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Facts and Events
Information on William McClelland
'From "History of Greene County, Ohio", edited by M.A. Broadstone, 1918:
William E. McClellan was born in Wayne county, this state, August II, 1825, and was but a child when he came with his parents, John and Nancy (Elder) McClellan, to Greene county, the family settling on what is now known as the "Belmont Stock Farm" in Xenia township, and on which place the house now standing there was erected by John McClellan in 1840. The McClellans were of the Associate Reformed faith and after the "union" of 1858 became afifiiliated with the Second United Presbyterian church at Xenia. Reared on the home farm, William E. McClellan in due time became proprietor of the same and there lived until his retirement in 1893 and removal to Xenia, where he spent the remainder of his life, his
death occurring on February 9, 1900. He was twice married. His first wife, Susan Torrence, was born in the Xenia neighborhood on April 11. 1829, and died on May i, 1867. His second wife, Margaret Dodds, died in 1894. She was the mother of one child, a son, Lee Dodds McClellan, born in 1872, who died in 1887. To William E. and Susanna (Torrence) McClellan were born seven children, namely: Edward Torrence McClellan, proprietor of a farm on the Cincinnati pike in Xenia township; Marietta, who married C. Will LaFavor and died in 1898: Laura Belle, wife of Harvey McClellan, a farmer living three miles west of Xenia ; Amanda Rebecca, who married Nathan Ramsay and died in 1890; Anna Lida, more commonly
known among her friends as Alida, who married Mr. Williamson ; Antoinette Jane, wife of Thomas Bruce, now living at Catherine, Alabama, and James Clark, a traveling salesman, who married Nellie Reynolds and is now living at Troy, this state.
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