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/920 Message Board Post: John McClain b: Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky d: 2Sep 1826 w: Mary Vancleve m: 1804, June Lexington, Ky ch: Catherine, Mary, Margaret Vancleve, Benjamin Vancleve, Sarah Jane, Jerome H., John Jerome H. McClain b: 5 Jan 1824 in Ohio d: 2 Sep 1911 in Cass county, Indiana w: Caroline Holley m: 23 May 1847 in Logansport, Cass county, Indiana ch: Frank, Sarah Emma, Dowell, Margaret C., Doc, Noah, Benjamin Franklin, Pulaski O., Grandville Milton, Mary Etta Benjamin Franklin McClain b: 30 May 1845 near Dayton Ohio d: 30 Aug 1925 in Kokomo, Howard county, Indiana w: Elizabeth Margaret Scott m: 15 Sep 1868 in Logansport, Cass county, Indiana ch: Zetta May, Sarah Emma, Pearl Ada, Melven, Jerome, Enos Ellsworth, John Burton, Marvin V., Etta Belle, George Oscar, Owen Eli I have info. on a good part of the children listed. If anyone has any info. on this McClain line, or any line linked to it, please drop me a line. Richard Bentley ravenhawk66@yahoo.com

Does anyone know the origins of the name McClain/McLain/Mclean? Do you know what country it came from and what it means? Thanks Glitz