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Mark & Leann Carlson McClain Family Website
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| Mark & Leann |
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| Our 35th Wedding Anniversary |
Welcome to The Carlson-McClain Family Website!
| WELCOME ! ! ! ! |
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| copyright Leann McClain 2010 |
| Lady Liberty Looking For Missing Towers |
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| New York Harbor from Liberty Island |
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| Mrs. McClain's Music Classroom Page |
Browse around our site and feel free to sign
our guestbook. If you don't want the world to see your comments, you may sign the book privately so that only we will
know your comments. Enjoy the site and be sure to stop in again soon.
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| Summer 2006 |
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| Mark & Leann and our Beautiful Grandchildren |
Ongoing
Research for Family Trees in the following lines:
| Historic Öland, Sweden windmill |
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| photographed 2004 by Leann McClain |
 
Leann Carlson McClain
Webmaster
| Becca's Proud Day at Texas State University |
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| The family in August 2009 |
| Our family in 2005 |
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| Our son-in-law returns from Baghdad after a year away |
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Leann's side of the family includes research
of the CARLSON (KARLSSON) lines from Sweden, the KROPUENSKE family lines from Centerville,
South Dakota, and the KRAUSE/RIST family - immigrants to South Dakota from Crimea, Russia.
The NICHOLSON family, Mark's grandmother's
maternal side of the family, lived in Cameron & Kearney, Missouri area in the 1930's and earlier. Family folklore had
rumored of a James gang connection for years. There was much talk in the family of a friendship with Jesse James. We
now know that the James gang had a significant connection to the Nicholson family through marriage. William
A. NICHOLSON was a grand-nephew to Mark's ggg-grandfather, Archibald NICHOLSON, and also lived in the same Missouri county as the James family. We have a newspaper obituary glued
to the pages in the old Nicholson family Bible, which belonged to Mark's grandmother, that references
William A. NICHOLSON, of Kearney, Missouri,
as a brother-in-law to Frank & Jesse JAMES, the well-known outlaws.
William A.'s sons were 1. Arch 2. Frank
and 3. Fred.
Parents to William A. were James C. & Mary
Brockman NICHOLSON.
James C. Nicholson's father was Arthur NICHOLSON,
a brother to the Archibald NICHOLSON of our line.
Actually William was a half-brother-in-law
to the James brothers, since he married their half-sister, Sally. The obituary doesn't mention William A. NICHOLSON's
spouse, Sarah Louisa "Sally" Samuels (half-sister to Frank and Jesses JAMES) as a survivor, as she was deceased at the time
of the obituary.
We would like to know our family's connection
to Johnny Monroe NICHOLSON (date 1/17/1907 handwritten on a newspaper clipping glued in
the family Bible) of Lathrop, MO (d. age 95). We are guessing he could possibly be a son of Matt NICHOLSON of Lathrop, MO.
We have an old photograph of Johnny, but don't know the line from which he descends. If you can identify him, please
contact us.
We have 1850 & 1860 Kentucky census information
about Archibald & Mary (WARMOTH) NICHOLSON of Garrard County, Kentucky, and want to learn more about their heritage and that of their 8 children: Thaddeus
W., Emily Jane, Gabrael, James M., Thomas S., William N., John H., Matthew, and Ellen (Mary E). Thomas S., our GG-grandfather,
and James were Civil War veterans. James served under Ullyses S. GRANT.
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Please get in touch with me if you have any comments or reactions to my site.
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