The other day, Old Knudson sent me a site address that would reveal some history of a part of my family tree, having remembered that I am, somewhere in my roots, a McRee . McRee is evidently derived from MacRae , so I claim the Clan MacRae as my own. This strapping young man with a deer or something slung over his broad shoulders is my kinsman. Quite a wild bunch, those MacRaes , participating in rebellions and squabbles all over Scotland. Their motto was "Fortitude." The illustration to the right depicts their--no, OUR family crests. I have recorded history of my family tree back to Thomas Compton born in Northampton , England, 1754*. He emigrated to the colonies in the later 1700s with his family through a port in Boston and eventually settled in Tennessee. But I can only trace the McRee connection back as far as Thomas Richard McRee born in 1867. It goes like this. Alfred McVey Compton (1842-1913) married Mary Frances Abernathy (1834-1903). Here they are on the lef...