Person:Robert McClelland (8)

WILLIAM, ROBERT and JOHN McCLELLAN were sons of a pioneer farmer, who, at the time of the Revolutionary War, lived in a part of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, which is now embraced in Franklin county, at the base of the Cove or North mountain, near where the town of Mercersburgh now is. Here the boys were schooled in all the arts of woodcraft and inured to all the hardships of frontier life.

On the 1st day of May (1814), the day after their arrival at St. Louis, Robert McClellan wrote to his brother William, at Hamilton, Ohio, giving him an account of his journey from the Pacific ocean, and by another letter dated Cape Girardeau, of July 14, 1814, he wrote that he had been furnished with a stock of goods by Risdon H. Price, of St. Louis, which he had opened at Cape Girardeau, in the month of January previous, where he had sold a great many goods, but principally on credit. He writes that his health had been very bad for several months (no doubt in consequence of his constitution being impaired by the extreme hardships to which he had been exposed), and that he was about closing his business with an intention of returning to St. Louis.

The health of McClellan continued to decline until the time of his death, which happened sometime in the latter part of that year, at Cape Girardeau, where he lies buried. This closed all the adventures and wanderings of Robert McClellan.

[Source: Pioneer biography: sketches of the lives of some of the early settlers of Butler County, Ohio, Volume 2, by James McBride, 1891]

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