My
McLendon Branch
1 William Reason MCLENDON b: bef 1756 ?? (unproven see below)
2 Needham MCLENDON b: abt 1782
3 Cemanthy MCLENDON b: 5-1-1818
+ Thomas Andrew DAVIS b: 5-12-1818
4 Merenthy DAVIS b: 3-18-1841
+ Alexander SPIVEY b: 3-6-1831
5 Edmund "Eddie" SPIVEY (changed name to Homer Leon MCLENDON) b: 5-10-1883 or 11-21-1882
6 William Earl MCLENDON b: 2-17-1917
7 Walter Earl MCLENDON b: 5-24-1938
Note: See individual surname trees on main page.
McLendon
Family Tree
1 William Reason MCLENDON b: bef 1756, Darlington, SC [submitted by Katie Henry, Rt 4 Box 1325, Hazelhurst, GA 31539]
+ Elizabeth TOMBERLIN b: 1760, Darlington, SC
[Some McLendon researchers contend William Reason instead of Ephriam Elijah - above is unproven]
1 Ephriam Elijah MCLENDON b: abt 1750 d; bef 1808 & 1810 [proof is questionable]
+ Elizabeth TOMLINSON
2 Needham MCLENDON b: abt 1782, Darlington, SC [1850 census in Laurens Co, GA] Buried: Johnson Cem, Montgomery Co, GA
+Mary (Polly) Elizabeth SEARS b: 1793 NC d: 1873 Clinch, GA Buried: Johnson Cem, Montgomery Co, GA Parents: John
SEARS b: ? d; 1831 Montgomery Co, GA 1765, Rowan, NC d: 3-12-1839, Nicholas, KY * Tabitha b: 1767, Rowan, NC
(had 12 children)
3 Ephriam William MCLENDON b: 1-6-1815, Ogeeche River, Bartow Co, GA d: 2-27-1897
+(1) Mary Jane WILLIAMS or KING b: 10-5-1850 m: 1869 d: 2-17-1924 Laurens Co, GA
4 Isaac Thomas McLendon b: 1-29-1880 Laurens Co, GA d: 3-25-1939 buried Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church Appling Co, GA
+ Elmira Beasley
5 Ruby Lee McLendon b: 8-28-1909 Dublin, GA d: Sep 1981 Clinton, SC
+
Leon Lamar THOMAS
6 Richard THOMAS b: 10-27-1932
+ Marlene
LOWMAN they had 3 children:
7.Debbie THOMAS (she married and has an adult daughter named Candi and a toddler
grandaughter)
7 Al THOMAS d: as a
teen/young adult
7 Danny THOMAS
6 Edward THOMAS b: 11-4-1937
+(1) Evelyn JENKINS
7 Ralph THOMAS m:
Melissa and one son Matthew
7 Melissa THOMAS was
married & had a son Jeremy, she died of leukemia when Jeremy was 3 or 4 yrs
old
+(2)
Debra FOX
6 Jackie THOMAS b: 2-20-1940
+
Woodrow "Woody" ALEXANDER
7 Kim
ALEXANDER
7 .Stacie ALEXANDER
7 Scott ALEXANDER
6 Gary THOMAS b:
11-23-1943
+(1) Kay GUSKE
7 Jenny Elizabeth THOMAS b: 9-13-1971
m: Duane SCARBOROUGH & had twin sons: Andrew & Hunter
b: 2-28-1997 live in Tifton, GA
7 Charles “Chuckie” Gary THOMAS b:
10-30-1979 currently a student at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA)
+(2)
Caroline ALEXANDER
+(3) Frances CATE
m: 12-4-1999
3 Elizabeth MCLENDON b: 1813, Laurens, GA
+John SMITH b: bef 1809, Laurens, GA
3 Mariah (Maritha?) MCLENDON b: 12-15-1811, Ogeeche River, Bartow, GA [never married but had 5 daughters,
proported by sister Elizabeth's husband John SMITH and one son] d: 11-17-1894
4 William Henry MCLENDON b: 10-2-1841 [proported to be the son of Cemantha & Thomas Andrew DAVIS] d: 6-10-1923
+ Mary Ann Wilkes Parents: John Wilkes & Charity Branch.
4 Mary Chloe MCLENDON b: Aug 1846 [in 1850 census in Needham’s household]
4 Sophia Jane MCLENDON b: 8-15-1848 [in 1850 census “ “ “ ]
4 Elizabeth MCLENDON b: Jul 1850 [in 1860 census]
4 Martha Ann MCLENDON b: 1-28-1853 “
4 Harriet Corene MCLENDON b: 9-12-1857 “
3 Matthew Jacob MCLENDON b: 10-22-1822, Laurens, GA
3 Pollard McCormick MCLENDON b: 10-22-1822, Laurens, GA d: 12-13-1895, Laurens, GA Buried: McClendon
Cem, Laurens, GA
+Eliza Ann THIGPEN b; 12-16-1828, Emanuel, GA m: 7-30-1848 d: 3-31-1924, Laurens, GA Buried: 4-1-1924
McClendon Cem, Laurens, GA Parents: Melancthon THIGPEN b: 1802, Emanuel, GA & Barbara Ann RICKS b: 1806, Emanuel, GA
4 Pollard Lenton MCLENDON b: 7-17-1854, Emanuel Co, GA d: 10-31-1929 Wheeler Co, GA Buried: Red
Bluff Cem, near Soperton, Treutlen Co, GA
+Cemantha Elizabeth DAVIS b: 12-30-1855 Montgomery Co, GA m: 2-16-1881 Montgomery Co, GA (Remarried later
to Dr. William Jasper STAPLETON) d:2-14-1933 Waycross, Ware Co, GA Buried: Red Bluff Cem, near Soperton,
Treutlen Co, GA
5 Homer Lenton MCLENDON b: 10-28-1881 Laurens Co, GA d: 4-10-1940
+Sallie FLANAGAN b: 1-2-1885 Putnam Co, GA m: 1-14-1906 Telfair, GA
6 Russell MCLENDON
7 Katherine Ann MCLENDON
** + Bob PITTA bpitta@bay.csuhayward.edu
6 Other children Lois, Hugh, Dwight, Sally, Lillian, & ?
5 Jennie Maud MCLENDON b: 8-7-1884 d: 9-4-1925 Buried: Red Bluff Baptist Church Cem, Laurens, Co, GA
+James Harris STEPHENS
6 Samantha Ola STEPHENS
7 Beverly J. BROCK
6 ?
** 7 Louise SNOWDEN granddau wtls@caironet.com
5 Thomas Felder MCLENDON b: 1883
5 Eudora MCLENDON b: 1889
5 Merentha M. MCLENDON b: 1892
5 Pollard McCormick MCLENDON b: 2-22-1894 Mt. Vernon, Mongomery Co, GA
5 Hetty MCLENDON b: 1899
4 William Harrison MCLENDON b: 12-30-1849 m: Ella MCLENDON cousin
4 Mary Ann Barbara MCLENDON b: 12-25-1852 m: John MANNING
4 Ephrian MCLENDON b: 4-25-1857 Emanuel Co, GA m: Ida MILLER
4 Martha Ann MCLENDON b: 7-20-1859
4 Alpha MCLENDON b: 11-7-1860 Laurens Co, GA d: 1947
+ Archibald MCDANIEL Parents: Matt MCDANIEL & Rachel MCSWAIN.
4 Vernon E. or John MCLENDON b: 5-6-1865 m: Josephine WALL
4 Laura E. MCLENDON b: 10-27-1867 m: Carol MARTIN
4 Elizabeth MCLENDON b: 11-22-1871 d: 1876
3 Needham MCLENDON b: 1817 or 5-1-1818 Laurens, GA d: 8-31-1861
+Harriet SEARS b: 3-9-1819, Montgomery, GA m: 3-24-1845 d: 3-31-1862 Parents: David SEARS b: 12-17-1791,
Rowan, NC 8-24-1864, Atkinson, GA Buried: Union Hill Cem. Atkinson & Levicy NOBLES m: 4-19-1810, Montgomery
Co, GA
3 Cemanthy MCLENDON b: 5-1-1818, Laurens, GA d: 9-4-1893, Montgomery Co, GA Buried: Red Bluff Cem, Trueetlin,
GA with her children
+Thomas Andrew DAVIS b: 5-12-1818, Montgomery, Co, GA m: 1840 d: 7-21-1891, Montgomery, Co, GA buried: Smith-
McLendon Family Cem, 5 miles from Red Bluff Cem. Parents: Arthur DAVIS & Charlotte ADAMS
4 (Eleven Other children of Cemanthy & Thomas): Cemantha Elizabeth, Margie Anne, Mary Anne, Eliza A., Hyrum,
George, Thomas, Berian, Pollard Columbus, Earlie, and I.J. DAVIS - all buried: Red Bluff Cem.
4 Mary Anne DAVIS b: 1842 Montgomery Co, GA
+John A. MCLENDON b: 1846 Montgomery Co, GA
4 Merenthy DAVIS b: 3-18-1841, Montgomery Co, GA d: 6-18-1915 Johnson Co, GA buried: with Alexander
+Alexander SPIVEY b: 3-6-1831, Robeson Co, NC (or 1836-7 in Mongomery Co, GA),farmer m: 21-1-1862Montgomery Co, GA d: 7-11-1909, Johnson Co,
GA buried Hutchensen Cem near Adrian, Johnson Co, GA
*** 5 Edmund "Eddie" SPIVEY (changed name to Homer Leon MCLENDON) b: 5-10-1883 or 11-21-1882
Montgomery Co, GA d: 3-3-1968, Ft. Worth, TX buried: #585 Rosehill Memorial Park
+Margie GILLENTINE b: 12-24-1889, Morgan Mills, Erath Co, TX m: 7-11-1907 d: 6-4-1962, Ft. Worth,
TX buried: # 585 Rosehill Memorial Park, Parents: George Washington GILLENTINE b: 11-7-1854, Hunt Co,
TX d: 3-1-1901, Erath Co, TX and Rebecca Ann HARMON b: 11-16-1854, TX m: 1-5-1873 d: 5-11-1903
6 Elmo MCLENDON b: 3-22-1911 d: 4-8-1990, Dallas, TX
+(1) Jessie Frances SMITH b: 1-10-1911 d: 12-18-1988 Hopkins, Co, TX
7 Wanda Jean MCLENDON b: 11-14-1933 Dallas Co, TX
7 Billie Earl MCLENDON b: 8-18-1936 Tarrant Co, TX
7 Charles MCLENDON
7 Bobby MCLENDON
+(2) Mildred Agnes ? d: 8-30-1997 Dallas Co, TX
6 William Earl MCLENDON b: 2-17-1917, Brashear, TX
+(1) Nellie Mae WISEMAN b: 5-12-1920 San Angelo, TX m: 10-24-1936 Weatherford, TX d: 12-31-
1960 Lufkin, Angelina Co, TX
me 7 Walter Earl MCLENDON b: 5-24-1938 Ft Worth, Tarrant Co, TX
+ Linda Jo CRUMMEL b: 12-1-1940 Houston, Harris Co, TX
+(2)Billie SANDERS m: abt 1962 Lufkin, TX (mother: Abigale SANDERS, Plum Ridge, TX on Sam
Rayburn Lake)
6 Evelyn MCLENDON b: 2-17-1917, Brashear, TX [twin]
+ Emile GISEL m: , CA d: OR
7 Wayne GISEL
7 Glenn GISEL
6 Opal MCLENDON d: 2001
+Weldon Lee BLEVINS b: d: 10-31-1989 Tarrant Co, TX
7 Donald Lee BLEVINS b: 9-16-1940 Tarrant Co, TX m: ? , Keller, TX
7 Dianne BLEVINS b: 5-13-1942 Tarrant Co, TX
6 Wilna May MCLENDON b: 11-23-1913 d: 5-14-1999 Ft Worth, Tarrant Co, TX
+James Marvin SPARKS b: 5-19-1913 d: 2-19-1990 Tarrant Co, TX
7 James Lynn SPARKS b: 11-8-1940 Tarrant Co, TX
+ Nancy J GLENN b: 1940 m: 1-22-1971 & 3-11-1977 Tarrant Co, TX
5 Levi SPIVEY b: 11-7-1874 Montgomery Co, GA d: 1959 buried Poplar Springs, Johnson Co, GA
+ (2) Lincie RICKS b: 1888 d: 1928 buried with Levi
+ (1)Catherine DREW b: 1873 m: 4-5-1896 Laurens Co, GA d: 1905 buried with Levi.
6 John B. SPIVEY b: 1-29-1897 Adrian, Montgomery Co, GA WWI vet, GA Representative 1930-35, GA Senator 1937-41, pres Am Bar Assoc 1959.
+Florrie Dean RICKS
7 Julia Christine SPIVEY
+W.H. ROUNTREE
7 Ruby Katheryn SPIVEY
+Ernest A. GRINDLER
6 Floyd L. SPIVEY
+Ethel STAFFORD
6 Ted SPIVEY
+ ?
7 Dean SPIVEY (dau) b: 1938 in CA