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During his life, he owned a 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) plantation in Carroll County, Mississippi known alternately as "Teoc" (the Choctaw name for the creek it was located upon) and "Waverly", as well as 52 slaves.
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The black and white McCain families have long acknowledged their shared history at Teoc, a name that applies to both the plantation and the now-sparse community around it.
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Naval Academy at Annapolis and rose to the rank of admiral, beginning what an Oct. 17 article by Douglas A. Blackmun in the Wall Street Journal, "Two Families Named McCain," about the descendants of Teoc plantation slaves, described as "the evolution of a 19th-century cotton dynasty into one rooted in an ethic of military and national service."
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The two had a son, blues guitarist "Mississippi" John Hurt, in 1892 on Teoc, the plantation community where the McCains owned 2,000 acres.
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Members of his family have continued to own most of the plantation's original land, and Teoc was where he lived as a child while his father, John S. McCain Jr., a future Navy admiral following in his father's footsteps, was at sea during World War II.
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His father considered Teoc, according to Blackmun, to be "blood ground."
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William Alexander made his way down to high-cotton Mississippi, where he purchased 2,000 acres of land and 52 slaves in Carroll County and established a plantation called "Teoc."
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After the Civil War, William Alexander's son, the first John Sidney McCain, continued operating the Teoc cotton plantation, using the labor of subsistence sharecroppers who were the family's former slaves.
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The heritage of Teoc did not play an obscure or peripheral role in the life of John McCain III.
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