Mary Magdalena McClellan

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son John Joseph Henry Mcclellan by SmartCopy: Nov 1 2014, 2:09:37 UTC

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Mary Magdalena (Spangler) McClellan was born 31 Jan 1768 in York County to Baltzer & Christina (Messerschmidt) Spangler. Mother of 12 children, she was the wife of an innkeeper who fought both in the Revolutionary War (NSSAR Patriot #P-245585) and the War of 1812 (PA Archives, Ser. 6, vol. 7-10).

         Mary Magdalena Spangler’s grandparents, Johann Baltasar & Magdalena (Ritter) Spengler, had emigrated from the Rhineland-Palatinate via Rotterdam, arriving 11 Oct 1732 at Philadelphia aboard the "Pleasant," following other family members aboard the “William & Sarah” in 1727.  They quickly settled into the small German Reform community which, with recent Scots-Irish immigrants, was coalescing into the future village of York, Lancaster Co. (subsequently: York Co.), Pennsylvania.  Her grandfather Johann Baltasar Spengler had brought with him a small still, with which he soon had established a profitable enterprise.  This endeavor was continued by her father, Baltzer Spangler (1735-’98), who became a popular innkeeper there, as well as a patriot of the American Revolutionary War (NSDAR Ancestor #A107747).

         Mary Magdalena Spangler, daughter of Baltzer & Christina (Messerschmidt) Spangler married William McClellan III of Marsh Creek, York County, on 31 Jan 1788.  William’s father (Wm. McClellan II, NSDAR Patriot Ancestor #A075052) was himself a well known innkeeper, proprietor of the Black Horse Tavern (licensed 1762 on Black Horse Farm), which still stands today as the stone house just west of Marsh Creek at the intersection of Gettysburg’s Fairfield Road.  Mary’s husband William McClellan III became Sheriff of York County (1795-’98), started the “Lancaster, York & Baltimore Stage Line” with Mary’s brother  Samuel (1797), and was elected Captain of the York County Volunteer Cavalry (1798).

         In 1806 William McClellan III leased James Gettys’ tavern in the newly incorporated town of Gettysburg.  It was located on York Street and later became the Globe Hotel.  (Today this site is the east wing of the Gettysburg National Bank.)  Three years later the couple purchased the Tavern on the Diamond (from John Scott’s estate).  They had operated their new Tavern less than a year before changing its name to the “Indian Queen.”  In 1814 they sold the Indian Queen to John Hersh, father of their son William McClellan IV’s wife, Mary Hersh.  After renaming it “the Gettysburg Hotel, John Hersh sold it back to William McClellan IV (1826).

Mary Magdalena (Spangler) McClellan bore 12 children: Elizabeth McClellan (1789-1789) William McClellan IV (1789-1845) Maria McClellan (1791-’92) Eleanor (McClellan) Gilliland (1792-1866) Baltzer Spangler McClellan (1794-1815) Charlotte (McClellan) Shower (1797-1828) Nancy (McClellan) Hersh (1798-1882) Anna Eliza McClellan (1799-1812) Maria Dritt McClellan (1802-1860) Louisa (McClellan) Riley (1804-) George Washington McClellan (1806-’73) John Joseph Henry McClellan (1808-’89)

         Mary Magdalena (Spangler) McClellan died 24 Mar 1830 at Marsh Creek where she was buried in the McClellan family cemetery on Black Horse Farm.  She was followed there one year later by her husband William McClellan III.  After the Civil War, both of their graves were moved by their youngest child, (Col.) John Joseph Henry McClellan, to Evergreen Cemetery on Baltimore Street. [--JSGjr]* Reference: [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50010704/mary-magdalena-mcclellan Find A Grave Memorial] - [https://www.geni.com/projects/SmartCopy/18783 SmartCopy]: ''Feb 15 2021, 7:09:12 UTC''