This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain, Wiley, Cruthers, Hanner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3kz.2ACIB/1016 Message Board Post: I am writing to about a name correction and to establish parents od David Wiley and Exodus McClain. David Wiley was my 2nd Great grandfather. He was married to Exodus McClain 8 Feb 1827 in Guilford Co, NC. The family migrated first to Ware, Jefferson Co, MO and then to Middlebrook, St Francois Co, MO. The 1850 census shows her name to be Axa, 1860 census as Axie, 1870 as Axy. A daughter, Mary Ellen (Wiley) Durner's death certificate gives the true and actual name of her mother as Exodus McClain. A son, F M Wiley, my great grandfather had a child named after his mother, giving the child a name of Axa Wiley, who died in infancy and is buried at Sunlight, Washington Co., MO in the Wiley family plott. In the middle 70's, seeing that in printed versions of the Guilford Co marriages the error of "Ana" McClain rather than the nick name of "Axa", I wrote to the county and requested a copy of the marriage record. The handwritting was such it would have been easy to mistake and record my 2nd Great Grandmother's name as Ana rather than what she was know by as Axa, Axy, Axie, and Exodus McClain. I am looking to establish the parents of David Wiley and Exodus (Axa, Axy, Axie, Ana) McClain. The marriage record in question reads..... Married: 8 Feb 1827 in Guilford Co., NC WILEY, David x Ana McCLAIN 8 Feb 1827 m. 8 FEb 1827 by Rev E. W. CARUTHERS , bondsman Hugh Wiley, witness Jno. G. HANNER. Sincerely Linn L Wiley