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This single photocopy pushed me on to find the rest of the charts, because it looked like it was part of a much larger charting of the McCall family line. I couldn’t find any of these charts in the Genealogy Library in Salt Lake City, UT, so I posted a note online at genealogy.com in search for them. I also began researching the names on the piece of the chart I had in my possession and posted some of my research online. While researching I discovered a link to the inventory of the Manuscripts Department at the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This link outlined an inventory of the McCall Family Papers that contained genealogy for the McColl family of Marlboro County, SC. I called the library and ordered the collection in on microfilm.

When I recieved the film, I was excited to see that it contained the entire collection of charts, and solved the mystery about it’s origins and author. The charts began with a letter that said the following (and were in the same handwriting of the original chart):

Dec 11, 1990

Connie -
The clan genealogies were prepared by Duncan McColl of Bennettsville and Hugh McColl of Scotland sometime in the twenties or early thirties. Duncan McColl of Bennettsville did the ground work. A lawyer and prominent citizen of Bennettsville. His son now about 70 lives on South Main Street in Bennettsville.

John “Gurly” is my line and I believe to be basically correct. I do not know if SC/3 (Referring to the numbering on the charts) is correct but believe it probably is. John “Gurly”s son Malcolm was supposed to have married a Reynolds and died without issue. According to descendents consensus this is correct.

I am writing this from memory my records are in such a mess it will take much digging to be more specific but will try if there is any point upon which you may desire clarification. I will try. I believe these people – the ones going to Lowndes County, Alabama came out of Mountain Creek in Richmond County, North Carolina. I think I remember a land grant to a Paul McColl. Buried in Hayneville, Lowndes Co., Alabama is Nellie McRae widow of Daniel McColl who died in his mill pond on Mountain Creek about 1820 I think. Ellerby Springs is near Mountain Creek. Many of these McColl families passed through Marlboro County – stayed for years in fact – on their way south.

The first McColls on Mountain Creek was old John and his wife Catherine who came over about 1775 on the Jupiter of Larne from Appen Argylshire Scotland. The old cemetary in the middle of the woods has only two readable tombstones, the last one 1857 old John’s daughter Catharine and her husband red Hugh McColl – Secretary to Harmony Presbyterian Church record still in existence.

On second thought – please do not accept SC/3 as fact although it probably is. I cannot prove it either way. I accept SC/9 as basically factual because through the years it has proven so. The same opportunity has not been the same with SC/3. Some information in the History of Marlboro County is probably true but needs to be accepted with care.

John “Gurly” was alive thru the census of 1860 living with son Hugh’s widow – Dollie Cameron having probably died some time before. Descendants of Hugh erected a new tombstone to John “Gurly” in Stewartsville Cemetery. The old sandstone marker having become unreadable. How they knew it was his grave I do not know but they believe. The McColl cemetery two miles west of Clio has Hugh and Malcolm and Janet Cameron sister to Dollie and her husband a grandson of old John of Mountain Creek.

With Best Regards
OJ McColl

I also found this note in the same archives originally written to Hugh McColl in 1988. I don’t seem to have printed out the name of the letter’s author, but a portion of it gives more insight to the origin of these charts.

A Hugh McColl came from Appin sometime in the 20′s to the U.S. looking up McColls who had come over here – there were some in the North (Philadelphia) that he visited. Uncle D gave him the use of his car to look up the ones in Marlboro County and that Hugh McColl planned to incorporate what he got in a genealogicial McColl survey. He died during World War II in an automobile accident in Scotland on his way to work (or from) in an aluminum factory.

After the war, Aunt Rhett and Eleanor and later Mary Lynch, and Robin and I went to see his widow who lived at Ballachulish. When we were there (1966) her house was rented out and she was living in a trailer and we stood out in front of her house overlooking the Loch and the Pop of Glencoe. Mary Lynch who was there afterward said Mrs. MacColl said she was embarrassed not to ask us in.

I have posted scanned copies of all the charts online so they can be reference by other McCall, McColl, MacColl surname researchers:

• SC/1.1 David McColl (“the first”) d. 1809
• SC/1.2 Continued
• SC/2 Hugh & Anne McColl – Farmer of Upper Glasdrum Appin b. 1732
• SC/3 Duncan McColl (MacColls of Three Creeks)
• SC/4 Lauchliin MacColl & (1)Jeanette (2)Catharine
• SC/5.1 John & Sarah McColl – farmer in Glasdrum, Appin
• SC/5.2 Continued
• SC/6 John S. & Christina MacIntyre McColl (Granny McColl)
• SC/7 Big Solomon
• SC/8 John & Mary McLaurin McColl of Inverfolla, Appin, Argyll
• SC/9 John “Gurley” McColl Branch (Note: Owen Jasper McColl in the bottom right of the chart is OJ McColl)
• SC/10.1 John of Mountain Creek
• SC/10.2 Continued (Note: This is my family line)
• SC/11 Laurel Hill Branch of McColls
• SC/12 & SC/13 Hanna Ragland Branch
• SC/14 “Steady Hugh” McColl Branch
• SC/15 “Little Solomon”

Thanks to all of those in the past who participated in the research that created these charts – I know that I have found that these have been a great resource in giving me the directions to look for more specific information. Since my line is from SC/10.2 that’s where most of my genealogy research has been from and I can answer questions on.

Fran Stewart is also from this same chart (John of Mountain Creek), and she and her family have done extensive research that she has put online at McColl-Name.com.