William McClanahan | Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia by David Eaton

"Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County, Virginia" by David Eaton, 1942:
"Mary Marshall, born about 1738, married Reverend William McClanahan about 1758.He was a Baptist minister.The early years of their married life were spent in Westmoreland County.Their oldest son, Thomas McClanahan was born there.About the close of the century they moved to Greenville, South Carolina where he died."
"The McClanahan family was intermarried with the Marmaduke, Robinson and Rochester families of Westmoreland County, Virginia.A John McClanahan married Elizabeth P. Marmaduke, a daughter of Vincent Marmaduke. (W.D.B. 28, page 73.)"
"Reverend William McClanahan born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, about 1738, married 1758, Mary Marshall.He raised a company of Baptist Volunteers in Culpeper County during the Revolution and they were called 'The fighting Baptists.'The family removed to Greenville District, South Carolina.He had a son Thomas McClanahan who was a noted Indian fighter.His will was made May 15, 1802 and date of proof not given, but he died 1802."
"John Robinson, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, married Susan McClanahan, daughter of Reverend William McClanahan and Mary Marshall, in Culpeper County, Virginia, and removed to the Greenville District, South Carolina, and in 1810 moved to Bourbon County, Kentucky, and finally settled in 1825 in Boone County, Missouri. (There is further information on this family.)
"John McClanahan who came to Missouri with the Robinson family, settled in Morgan County, Mo., having come from Kentucky.He married in Kentucky, Priscilla Chisholm, and in their family was born John Marshall McClanahan, November 14, 1846.He married February 28, 1871 to Nannie T. Anthony, at the home of Anderson W. Anthony, by the Rev. James Edward Sims.He died July 21, 1927.He left issue: Vallie Blanch, born August 6, 1874; Vergie Bernice, born November 13, 1879, died November 4, 1925; Harold Anthony Robinson, born January 5, 1882; Samuel Livingston, born April 19, 1884; Priscilla Lillian, born June 14, 1888.

                        

I Need to do More With My Ancestry Blog

I see it has fallen by the wayside. Mostly because I'm a scatterbrain and I don't have a good way to trace anything that has a lot of tree work. Paper just isn't going to cut it. I could make a database, but I loathe spaghetti code. I wish I could just retire and take on this adventure, but that is impossible.

Right now everything I find out will be through links and history books I suppose. I want pictures. I can find very few pictures of the Ruckers and the McClanahans. I know, we didn't have cameras then, but at least paintings? I'm getting old, but one day after my kids are all out of school I want to get in a car and just drive across the country to find these roots of mine. I want to visit museums and find gravesites. I should be saving money, but in this obama economy it has been very difficult to do so.

Perhaps the next President and Congress coming in January 2017 will make a world of difference. ANYWAY, I'm not going to get political on this board except knowing that we were a part of the Revolutionary War and on both sides of the Civil War. And to those who think I need to pay reparations, bite me. Half of my family died fighting for your freedom and the other half didn't fight to keep you enslaved, they fought to become separate from the North. In fact, it is rumored that I'm related to someone who freed all of his slaves and they fought for the South and that another one of my relatives gave his land to a slave in his will. Before you think that all "slave owners" were terrible people understand that many of them were actually just doing what everyone else was doing and they just didn't treat them like slaves. Had they gone to others then maybe they would have been mistreated. Our family supposedly comes from a long line of Baptists who treated people decently because that is what God would have wanted them to do.

I supposed I will just link to different parts of this blog where it is appropriate. I will link names and eras to other pages. If you have any information to offer about the people in these pages please feel free to comment. Thanks!