My John McLean/McClain/McLain is a mystery man. He showed up in Barren Co. in time to marry Susan Jane Frank in 1836. Susan was d/o Peter Frank, one of the two brothers who were early settlers in Glasgow. They had a nail factory but reportedly it was too modern for the times so they became blacksmiths instead. I have many documents pertaining to their activities from Barren Co. records but very little on John McLean. >From the city council records of Glasgow, I know that he ran a grocery store. He also did street repair for the city, as there are several mentions in the council minutes of paying him for working on the streets. The 1840 Barren Co. census has two men in his household: one aged 20-29 and the other aged 30-39. I don’t know which is John. I am carrying him in my database as the one aged 20-29 but somehow I have a feeling he may be the older of the two men. If so, he was born 1800-1810. The council/trustees meeting of 7 January, 1847 is the last mention of him being alive. Susan Jane was head of household when the 1850 census was taken. I have the guardian bonds for when Wm. Frank was appointed guardian of all 4 of John’s children. The bonds were executed in 1856. Perhaps this is a clue to when Susan Jane died. I haven’t been able to locate graves for either John or Susan Jane, although her parents are in the older Glasgow cemetery. At any rate, sometime in the late 1850’s, Caroline and John T. “Jack” came to Burkesville to live with another uncle, Josiah P. Frank who was a saddler and who had moved to Burkesville. Josiah had married Amanda Williams and Caroline was courted by Amanda’s younger brother James Osborne Williams. They married in 1861. Capt. Jack McLean/McClain was a Civil War officer who committed suicide and is buried atop the Alpine Hill at Burkesville. Family lore says that Caroline’s sister Sarah Jane married a man named Rainbolt and settled in the midwest. Near the end of Caroline’s life, her youngest son Tildon “Dick” took Caroline to see her sister. Reportedly the visit didn’t go too well because although they were blood sisters, their lives had been spent apart and they had little in common. I never have found what happened to the younger son of the family, Joseph H. The last I found of him was the guardian bond in 1856. If anyone else is researching this family, I would love to hear from them.