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Typed by Theresa Carhart


McLEAN, William F.

Surnames: McLEAN, BUSTER, JONES, POTTER, OSBORNE, BROWN, WELDON, TOLBERT, McDANIAL, LAMAR, BRYANT, DYKES, POKORNY, WOMACK, SWANNER, HIGH, EVANS

William F. McLean, b June 1845 in Barbour County, Alabama, d July 13, 1923 and buried in Union Cemetery near Durango, Falls County, Texas ---- was a son of Cohn and Catherine McLean, b 1806 and 1810 respectively, in North Carolina. Cohn and Catherine were married ca 1830 in North Carolina, moving to Al-abama in 1835 with two children: Margaret McLear, and Sarah McLean. In Alabama their other childrern were born: Jane McLean, John McLean, and Willia
F. McLean.
On December 16, 1862, William F. McLean joined the Confederate States Army in Milton, Florida -----serving as a Private in Company I, 3rd Florida Cav-alry, Parson''s Brigade, Forrest''s Corps.
After the Civil War, William F. McLean came to Texas in 1874, settling in McLennan County with his first wife, Mrs. Sarah Stanley McLean, b April 8,1846 in Alabama, d November 15, 1901 in Falls County, Texas and buried in Union Cemetery near Durango. She had a son by her first marriage, Joseph T. Stanley, b ca 1862, who married January 16, 1887 in Falls County to Lucy C. Buster.
William F. and Sarah McLean had nine children:
Vertitia A. McLean, b January 1868 in Alabama
---- married July 12, 1885 in Falls County, Texas to
D. W. Jones, b January 1862 in Alabama ---- a son of
J. W. Jones, b 1817 in Georgia, and his wife, Eliza
Jones, b January 6, 1822 in Georgia. They had Emma
Jones, b June 1886; Nora Jones, b December 1887;
Mary Jones, b May 1890; and Eliza Jones, b April
1896.
Daniel I. McLean, b July 1870 in Alabama ----moved to Jones County, Texas before 1912.
James Clinton McLean, b June 25, 1872 in Ala-bama, d September 18, 1900 and buried in Union Cemetery near Durango, Falls County, Texas ---- married Emma Potter, b February 8, 1897, and had one child:
Thelma McLean, b 1898. After the death of James, Emma (Potter) McLean married second on February 5, 1903 to W. J. Cheeves.
Lula A. McLean, b October 1876 in Texas ---- married November 6, 1902 in Falls County, Texas to Dr. W. C. Osborne, and moved to McLennan County.
Laurence A. McLean, b 1877 in Texas ---- married January 11, 1907 in Falls County, Texas to Ethel Brown. They moved to Limestone County, and had a son, George McLean (spelled McClain on the 1910 Census), b 1908.
Henry Allen McLean, b May 2, 1879 in Texas, d
July 27, 1938 at San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas and buried at Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas--
as married October io, 1900 in Falls County to Alice Weidon, b March io, 1883, d October 21, 1970 at
Eden Concho County, Texas and buried at Ballinger
a daughter of James Sanford and Delany Myrtis
(Tolbert) Weldon Henry and Alice McLean had seven
children: Ruby Louise McLean b May 30, 1903 in
Rosebud, Fails County, Texas ---- married Alton McDaniel
had Peggy Jean McDaniel and moved to Tom
Green County; John Henry McLean b November 7, 1904 at Rosebud d August a, 198j at Corpus Christi ----married Thelma Lamar and had James McLean, and Margie (McLeani Dykes; Myrtle Sarah McLean b March 30, 1907 at Stamford, Jones County, Texas ----married Carl Bryant; James William McLean, b September 15, 1909 at Stamford ---- married Mildred
(maiden name unknown); Jewel McLean b December 28, 1911 at Stamford ---- married Raymond Victor Pokorny, b November 19, 1907 in Runneis County, Texas; Opal Beatrice McLean, b November 3, 1914 at Stam-ford ---- married Jesse Womack, and moved to El Paso, Texas; and Charles Allen McLean, b November 25, 1917 in Eddy, Texas.. lives at Mertzon, Texas.
Kurtis W. McLean, b December 1881 in Texas ----moved to Jones County. No further information.
Mary E. (called ""Mollie""j McLean b May 1884 ----married October 29, 1905 in Falls County, Texas to
Bernard A. Swanner, of Falls County.
Cora Lee McLean, b January 1886 in Falls
County, Texas married there on January 23, 1912 to
James N. High, and lived near Durango.
After the death of his wife, Sarah William F.McLean was married second on February is, 1905 to Ida T. Evans, and they had one son:
William F. McLean Jr., b ca 1907 in Falls County.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission,
page 296, column 1 and 2
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