This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McLain, McClain, McClean, etc., Agee, Andrews, Anders, Cooper Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/1031.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Mandi, Even though I don't find South Carolina mentioned anywhere in my McLain line births (on census rolls) . . . I am still curious about your John Henry. Do you know for sure he was from South Carolina . . . or might your family lore be fuzzy in some places . . . like most of our family lilnes. Do you suppose he could he possibly have been born in TN around 1835-1837 with parents from North Carolina? My John Henry McLain was born about 1835-37 in TN to Charles and Perlina (sp?) Unknown . . . who had 4 children that I have found . . . all born in TN. Christianna about 1830, David about 1834, John Henry, and Squire or Esquire, Nov. 1842. By 1850 this family is in Lawrence Co., AR, Strawberry township, and in 1853, Charles and Perlina had another son . . . William California. John Henry is my g-g grandfather. He married Sarah Catherine Agee 1857 in Lawrence Co. (daughter of William Agee and Lenah / Leannah Harvey) . . . and their son William David McLain and his 2nd wife Clara Cooper are my great grandparents. The father Charles McLain died 1869 in Lawrence Co., AR. He was born about 1804-1809 in Illinois (with possible parents from NC who migrated through KY, IL to TN). The son John Henry died 1880 in Lawrence Co. I have the loose probate records on both of them. I also have the loose probate records on William Agee, father of John Henry's wife Sarah Catherine. Wm. Agee died 1862 leaving Leannah as his widow and she chose Charles McLain as one of her appraisers of Wm.'s estate. This family that I have found stayed in the area of Lawrence County, Campbell township...Cache township . . . Black River . . .for many years. However, as time passed the kids moved of course. William David roamed into Indiana about age 18 or so and brought home to Lawrence County his 1st wife Cordelia Mosier. He worked in the lumber / sawmills in that area as well as up in Willow Spring, Howell Co., Missouri (found an 1886 birth record there for a child born to him and Cordelia) . . . and he worked in Monroe County, ARK . . . where he likely met another of my family lines (Andrews / Anders and Cooper). After his 1st wife Cordelia Mosier died 1897, Wm. David married my great grandmother Clara Cooper in 1898. He and Cordelia were already living in Newport area of Jackson County, AR at that time I am pretty sure, and that is where he and Clara made their home. My grandmother and my mother were born in Newport, Ark. Others in the line of Charles McLain (if they are as I think related to Charles and a George of Weakley co., TN) also moved from TN into various counties Arkansas and also Missouri . . . I'm in touch with other researchers on this line, trying to make the connections. So that is my McLain line in a nutshell. I would love to hear anything more that you know about your ggg aunt and her father John Henry's line . . . never know where hidden clues might be found . . .