A. Deacon Smith Glad to hear from you. Nothing leaps out as a connection with my MCCONNELL's. My ancestor Thomas MCCONNELL, came to Pendelton District in 1823 from Newberry District. At some point in the 1830's and 1840's, they bought land in the Concord and Hopewell areas of Anderson County. A second William MCCONNELL family I am aware of come from Newberry in the early 1800's to Savannah Twp. These families are not descendant from the same family as far as I know, but did intermarry in one instance. Members of both families moved into northeastern Georgia. This is interesting, in that I had not identified another MCCONNELL family in Anderson in the 1830's Jim McConnell