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My two great great grandmothers (both on my father's side) were Rebecca Emeline McLain Hodges and Mary Ann McLain Foster. Both were born in GA. Nancy, their older sister (b.3-17-1794 in GA) married John Bellah. Parents of these sisters were William Thomas McLane (b. 1776, VA) and Rebecca Ann Warren (b. 1784, NC). Have never found any information connecting either William Thomas or his wife Rebecca Warren to any other families in the VA areas. I suspect Rebecca Warren may be from the VA Warren's. By 1812, Nancy's parents and siblings had moved to TN where a brother, William Zed was born. I believe they were in Lincoln Co., TN. By 1836, the family relocated to Houston Co., TX Some of them received Spanish Land Grants there. William Thomas McLane died before the 1860 Texas census. Between the 1850 Texas census (which found both of them in Houston Co., TX) and the 1860 TX census- Rebecca Warren McLane had joined her daughter Mary Ann McLane Foster and family when the Foster's relocated to Palo Pinto Co., TX where they were shown on the 1860 census. Rebecca Warren McLane (76 yr. old in 1860) lived alone next to the Foster's. None of them (Rebecca, her daughter Mary Ann or her son-in-law, Rufus Foster) appeared on any later census reports. Palo Pinto County was truly the dangerous, un-settled territory during the 1850's--Indian attacks, outlaws, etc. I would be interested to know if there might be some of Nancy McLane Bellah's descendants, doing genealogy, who might have come across something in Nancy's or her offspring's history that might indicate whether Nancy ever knew what had ultimately happened to her mother, Rebecca Ann Warren McLane. We have some very interesting speculations on the reasons for the move to Palo Pinto county. Mary McLane Foster was the only one of William & Rebecca's children to leave the land grants in Houston county after having lived there for at least 20 years. Then there is the big question- why would the matriarch, Rebecca, probably around 70 years old at the time of the move- opt to make a terrible, dangerous, journey to unsettled territory when she had several other children living in Houston county and remained there. Anyone have any information on who might have been the families of William Thomas McLane and Rebecca Warren McLane---information is welcome.
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