About us
Hello and Welcome! This project was created to collect and analyze descendants of Alexander McPherson and Mary Beall/Bell McPherson. Please only request to join if you know that you descended from this couple and you have already or are planning to take a Family Finder test here at Family Tree DNA. If you have tested at 23andMe please transfer your results to FTDNA first before joining.
Qualifying surnames and descendants:
Descendants of Alexander and Mary McPherson
McPherson: descend from one of Alexander McPherson and Mary Beall/Bell McPherson's six male children:
George McPherson
Isaac McPherson
Joseph McPherson
Jesse C. McPherson
James Elijah McPherson
Jacob McPherson
Descend from one of Alexander McPherson and Mary Beall/Bell McPherson's two female children:
Elizabeth McPherson married Barton McPherson
Anne McPherson married Robert Ely
Surnames:
George McPherson and Sarah Unknown (possibly McCellend):
McCellend, McCllend, Todd, Neil, Headon, Evans, many others that I do not have in my genealogy file, please contact me and let me know your descent from George or one of his children.
Isaac McPherson and Mary Unknown:
Kennedy, York, Kitchen, Norman, Crane, Gordon, Daugherty, Kealand/Keeling, Adams, Willis, Sayers, Driskill, Kindrick, Crowder, Wood, Thoss
Joseph McPherson m. possible three times: Jane Unknown, Unknown Unknown, Nancy Williams
son Samuel m. Nancy White Sayers
Crank, Hill, Bishop, Scott, Williams,
Jesse C McPherson and Jenny Atkinson:
Hume/Hum, Woodward, Anderson, Porter, Moore, Sutton,