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/JeB.2ACI/33.1 Message Board Post: I have the history you may need. I can trace it back to the father of Thomas. I think your date of death is that of the 5th child of John & Mary (Dudley) McKendree. Thomas was the 6th child. Born 1767 and Thomas died October 1830. So many people were simply buried by a river and markers disappear with time. Thomas was and Overseer for the Ball family, located north of Charleston, up the Cooper River, on the West Branch, after the river branches in two directions. This is a possibility. My great aunt doing the McKendree history took a route through Monck's Corner, they "...wound our way over the canals and branches to the bridge that crossed over the West Branch and headed South between the two branches, the road meandered close to the West Branch....came to a little river settlement near Strawberry Chapel and came about the ruins of the Biggin Church..." His oldest brother, Bishop William McKendree, preached at one of the oldest churches in South Carolina, Biggin Chu! rch in Berkeley. Please contact me at eileen9557@aol.com for further info.