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Author: A_MacMullin
Surnames: McConnell, Bohall, Milstead, Milstid
Classification: queries
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Hi Cousin! Its been a while since my post that you replied to.
James was born in Jackson Co. IN and he married Malinda there, who was born in Meade Co.
KY. Census info confirms that.
As for parents, my current tree is showing parents of James as John McConnell and Abigail
Herron. But I don't know if that is just because its been told that way online so
much. I can't find a source to support it.
Meanwhile, I just went through all my censuses and the 1850 census in Grassy Fork
Township, Jackson Co. IN is interesting. Living next door to James and Malinda is Samuel
McConnell who is 17 yrs older - old enough to be his father. Maybe that is why I
originally thought it was him as the father. This Samuel and his wife are born in KY.
KY is of course a big McConnell state, so it wouldn't surprise me if our McConnells
were there before IN. And Jackson Co. IN is not that far from Lexington KY (see McConnell
Springs, near Lexington).
Found a link where I may have mined my more recent info:
http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=dkm&id=I76553&a...
This certainly is a confusing ancestry. I guess after 6 years I'm not really any
better off than I was before.
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