Lemuel McCracken Mystery

James McCracken was born about 1761 in North Ireland.  He came to the U.S. prior to 1785 as he married Rachel Kelley in Lancaster County, PA that year.  James and Rachel later lived in Westmoreland Co, PA, Columbiana Co, OH, and Wayne Co, OH.

Our family has DNA matches to multiple of James’ children.  DNA matches include matches through the following children:

• Nathaniel.  See the separate section on Nathaniel.  We have at least 10 DNA matches to his descendants through multiple children with some being very strong matches.

• Elizabeth.  We have at least 5 DNA matches to Elizabeth’s descendants.  All our DNA matches to this branch are through her daughter Rachel Scott who married James Vance.

We also have a DNA match to at least one of James’ brother Thomas’ descendants.

Henry Charles McCracken (See section above) appears via DNA to be related to this family as well.  It is unclear how he fits inthe family, but we have DNA matches that indicate the two families are connected.

There are also a large number of other DNA matches that appear to be related to James’ descendants.  Determining those relationships is a work in progress and may help narrow down the ancestors of Lemuel.