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- MacQueens of Queensdale : a biography of Col. James MacQueen and his descendants with an introduction containing a history of the origin of the clan MacQueen by Hon. A.W. Maclean, and the proceedings of the first Clan MacQueen meeting, at Maxton, N.C., June 3 to 5, 1913
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- 1594 - 1910
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- Creator
- ["MacElyea, Annabella Bunting."]
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- ["Scotland, United Kingdom","Canada","Ohio, United States","North Carolina, United States"]
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MacQueens of Queensdale : a biography of Col. James MacQueen and his descendants with an introduction containing a history of the origin of the clan MacQueen by Hon. A.W. Maclean, and the proceedings of the first Clan MacQueen meeting, at Maxton, N.C., June 3 to 5, 1913
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The MacQueens of Queensdale
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Archibald A. MacLean, son of Dr. A. D. MacI, can, volunteered as a
private in Starr’s Battery of Light Artillery when he was hut eighteen
years of age, and served throughout the war as a gunner, and was en¬
gaged with his brother Dickson in all the principal battles in eastern
North Carolina, including the Bentonsville battle heretofore mentioned.
Returning from (he war, he was married, as above stated, and settled
on his farm near Floral College, in Robeson County, where he lived
until 1S96, at which time he moved to Maxton, N. C., and was engaged
in business for a number of years until 1904, when lie was elected treas¬
urer of Robeson County, which office he held until his death from
typhoid fever following la grippe, on the fifth of March, 1906. For more
than thirty years prior to his death, and up to the time of his death, he
was an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and took an active part in all
religious and public affairs. Ife was survived by his wife, who was a
splendid Christian woman, and who bore her sad affliction with sweet
resignation. For some months before her death she seemed to have been
in failing health, suffering from Bright’s disease, of which she died, on
September 1, 1914, al the home of her eldest son, Angus Wilton Mac-
Lean, at Lumberton.
The only daughter of Dr. Angus D. MacLean and wife, Mary Jane
MacLean, is Sallie, an intellectual, highly educated, and lovable little
lady, who lives with her brother Hector MacLean, al Elmore, two miles
west of Laurinburg, N. C.
John Allen MacLean, the third son of Dr. Angus D. MacLean, mar¬
ried Mary V. Brown, a daughter of Sylvester Brown, of Washington,
N. C. John Allen MacLean has had a long and active career as a busi¬
ness man in the town of Maxton, N. C„ where he has lived since his
marriage, and is still engaged in business in (bat place. TIis wife, who
was a highly educated and very attractive woman, died a few years ago,
and is buried in the cemetery in that place. There are seven living chil¬
dren front this marriage, and one dead. They had children as follows:
Angus Dhu MacLean,
Elizabeth Bonner MacLean,
Sylvester Brown MacLean,
James Dickson MacLean,
Hannah Brown MacLean,
Mary Jane MacLean,
Mattie Brown MacLean,
John Allen MacLean, Jr.
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