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16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Soldier's Profile
John F. McClelland
Private, Company B
Personal
born: 1830 place: Westmoreland County, Pennnsylvania
father: born: place: died: place:
mother: born: place: died: place:
pre-war occupation: place: post-war occupation: place:
married: September 26, 1850 to: Rachel Lockhart place:
wife born: May 22, 1828 place: died: place:
child: Lucy Leora born: October 27, 1851 place: died: place:
child: Albertine Victoria born: January 1, 1854 place: died: place:
child: Josephine Luella born: May 19, 1860 place: Monroe, Ohio died: September 28, 1898 place: Prairie, Ohio
died: September 20, 1863 place: Cumberland Gap, Kentucky cause of death: disease while prisoner of Confederate Army
burial: probably Knoxville National Cemetery place: Knoxville, Tennessee
Military Career
3-year service: September 12, 1861 Private Company B place:
captured: abt. September 18, 1863 Private Company B place: Cumberland Gap, Kentucky or Tennessee
discharged: September 20, 1861 died in captivity place: Cumberland Gap, Kentucky or Tennessee

Additional Details

Details and images, below, provided by Bob and Judi Hill and Valerie Davison, descendants of Pvt. John F. McClelland.

Rachel Lockhart McClelland, wife of Pvt. John F. McClelland and recipient of most of the Letters of John McClelland
Josephina McClelland Josephina McClelland

Josephina "Little Josie" Luella McClelland, daughter of Pvt. John F. and Rachel Lockhart McClelland - estimated age 6 (1868) and age 12 (1874)

Lucy, Albertina (Allie or Albie) and Josephina (Josie), the three daughters of Pvt. John F. and Rachel Lockhart McClelland
about 1880.
The girls were mentioned in several of the Letters of John McClelland
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