McClendon Soundex Code: M245

McClendon, Texas: Has anyone heard of it or know of its history?

 

Genealogy McCLENDONs and McLENDONs on the Internet

(at this web site) and Surnames McClendon (McLendon), Graves, Hathorne, Lott, Knight, Britt

 

Genealogy Resources on the Internet Includes general mailing lists, or mailing lists by surname or by state; newsgroups; FTP sites; etc. Here are the one most relevant to my genealogy interests.

 

McLENDON-McCLENDON. The McLENDON-McCLENDON mailing list is for the discussion and sharing of information regarding the McLendon/McClendon surname and variations in any place and at any time. To subscribe send "subscribe" to mclendon-mcclendon-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or mclendon-mcclendon-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).

 

McClendon Family Genealogy Forum at GenForum

 

Melba Goff McLendon's web site (e-mail: mallen96@flash.net)

McCLENDONs and McLENDONs
McCLENDONs/McLENDONs Researchers

History of Randolph Co., AL - James Hathorne, Hugh Hathorne, and Wiley McClendon

Thurmond Genealogy

McClendon Genealogy ~ Scotland to South Carolina 
Joe Cole 
PO Box 190 
Mineral Springs, NC 28108

 

Relatives information and photos

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Earliest Known McClendon Ancestor

(If you can expand this list for me, contact me at: McCLENDON@PatMcClendon.com.)

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From: Donna McGuyer McCLENDON
To: Patricia D. McClendon
CC: Melba Goff Allen
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: "Earliest Known McClendon Ancestor"

Pat and Melba:
Our earliest proven McClendon ancestor is Joseph Parker McClendon b. 1857 in Washington Parish, LA. He was married at least two times that I know of: Julia Lott (our ancestor) and Laura Perry (who also had McClendon children).

Although I strongly suspect Joseph "Joe" McClendon was the son of William and Mary McClendon (referring to 1860 Census of Washington Parish, LA) there is conflicting evidence (i.e. the death certificate that Artena Faye McClendon obtained that shows his father as Frank McClendon). I've been trying to iron this out for sometime but haven't been successful.

I lean toward the census record as being correct because of the following matches to what we know about Joe: his birth date, his older brother named John, an older sister and the location of Washington Parish. I can't explain the death certificate other than the fact that the information provider didn't know the full name of Joe's father or didn't have accurate information. Family tradition says Joe's father died about 1863. This would support my inaccurate information theory.

I located John (right age for Joe's brother) in the 1870 Washington Parish LA Census living as a farm laborer in the household of Levi Self. This would support the early demise (or absence) of their father. However, I haven't been able to locate Mary (William's widow) and Joe and his sister in the 1870 Census.

In 1880 I located Joseph in the household of Mary Stateham (not sure of spelling) in Washington Parish LA. She is listed as a widow, Joseph as her son, age 22. There are Stateham children (Daniel W. age 16 and Angelina C. age 14) in the household as well a daughter named Ellen age 19 who appears to have the McClendon name. If this is actual our Joe, then Ellen would make sense because were were always told Joe had a brother and two sisters but his father died while they were young.

If Mary Stateham is the same as Mary McClendon, then that means she would have started her Stateham family by 1864 or 1865 (referring to Daniel's age). The census writing is difficult to read so I'm not sure of the spelling of the last name but Mary and the other names are very clear. I've looked for the name in the 1870 Census of Washington Parish but haven't found it under that spelling.

This is one scenario of what could have happened: William died during the civil war and Mary remarried. Then by 1880 her second husband was dead. Who ever gave the death certificate info could have gotten Joe's father's name confused with his stepfather or with an uncle or grandfather. If Joe lost his father at a young age who was replaced by a stepfather, he might not have known much about his McClendon father.

Joe and Julia (Lott) McClendon's first child was born in 1883. Although I haven't located their marriage date (courthouse fire), It most likely was between the 1880 census and the birth of their first child, possibly 1881 or 1882.

I hope you can make sense out of this. I have only researched the William McClendon angle of the story so if anyone else has other info, please let me know. Any help is appreciated.

Best Regards,
Donna

Artena Faye McClendon

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James, Artena and David McClendon

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me, Aunts Eddie Mae, Julie, and "Dot"

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GIF 89a - Interlaced, 68 Kb

This photo was taken in December 1994 at my Aunt Dot's house in Baton Rouge, LA. From left to right: me, my father's (John Eugene McCLENDON, Sr.), full-sister -- Aunt Eddie Mae McCLENDON Fornea (now residing in Pride, LA) - her mother was Mabel GRAVES McClendon (Britt), my father's half-sisters -- Julie Elizabeth McCLENDON Law and Aunt Dorothy ("Dot") McCLENDON (Davis) Harris (both now residing in Baton Rouge, LA) - their mother was Zuleima Seval CORKERN McClendon (Sullivan). Their father was John Edward McCLENDON and his father was "Joe" Joseph P. (for Parker) McCLENDON. We are unsure as to who his father was.

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