This house was where a family lived. They were the McCains. Rumors they had Irish roots. Like most American families these were only rumors as exact records back to Europe were not kept. Exact and accurate historical ancestral documentation was
something that most Americans did not have. Just the rumors and folk tales. Americans had European family last names, and bragged about where they came from. But really, they did not know much about what they were talking about. After three hundred years in America, our blood was very mixed. It was ridiculous to talk about origins from one European land. Many people did this. Charles McCain was the father. He worked in school board politics as an administrator. His wife was Mary Elizabeth. She taught elementary school. They had three daughters, Edith, Angela, and Amy. There was one son, Ellis. The four children grew up. Edith wed and moved to Raleigh. Angela also wed but moved to Winston Salem. Amy married but stayed there in Red Springs. Ellis was in the Army at Fort Bragg for two years and later moved to Charlotte. These McCains had been in Monroe North Carolina for over a century and a half. This was a farming area in Union County thirty miles east of Charlotte. Today they had many relatives still living in the Union County area. So when living in Charlotte, Ellis McCain was not too very far from relatives on both sides of his family. Most of these people