This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLain, McClain, McClean, McLane, Agee, Smith, Hardin, Mullins/ Mullens, Fry and Mead, Fletcher. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031 Message Board Post: Looking for info on McLain, McClain, McClane, McClean, etc. family line, living for many years in Lawrence County, AR. A line thought to be from ? to NC>IL>KY>TN>AR. I first find the possibly in Weakley County, TN, then in Arkansas. In Arkansas the line is from Charles (1805-09 IL) and Perlina McLain that settled before 1850 in Lawrence County: Children--Christianna 1831, David 1834, John Henry 1835-37, Esquire (or Squire) Feb. 1842 TN --all these children born in TN, and then William California b 1853 in AR. Marriages of the children were to: Agee, Smith, Hardin, Mullins/ Mullens, Fry and Mead, and there are ties to Fletcher. I am on John Henry's line, but I'm trying to track his brother Squire's line. Squire married a Malinda (Melinda ?) Caroline Hardin and one of their sons was James D., b 1867, who married Lizzie Unknown, b about 1878 TN. All Squire's children were born in Arkansas--Craighead or lawrence Co. area, also lived in Black River . . .but one daughter Serilda (?spelling) was born in Missouri. Squire and a ?Ethelinda last appear on the 1900 census in lawrence Co., Lawrence township with another daughter Bernice---and they live next door to their son James D. and Lizzie Unknown. James D. and Lizzie had two sons----James D., b about 1889, and Joseph, born about 1899 in Lawrence County. (I might have found the son James D. on the 1930 census---see below). I last found this above family as McCLEAN on the 1900 census Roll: T623 64; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 70.Lawrence Co, ARK. They were living next door to the father Squire McClean and wife Malinda Caroline (Hardin)---but her name appears as something like "Ethelinda, or E. Melinda" . . . I might have found the junior James D. (b about 1889-1890) on the 1930 census in Star City, Lincoln County, Ark, with a wife Amanda L. and a daughter Shrilda (perhaps Serilda) which is a name used before in my McLain family---by James D's grandfather Squire. The 1930 census record: James D. McLain, head, Male, w, age 39, married age 25, AR,AR,AR, Operator, Fertilizer Plant Wife Amanda L., age 37, marr age 23, AR,AR,AR Shrilda M. daughter (similar to Serilda daughter of Squire who was James D's grandfather) Shrilda age 8, single, AR,AR,AR I'm hoping somebody can tell me about this family on the 1930 census---- Audrey Williams Stanaland