Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B Bracken County ABNER McCLANAHAN was born in Bracken County, Ky., in 1828, and is a son of Hugh and Sarah (Crupper) McClanahan, natives of Colfax County, Va. In 1847 Abner McClanahan married his second cousin, a Miss McClanahan, by whom he had seven children. In 1883 he represented Bracken County in the State Legislature, after which he resumed farming. Politically he is Democratic and is a prominent factor in the politics of his county. He lives on a fine farm near Brookville, Bracken County, Ky. McClanahan Crupper = Colfax-VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bracken/mcclanahan.a.txt