Catherine McClelland

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Catherine McClelland (Courson)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Monmouth County, NJ, United States
Death: July 29, 1853 (86)
Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, United States
Place of Burial: Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Rev Benjamin Courson, III and Sarah Elizabeth Corson
Wife of Alexander McClelland and Lt. Col. Alexander McClelland
Mother of Samuel James McClelland; Isaac McClelland; Henry McClelland; Jonas McClelland; Mary Fry and 7 others
Sister of Joseph Corson; Thomas Corson; Richard Ryk Corson; Mary Harvey; Elizabeth Morris and 11 others
Half sister of Patrick Duggan; John Duggan and Henry Duggan

Managed by: Curtis James Lankford
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About Catherine McClelland

GEDCOM Source

@R-1863154681@ Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2012 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 25 January 2013.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi 1,70509::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-3901&h=4620429&ti=0... birth date: 1766 death date: 29 July 1853 burial place: Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, USA Name: Catherine Courson McClelland 1,70509::4620429

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@R-1863154681@ Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2012 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 25 January 2013.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi 1,70509::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-3901&h=4620429&ti=0... birth date: 1766 death date: 29 July 1853 burial place: Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, USA Name: Catherine Courson McClelland 1,70509::4620429

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@R-1863154681@ Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2012 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 25 January 2013.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi 1,70509::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-3901&h=4620429&ti=0... birth date: 1766 death date: 29 July 1853 burial place: Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, USA Name: Catherine Courson McClelland 1,70509::4620429

GEDCOM Source

@R-1863154681@ Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2012 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 25 January 2013.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi 1,70509::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-3901&h=4620429&ti=0... birth date: 1766 death date: 29 July 1853 burial place: Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois, USA Name: Catherine Courson McClelland 1,70509::4620429

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@R-1863154681@ U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Ancestry.com Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data - United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of L 1,1246::0

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http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=blmlandpatents&h=521427&ti=0&... Name: Catherine Courson McClelland 1,1246::521427



Catherine was born in New Jersey to Benjamin Courson and Sarah Dungan. Catherine married Lt. Alexander McClelland a veteran of the Revolutionary War in 1795. Alexander was farming 300 acres in Westmoreland County at the time that he had received in appreciation of his military service. In 1795 Alexander and Catherine pushed farther west to Lickling County, Ohio and there farmed and raised 9 children. Alexander died in 1924 and several of their sons moved on to Marion County, Illinois. The boys wrote back that life was much better in Illinois and in 1841 Catherine along with her daughter Rachel's family moved by covered wagon to Marion County, Illinois. Catherine settled in Sandoval Township and remained there until her death in 1853.

This information also comes from a story written by George Ross on Dec. 7, 1978.
Inscription: One marker: "Catherine, wife of Alex r McClelland 86 yrs 9ms 14ds" Second marker: "Daughter of Rev. Benjamin Coursen, wife of Lt. Alexander McClelland, Both of the American Revolution"

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Catherine McClelland's Timeline

1766
October 15, 1766
Monmouth County, NJ, United States
1783
1783
Age 16
Ohio, USA
1797
1797
Licking County, Ohio, USA
1797
Licking County, Ohio, United States
1798
August 1, 1798
1800
August 10, 1800
Licking, Ohio
August 10, 1800
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
1801
May 15, 1801
Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, Pennsylvania, United States
1809
June 6, 1809
Licking County, Ohio, United States
1811
June 14, 1811