Hi Steve; It is possible there is a connection. I am not sure where the name Howell originally came into our family. My grandfather, Howell Andrew McClain, was named after his grandfather, Howell Jackson Rayburn. He went by Jackson Rayburn or H. J. Rayburn. I did notice in my research that there were quite a few people in Lauderdale Co., with the surname of Howell and wondered if maybe there was a connection. The Rayburns and McClain's went to AL from TN and I am pretty sure it was from Hardin Co., as that is the county they went back to in TN when they left Lauderdale Co., AL. And I noticed that some of the Howell's in Lauderdale Co., were born in TN also. I have a Walter Rayburn who married a Eva Howell. Her father was William Howell, born in 1867 in AL. This Howell family and some of my Rayburn families were all living in Marion Co., AL at the same time. Eva Howell and Walter Rayburn married sometime after 1900. I have more information on the Rayburn's, Howell's and McClain's. I can't help but feel that the Howell name came from these folks. It will be interesting to compare and see what we find. Do you have any Rayburns in your line that might connect to the Howell's? Let me know. I will be waiting to hear from you. Thanks Charlotte ----- Original Message ----- From: stevecooper75@comcast.net To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN Hello Charlotte: I do not seem to have any connections to the names you mentioned but I am interested in how the HOWELL Andrew McClain got the name Howell. MY wifes great grandfather was a Howell and some of the family was in the area at one time and also my wifes grandfather (David William Howell) lived in Hardin County, Tennessee, after the war. I think some of my wifes McKelvey family is at the Waites Cemetery. Any chance there was a connection ? SteveCooper Cloverdale, Alabama ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > Hi Steve; > I am looking for my McClain family that moved to Hardin and Dyer counties from Lauderdale Co., AL, and families that married into them and were either from Hardin or Dyer Co., or moved there from Lauderdale Co., AL. They also left family in Lauderdale Co., AL. > John Wilson McClain, born in 1849 in AL married Martha Elizabeth "Mattie Rayburn in 1880 in Lauderdale Co., AL. They moved to Hardin Co., TN between 1886 and 1888 where they stayed at least until 1900. > John's younger brother, Charles Alexander McClain and wife, Amanda Elizabeth "Lizzie" Skinner, moved to Hardin Co., shortly after John and then moved on to Dyer Co., TN where they settled. > John Wilson and Mattie Rayburn McClain's oldest son, Howell Andrew McClain, born in 1877 in AL came to TN with them. He went on to Dyer Co. also and married a Johnnie Everett there on Dec. 25, 1907. Howell Andrew McClain was my grandfather. He and Johnnie divorced around 1927 and Howell moved to AR where he met and married my grandmother, Ruby Leona Martin, in 1928 in AR. He was 32 years older than her. Their only son, my dad, was born in AR in 1928. > These are some of the surnames that married into my McClain family or mine married into theirs; > Everett > Rayburn > Skinner > Carson > Scott--Mattie Rayburn McClain married a "Scott" sometime between 1900 and 1910 after John Wilson died. She was listed as Mattie Scott in Mississippi Co., AR on the 1910 census. > McDavid > Little > Mayfield > Murphy > Story > Nunez > Craig > White > I would like to find out about their children and spouses. > I am trying to get a copy of Mattie Scott's DC. She is listed on the SSDI as having died on Apr 10, 1918 in Mississippi Co., AR. If anyone can tell me how to go about getting her DC, I would appreciate that too. I am trying to find out what "Scott" she married. I would appreciate any help. > Thanks. > Charlotte McClain Christensen > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: stevecooper75@comcast.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:54 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > Hello Charlotte: > > What families are you interested in, in that area ? > > SteveCooper > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > Hi David; > > Thank you very much for the information. I do have the 1980 census for > the Hardin County Cemeteries. That was why I thought it was in Hardin Co. I > am glad to know where it is. I went through the census and got all the names > that were in Waites Cemetery. Someone was also kind enough to send me a > listing from the Lauderdale Co., Web Site that had them all listed too. > > I am hoping to get to go down there and visit the Waterloo and the > Cemetery soon. I have a lot of family that came from that area and migrated > to Hardin and Dyer counties in TN. > > Anyway, thanks again. I really appreciate the help. > > Charlotte > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: David Cagle > > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:21 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > Charlotte, > > Waites Cemetery is not in Hardin County, but a little more than a half > mile > > into Lauderdale Co., AL on a ridge overlooking Pickwick Reservoir. > There > > are more than one hundred graves in the cemetery. The 1980 Cemetery > Census > > has a complete listing of those buried there. If you don't have access > to > > the census, let me know and I'll send same to you privately as I will > have > > to send an attachment which I can't use on this list. You get there > from > > here (Savannah) by going south on TN Highway 69 toward Florence AL, turn > > right on Holland Creek Road and go almost to the TN-AL State line and > turn > > right on Pea Ridge Road which will take you to State Line road in AL. I > > don't know the name of the road you need to turn left on to get to the > > Cemetery. The cemetery is not too far north of Waterloo AL. You might > want > > to go there to start and get some local with knowledge of the area to > help > > you get there. > > David > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> > > To: "ROOTSWEB--HARDIN CO. TN" <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:36 AM > > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > > Hi; > > > Does anyone have any information on the Waites Cemetery that is listed > on > > > the 1980 Hardin Co., Cemetery Census? Is there a total listing of who > is > > > buried there and can anyone tell where it is and how to get to it? I > have > > > family there and would like to find out more about it. > > > Also on the 1980 Cemetery Census, the box for the names starting with > > > McElrath through Mcaffee are not there. And the boxes with the names > > > McCaughey to McDougal and McAldine to Moffett have the same names in > them. > > > Does anyone know if the other names are available somewhere? > > > Thanks > > > Charlotte McClain Christensen > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1096 - Release Date: > > > 10/27/2007 11:02 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1097 - Release Date: > 10/28/2007 1:58 PM > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1123 - Release Date: 11/10/2007 3:47 PM > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. 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Hello Charlotte: After today, I most likely will not be online for a while. I know of no connection to the Rayburns or McClain families. My wife's HOWELL line was in west Lauderdale County, Alabama and in Hardin County, Tennessee after the war. Her great grandfather David William Wilson Howell ( son of Phillip Howell and Mary Wesson) married Sarah Margaret Williams in LCA. After the war I find that she died and is buried near Savannah, Tn. He then marrried Sarah Columbia Palmer Graham, the widow of James Graham. D.W. Howell and Sarah Palmer are the great grandparents of my wife. Both, later moved back to Florence, LCA and are buried at the Florence City Cemetery. A brother of D.W. Howell, Benjamin E. Howell married Sarah Witherspoon of the Waterloo, Alabama James Witherspoon family. I find records of them in Hardin County but I don't think they are shown on the Hardin County, Tn census. Sarah was buried about 1876 at the Witherspoon Cemetery at Waterloo, Alabama and removed to the Richardson Cemetery nearby after TVA flooded some of the land about 1938. I have never found any information on where Benjamin E. Howell , her husband was buried, about 1877. Also, near Waterloo, Alabama was a sister Caroline ( Callie) Howell. She married Carroll Sharp. A brother Lee Howell worked as a young man in the store of Major Witherspoon and later was a riverboat captain before moving to Evansville, Indiana and working with the railroads there. Howell, Indiana, just west of Evansville is named for him. His biography is on the Lauderdale County Web Page. Thanks for any help. SteveCooper ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > Hi Steve; > It is possible there is a connection. I am not sure where the name Howell originally came into our family. > My grandfather, Howell Andrew McClain, was named after his grandfather, Howell Jackson Rayburn. He went by Jackson Rayburn or H. J. Rayburn. > I did notice in my research that there were quite a few people in Lauderdale Co., with the surname of Howell and wondered if maybe there was a connection. The Rayburns and McClain's went to AL from TN and I am pretty sure it was from Hardin Co., as that is the county they went back to in TN when they left Lauderdale Co., AL. And I noticed that some of the Howell's in Lauderdale Co., were born in TN also. > I have a Walter Rayburn who married a Eva Howell. Her father was William Howell, born in 1867 in AL. This Howell family and some of my Rayburn families were all living in Marion Co., AL at the same time. Eva Howell and Walter Rayburn married sometime after 1900. I have more information on the Rayburn's, Howell's and McClain's. I can't help but feel that the Howell name came from these folks. It will be interesting to compare and see what we find. > Do you have any Rayburns in your line that might connect to the Howell's? > Let me know. I will be waiting to hear from you. Thanks > Charlotte > ----- Original Message ----- > From: stevecooper75@comcast.net > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:55 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > Hello Charlotte: > > I do not seem to have any connections to the names you mentioned but I am > interested in how the HOWELL Andrew McClain got the name Howell. MY wifes > great grandfather was a Howell and some of the family was in the area at one > time and also my wifes grandfather (David William Howell) lived in Hardin > County, Tennessee, after the war. > > I think some of my wifes McKelvey family is at the Waites Cemetery. > > Any chance there was a connection ? > > SteveCooper > Cloverdale, Alabama > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 10:53 PM > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > Hi Steve; > > I am looking for my McClain family that moved to Hardin and Dyer > counties from Lauderdale Co., AL, and families that married into them and > were either from Hardin or Dyer Co., or moved there from Lauderdale Co., AL. > They also left family in Lauderdale Co., AL. > > John Wilson McClain, born in 1849 in AL married Martha Elizabeth "Mattie > Rayburn in 1880 in Lauderdale Co., AL. They moved to Hardin Co., TN between > 1886 and 1888 where they stayed at least until 1900. > > John's younger brother, Charles Alexander McClain and wife, Amanda > Elizabeth "Lizzie" Skinner, moved to Hardin Co., shortly after John and then > moved on to Dyer Co., TN where they settled. > > John Wilson and Mattie Rayburn McClain's oldest son, Howell Andrew > McClain, born in 1877 in AL came to TN with them. He went on to Dyer Co. > also and married a Johnnie Everett there on Dec. 25, 1907. Howell Andrew > McClain was my grandfather. He and Johnnie divorced around 1927 and Howell > moved to AR where he met and married my grandmother, Ruby Leona Martin, in > 1928 in AR. He was 32 years older than her. Their only son, my dad, was born > in AR in 1928. > > These are some of the surnames that married into my McClain family or > mine married into theirs; > > Everett > > Rayburn > > Skinner > > Carson > > Scott--Mattie Rayburn McClain married a "Scott" sometime between 1900 and > 1910 after John Wilson died. She was listed as Mattie Scott in Mississippi > Co., AR on the 1910 census. > > McDavid > > Little > > Mayfield > > Murphy > > Story > > Nunez > > Craig > > White > > I would like to find out about their children and spouses. > > I am trying to get a copy of Mattie Scott's DC. She is listed on the > SSDI as having died on Apr 10, 1918 in Mississippi Co., AR. If anyone can > tell me how to go about getting her DC, I would appreciate that too. I am > trying to find out what "Scott" she married. I would appreciate any help. > > Thanks. > > Charlotte McClain Christensen > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: stevecooper75@comcast.net > > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:54 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > Hello Charlotte: > > > > What families are you interested in, in that area ? > > > > SteveCooper > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> > > To: <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > > Hi David; > > > Thank you very much for the information. I do have the 1980 census > for > > the Hardin County Cemeteries. That was why I thought it was in Hardin > Co. I > > am glad to know where it is. I went through the census and got all the > names > > that were in Waites Cemetery. Someone was also kind enough to send me a > > listing from the Lauderdale Co., Web Site that had them all listed too. > > > I am hoping to get to go down there and visit the Waterloo and the > > Cemetery soon. I have a lot of family that came from that area and > migrated > > to Hardin and Dyer counties in TN. > > > Anyway, thanks again. I really appreciate the help. > > > Charlotte > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: David Cagle > > > To: tnhardin@rootsweb.com > > > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 7:21 PM > > > Subject: Re: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > > > > Charlotte, > > > Waites Cemetery is not in Hardin County, but a little more than a > half > > mile > > > into Lauderdale Co., AL on a ridge overlooking Pickwick Reservoir. > > There > > > are more than one hundred graves in the cemetery. The 1980 Cemetery > > Census > > > has a complete listing of those buried there. If you don't have > access > > to > > > the census, let me know and I'll send same to you privately as I > will > > have > > > to send an attachment which I can't use on this list. You get there > > from > > > here (Savannah) by going south on TN Highway 69 toward Florence AL, > turn > > > right on Holland Creek Road and go almost to the TN-AL State line > and > > turn > > > right on Pea Ridge Road which will take you to State Line road in > AL. I > > > don't know the name of the road you need to turn left on to get to > the > > > Cemetery. The cemetery is not too far north of Waterloo AL. You > might > > want > > > to go there to start and get some local with knowledge of the area > to > > help > > > you get there. > > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jim and Charlotte" <ly68@charter.net> > > > To: "ROOTSWEB--HARDIN CO. TN" <tnhardin@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:36 AM > > > Subject: [TNHARDIN] Waites Cemetery in Hardin Co., TN > > > > > > > > > > Hi; > > > > Does anyone have any information on the Waites Cemetery that is > listed > > on > > > > the 1980 Hardin Co., Cemetery Census? Is there a total listing of > who > > is > > > > buried there and can anyone tell where it is and how to get to it? > I > > have > > > > family there and would like to find out more about it. > > > > Also on the 1980 Cemetery Census, the box for the names starting > with > > > > McElrath through Mcaffee are not there. And the boxes with the > names > > > > McCaughey to McDougal and McAldine to Moffett have the same names > in > > them. > > > > Does anyone know if the other names are available somewhere? > > > > Thanks > > > > Charlotte McClain Christensen > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1096 - Release Date: > > > > 10/27/2007 11:02 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > -- > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.12/1097 - Release Date: > > 10/28/2007 1:58 PM > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1123 - Release Date: > 11/10/2007 3:47 PM > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.30/1126 - Release Date: 11/12/2007 12:56 PM > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNHARDIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message