Thomas Asher McLeland moved from Boone County, Indiana to Allen County, Kansas in the fall of 1858 with his brother James R. McLeland and several of his Asher cousins' families. There he met and married Caroline Decker daughter of William Decker. Caroline was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania and at the age of 25 had moved first to Illinois then Kansas with her father, stepmother Catherine and half brothers, David L., William and George R. Decker. T.A. (as he was widely known) and Caroline had 3 sons and 2 daughter survive into adulthood. I am descended from Thomas Asher McLeland through his oldest son James Riland McLeland and his grandson Roy Whitman McLeland. I have many pictures of this family but there aren't many descendants around today. As far as I have been able to discover so far, none of James Riland's brothers children had children and his sister Johann had two daughters who don't appear to have had any children. This apparently makes my children the only living descendants of this family line. 
Roy Whitman McLeland known as Doc or Little Doc to family and friends. Big Doc was his father James Riland McLeland |
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Thomas Albert McLeland - called T.A. jr.. Thomas Albert was the second son of Thomas Asher and Caroline McLeland |
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T.A. McLeland jr in 1920 |
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T.A. jr with wife Geneviere and daughters Lucille and Winifred |
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Lucile and Winifred McLeland in Iola, Kansas |
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Benjamin Clifford McLeland. B.C. as he was known, was the youngest surviving son of Thomas Asher and Caroline McLeland |
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Rollo McLeland only son of B.C. Mcleland. Rollo disappears from view after his enumeration in 1920 in an armed forces training facility in Chicago. |
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Rollo and Austa McLeland in Chanute, Kansas. Austa and Rollo were the children of B.C. and his wife Bertha. Austa apparently did not survive childhood. Rollo disappeared from the record shortly after he was drafted at the end of WWI. |
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Sarah Jane McLeland's workplace at Berlesser and Isaacs c. 1927 |
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