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Karen Elizabeth McCandless McClendon, native of Dallas, Texas, is the daughter of the late H. R. McCandless, Jr. and Ruth King McCandless. She has three children - Lisa Lynn Lair, Leslie Ann Murray and John Kevin McClendon, Esq. as well as five grandchildren.

Mrs. McClendon completed her BA as well as her M Ed at West Texas A & M University and enjoyed a career in secondary education, teaching English, art, speech and drama.

Memberships

  • National Gavel Society
  • American Descendants of the House of Burgesses 1619-1699 (Founding Member)
  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion (Dame)
  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety, Class of 2017; webmistress)
  • Colonial Dames of America (Chapter XXI President)
  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars
  • Descendants of the Illegitimate Sons and Daughters of the Kings of Britain
  • Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America
  • Dutch Colonial Society
  • First Families of Georgia
  • First Families of Kentucky
  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Honorary President General; Founding Recording Secretary General)
  • Hereditary Order of the Families of Presidents and First Ladies
  • Jamestowne Society
  • Military Order of the Crusades
  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Honorary President General; webmistress)
  • National Huguenot Society
  • National Order of the Blue and Gray
  • National Society Americans of Royal Descent
  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century
  • National Society Colonial Dames of America
  • National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century (Lone Star Chapter Corresponding Secretary)
  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars
  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists
  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (Honorary Chapter Regent; Recipient of the SAR Medal of Appreciation)
  • National Society Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede
  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers
  • National Society Magna Charta Dames (D-FW Colony 3rd Vice President)
  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor
  • National Society Saints and Sinners
  • National Society Sons & Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861 (Texas Agent)
  • National Society Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims (Honorary Texas Branch Governor)
  • National Society Southern Dames of America
  • National Society US Daughters of 1812
  • One Hundred Living Descendants of Blood Royal (Amanuensis)
  • Order of Alba (Founding Genealogist General)
  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (President General)
  • Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America
  • Order of the Crown in America (Texas Councillor)
  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America
  • Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters (Texas State Registrar; Treasurer)
  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (Corresponding Secretary General)
  • Order of the Descendants of the Justiciars (Founding Genealogist General)
  • Order of Descendants of Physicians and Chirurgiens
  • Order of Descendants of Pirates & Privateers
  • Order of Knights of the Golden Horseshoe (Secretary General)
  • Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence (Founding Genealogist General)
  • Order of the First Families of Maryland
  • Order of the First Families of Mississippi 1699-1817
  • Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692 (Founding Emissary General)
  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty (Registrar General)
  • Order of the Norman Conquest (Founding Genealogist General)
  • Order of Three Crusades 1096-1192 (Councillor)
  • Presidential Families of America (Texas Regent)
  • Royal Society of Saint George (Texas Branch)
  • Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
  • Society of Descendants of the Knights of the Garter; Windsor Castle (Genealogist General)
  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Lady of the Council)
  • Society of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge
  • Sons & Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1561-1861 (Honorary President General)
  • Sons & Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers (Founding Genealogist General)
  • United Daughters of the Confederacy

Other:

Mrs. McClendon has compiled and edited numerous directories and newsletters as well as the OAAA Lineage Book II. She has written articles for and spoken to various societies on both genealogy-related topics and antiques.

In fact, she has recently gone back into the antiques business, opening a booth in a local mall. Other than genealogy and antiques, her interests include bridge, reading, theatre and travel.

A member of various county historical societies, Mrs. McClendon has also been affiliated with Dallas Heritage Village for over 25 years as a docent and fundraiser.

She is particularly proud to be a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.

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