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Notes
- 5. Elizabeth Byers (15 Sept 1769-21 July 1852), married 1788, Ephraim McLean (1768-1813), son of Col. Charles McLean, who lived next to Captain Byers in 1767, but later moved to vicinity of Crowder's Mountain in Lincoln County, N.C., and in 1796 to Logan County Kentucky. Ephraim, first ordained minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and Elizabeth were the parents of John McLean (1791-1830), first U.S. Congressman from Illinois and U.S. Senator; Dr. William Byers McLean (1792-1846) for who McLeansboro Illinois was named; and Finis Ewing McLean (1806-1881), U.S. Congressman from Kentucky.
- [Source: http://www.byersfamilies.com/resources/Additional%20American%20Byers%20information.pdf].
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