Mary Catherine Conner
1843–1928
Mary Catherine Conner (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Catherine Crislip3, James A. Conner4) [362], born May 1843 in Maryland; died 9 January 1928; married 1st, 30 September 1862, Henry Franklin Dalton, born 1851, Maryland; died ca. 1915, Washington, D.C. Henry Dalton was a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion, DC Volunteers at the beginning of the Civil War. He faced a formal court martial in late 1862 and was convicted of “Conduct unbecoming an Officer and Gentleman,” specifically that “he did leave his guard without permission from proper authority and go into a private room and gamble with cards for money with a negro.” Henry was found not guilty of “Disobedience of Orders.” His sentence was dismissal from the service and was read on 5 August 1862. The court martial file (KK 102) is at the National Archives in Washington. He and Mary Catherine Conner married the next month. Mary Catherine married 2nd, ca. 1877, George Robert McClelland, a distant cousin. The son of Robert McClelland and Rosanna Moore, George Robert McClelland was born 1851 in Maryland; died ca. 1915, Washington, D.C.
Child of Mary Catherine Conner and Henry F. Dalton
Hattie Franklin Dalton (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Catherine Crislip3, James A. Conner4, Mary Catherine Conner5) [362], born 28 August 1863, Washington, D.C.; died ca. 1950; married, 4 November 1901, in Washington, D.C., Joseph Small, born 1860, Brooklyn, New York. No issue.
Child of Mary Catherine(Conner)Dalton and George Robert McClelland
Maude Lillian McClelland (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Catherine Crislip3, James A. Conner4, Mary Catherine Dalton5) [362], born 22 February 1880, Washington, D.C.; died 6 February 1967, Washington, D.C.; married Robert R. Dillard, born 6 October 1877, King George County, Virginia; died 25 October 1935, Washington, D.C.