George Spencer McClelland or McClellan
8 Sep 1838 - 26 Oct 1910
 
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George McClelland was born 8 Sep 1838 at Napoleon, Jackson County, MI, and settled in Montcalm County in 1865. His parents were Samuel and Jane (Spencer) McClelland, both born in Nova Scotia, Canada. Samuel died in 1859 and is buried in Oakfield Cemetery, Kent County, MI.

George married Phebe Anna (Cameron) Gott, 31 May 1906 in Spencer Township, Kent County, MI. She was born to parents Peter Cameron and Sarah Bristol, 12 Nov 1852. This was her fourth marriage and his first. Her husbands were George Bunnell, George Hatfield, John Gott and George McClelland. Phebe became a widow in 1910. She died of cancer, 31 Mar 1914, and is also buried in Spencer Mills Cemetery.
Service George McClelland, age 22, was farming in Spencer Township, Kent County, MI, when he enlisted as a private in Company E, Eighth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th A. C. He was promoted to Sergeant and took part in the following battles: Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Wilderness, South Mountain, Antietam, Iron Works, Fredericksburg, and the Siege of Knoxville. He was slightly wounded at Spottsylvania Court House by a musket ball in the left arm. In the fall of 1861 he was in the hospital at Beaufort, South Carolina, with measles. Discharged from the first enlistment at Strawberry Plains, East Tennessee, where he received a furlough of 30 days, he reenlisted in the same command. He was detailed in the fall of 1863 as brigade butcher for two months, and received his final honorable discharge at Detroit, MI. He was pensioned.
GAR William A. Kent Post #83
Siblings  
Records 1850 Census Oakfield Township, Kent County, MI with both parents and siblings, name McLeland
  1860 Census Oakfield Township, Kent County, MI with mother and siblings
  1870 Census Montcalm Township, Montcalm County, MI with mother and siblings, name Mclellen
  1880 Census Montcalm Township, Montcalm County, MI with mother and brother Adelbert
  1890 Veteran Census    
  1894 MI Census    
  1900 Census Montcalm Township, Montcalm County, MI with brother Bert's family
  1910 Census Montcalm Township, Montcalm County, MI  
Obit Greenville Independent, November 2, 1910
Deaths: "Tip" McClellan of Gowen, aged 74.
Death
Burial Spencer Mills Cemetery
Harvard, Kent County, MI
Find A Grave #133640957
  Some biographical information from Presidents, Soldiers, Statesmen Vol II, 1892.
contributed by Paula Johnson