Thomas McCulloch/McCullough b. 1812-1817 TN d. aft 1850 m. Mary "Polly" Glasscock abt. 1835 probably in Jackson Co., AL. Thomas is on the list of those who served with Capt Moses Glasscock druing the 1832 Cherokee Removal. He is on the 1840 and 1850 census living in Jackson Co., AL. Thomas McCullock found on BLM website as receiving 40 acres of bounty land in Jackson Co. for his service in Glasscock's Militia regiment. He reassigned that land to John Cunningham and John Patterson - warrant #5497 dated 1854.
The children listed in 1850 census shown as Sophia, Alexander, Martha, Ellen, Moses and Chilo (Shiloh?). Mary's father, Moses Herndon Glasscock died about 1851 and his estate settlement lasted for years in the courts, naming heirs, including the fact that Mary was dec'd and some of her children named.
By 1860 the only McCulloch of any spelling left in Jackson Co. is an Alexander McCullough/McCuller/McCully depending on record. However, now in Ripley Co., MO we find a group of siblings living together believed to be the children of Thomas and Mary McCulloch. The census taker used only initials, but the daughter Ellen McCullough married there to Melvin Micager Payne and is my great grandmother. Her husband Melvin Payne served in the Civil War and was never well after and died in 1874. Ellen remarried to John Freeman and she is buried in the Macedonia Cemetery in Ripley Co., MO as Ellen Freeman. Her other siblings have never been found.
I'm hoping someone has also been looking for this family and we can share information.
Pam Smith
Dallas, OR