Notes for John Center McLean: John Center McLean had a wooden leg. While working in the Coal Mines in Montana he was a victim of a cave in. This happened when he was approximately 52 years old. His injuries also included the loss of a lung. John ended up in a sanitarium near Missoula, Montana for several months to recover from his injuries.
According to another source, Roberta K. Schultz: "Actually he was in the State Sanitarium at Galen, MT and according to Bob spent time there, several times, with his lung problems. Probably a combination of miner's black lung disease and emphysema."
John died at the age of 72.
John was the only son with 5 sisters. One of his sisters married Anna's brothers.
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John Center McLean had a wooden leg. While working in the Coal Mines in Montana he was a victim of a cave in. This happened when he was approximately 52 years old. His injuries also included the loss of a lung. John ended up in a sanitarium near Missoula, Montana for several months to recover from his injuries.
According to another source, Roberta K. Schultz: "Actually he was in the State Sanitarium at Galen, MT and according to Bob spent time there, several times, with his lung problems. Probably a combination of miner's black lung disease and emphysema."
John died at the age of 72.
John was the only son with 5 sisters. One of his sisters married Anna's brothers.
The Roundup Record Tribune May 15 1952
JOHN C. McLEAN VETERAN MINER OF THE ROUNDUP FIELD, DIES OF HEART ATTACK SATURDAY EVENING
Funeral Services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Roberts Funeral Home for John C. McLean, 72, veteran miner of the Roundup field, who died unexpectedly of a heart attack at his house here Saturday evening. Rev. C. F. Cose officiated and burial by the Roberts Funeral Home was in the New Miners Cemetery.
Mr. McLean was born August 10, 1879 in Waubaunsee County, Kansas the son of Mr. and Mrs. John C. F. McLean. In 1898 he married Anna Gesslein in Yale, Kansas and they lived in Sheridan Wyoming before coming to Roundup in 1914. He worked for the Roundup Coal Mining Company until his retirement in 1935 following a mine accident.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter Mrs. Russell Phair of Roundup; five sons, Fremont and William of Lost Angeles, DeWitt of Denver, Charles of Lusk, Wyoming and Jack of San Francisco; nine grandchildren; two great grandchildren; three sisters; Mrs. Andrew Gesslien of Mulberry, Kansas, Mrs. Ella Nipson of Greenville, S. C. and Mrs. Agnes Welsh of Washington, D. C. Another sister, Mrs. Belle Bailey of Roundup preceded him in death. Pallbearers were B. D. Fawcett, G. E. Gildroy, Joseph Vicars, George Anderson, O. L. Kilby and J. V. Weir.
More About John Center McLean: Date born 2: 1856, Pennsylvania.444 Burial: May 12, 1952, New Miners Cemetery, Roundup, MT.445 Occupation: Coal Miner.445 Residence: 1930, Roundup, Musselshell, Montana.446
Children of John Center McLean and Anna Katherine Gesslein are:
John Center McLean (b. August 10, 1879, d. May 10, 1952)
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