Monday Is for Mothers: Princess Niobrara McLain (1884 - 1975)

The woman with this splendid name is related to me through her 1908 marriage to Roscoe Conklin McCulley, one of my maternal second cousins, three times removed.* Her descendants have shared quite a few pictures of Princess taken throughout her life, and yes, that really was her name.

[Picture attached to an Ancestry.com family tree by nancyphipps180]

When I first started writing this post I thought that her romantic name was taken from a contemporary novel or poem but a search turned up the fact that the local river of her Oklahoma birth county, Keya Paha, is called Niobrara.**

[Princess McLain, School Teacher taught in a one room sod schoolhouse, about 1904.

Photo attached to Ancestry.com family tree by bower1939.]

Princess married Roscoe McCulley in 1908 and the couple had three children: a son Darwin and daughters Margery and Orrien Jane.

[Princess McCulley & children; Darwin, Margery & Jane about 1917.

Photo attached to Ancestry.com family tree by bower1939. ]

[Princess & Daughters, Margery & Jane--August 1956.

Photo attached to Ancestry.com family tree by bower1939.]

[Princess McLain McCulley--1950's, Ainsworth, NE.

Photo attached to Ancestry.com family tree by bower1939.]

After a long life together Roscoe and Princess N. died within a year of each other and are buried in Ainsworth Cemetery in Brown County, Nebraska.

[Findagrave 18242877, Photo by Harv 47030477]

*Roscoe was the son of Celina Worden and our common ancestors are Lyman Worden and Elizabeth Brown.
**Seventy-six miles of the Niobrara have been designated a National Scenic River.


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