This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Raiford, Canon, Shaw, McFayden, Mahon Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HKB.2ACI/1603.3.2 Message Board Post: Hank I'm descended from Moses Harvey Moore and Ann Alexander of Mecklenburg County, NC. Their daughter, Mary Scott "Polly" Moore married John Canon, Jr. who immigrated to Marshall County in about 1840 after Polly died. He made the seven week trip in what has been called the "Exodus" with his sons Moses Harvey Moore Canon and Alfred Orville Canon. Their daughter Abigail Canon, b. 1786 d. 5/5/1862, was married to Cyrus Alexander. They came to Marashall County at about the same time, possibility with John Canon, Jr. She is buried near Byhalia according to Barton Williams in hhis book on the history of Byhalia. The Canons have a long-lasting relationship with the Alexanders beginning in the early 1700s in Pennsylvania abd continuing during their migrations through Maryland, North Carolina, and Mississippi. There have been many marriages between the two families and quite a few of them came to Mississippi and Tennessee in the 1840s when their land in North Carolina were worn out from years of tobacco crops. I have been in contact with a few Canon/Alexander descendants and can put you in contact with them. A couple of them, both of whose ancestors came throught the Marshall County-Tennessee area and on to Texas have pretty extensive databases.