This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDonald, McClanahan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1hB.2ACE/956.957.1.2 Message Board Post: My last name is McDonald, but I have an 1871 court document of my great grandfather, William Robert McDonald, who had a W.R. McClenahan signing as sureties for Robert. Robert's father was Wilson McDonald (1825-1877), of which I can find no brothers or sisters. (There were two Wilson McDonald's in Fannin Co., but that is another story for another time.) I am grabbing at straws here, hoping maybe there was a name change in my family tree. Do you have a missing Wilson or William McClanahan born circa 1825 in Missouri or Illinois? Do you have any missing McClanahans at all that moved from Missouri to Fannin Co., Texas?