ALABAMA-L Archives

From: <>
Subject: [ALABAMA-L] MCCAIN, MOORE AND CREEK INDIANS
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 21:33:29 EST

The earliest McCain, I've been able to trace is James McCain (1780) who was
born in the Waxhaws area of the Carolinas**. I believe this was in
what is now South Carolina. He migrated to Tennessee and eventually to
Alabama, where he died about 1840 in Lineville, Talladega county. He married
Sarah Box and after her death Lydia Stone. He had nine children: John
(1802), Glover (1804), Ervin (1806), James Gale(1808), Seaborn (22 Sep.
1810), Henry Box (22 Nov 1812), Edward (1815), Bowden (1818) and Margaret
(1820).
It's Ervin (1806), the third child that we stem from. He was born either in
Tennessee or South Carolina He died (around 1869) in Alabama (Talladega or
Clay County). He and Sarah Ellender Hearn had eight children: Margaret
(1845), Sarah Jane (1847), Mary (1851), John H. (1853), William Edward
(1957), Thoma E. (1863), Rufus Eugene (1865), and Charles (1867).
It's John H. McCain (my great grand father) who took a wife outside of the
Scotch-Irish circles and started the line that eventually lead to the Dayton
McCains. We know very little of him. Nor do we know much about his
wife, Vicie McCain, I believe that Vice was Native American (or least in
part). If so she was a Creek, apart the Indian people called the
Muscogules. We know that John H. was born in Talladega county in 1853, but we
have no location for where he died or the date of death.
John and Vice had two children John Rufus(1896) (my grand father) and
Elizabeth.(1900). I have not been able to find out where they were born,
but it's very likely it was in Elmore, Co Alabama.
John Rufus married Emma Braddock they had three sons William (my father),
John, and James. William was born in Kowaliga, Al (Elmore Co.) 1916.
James and John were both born in Dayton., Ohio.
Emma was born a Moore and most likely in Tallassee, Alabama (Elmore County).
Our oral history speaks of the Moores of being an African and Native American
mixture know as "Black Creeks." The area between the Tallapoosa and Coosa
rivers where the McCains and Moores lived and died, had for centuries been
the hear lands of the "Upper Creeks" Tallassee where the Moores came from
was originally a Creek town.
Both McCains and Moores migrated from Alabama around 1916 When I was very
young I knew several the Moores, but never by that name. They were uncles
and aunts. The strongest memory of a Moore that I have was of my great grand
mother Matilda Braddock. It was about two years ago that I learned her
maiden name was Moore. Great grand mother Matilda was very dear to me. Some
day did' I hope to have more to say about her side of the family.
William S. McCain February 5, 1999

**The Waxhaws (an area with its heart in upper Lancaster county South
Carolina and its extremities in Chester county and Union county, North
Carolina) was settled almost entirely by Scotch-Irish folk who came down from
western Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Bill McCain

This thread:

• [ALABAMA-L] MCCAIN, MOORE AND CREEK INDIANS by <>