I am a decendant of Riley Medlen through Ammon, Warren C. and Warren H. My grandmother always insisted that all the decendants of Raleigh or Riley Medlen spelled their names 'len' and not "lin" or "ley".

Another Medlen; Almon has his will with the spelling "len"

I have ofter wonder about the relationship of Almon and Ammon. Apparently they were both Raleigh (Riley) sons.

My records show that Riley's wife (mother of Ammon) was Elizabeth Maxwell the daugher of an Amos Maxwell.

Ammon married Maranda Maxwell, the daughter of another Amos Maxwell and Mary Polly Potton. This was Amos's second wife. The first was Elisa Louisa Cole.

I have not been able to work out the connection between the two Amos Maxwell if there is one.

THANKS! I had, or found, "Elizabeth" but did not have/could not find her maiden name. I located a book in the Putnum County library on the Maxwell Family (Samuel Maxwell to be exact) and did not see another Amos other than his son. I guess we will both have to continue to search!

Thanks again!

Linda Heaton (great granddaughter of Ammon Medlen

Cousin;

How are you descended from Ammon. You have probably read my line through Warren C. Medlen (WC)and through Warren Howard Medlen.

I too am a GGgrandson of Ammon

Minnie S. Medlen married Ammon W. Austin and they lived in Warren County, KY. They had 11 children (3 boys and 8 girls).

I believe I recall my grandmother referring to Minnie's husband as "Wiley".

Correction. Minnie and Ammon W. Medlen lived in Warren Co., TN.

My grandfather is Byrd Medlen and my father is J. B. (John Byrd, Jr) who is now deceased. I am the oldest grandchild on that side of the family and can remember meeting Uncle Warren once when he traveled to Tennessee many, many years ago! Tell me your connection?

Feel free to email me direct: Linda Medlen Heaton
lmheaton@insightbb.com It's so good to see someone else in the Medlen family doing some family research! I am the only one on the Byrd Medlen side.

Cousin Linda:

My father was Warren Howard Medlen, (b.12/1914 d.01/2000) and his father was Warren Cicero Medlen, (d. 1932) and his father was Ammon F. Medlen. I am the second oldest grandchild of "WC". I have a brother, Wendell Howard Medlen b 11/22/1941. Wendell has one daughter, Wendy Utt. Howard had also daughters; Mary Elizabeth Medlen Cox who has two children Travis and Amy, and Nancy Jane Medlen Barineau who has a daughter Meaghan.
I was born 9/6/1944)and my wife, Judy Carolyn Reeder Medlen, have 3 sons; Michael A. Medlen (43), Warren E. Medlen (38), and Nathaniel B. Medlen (34). Warren E. "Chip" has a daughter, Christina Michelle (9).
I lived in Smithville, DeKalb Co., Tn for many years but but removed to Bowling Green, KY in May 1978.
Presently, the only living decendant of Warren C. Medlen living in DeKalb Co. is Julian Shawn Jacobs the son of WC's youngest child and her husband, Thelma Louise Medlen Jacobs and William Leon Jacobs.
By the way my grandfather and grandmother, Warren C. and Leatha Matilda Jones Medlen are buried in the Byrd Jones Cemetery in Silver Point, TN. My fathers ashes are interred in the Smithville town cemetery alongside my stepmother, Corinne Hendon Medlen.

My brother's daughter, Wendy Medlen Utt has now begun research also.

Thanks so much for all the info! Without looking, I believe I have found some of this, but certainly not all of it.

As I believe I shared with you, my grandfather was Byrd (John Byrd) Medlen who was married to Maggie Billings. My father John Byrd (J.B.)Jr.(12/10/1912)(married Linnie O. Hayes), was the oldest of 5 children (Maudell Medlen Hicks (1914)(married Clayton Hicks) - one son, Jim Hicks; LD Medlen - two adopted children, Joanna and Robert; Mabel Medlen Burgess - no children; Charley Milton (married Edith Davis)- one son, Kenneth Medlen (12/29/1954) married Jewel Burks. Uncle Charley and his family live in the McMinnville area. I was born 4/2/1942 and my brother Larry Hayes Medlen was born 9/24/1946.

My grandparents are buried at Peel Chestnut, and so is Aunt Mabel and Aunt Maudell. My mother and dad are buried in McMinnville, TN, Uncle LD and wife Almyra Walkup Medlen are buried in Murfreesboro. I lived in several surrounding states until I married (James N. Heaton) in 1983. I moved to Lexington, KY in 1980 as a state Textiles & Clothing Specialist with the UK Cooperative Extension Service and have been here ever since. Jim and I did not have any childred. My brother, Larry, lives in Franklin, TN and has two children: Justin Scott Medlen (6/6/1980) (married to Kristin Trent), and Jared Blake Medlen (2/15/1984).