THE ADDITION OF "MAIN MAC" MATHEW MCCAMMON SAID TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN ANTRIM IRELAND IS PURELY SUPPOSITION ON MY PART AND HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN. I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT THIS IS THE GRANDFATHER OF MATHEW ALEXANDER, FATHER OF SUSIE AND LENA. ACCORDING TO THE GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF MATHEW A, JENNIFER FREEZE (THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER PEARL) HE WAS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MATHEW ALEXANDER, III. THIS MATHEW APPEARS TO FILL THE BILL AS HIS GRANDFATHER BASED ON THE FOLLOWING: MATHEW A'S FATHER "BIG MAC" IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN KENTUCKY CA 1875. MAIN MAC WAS IN KENTUCKY AT THE APPROXIMATE TIME, BEFORE MOVING TO SULLIVAN COUNTY INDIANA, WHERE HE DIED IN 1841. HE IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN MARRIED 3 TIMES AND HAD FATHERED 18 CHILDREN IN ALL. IN A BOOK WRITTEN ON HIM MOST OF THE CHILDREN ARE NAMED BUT THERE IS NO MENTION OF A MATHEW. HOWEVER, MANY RESEARCHERS OF HIS FAMILY ARE SAID TO BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A MATHEW JR. IN THE 1810 CENSUS THERE IS AN UNACCOUNTED FOR MALE LIVING IN MAIN MAC'S HOUSEHOLD BORN BETWEEN 1790 AND 1800, THAT SOME BELIEVE MAY BE A MATHEW JR. ALSO IN THE FAMILY IN INDIANA THAT IS HIS DESCENDANTS THE NAME ALEXANDER IS RATHER PREVALANT.
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