Mark & Leann's Carlson-McClain Family Pages
Mark & Leann's Carlson-McClain Family PagesUpdated February 19, 2009 | |
| The NICHOLSON family, Mark's grandmother's maternal side of the family, lived in Cameron & Kearney, Missouri area in the 1930's and earlier.Family folklore had rumored of a James gang connection for years.We now know that the James gang did indeed have a place in the Nicholson family as William A. NICHOLSON was a grand-nephew to Mark's gg-grandfather, Archibald NICHOLSON. The Nicholson family lived in the same Missouri county as the James family.We have a newspaper obituary glued in the old family Bible that references William A. NICHOLSON, of Kearney, Missouri, as a brother-in-law to Frank & Jesse JAMES, the well-known outlaws.William A.'s sons were Arch, Frank, & Fred.Parents to William A. were James C. & Mary Brockman NICHOLSON.James C.'s father was Arthur NICHOLSON, brother to Archibald NICHOLSON of our line. The obituary doesn't mention William A. NICHOLSON's spouse, Sarah Louisa "Sally" Samuels (half-sister to Frank and Jesses JAMES) as a survivor, so we assume she was deceased at the time of the obituary. We would like to know our family's connection to Johnny Monroe NICHOLSON (date 1/17/1907 handwritten on a newspaper clipping glued in the family Bible) of Lathrop, MO (d. age 95). We are guessing he could possibly be a son of Matt NICHOLSON of Lathrop, MO.We have an old photograph of Johnny, but don't know its place in our lines. We have 1850 Kentucky census information about Archibald & Mary (WARMOTH) NICHOLSON of Garrard County, Kentucky.Archibald and Mary left Kentucky in 1860-1861 and moved to Macon County, Illinois in a covered wagon.There they joined Mary's brother and lived briefly before Archibald died later in the year.Mary and the children then moved on to the Cameron, Missouri area in the wagon. We want to learn more about their heritage and that of their 8 children: Thaddeus W., Emily Jane, Gabrael, James M., Thomas S., William N., John H., Matthew, and Ellen (Mary E).Thomas S., our GG-grandfather, and James were Civil War veterans.James served under Ullyses S. GRANT. Leann's side of the family includes research of the CARLSON (KARLSSON) lines from Sweden, who were immigrants around the turn of the 20th century.We have information from church records back into the 1700's and earlier from Leann's father's paternal side from Halna, Undenäs, Valla, Fredsberg, Hasslerör, and Algerås churches. Information from back into the 1800's on Leann's father's maternal side from Gärdslösa and Egby parishes on the island of Öland.Feel free to contact me by email or phone if you wish to find out more information on this branch of the family. The KROPUENSKE (ancestry from Leann's mother's maternal side) are German immigrants to Centerville, South Dakota, as are the KRAUSE/RIST family (ancestry from Leann's mother's maternal side)from Crimea, Russia (near the Black Sea). We have another home page with searchable South Dakota churches microfilm information listed in the links section of this web page. The web address is: http://www.members.tripod.com/leann_mcclain/ You can copy and paste this address into your web browser address bar to go there.Please stop by to see further research on our family.Perhaps you will find a bit more information you are searching for, too.While there, please sign our guestbook.Come back soon! | |
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