Absolom N. McClanahan ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1830 in , Hickman, TN. name: Asolum Mcclanahan
event place: Hickman, Tennessee
page number: 280
nara publication number: M19
nara roll number: 176
film number: 0024534
digital folder number: 004409557
image number: 00574.

2. Moved: 1835, Council Bend, Hickman, TN. The map location where the McClanahan farm was in Council Bend, Hickman County, is known on the U.S. Geological Survey maps as McClanahan Hollow, a valley. This link puts a green arrow on the location on Google Maps: http://goo.gl/maps/JVFGr.

3. Census in 1850 in , Hickman, TN. ¹ The 1850 census recorded farmer Absolum McClanahan, 50, living with wife Lydia, 42; William, 21; Catherine, 19; Absolum, 16; Robert, 14; and James, 4. All children were born in Tennessee, the father in Kentucky, and mother in North Carolina. His real estate was valued at $2000.

Next door is his son, David, farmer, 23, with his wife, Mary, 24; and Catherine, 2.

Also a neighbor is John McClanahan, farmer, 24, living alone.

On the previous page is Thomas M. McClanahan, 45, living with his wife Frances, 40; Leonidas, 18; Frances, 14; Mortimer, 10; Howell, 6; William, 2; and June, 6 months. Also in the home listed apart as if not their child is John McClanahan, 18. All were born in Tennessee except Thomas in South Carolina.

4. Book: The History of Hickman County, Tennessee, 1900. ²
William McClanahan came from North Carolina to Davidson and from there to Council's Bend about 1835. He was the father of Absalom McClanahan, who was the father of Robert and Newton McClanahan. Newton was born in Davidson County on August 6, 1833. One of Newton's daughters married John T. Fowlkes. The McClanahans had much to do with building several of the bridges in Hickman County.

Absolom married Lydia. (Lydia was born about 1808 in , , NC ¹.)