Hello! My name is Cathy McAdoo Wilheim. I am new to your list and wanted to introduce myself. I search more names than I can list here, but McAdoo is the one most near and dear to my heart. I can prove my descent from Barnett McAdoo, who was born in 1777, lived in Dickson County from just before 1800 to after 1810, at which time he moved to Carroll County, Tennessee, where he put down roots. He died in January 1858. I apologize for being so vague on the dates. I am writing from my parents' home, where I will be staying for the next week or so while I help my parents deal with a health crisis, and I don't have my records with me. Barnett and his wife, Frances Murphree, had 12 children that we are certain of, because the court case to partition Barnett's estate names 11 of them, and another, James G. McAdoo (1809-1824), is buried in the McAdoo Cemetery in Carroll County -- and his gravestone is still readable. Barnett appears to have had another son, Barnett Alexander McAdoo, who continued to live in Dickson County after Barnett and most of his other children moved to Carroll County. I believe that Barnett Alexander was the son of an unknown first wife (although B.A. might have been illegitimate). Barnett's oldest proven son, William McAdoo, also stayed in Dickson County. I have made contact with several searchers in Barnett Alexander's line, but I have no contact to William McAdoo's line, and I would like one. After Barnett, my line runs thus: Levi Pinkney 'Pink' McAdoo (~1811-1867), who was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister and moved with the family of Benjamin and Hannah Moore Harper to southwestern Missouri about 1830, where he married the Harpers' daughter Minerva Ellen and raised a large family, among them Andrew Jackson 'Jack' McAdoo (1837-1913), who spent most of his life in Laclede County, Missouri, where he married Martha Catherine Clinkingbeard and also raised a large (14 births, 11 survived to marry, 10 to have children that we know of), among them Joel Alexander 'Joe' McAdoo (1860-1919), who married Rachel Amy Bragg and farmed in Douglas County, Missouri, before deserting his family and roaming the country, until he was hit by a train while driving a team of horses across a country crossing. His oldest son was Clarence McAdoo (1889-1963), who raised his seven younger brothers and sisters before enlisting in World War I, after which he married Zella Maude 'Maude' Babcock. They wanted to have a numerous family, but only two children were born alive. One, a girl, died at the age of a week, and the other was my father, Harlan Peter McAdoo, who is still living. I have lots of stories beginning with my grandfather, and even a few about my great-grandfather and gg-grandfather. I wish I knew more about the two generations before that. I do have the records of the Civil War service of Pink and Jack McAdoo in the Missouri Cavalry, Pink as a chaplain and Jack as a private, but they don't really tell me much. I also know the name of Barnett's father: William McAdoo. But I have NO idea WHICH William McAdoo he was or even where he lived. On the 1850 Tennessee Census, Barnett is shown as having been born in North Carolina, so I believe that William McAdoo and his wife(?)/paramour(?) lived in North Carolina for at least a little while around 1777, but that's about all. Frances's father was Levi Murphree, and she may have been born in South Carolina, and that's about all I know. Any help from any source is greatly appreciated, and I will be glad to pass on any information I have that might be of use to others. For now, however, I probably will just lurk in the background, hoping to locate another McAdoo searcher (or a Harper or Murphree or Clinkingbeard or Bragg or . . . searcher) who can fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge. I apologize for going on for so long. Writing comes easily to me, and sometimes I go on too long. Cathy McAdoo Wilheim "Cousin Cathy in Wichita" _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp