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/XeB.2ACE/3428 Message Board Post: I am having a problem identifying which family James F. Oxendine came from. We know that his mother was a Blair and we know that he used the name Oxendine. What we don't know is if he was born out of wedlock to one of the Blair girls or if she married an Oxendine. What we were told was that his mother was a Blair and his father was an Oxendine and that his father was real mean to him so he ran away over the mountain and ended up in Union County, Tennessee. he was living in a barn at a Mr. Snodderly's. Mr Snodderly found him and raised him as if he was his own. None of his children (the 2 that are left remember anything other than that. James F. was married twice. The second wife was Mary Elizabeth Hensley of Union County. James F. is buried in Ousley Cemetery in Maynardville (Union County) Tennessee. His children by his 1st wife was: Jesse Jackson, William Rice,and Julia Mae. His children by his second marriage: Lucy, Nora, Arlena, Juanita, Victoria (Vic), Sam, Roscoe, Harvey, and John. I would appreciate any information or any suggestions on where I should look next.