McClanahan Family History
John McClanahan

Tree Outline of McClanahan Generations

----- Jump to a McClanahan Family Page / Document / Photograph ----- B5 William McClanahan (1785-1859) C1 John McClanahan (1794-1863) C2 James T. McClanahan (1814-1892) D2 Samuel Albert McClanahan (1846-1905) D7 Thomas Scott McClanahan (1827-1909) E2 James Franklin McClanahan (1874-1952) F2 Besse Marie McClanahan (1899-1995) F3 Bert Lynch McClanahan (1913-2001) F4 James Frank McClanahan (1915-2001) G1 Carol Anne McClanahan (1950- ) -- FAMILY PORTRAITS-- D2 Samuel Albert McClanahan Family Portrait George M. Fulton Family Portrait 1905 -- FAMILY BIBLE PAGES -- Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Births pg. 1 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Births pg. 2 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Births pg. 3 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Births pg. 4 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Marriages pg. 1 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Marriages pg. 2 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Deaths pg. 1 Samuel Albert McClanahan Bible - Deaths pg. 2 Spencer L. McMillen Bible - Marriage License Spencer L. McMillen Bible - Births Spencer L. McMillen Bible - Marriages Spencer L. McMillen Bible - Deaths Jacob Zercher Bible - Births pg. 1 Jacob Zercher Bible - Births pg. 2 Jacob Zercher Bible - Marriages Jacob Zercher Bible - Deaths -- CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTS -- D2 Samuel Albert McClanahan - Declaration for Widow's Pension D2 Samuel Albert McClanahan - Declaration for Original Pension of a Widow D2 Samuel Albert McClanahan - Family List for the Department of the Interior C1 Captain John McClanahan - Application for Widow's Pension D17 Monroe Robentile McClanahan - Civil War Discharge Papers -- MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES -- C1 Captain John McClanahan (1794-1863) F1 Benjamin Vaughn McClanahan (1892-1953) -- DEATH CERTIFICATES -- F1 Edna Lee McClanahan (1907-1927) F4 Edith Winona McClanahan (1921-1921) E2 Nelson Rankin McClanahan (1877-1945) B1 Spencer L. McMillen (1856-1912) C3 Virgie Lee McMillen (1878-1919) D1 John R. Zercher (1838-1915) D7 Sarah Margaret Zercher (1851-1919) -- RELATED FAMILIES -- James Baldridge (1740-1812) Ephraim Cole (1744-1833) Thomas J. McMillen (1829-1902) Heinrich Zercher (1745-1805) Jonos Preidis

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Cherry Fork Cemetery Adams County, Ohio

John emigrated from Tyrone County, Ireland in 1785. He married (1) ____ ___, and (2) Elizabeth Thompson, (headstone on right) born June 1765, died August 30, 1842. Elizabeth is buried in Cherry Fork Cemetery, Cherry Fork, Adams County, Ohio. Both of these marriages took placed in Ireland.

John and his family first settled on the James River in Virginia, then moved to near Lexington, Kentucky. Due to his opposition to slavery then being practiced in Kentucky, he moved his family to Adams County, Ohio and settled on the headwaters of Eagle Creek, on lands still in possession of his descendants today (September, 2005).

A History of Adams County, Ohio
by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers
West Union, Ohio
Published by E. B. Stivers, 1900

John McClanahan - The John McClanahan family is of Irish origin. The grandfather of James and John McClanahan, whose name was also John, was married twice. By his first marriage, he had five children: Andrew, the oldest, never came to this country. His second wife was Elizabeth Thompson. They were the parents of four children: William, Martha, Rebecca and Margaret. This grandfather, John McClanahan, bought 100 acres of land of Gen. Massie, about two miles west of West Union. He deeded, Sept. 28, 1814 fifty acres of this land to his son William, by his second marriage.

B1 Andrew McClanahan, stayed in Ireland.

B2 Sidney/Syndey McClanahan, born ca. 1760 in Tyrone, Ireland, died ca. 1835 in Adams County, Ohio; married in Kentucky, probably at Limestone, now Maysville, ca. 1800 James Ellison, Sr., born ca. 1753, died ca. 1816/1817.

B3 Robert McClanahan, born 1771 in Ulster, Ireland, died July 17, 1832 as a result of injuries received at a barn raising; married (1) Isabella ____, born 1766, died July 21, 1828; married (2) Margaret Doake, born 1782, died January 24, 1832.

B4 John McClanahan, married Jane N. ____.

B5 Elizabeth McClanahan, married March 27, 1823 Thomas Kincaid.

B6 William McClanahan, born 1785, died June 18, 1859; married January 21, 1808 Nancy Paul, born 1784, died March 19, 1849.

B7 Martha McClanahan, married November 2, 1815 John McClure.

B8 Rebecca McClanahan.

B9 Margaret McClanahan, born April 8, 1795, died January 22, 1879 in Adams county, Ohio; married December 23, 1813 Thomas Holmes, born August 7, 1792 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, died November 25, 1866. Thomas was the son of James Holmes (1770-1833) and Nancy Shaw (1771- ).