Many of us are Clendenin descendants. Adam is the patriarch of the bunch and a deed has now proven his children well enough for DAR. He is my ancestor both through Mary H."Polly" (of course) Clendenin and also her brother, Robert, whose son, John, fathered Ancel Clendenin who married Adaline McNeeley who was Mary "Polly's daughter. This one had me puzzled for a long time, due to the mistake the Mr. Olaffson made on the Boone annotated Censuses. Ancel and Adaline were second cousins. They went off to Cass County, MI with other Clendenen and Hinchman families, but returned to the hills and went on to have a big family. One of their sons, Isaiah Clendenin, married Margaret Ann Victoria Fillinger and their daughter, Mary Alice Clendenin, married Calvary Gunnoe. They are my great-grandparents. Mary Alice died relatively young when her son, Cyril, was born, and the Clendenins buried her in Drawdy Cemetery. Isaiah and Victoria were later buried with her. Calvary lies in a plot lower down the hill, with his two sons killed in the Nellis mine explosion in 1943, and many of his other children. The story is that the Clendenins thought they were better than the Gunnoes! Anyway, since DAR was a topic, I thought some of the rest of you may be interested in knowing that you now record your Clendenin ancestry back to Adam. Adam's father is Charles Clendenin, and Charles's father is William Glendenning, which was the proper name when they immigated. Some still have this name. One of the recent governors of Maryland was Glendenning. I have also seen Glendenin, Clendenen, and other variations of this surname. Sharon Lee Gates Apopka, FL