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From: "PJ Thompson" <>
Subject: [TnWeakle] "Most Wanted"
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 17:29:58 -0500

Ok......here is my first one......I bet you can even guess who it might
be........

I want the maiden name of Lydia ????? McCLAIN......who was the wife of John
McCLAIN of #13 Weakley Co......she would have been born btw 1800- 1810......

Here are my THEORIES:
From
My research of Census, etc

I believe, without proof, that Lydia, wife of John McClain, was a WILLIAMS.
Children of John & Lydia:
Allen
Newborn
Joseph
Charles
John

Now let's look at these names......
Allen.... There was an Allen WILLIAMS...no other Allens that has ever been
Found in the McCLAIN family.....
Newborn......Of course there was a Newborn WILLIAMS.....how many Newborn
Could there be????. No other Newborns
anywhere....
Joesph.....There was a Joseph WILLIAMS , also the name Joseph runs in the
McCLAIN family but not this direct line.....
Charles.....John McCLAIN's father was Charles McCLAIN......none known in
The WILLIAMS family......
John.......Again a McCLAIN family name not a WILLIAMS name......

From
Weakley County Courthouse, Dresden, Tennessee per research of Garry Brown.

John McCLAIN loaned Newborn WILLIAMS money in Weakley County as filed in the
courts of Weakley County 6th day of June 1834.

From
Weakley Remembered Volume IV
Page 73

Rev. Joseph WILLIAMS died 1825 in Anson County, North Carolina. He was the
son of Joseph WILLIAMS, who lived in Halifax County, North Carolina during
the Rev. War. He married Martha PARROT who died 1825, also Anson County,
North Carolina. Children of this couple were:
Henry
William (who married Lydia BIVENS)
Parrott
Reuben
Hezekiah
Newborn
Lemuel
Rebecca (who married Hosea JAMES) This family in Weakley County by 1830
and On the 1850 Census of Poinsett County, Arkansas, Rebecca is listed as
Widow.
A daughter (who married William BENNETT)

From
Hickman County, Kentucky Marriages March 1822-October 1874
Volume I by Hickman County Historical Society, Clinton, Kentucky 1999.

Newbern McLEAN (McCLAIN) (widower)
Elizabeth LITTERAL (Widow)
5 February 1866 - Marriage Bond
9 February 1866 - Married
Married-At William LITTERAL's by J. W. LAWRENCE (Surety-Drury WILLIAMS-The
Application (pg 209) is blank. Witness: W. C. BLAIR & Drew WILLIAMS.

This couple left the Kentucky/Tennessee area to live out their lives in
Arkansas....Poinsett Co, Arkansas joins the county they lived .....(see
entry above)

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