Father: MCCULLOUGH (1740- )
Mother: UNKNOWN (1740- )


Indent 17 Mar 1772 (about age 14) Philadelphia, PA
PEN 23 Mar 1844 (about age 86) Pension Application ; Jefferson Co, IN
Death 7 Oct 1851 (about age 93) Sangamon Co, IL
Burial McDevitt (Smerney) Cemetery

Marriages/Children
1. William MCCASLAND (1758-1839)
Marriage 30 Mar 1781 (about age 23) Cumberland Co, PA
Children Jain MCCASLAND (1782- )
Dorathia MCCASLAND (1784- )
Susannah McCasland (1786-1837)
John MCCASLAND (1788- )
Mary MCCASLAND (1790- )
Eleanor MCCASLAND (1793-1868)
Sarah MCCASLAND (1795- )
William Dunn MCCASLAND (1797- )
Pheby MCCASLAND (1800- )
Levina MCCASLAND (1802- )
James Harper MCCASLAND (1804-1877)

Notes

Notes: Eleanor MCCULLOUGH

Birth (1758): Title: "Portrait and Biological Record of St. Clair County, Illinois: containing biological sketches of
prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the presidents of the United States".

Publisher: Chapman Bros.

Date: 1892

Page: 672, 4p., Ports.

Biography of John M. McCasland:

Excerpt: "William McCasland was the grandfather of our subject, and was born in Virginia, where he carried on agricultural pursuits. He served through the Revolutionary War under Gen. George Washington, and his wife received a pension up to the time of her death. He was of Scotch-Irish descent and married Ellen McCullough, a native of Ireland. She lived to the age of ninety three years, and her life ended in Sangamon County, Ill. William McCasland brought his family to Indiana and located in Jefferson County, where he followed farming until he died. The respected father of this subject was named James Harper McCasland and was also Virginian by birth. By occupation, he was a wood turner and cabinet-maker and he engaged in the manufacture of furniture in Indiana until 1841, when he came to Illinois. He located in Gallatin County the first year, but this seemed such a sickly locality that he moved north and settled in the higher lands in Morgan County, and there he lived a few years and engaged in farming near Woodson. Some years later, he removed to Sangamon County, on the Morgan County line, and located at the middle fork of Lick Creek, where he farmed until he died at the age of seventy-three years, respected by all who knew him and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He had been a Republican but never a seeker of office."

Indent (17 March 1772): 17 Mar 1772, ELEANOR McCULLOUGH, Ireland, indentured to John Tolbert & assigns, Philadelphia, Servant, 3 yrs., Pound 12.10.

PEN (23 March 1844): State of Indiana
Jefferson County
On this 23rd day of March one-thousand-eight-hundred-and- forty-four personally appeared before the subscribed associate judge in and for the county and state aforesaid, Eleanor McCasland, a resident of stated County and state
aged eighty-three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth her oath make the following declaration in order to obtairr the benefit of the provisions made by the
Act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838 entitled an act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of William McCasland who was a private in the
army of the particulars in relation to his services but refuses therefore to the original declaration of her said husband on file at the war office was a pensioner on the
roll for the state of Indiana at the rate of twenty dollars per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said William McCasland in the spring of 1781 and that her
husband, the said lJilliam, died on the third day of May, one-thousand-eight-hundred-and-thirty-nine, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first of January, seven-
teen-hundred-and-ninety-four by at the time above states.
Eleanor McCasland
Subscribed and sworn to this 23rd day of March 1844, before me William N. Taylor, Associate Judge.

Death (7 October 1851): Tomstone reads Elenor Wife of Wm McCasland Died Oct 7, 1851 Age 93