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Surnames: McLAIN, CISSELL, TEWELL, LINGO, SHARUM, SEALS
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
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Message Board Post:
Hi, very glad to hear from you. Well, you surely have all the surnames! Or most of them
...no clues as to my LINGOs, and no McLAIN marriages I guess .... I sure do wish I knew
what kind of link my McLAIN line has to Indiana. Perhaps the link is actually in Kentucky
...where the CISSELS and TEWELLs were earlier ..as were my McLAINs.
I assume you had not heard 'the story' of the CISSELL shooting. That story was
not 'my' story ...it was first told to me my Lucy GORDON who descends from my
ancestor ..Perlina A. / Polina Anna SMITH, a granddaughter of Charles McLAIN who is my ggg
grandfather. Polina Anna SMITH is the one who married John Thomas TEWELL ...and Lucy
GORDON found me online and told me the story, then sent me some photo copies of land
transactions that followed the shooting. However, this June I went to Walnut Ridge
Arkansas courthouse and took digital photographs of the land transactions (easier to read)
and also some of the Criminal Court records.
Yes, I think it is fine for you to copy 'the story' ...Lucy has published it
online while researching, and of course, I also have published it while researching. Past
my bedtime ...I planted 108 pansies this afternoon and cleaned / rearranged kitchen
cabinets ...I'm pooped, lol!