'Lone in the 1881 British census and in the 1900 US Census. Her mother's name is also Matilda McClain, but I don't know her father's name. She was born in Ireland but I have conflicting information as to where (Derry or County Antrim, Ireland). Any additional information about her or her ancestors would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Lone, McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/826.1.2 Message Board Post: I am related to a Matilda McClain who was married to Charles O'Lone - she was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Jan., 1905 so it must be the same Matilda McClain. I found her listed under Charles O'Lone in the 1881 British census and in the 1900 US Census. Her mother's name is also Matilda McClain, but I don't know her father's name. She was born in Ireland but I have conflicting information as to where (Derry or County Antrim, Ireland). Any additional information about her or her ancestors would be appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain, McLeane, McLean, McLaine, McLain, McClaine Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1042 Message Board Post: Born abt 1800 NC, Married Isabella Elizabeth (Isabel) (abt 1806 NC), abt 1820 Kentucky. There first 4 children were born in KY, Rachel M (1821), William H (1823), Adison (1825), Mary (22 March 1827). After March 1827 & before January 1830, Charles moved his family to Taney Co, MO, later to become Stone Co, MO. Their last 2 children, Elizabeth (5 Jan 1830) and Joseph (1833, Stone Co.,MO) were born. After this I can’t find any mention on Charles again. I can’t find them on any of the cenus to date either under the name McClain. I know Isabella remarried William Gilmore Goff on Aug 9, 1840 in Green Co., MO & had 3 more children with him, Sarah Samantha, William George & John Wesley. So Charles had to have died before 1840. I have been looking just for the McClain name so far because on Isabella’s marriage cert to William Gilmore , it has her listed as Isabella McClain & on all the census that I have found her & Charles children it has them as McClain. But I am wondering if the name didn’t start out as McLean, McLain, McLaine, McLeane instead & was converted to McClain later. I got the birth info from Edith Woodard several years ago but haven’t been able to contact her since to find out where she obtained Charles birth abt 1806 in NC. I am now wondering if he couldn’t have been born in SC or KY ? Does any of this come close to anyones Charles in their family? Whether it be McClain, McLean, McLeane or McLain? If anyone can help shed some light on Charles or even where the McClain name came from would be very helpful. Thank you Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain,Gammill,Martin,Vermillion Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1041 Message Board Post: I work with indigenous people groups in the U.S., Oceania, and New Zealand.It is of great advantage to me in my work to be able to talk about my geneology in detail.Can anyone help me go farther back than my g,g,g, grandparents Manuel McClain & Hester Gammill or John Martin & Amanda Vermillion ? I think they all lived in Hardin Co.,Tenn in the 1800s. Bryan McClain

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain or McLain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/1040 Message Board Post: Does anyone have any info on John McClain from Lexington, KY? Married Mary Van Cleve. I need to know who his parents were and any other ancestrail info on him. I have his descendants. I one of them. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Thank you so much. This was a great suprise. I am so excited. My grandmother was over joyed about this. Thank you again. Mandi

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murdock, McLain, McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Mani, Have you been receive all the census images that I have sent you? Let me know if it is not working. I'm hoping that I have read your email address correctly . . . the way they are shown here makes them hard to read, but that's for our protection so the addresses can't be mined by scammers. I've even found your Annie Murdock with her family and even with her grandmother Eliza living in the household in 1900 before she married John Henry. He is living in another household as a boarder in 1900 in Anderson, Martin, SC.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLain, McClain, McLane, Murdock, Mardoch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Mandi, I found many more McLAIN families as well as MURDOCK families in Abbeville, Due West twp . . . and other townships too. Literally everybody mention, as well as their parents, are from South Carolina. Backing up: the source files for John Henry if you want to look at the microfilm is: Roll T625_1682, pg. 13B, ED 12, Image 320 for 1920 census, Abbeville, Due West twp, SC. I also find in Abbeville, Due West, SC: Roll T625_1682, pg. 8A, ED12 McLAIN, John W. age 50 (or is it 58?) farmer gen. farm. wife: Mattie C. age 57 Adopted son, Henry Albert age 12 (could be son of a deceased brother, sister, etc. as happened in my McLain family in AR) 1920 Abbeville, Due West, SC Family and house 36 McLAIN, Robert E., age 47, farmer gen. farm wife Eugenia D. age 39 neighbors: Ashley, Camps, Campbell and Ellis 1920 Abbeville, Due West, SC Roll T625_1682, pg. 7A, ED 12, Image 307 Family and house 122 McLAIN, Samuel D. age 47 (b about 1873) farmer gen. farm wife Fannie E. age 43 Children: Lula E daughter 23 single; John A son 21, single; William A. son 20 single; Cora J. daughter 18 single; James H. son 15 single; Myrtie I (or J) daughter 12 single; David W. son 10; Benjamine T. son 8; Samuel A. son 4 yr. 6 ms.; and Ruby O. daughter 1 yr. 4 mos. 1920 Abbeville, Due West, SC T625_1682, gp. 5B, ED12, Image 304 Family and house #93 McLAIN, William E., age 40, b about 1880, farmer gen. farm wife Kara (?Kora) age 32 daughter Grace E. age 10 few houses away is the below MURDOCK family . . . James A. MURDOCK, age 42 wife Minnie age 35 Children: daughter Jessie age 16 Mabel age 14 Alma, daughter 11 Lawton son 9 Charley C. son 7 James A. son 5 Next family: John A. MURDOCK, age 56 wife Annie B. age 44 Children: Grace M. 18 Beatrice C. 16 Clarice I. 14 Rama U., a daughter age 13 Annie M. age 9 Margie M. age 6 Calvin C. 4 yr. 8 mos. John M. age 3 1/2 McCLAIN spellings . . .Abbeville, Due West twp, SC, 1920 Williamson McCLAIN, 62, b about 1858 SC farmer gen. farm. T625_1682, pg. 12B, ED 13, Image 348 wife Euginia age 54 Children: son Leo, age 27 single Olive, daughter, 18, teacher in a public school Katie age 16 Sam J. McCLAIN, age 48, b about 1872 T625_1682, pg. 9B, ED 13, Image 342 Wife ?Alena age 47 Children: William 19 Annie Lou 17 Harvey 12 Helen 9 S.L. son age 2 McLANE spelling, Abbeville, Abbeville twp, SC T625_1682, pg. 4A, ED 4, Image 93 Foster B. McLANE, a jailor by occupation age 45, b about 1875 There are 4 Murdock households: The 2 above I gave you and also: just below John Henry and Annie is . . . MURDOCK, Calvin, b about 1880, age 40 wife Eula B. age 36 Laura E. MURDOCK, age 78, widow, SC is in the household of: James R. TUCKER, age 67 and wife Elizabeth D. age 59. Laura is the mother in law of James, so is the mother of Elizabeth D. Children: Jimmie J. daughter, age 23 and there is another MURDOCK indexed as MARDOCH but I think it does say Murdock--in Abbeville, Diamond Hill twp, Dist 8. John D. MARDOCH / MURDOCK, age 70 and wife Lula age 58 . . . all SC ------------------------ The other researcher who responded here is also researching lines in Abbeville . . . and has found John Henry and Annie in earlier years and what seems to be John Henry in 1880 at age 2 in what might be his parent's household. And also says there is a World Connect tree with the family . . . that is a free search at Rootsweb . . . so I'll take a look and you can also look at it. Now that we have located them, do you need me to get the data from earlier census? I don't mind as long as I have time, but if you have the online subscriptions and can look for yourself, just let me know. Audrey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Luther Ross's father, John Henry, b ca 1878, may be this two-year-old John H. "McLain" in Anderson Co SC in 1880. 1880 CENSUS (LDS transcription), p 158B Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina (borders Abbeville Co) John B. R. MCLAIN Self M Male W 22 SC Farmer SC SC Nancy A. MCLAIN Wife M Female W 20 SC Keeping House SC SC (Nancy was sometimes a nickname for Ann.) John H. MCLAIN Son S Male W 2 SC SC SC Joberry MCLAIN Son S Male W 1M SC SC SC Richard N. MCLAIN Brother S Male W 10 SC Farm Laborer SC SC ==================================== Query at the McClain Family Genealogy Forum: http://genforum.genealogy.com/mcclain/messages/1088.html john and rebecca mcclain Posted by: kathy Fleming Date: January 04, 2000 Looking for a john McClain that married a rebecca (betsy) Robinson. they had a son named John Barr Robinson Mcclain born 4 august 1857 died 26 sept. 1928 who married an annie Davis from sandy springs s,c. both john mcclains were proably born around abbeville county s. c. any imformation would be appreciated. thanks, Kathy Fleming. ========================================= This submission to the WorldConnect Project deals with this family: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=sandrahunter1&id=I130419 Spirit Walking Updated: 2005-06-17 Contact: Sandra Selph-Hunter, Spiritwalker =========================================

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLAIN, McCLAIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Mandi, I found your John Henry and Annie and son Ross, daughter (spelling?) Mearl on the 1920 census! So exciting to get a hit right away! 1920, Jan. 19 South Carolina, Abbeville, Due West, District 12 Family and house # 248 McLAIN, John H. head, male, white, age 42, married McLAIN, Annie, wife, female, white, age 36, married McLAIN, Ross, son, male, white, age 18, single McLAIN, Mearl, daughter, female, white, age 8, single John Henry is a farmer on a general farm. Some of the neighbors are COOLEY, FISHER, DAVIS, RICKETS. John Henry, wife and children were born in South Carolina, and also John and Annie's parents were born in South Carolina. I'll see if I can find them now on the 1910 and 1900 and earlier census as they most surely were in South Carolina---probably not popping on a search because of different name spellings . . . then perhaps I can find them also on the 1930 census. Also, it appears the son was using Ross as a given name. If they have their ages about right, John Henry would have been born + or - about 1878 in SC. Annie would have been born about 1884 (and you say her surname was MURDOCK--so, depending on spellings, maybe I can find her nearby the McLAIN / McCLAIN family) I am hoping that I can track backwards and find John Henry with HIS parents on a South Carolina census, as well as hers perhaps. "Luther" Ross was the oldest at age 18 in 1920, so born about 1902 SC, and Merle / Mearl was the youngest at age 8 in 1920, so born about 1912 SC. Audrey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Audrey, I am just starting this search. My great grand father Luther Ross McClain was born in the area of Anderson and Belton SC. I don't know where John Herny was born or Annie. Merle was born in the same area as Luther. Merle was born in 1910. Luther was born after her. They lived in the Abbville, Anderson, Belton, and Honea Path area of SC. Thanks for the advice Mandi

Thank you for responding to my e-mail. There are so many John McClains that one could call them common. The John I wrote about was born in MD in 1712. His mother and father, Margaret and John, came to Maryland in 1711 or perhaps 1710. He died in MD. The John and Margaret of Hoke Co came to NC from Scotland around 1746. Thanks for the comment. Garry Brown gsbrown4@yahoo.com Albuquerque, NM