This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AgB.2ACE/34.74.1.1 Message Board Post: I am sorry that I cannot help you. My Cordell line starts from my Great-grandfather, Thomas J.Cordell, born 1847 in Decatur/Henderson Co. Tn. He ran away from home at approx. 12-13 years of age, and the man who took him in, changed the spelling of his last name from Caudle to Cordell. He is the son of Andrew J. Caudle and Ann Clenney.