William Neil? McCaleb who was born in 1715 probably in Scotland married Sarah McAlpin who was born in 1725 probably in Scotland. The couple had four sons: William Neil b. 1747, James b. 1744, John b. 1746, and Archibald b. 1748. John was probably born in Pennsylvania and died in Orange County, NC. There was a John McCaleb who was born in Orange County, NC in 1778 in North Carolina to William and Catherine Nicholas McCaleb. John's wife was Catherine Allison b. 1786 in Orange, NC. They had eight children: Samuel 1813, James Washington 1811, Joseph Donelson 1815, Margaret Jane 1817, David Robinson 1819, Sarah Catherine 1821, John Allison 1823, and Parzetta Frances 1825. Their son Joseph Donelson was born in North Carolina and married Sallie when the family moved from Orange County, North Carolina to Putnam County, Tennessee. They had three children, John, William Jasper(1838), and Nellie(1848). Sallie died in 1851 and Joseph moved his family to Illinois to Jefferson County where he married Tabitha George. Joseph and Tabitha had several children: Lizzie, Joseph, Martha and Kate. William Jasper got married in Illinois on Feb. 16, 1858 to Mary Smith. They had eleven children: Alice Mawilda 1859, John A. 1861, Joseph Franklin 1863, William Jasper 1865, Sarah E. 1868, Charles Edward 1869, Wiley Edward 1871, Andrew Jackson 1874, Noah E. 1877, Dolly Elias (Dock) 1879, George Rancom 1881. Mary died in 1884. William Jasper then married Martha Matilda Hawkins Taylor. She had two daughters. Together William and Martha had three children all of whom were born around Bowie, Montague County, Texas. John Walter was born 1885, Oscar Frank 1887 and Nellie Jane 1889. The family moved to Pontotoc County, Indian Territory around 1900. Nellie Jane married Wesley O. Blackwell. They had eight children, five of whom lived to be adults: Willie Mae 1908, Thelma Elmare 1911, Haskell Cleo 1914, Wilburn Tilman 1919, and Mildred Marie 1925. Willie Mae married Luther James Thompson on December 3, 1930 and they had one child, JaNell Deane who was born December 27, 1946. JaNell has one child, Tonya Gayle, born December 26, 1972.