John McLeland, father of Thomas Asher McLeland, took the unusual step of applying for a Civil War Service Pension based on the service of his deceased son James R. McLeland. J.R. McLeland (the first in a long string of J.R. McLelands in this family culminating with my father) died, unmarried, of disease at Fort Scott [...]
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The pension file of my dreams!
Posted in McLeland, methodology, research notes on March 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
