Your message about Samuel McCracken Jr. interested me because of his siblings names. I am looking for a Samuel Leomidan McCracken born 1849 SC and your Samuel Sr. had 2 sons with names close to that. When you are reading census records sometimes it is hard to make out the exact spelling. My Samuel 's father is suppost to be a William James McCracken born in SC. and mother Lucinda Teague born abt.1821 in SC. According to the 1870 census of Heard Co. Ga. In 1849 they were in SC and than 2 daughters were born in Alabama in 1853 and 1855 than they were in Ga. by 1870 with Lucinda as head of house hold. I wonder if William died in the Civil War. Is it possable that my William James McCracken was related to your Samuel McCracken Sr.?