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/jgB.2ACE/232.536 Message Board Post: Hi Mary ann, I can't help you with Alexander's parents but I can give you some information on his wife, Elizabeth. She was born in Fairfield District, SC in abt. 1799. Her maiden name was Boyles. She was the daughter of John Boyles and Margaret Walker McClerkin Boyles. Margaret Walker was b. in 1765 in VA and was still living in Fairfield District, SC in 1850. Margaret married John McClerkin in abt. 1785 and had two sons, James and Andrew. Her husband died suddenly in 1792 and shortly thereafter she married John Boyles. She had seven children by Boyles with Elizabeth being her second born daughter. Elizabeth married Alexander Tennant in abt. 1818 in Fairfield District, SC. James McClerkin migrated to Tipton Co, TN with his family in abt.1830 along with many other families from Fairfield Co, SC. Andrew Walker, Margaret McClerkin Boyles' brother, was in this same group. Mary Ann Tennant married Joseph B. Walker (relationship unknown) in Tipton Co on January 12, 1850 and he apparently died or they separated. On February 14, 1855 Mary Ann then married William Franklin Delashmet in Tipton Co. They had three known children. William Delashmet was a nephew of Elizabeth Delashmet who married Margaret Walker's younger brother, Jeremiah, in abt. 1799, also in Fairfield District, SC. This latter couple are my wife's gggrandparents. FrankTrowbridge