Hi, Can anyone confirm that my great-great-grandfather William Henry McClelland (McLenon, McLindon, etc.) (born about 1835 in Edgefield County, SC) was the son of Taltern and Avery McLindon of Edgefield County? William moved to Bulloch County, GA and married Mahatible ("Hattie") Cone (1837-1909). They are buried in Old Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery in Bulloch County. Does anyone have photos of them? Thanks, Sharlotte http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly donnelly@one.net

The McClendon families of Edgefield (and elsewhere in SC) got spelled in many creative ways, as did the McClelland families of Abbeville (and elsewhere). I've never seen an example of one getting converted into the other, although I suppose that could have occurred--practically everything else did. It's still unlikely, and I'd be reluctant to believe that a McClendon could become a McClelland in the next generation unless there were some sort of documentation to show that this had happened at least once in ~1750-1850. Those are Highlander surnames, and clan families were pretty picky about which one they were. The MacLennons were a (small) independent clan from Kintail in the 13th century (first spelled Mac Gill'innan). The MacClellans were a sept of the larger MacNab clan of (perhaps) 9th-century origin. They were not related to MacLennons, and not necessarily on good terms with families of that name even as late as the 18th century. A spelling-change from one to the other would be extremely unusual. So unusual that you'd really need to locate-and-document "one case" in which it happened. I don't know of one, but am not familiar with Edgefield records after ~1820, or Abbeville records after ~1790. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donnelly" <donnelly@one.net> To: <SCEDGEFI-L@rootsweb.com>; <GABULLOC-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <CONE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 2:29 PM Subject: [SCEDGEFI] William Henry McClelland (McLenon, McLindon,etc.) of Edgefield Co., SC Hi, Can anyone confirm that my great-great-grandfather William Henry McClelland (McLenon, McLindon, etc.) (born about 1835 in Edgefield County, SC) was the son of Taltern and Avery McLindon of Edgefield County? William moved to Bulloch County, GA and married Mahatible ("Hattie") Cone (1837-1909). They are buried in Old Fellowship Baptist Church Cemetery in Bulloch County. Does anyone have photos of them? Thanks, Sharlotte http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/o/n/Sharlotte--N-Donnelly donnelly@one.net