When John McLennan was born on 9 April 1817, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Neil Love McLennan Sr., was 34 and his mother, Christian A Campbell, was 19. He married Cara A Wilson about 1847, in Morgan, Jefferson, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Milam, Texas, United States in 1850 and McLennan, Texas, United States in 1860. He died on 15 November 1886, in Waco, McLennan, Texas, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Salem-Wilson Cemetery, Cameron, Milam, Texas, United States.
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Possible Related NamesAt the age of 21, he traveled to Texas with his family (including his grandmother, his uncles John and Laughlin, and their families) in a ship they had built. Between Pensacola and the Texas coast, t …
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