Family History

The History of the McLean Family 

Arthur McLean--According to the information gathered, the McLean Family began when the late Peter and Sarah Moten, Black Hawk Indians, were brought to Robeson County in the 1830s as slaves from South Boston, VA. They brought three of their daughters, Mary, Lucy, and Margaret Moten.

The three girls were sold to the Archie McMillian family southeast of St. Pauls, NC. Later, Margaret married Peter Glover and moved to the Sattletree Community. Five children were born into this union: Flora, Charlie, James I, Effie, and Sarah Moten. Sarah married Atlas McLean. Five children were born into this union: Annie Lee, Arthur, Sarah Margaret, Lucy, and Addie. Arthur was the only son of Atlas and Sarah Moten McLean.

Annie McLean—According to the information gathered, Annie's father, Henry Johnson, was a slave in Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky, though he was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 10, 1833. He was a veteran of the Civil War and came to Robeson County in the 1860s after the close of the Civil War. He was a slave until he was between the ages of 22 and 26.

Henry married three times. He married his first wife, Caroline McEachern, on February 4, 1869. They had four children, Narcisus, Mary, Augusta, and James Johnson.

At 35, he married his second wife, Sarah Bryant, on September 29, 1883. Six children were born into this union: Lula, Wiley, Henry, Robert, Annie, and Little Sarah. Sarah Jane Bryant came from an Indian reservation in Kentucky. Her mother was Caucasian, and her father was Indian. She died on July 3, 1898.

Henry's last wife was Nannie Bel Montgomery. He married her on January 2, 1905, at 59; she was 29 then. They had three children: Maggie, Inez, and Raymond. Henry died on June 6, 1926.

Arthur McLean and Annie Elizabeth Johnson married in January. 5, 1910. They had seven children, Henry Rudolph, Sadie Mae, Arthur Bristol, Dazerine Ruth, Lillian Naomi, James Freddie, and Dexter Artral McLean.

Arthur died in 1953, and Annie on October 29, 1979.