The French in America; notes on the
McCann family; Miss M. McCann, attorney
By William M. Talley
(use the "Contact Us" form to comment on Dr. Talley's columns)
It has been a pleasure to read Walter R. Borneman’s recent book The French & Indian War: Deciding the
Fate of North America. The book is greatly informative, flows well, and is well-referenced, with excellent
maps. The author does not seem to have a hidden agendum and clearly indicates the good as well as
the bad about the American Colonists, the British, the French, and the Indians and their dealings with
one another.
The British, in the 1750s, noticed that the French were building more and more forts along the Ohio and
in the British Territory that is now Ontario and Michigan. They sent Gen. James Braddock, accompanied
by the young George Washington, to investigate the situation on the Monongahela and at Fort
Duquesne (now Pittsburgh). It was a treacherous assignment and Braddock began to realize that he and
his superiors had underestimated the strength and will power of the French. Gen. Edward Braddock was
defeated and killed in July 1755 and he was buried in the middle of one of the roads he built so that his
grave would be obscured, diminishing the possibility of wild animals or the British from abusing the
corpse. Washington and the remainder of Braddock’s troops retreated. It is said that upwards of 500 of
Braddock’s men had died in the battle and even after five years their bleached bones were scattered
thickly for about a half mile in length and one hundred yards in breadth.
The fear of the French expansion had been set off by the fact that the King of France and the governor
of New France (Quebec) had dispatched Capt. Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville to assert France ’s
claims in the Ohio Valley. He and his Jesuit chaplain, Father Bonnechamps, and assorted officers had
left Montreal on June 15, 1749, with the express purpose of mounting lead plates at the mouths of such
rivers as the Muskingum, Kanawha, and Miami, stating that the land had already been claimed by the
King of France. These were rivers that flowed into the Ohio from the north. [For many years, this historic
act was questioned until two or three of the plates were unearthed and proved that Blainville had
actually mounted these notices.]
The British were becoming very distressed that France was becoming aggressive in settling the land
they claimed in the Ohio Valley. The Indians lived in peace with the French, but they fought against the
British. The Indians felt that the British were trying to take their lands, whereas the French were content
with hunting animals for their furs, and the French were comfortable with assimilating with the Indians.
An unnamed general said that an Indian chief came to him and asked: “Why don’t you people (French
and English) go back to your own countries and do your fighting there and leave us alone?”
Several years earlier prior to Braddock’s defeat the British determined that the French Acadians, living
in Nova Scotia, were an obstacle in keeping control of that area and they determined to expel the
Acadians, burned their homes, and carried them away bodily to the American coast, many of them to the
swamps of Louisiana. [Thus was born the legend of “Evangeline” and the Cajun culture.]
Quebec City had remained an impenetrable fortress on its rock cliff, controlling the entrance to the St.
Lawrence, and it was only through an outright battle between Generals Wolfe and Montcalm that Britain
was able to claim Quebec as their own in 1763. At that point the British laid claim not only to their own
colonies but to the colonies previously claimed by France. So, the British realized that their colonies in
Canada required a great deal of supervision and in 1774 they enacted one of the Intolerable Acts, the
Quebec Act which placed the southern boundary of Quebec at the Ohio River and it basically remained
that way until after the Revolutionary War when the British retreated to their original agreed upon
boundaries. The British agreed that even though they (the French-speaking Quebecers) and Quebec
were a part of the British lands, they would be allowed to educate their children in French, conduct their
courts in French, and maintain the strong bond the French had with the Catholic Church. This was called
the British North American Act. And so it remains to this day.
It was not until 1803 that the colonies persuaded France to sell them New Orleans and Louisiana, thus
killing any hopes of French development in North America. Napoleon had run up such a war debt [in the
Napoleonic Wars] that the French were eager to sell it so they could pay off some of their war debts.
“Big John” McCann and his descendants
White settlers began to penetrate the wilderness we know as Lewis County as early as 1790. No doubt
they were awed by the wildlife and the fertile lands along the streams. One of these early settlers was
“Big John” McCann who settled on Quick’s Run where he raised a family and left behind generations of
his descendants many of whom live within Lewis County today. The McCanns were some of the factual
contributors to Rev. O.G. Ragan when he was writing his history of Lewis County in 1911.
A great-great-great-great-grandson of “Big John” is Clyde Mowery, of Lucasville, Ohio,
(poet2@roadrunner.com) who has provided us with a fine genealogical outline of the family.
John McCann, came from Pennsylvania, landing first at Limestone (Maysville), then moving to a farm in
Lewis County where he lived all of his adult life at the upper reaches of Quick’s Run with his wife, Nancy
Culbreath. At least three sons were born to them: (1) John P., (2) William (3), and James, whose lines we
shall now outline. (If John and Nancy had daughters we do not know their names.)
1. John P. McCann (1786-1866) married Elizabeth Cottingham and they had one son, Robert C. McCann
(1815-1888).
2. William McCann married Jane McKensie in Lewis County in 1812 and many of their descendants
remain in Lewis County. William served in the War of 1812 and is reported to have witnessed the death
of the great Indian chief, Tecumseh.
The children of William and Jane McCann were: John McCann (1813-1906) married Jane McKentosh in
1838; an article in the Lewis County newspaper in 1906 featured John B. McCann and his near 100 years
of respected living; Mary Ann McCann (1815-1878); Alexander McCann (1816-1896) married first, Mary
Jane Staten in 1845, and second, Eliza Himes in 1866 and has many descendants in Lewis County;
Edward B. McCann (1819-1902) married Elizabeth Burriss in 1847. [These are the great-great-
grandparents of Mr. Mowery.]; Amanda McCann (1823-1907); Nancy McCann (born 1825), married Jacob
Bolinger and nothing else is known of her; Alice McCann (1829-1894) married Morgan Cadwallader in
1858, no issue known; and Thomas McCann (1830-1898) married Louisa Rugless.
The third son of “Big John” McCann was James (1787-1870) who married Elizabeth Cunningham and
shortly afterwards moved to Boone County, Indiana. The Lewis County branch of the family lost touch
with them, but recently Mr. Mowery has been corresponding with the descendants of James and is
pleased to report that James was a well respected citizen of Boone County, Indiana, having served
several terms as County Recorder (1836-1850). The children of James and Elizabeth were: John P.
McCann (1813-1909), Robert C. McCann (1815-1887), James G. McCann (1817-1823), William G. McCann
(1819-1895), Margaret W. McCann (born 1821), Nancyann McCann (1823-1909), Pollyann McCann (1825-
1926), and Maryann McCann (2) (1825-1826).
The above James McCann, (born 1787, Pennsylvania ) served as County Recorder in Boone County,
Indiana, for several terms. James and his family came to Boone County in 1833 where he became owner
of 160 acres. He died in May 1870 and was first buried in the old Lebanon Cemetery (now called Cedar
Hill), but later moved to a new cemetery known as Oak Hill. The McCanns were members of the Christian
Church.
In his many trips to Lewis County, Mr. Mowery says he has visited the burial locations of many of the
McCann ancestors, at such hallowed places as Muses Chapel, Salem, Ribolt (Mt. Tabor) and Concord.
In a letter written to me in 1980 by Wayne M. McCann, of Metuchen, New Jersey, he says he is
descended from a Nicholas County branch of this family. His great-grandfather was James McCann
(born1830), who married Susan Barr in Nicholas County. This James was a son of John McCann, who
married Ann Ireland on Aug. 19, 1820. After the death of John McCann (about 1830) Ann married Ephraim
McGowan. Mr. McCann believes he is related to the Lewis County McCanns through William McCann
who left Nicholas County and moved to Lewis County. Since there were McCanns in Nicholas, Fleming,
Bourbon, Lewis, and Mason it has been difficult to untangle the relationships.
Back to the Lewis County family: Mr. Mowery continues his outline with a listing of William and Jane
McCann’s family, who are:
(1) John B. McCann (1813-1838) married Jane McKentosh and had the following children: William Henry
McCann and Marissa McCann;
(2) Alexander McCann (1816-1896) who married first Mary Jane Staten (1819-1863) and had the following
children, Sarah Alice McCann (1846-1878), married Horace Applegate; Mary Means McCann (1848-1917)
married David Teager Jones; Robert Henry McCann (1849-1918); Margaret Eliza (1851-1937), married
William Kelly Hampton; William Thomas McCann (1852-1926) married Maude McCann; Georgia Ann
McCann (1854-1926), married Ross Carr; Joseph Staten (1856-1927), married Elizabeth Herron; Juliett
Amanda McCann (1858-1905); married L. Tee Hendrickson; and John Melcher McCann (1860-1861);
Alexander McCann married second, Eliza Himes and had the following children: Ida Viola (1866-1925)
married James Middleton; Mintie Estelle McCann (1868-1952) married William Madison Evans; Nancy
Jenny McCann (born 1870); Montie McCann (1871-1898); Ada May McCann (1875-1939) married Milburn
Pence; William K. McCann (1878-1909).
Edward B. McCann (1819-1902), son of William and Jane McKentosh McCann, married Elizabeth Burriss
(1827-1886) and had the following children: Martha McCann (1848-1879) married George Madison Parker;
James Franklin McCann (1851-1941) married Lida Bane; Mary McCann (born 1853); John Hampton
McCann (1855-1925), married Flora Alice Marshall); Hardin McCann (born 1857), married Bettie ?); Ruth
McCann (born 1861), married Douglas Leslie; Hattie B. McCann (born 1861), married Benjamin Kirkendall;
Edward B. McCann (born 1866), married Helen ?; Elizabeth McCann (born 1863) married Richard Parish;
Alice McCann (1858-1928) married Joseph Albert Dawney (1836-1909).
The Dawneys are the great grandparents of Mr. Mowery. Their home was located about three miles past
Muses Chapel, Quick’s Run Road. (Note: In a separate section we are writing of the Dawneys and
Elizabeth D., who married Matt Armstrong and taught for many years in Lewis County.
Mr. Mowery has worked for many years putting together these materials on the McCann family. He
expresses gratitude to Tom and Janice McCann, Maxine Esham, Pauline McCall, Howard McCann,
Loretta McCann, Charlene Fallin for all their help, and special thanks to Magdalen Flack and Helen Nixon
who pointed him to this quest.)
Elizabeth Dawney Armstrong
Mrs. Elizabeth Dawney Armstrong was a first grade teacher in the Lewis County Schools for almost 50
years (1900-1948). Some “senior citizens” may still remember her. “Miss Lizzie” was a daughter of
Joseph A. Dawney and Alice McCann. Elizabeth Dawney (1878-1948) married Matt Armstrong. Other
siblings in this family were: Pearl Dawney (1882-1954) married Malcolm Wallace; Ida May Dawney (1884-
1928), married Earl Thomas; Nell Dawney (1886-1974), married Otis Jordan; Magdalen Dawney (1888-1948),
married Edward Cooke and secondly Clement Beans; Mary Louise Dawney (1893-1964), married Mason
Brown; and Daisy Dawney (born 1895), married William Schmeidlin.
According to the Vanceburg Sun, March 4, 1909, Joseph Dawney was buried at Muses Chapel in March,
1909.
Miss Mamie McCann, Attorney
In my youth at Flemingsburg I developed a friendship with Miss Mamie McCann, who was one of the few
women attorneys in the state of Kentucky at that time. On several occasions she discussed her McCann
ancestry with me and informed me that she was descended from John McCann (1790-1842) and his wife,
Catherine (1797-1877). They are buried in a little family graveyard near Tilton, Fleming County. She also
informed me of other members of her McCann family who were buried in a small graveyard on the Tilton-
Peck’s Ridge Road, Fleming County, and that a family that owned the farm in later years had removed the
large gravestones from the graves and made them into a sidewalk.
Miss McCann was a brilliant woman but her legal profession did not work out well. Women attorneys
were not much in demand in that day.
An article in a Lexington newspaper on Sunday, January 17, 1926, says that Miss Mamie McCann, a
Lexington attorney, was sworn in before Judge Andrew M. January Cochran as a member of the federal
bar. That was quite an honor for the Fleming County woman.
Miss McCann began her adult career as a teacher in Lexington, California, and Illinois. She took her law
training at the University of Kentucky Law School and at the University of Chicago. Earlier she had
graduated from Elizabeth College, of Charlotte, North Carolina. During WWI she was director of a Red
Cross center in Chicago.
I received my last letter from her in October, 1959, and at that time she was running a School of
Business in Maysville and was not then practicing law. She was asking me for information on a Thomas
McCann, who married a Farra (Farrar, Farrow). They had lived near the Mt. Olivet Church in Mason
County. Thomas and his wife moved to Manchester, Ohio, and ultimately to San Francisco. I never knew
any of her family, except Marshall McCann who was either a brother or cousin.
McCann family; Miss M. McCann, attorney
By William M. Talley
(use the "Contact Us" form to comment on Dr. Talley's columns)
It has been a pleasure to read Walter R. Borneman’s recent book The French & Indian War: Deciding the
Fate of North America. The book is greatly informative, flows well, and is well-referenced, with excellent
maps. The author does not seem to have a hidden agendum and clearly indicates the good as well as
the bad about the American Colonists, the British, the French, and the Indians and their dealings with
one another.
The British, in the 1750s, noticed that the French were building more and more forts along the Ohio and
in the British Territory that is now Ontario and Michigan. They sent Gen. James Braddock, accompanied
by the young George Washington, to investigate the situation on the Monongahela and at Fort
Duquesne (now Pittsburgh). It was a treacherous assignment and Braddock began to realize that he and
his superiors had underestimated the strength and will power of the French. Gen. Edward Braddock was
defeated and killed in July 1755 and he was buried in the middle of one of the roads he built so that his
grave would be obscured, diminishing the possibility of wild animals or the British from abusing the
corpse. Washington and the remainder of Braddock’s troops retreated. It is said that upwards of 500 of
Braddock’s men had died in the battle and even after five years their bleached bones were scattered
thickly for about a half mile in length and one hundred yards in breadth.
The fear of the French expansion had been set off by the fact that the King of France and the governor
of New France (Quebec) had dispatched Capt. Pierre-Joseph Celoron de Blainville to assert France ’s
claims in the Ohio Valley. He and his Jesuit chaplain, Father Bonnechamps, and assorted officers had
left Montreal on June 15, 1749, with the express purpose of mounting lead plates at the mouths of such
rivers as the Muskingum, Kanawha, and Miami, stating that the land had already been claimed by the
King of France. These were rivers that flowed into the Ohio from the north. [For many years, this historic
act was questioned until two or three of the plates were unearthed and proved that Blainville had
actually mounted these notices.]
The British were becoming very distressed that France was becoming aggressive in settling the land
they claimed in the Ohio Valley. The Indians lived in peace with the French, but they fought against the
British. The Indians felt that the British were trying to take their lands, whereas the French were content
with hunting animals for their furs, and the French were comfortable with assimilating with the Indians.
An unnamed general said that an Indian chief came to him and asked: “Why don’t you people (French
and English) go back to your own countries and do your fighting there and leave us alone?”
Several years earlier prior to Braddock’s defeat the British determined that the French Acadians, living
in Nova Scotia, were an obstacle in keeping control of that area and they determined to expel the
Acadians, burned their homes, and carried them away bodily to the American coast, many of them to the
swamps of Louisiana. [Thus was born the legend of “Evangeline” and the Cajun culture.]
Quebec City had remained an impenetrable fortress on its rock cliff, controlling the entrance to the St.
Lawrence, and it was only through an outright battle between Generals Wolfe and Montcalm that Britain
was able to claim Quebec as their own in 1763. At that point the British laid claim not only to their own
colonies but to the colonies previously claimed by France. So, the British realized that their colonies in
Canada required a great deal of supervision and in 1774 they enacted one of the Intolerable Acts, the
Quebec Act which placed the southern boundary of Quebec at the Ohio River and it basically remained
that way until after the Revolutionary War when the British retreated to their original agreed upon
boundaries. The British agreed that even though they (the French-speaking Quebecers) and Quebec
were a part of the British lands, they would be allowed to educate their children in French, conduct their
courts in French, and maintain the strong bond the French had with the Catholic Church. This was called
the British North American Act. And so it remains to this day.
It was not until 1803 that the colonies persuaded France to sell them New Orleans and Louisiana, thus
killing any hopes of French development in North America. Napoleon had run up such a war debt [in the
Napoleonic Wars] that the French were eager to sell it so they could pay off some of their war debts.
“Big John” McCann and his descendants
White settlers began to penetrate the wilderness we know as Lewis County as early as 1790. No doubt
they were awed by the wildlife and the fertile lands along the streams. One of these early settlers was
“Big John” McCann who settled on Quick’s Run where he raised a family and left behind generations of
his descendants many of whom live within Lewis County today. The McCanns were some of the factual
contributors to Rev. O.G. Ragan when he was writing his history of Lewis County in 1911.
A great-great-great-great-grandson of “Big John” is Clyde Mowery, of Lucasville, Ohio,
(poet2@roadrunner.com) who has provided us with a fine genealogical outline of the family.
John McCann, came from Pennsylvania, landing first at Limestone (Maysville), then moving to a farm in
Lewis County where he lived all of his adult life at the upper reaches of Quick’s Run with his wife, Nancy
Culbreath. At least three sons were born to them: (1) John P., (2) William (3), and James, whose lines we
shall now outline. (If John and Nancy had daughters we do not know their names.)
1. John P. McCann (1786-1866) married Elizabeth Cottingham and they had one son, Robert C. McCann
(1815-1888).
2. William McCann married Jane McKensie in Lewis County in 1812 and many of their descendants
remain in Lewis County. William served in the War of 1812 and is reported to have witnessed the death
of the great Indian chief, Tecumseh.
The children of William and Jane McCann were: John McCann (1813-1906) married Jane McKentosh in
1838; an article in the Lewis County newspaper in 1906 featured John B. McCann and his near 100 years
of respected living; Mary Ann McCann (1815-1878); Alexander McCann (1816-1896) married first, Mary
Jane Staten in 1845, and second, Eliza Himes in 1866 and has many descendants in Lewis County;
Edward B. McCann (1819-1902) married Elizabeth Burriss in 1847. [These are the great-great-
grandparents of Mr. Mowery.]; Amanda McCann (1823-1907); Nancy McCann (born 1825), married Jacob
Bolinger and nothing else is known of her; Alice McCann (1829-1894) married Morgan Cadwallader in
1858, no issue known; and Thomas McCann (1830-1898) married Louisa Rugless.
The third son of “Big John” McCann was James (1787-1870) who married Elizabeth Cunningham and
shortly afterwards moved to Boone County, Indiana. The Lewis County branch of the family lost touch
with them, but recently Mr. Mowery has been corresponding with the descendants of James and is
pleased to report that James was a well respected citizen of Boone County, Indiana, having served
several terms as County Recorder (1836-1850). The children of James and Elizabeth were: John P.
McCann (1813-1909), Robert C. McCann (1815-1887), James G. McCann (1817-1823), William G. McCann
(1819-1895), Margaret W. McCann (born 1821), Nancyann McCann (1823-1909), Pollyann McCann (1825-
1926), and Maryann McCann (2) (1825-1826).
The above James McCann, (born 1787, Pennsylvania ) served as County Recorder in Boone County,
Indiana, for several terms. James and his family came to Boone County in 1833 where he became owner
of 160 acres. He died in May 1870 and was first buried in the old Lebanon Cemetery (now called Cedar
Hill), but later moved to a new cemetery known as Oak Hill. The McCanns were members of the Christian
Church.
In his many trips to Lewis County, Mr. Mowery says he has visited the burial locations of many of the
McCann ancestors, at such hallowed places as Muses Chapel, Salem, Ribolt (Mt. Tabor) and Concord.
In a letter written to me in 1980 by Wayne M. McCann, of Metuchen, New Jersey, he says he is
descended from a Nicholas County branch of this family. His great-grandfather was James McCann
(born1830), who married Susan Barr in Nicholas County. This James was a son of John McCann, who
married Ann Ireland on Aug. 19, 1820. After the death of John McCann (about 1830) Ann married Ephraim
McGowan. Mr. McCann believes he is related to the Lewis County McCanns through William McCann
who left Nicholas County and moved to Lewis County. Since there were McCanns in Nicholas, Fleming,
Bourbon, Lewis, and Mason it has been difficult to untangle the relationships.
Back to the Lewis County family: Mr. Mowery continues his outline with a listing of William and Jane
McCann’s family, who are:
(1) John B. McCann (1813-1838) married Jane McKentosh and had the following children: William Henry
McCann and Marissa McCann;
(2) Alexander McCann (1816-1896) who married first Mary Jane Staten (1819-1863) and had the following
children, Sarah Alice McCann (1846-1878), married Horace Applegate; Mary Means McCann (1848-1917)
married David Teager Jones; Robert Henry McCann (1849-1918); Margaret Eliza (1851-1937), married
William Kelly Hampton; William Thomas McCann (1852-1926) married Maude McCann; Georgia Ann
McCann (1854-1926), married Ross Carr; Joseph Staten (1856-1927), married Elizabeth Herron; Juliett
Amanda McCann (1858-1905); married L. Tee Hendrickson; and John Melcher McCann (1860-1861);
Alexander McCann married second, Eliza Himes and had the following children: Ida Viola (1866-1925)
married James Middleton; Mintie Estelle McCann (1868-1952) married William Madison Evans; Nancy
Jenny McCann (born 1870); Montie McCann (1871-1898); Ada May McCann (1875-1939) married Milburn
Pence; William K. McCann (1878-1909).
Edward B. McCann (1819-1902), son of William and Jane McKentosh McCann, married Elizabeth Burriss
(1827-1886) and had the following children: Martha McCann (1848-1879) married George Madison Parker;
James Franklin McCann (1851-1941) married Lida Bane; Mary McCann (born 1853); John Hampton
McCann (1855-1925), married Flora Alice Marshall); Hardin McCann (born 1857), married Bettie ?); Ruth
McCann (born 1861), married Douglas Leslie; Hattie B. McCann (born 1861), married Benjamin Kirkendall;
Edward B. McCann (born 1866), married Helen ?; Elizabeth McCann (born 1863) married Richard Parish;
Alice McCann (1858-1928) married Joseph Albert Dawney (1836-1909).
The Dawneys are the great grandparents of Mr. Mowery. Their home was located about three miles past
Muses Chapel, Quick’s Run Road. (Note: In a separate section we are writing of the Dawneys and
Elizabeth D., who married Matt Armstrong and taught for many years in Lewis County.
Mr. Mowery has worked for many years putting together these materials on the McCann family. He
expresses gratitude to Tom and Janice McCann, Maxine Esham, Pauline McCall, Howard McCann,
Loretta McCann, Charlene Fallin for all their help, and special thanks to Magdalen Flack and Helen Nixon
who pointed him to this quest.)
Elizabeth Dawney Armstrong
Mrs. Elizabeth Dawney Armstrong was a first grade teacher in the Lewis County Schools for almost 50
years (1900-1948). Some “senior citizens” may still remember her. “Miss Lizzie” was a daughter of
Joseph A. Dawney and Alice McCann. Elizabeth Dawney (1878-1948) married Matt Armstrong. Other
siblings in this family were: Pearl Dawney (1882-1954) married Malcolm Wallace; Ida May Dawney (1884-
1928), married Earl Thomas; Nell Dawney (1886-1974), married Otis Jordan; Magdalen Dawney (1888-1948),
married Edward Cooke and secondly Clement Beans; Mary Louise Dawney (1893-1964), married Mason
Brown; and Daisy Dawney (born 1895), married William Schmeidlin.
According to the Vanceburg Sun, March 4, 1909, Joseph Dawney was buried at Muses Chapel in March,
1909.
Miss Mamie McCann, Attorney
In my youth at Flemingsburg I developed a friendship with Miss Mamie McCann, who was one of the few
women attorneys in the state of Kentucky at that time. On several occasions she discussed her McCann
ancestry with me and informed me that she was descended from John McCann (1790-1842) and his wife,
Catherine (1797-1877). They are buried in a little family graveyard near Tilton, Fleming County. She also
informed me of other members of her McCann family who were buried in a small graveyard on the Tilton-
Peck’s Ridge Road, Fleming County, and that a family that owned the farm in later years had removed the
large gravestones from the graves and made them into a sidewalk.
Miss McCann was a brilliant woman but her legal profession did not work out well. Women attorneys
were not much in demand in that day.
An article in a Lexington newspaper on Sunday, January 17, 1926, says that Miss Mamie McCann, a
Lexington attorney, was sworn in before Judge Andrew M. January Cochran as a member of the federal
bar. That was quite an honor for the Fleming County woman.
Miss McCann began her adult career as a teacher in Lexington, California, and Illinois. She took her law
training at the University of Kentucky Law School and at the University of Chicago. Earlier she had
graduated from Elizabeth College, of Charlotte, North Carolina. During WWI she was director of a Red
Cross center in Chicago.
I received my last letter from her in October, 1959, and at that time she was running a School of
Business in Maysville and was not then practicing law. She was asking me for information on a Thomas
McCann, who married a Farra (Farrar, Farrow). They had lived near the Mt. Olivet Church in Mason
County. Thomas and his wife moved to Manchester, Ohio, and ultimately to San Francisco. I never knew
any of her family, except Marshall McCann who was either a brother or cousin.
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