Most of what you can see down below from the bluff belonged to a plantation owner named William Alexander McCain, whose white descendants still own the large plantation that dominates the flat land below the Teoc bluffs. He had a white son and a Black son, splitting the family into two. The white son, named John Sidney McCain, had a son who became an admiral, who had a son who became an admiral, who had a son who became a Vietnam war hero and a senator. John McCain is the same rung on the family tree as Marvel’s father. In Teoc there are the white McCains and the Black McCains, all of whom
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