This is our attempt to match Andrew McMillan’s household as enumerated in the 1830 federal census of Madison County, Tennessee,1 with the McMillans living in the Clear Creek area of Sevier County, Arkansas, at the time of the 1850 census:
- 1 male age 50 and under 60 (born 1771–1780) — Andrew?
- 1 female age 30 and under 40 (born 1791–1800) — Mrs McMillan?
- 1 male age 15 and under 20 (born 1811–1815) — James Russell?
- 2 males age 10 and under 15 (born 1816–1820) — Hugh M & Joshua?
- 1 female age 10 and under 15 (born 1816–1820) — ?
- 1 female age 5 and under 10 (born 1821–1825) — Elizabeth R?
- 2 males under 5 (born 1826–1829) — Hubbard & ?
- 1 female under 5 (born 1826–1829) — Martha?
This is purely speculative; the only documented parent-child relationships we have for Andrew so far are those of Cinderella and Susan Salina, both of whom would have been born after the 1830 census.
Another possibility, and one that would fit with census information, is that Joshua McMillan was not Andrew’s son. Accordng to census information, Joshua was born in North Carolina, while all the other McMillans living in the Clear Creek area in 1850 were born in Alabama or Tennessee. There is a record of a marriage between Joshua McMillan and Nancy M McMillan in Madison County, TN, in 1839.2 Nancy’s age in 1850 was 34, which would fit with her being the female age 10–15 in Andrew’s household in 1830. Could Joshua have been Andrew’s cousin (hopefully removed once or twice), or completely unrelated, only coincidentally sharing the surname?
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