This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Claiborn, Cravens Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VgB.2ACE/681.1 Message Board Post: Vickie: I have some information on Robert Claiborn. I have been trying to connect that family with William Claiborn who came to Virginia in 1620 and surveyed Jamestown. Dr. Robert Tanner Claiborn was a Union Army recruiting officer during the Civil War. (PriD1TN/Inf 1865/FITZ Fentress) He lived in the Back Creek area and is buried in what is known as Shadow Grave Yard or Sinking Springs near Red Hill in Fentress County. He first married Hanna Zachary whose family were said to have supported the north during the Civil War. Robert and Hanna had seven children together before Hanna died. When the Civil War started several families who supported the northern cause were driven from their homes in Tennessee and fled to Kentucky. Robert Claiborn married Mary Ann Kerney in the early 1860s and had eight children with her. They may have relocated to Kentuckey during the war. Robert Claiborn is not found in the 1850 Fentress County Census. In 1880 Dr. Robert Claborn was living in District 7, Fentress County, Tennessee with Mary. They has seven children living with them William, 13; Robert E., 10; Samuel, 8; Marion,6; Cinda, 5; Henry C., 4; and Martha, 2. Robert E. and Samuel were born in Kentuckey thus he must have lived there between 1870 ans 1872. Arlene