McClure, John Pinkney

Notes:

John Pinkney McClure (parents Matthew M.D. McClure and Eliza Phillips)was born 30 Jan 1830 in Alex. Co., Ill.. He died 9 May 1863 in Jonesboro, Ill..

John Pinkney married Lydia Catherine Hargrave on 6 July 1854 inJonesboro, Illinois. Lydia Catherine (parents Robert Hargrave and Katherine Hunsaker) was born 11 July 1828 in Jonesboro, Illinois. She died 17 March 1901 in Jonesboro, Illinois.

John Pinkney McClure and Lydia Catherine Hargrave had the following children:


1. Eliza Catherine McClure was born 18 July 1855 in Jonesboro,Illinois. Eliza Catherine McClure died 13 Dec. 1925 in Murphysboro,Illinois.

2. Alice Webster McClure was born 25 Aug. 1856 in Jonesboro,Illinois. Alice Webster McClure died 1926 in Murphysboro, Illinois.

3. Matthew M. Dunkin McClure was born 1 Dec. 1857 in Jonesboro,Illinois. Matthew M. Dunkin McClure died 2 Aug. 1860 in Jonesboro,Illinois.

4. Joseph Pinkney McClure was born 11 Dec. 1859 in Jonesboro,Illinois. Joseph Pinkney McClure died 28 Dec. 1863 in Jonesboro,Illinois.

5. Olive Emily McClure was born 14 April 1862 in Jonesboro,Illinois. Olive Emily McClure died 25 Oct. 1945 in Kansas City,Missouri.
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John married Hargrave, Lydia Catherine on 06 Jul 1854 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. Lydia was born on 11 Jul 1828 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died on 17 Mar 1901 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. McClure, Eliza Catherine was born on 18 Jul 1855 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died on 13 Dec 1925 in Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois; was buried in Dec 1925 in Tower Grove Cemetery, Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois.
2. McClure, Alice Webster was born on 25 Aug 1856 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died in 1926 in Murphysboro, Jackson, Illinois.
3. McClure, Mathew Martin Dunkin was born on 01 Dec 1857 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died on 02 Aug 1860 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; was buried in Aug 1860.
4. McClure, Joseph Pinkney was born on 11 Dec 1859 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died on 28 Dec 1863 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.
5. McClure, Olive Emily was born on 14 Apr 1862 in Jonesboro, Union, Illinois; died on 25 Oct 1945 in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri.

Notes:

Matthew M.D. married Eliza Phillips on 4 March 1829 in Alexander Co,Illinois. Eliza (parents Samuel Phillips and Mary McClure??) was born 21 July 1812 in Missouri. She died 25 July 186 4 in McClure, MO.

Matthew M.D. McClure and Eliza Phillips had the following children:


1. John Pinkney McClure was born 30 Jan 1830 in Alex. Co., Ill..John Pinkney McClure die d 9 May 1863 in Jonesboro, Ill..

2. Thomas Carroll McClure was born 19 March 1833 in Alex. Co., Ill..Thomas Carroll McClure died 7 Feb. 1852 in Alex. Co., Ill..

3. Elizabeth Jane McClure was born 19 Sept. 1834 in Alex. Co., Ill..Elizabeth Jane McClure died 26 Aug. 1835 in Alex. Co., Ill..

4. Samuel M.P. McClure was born 12 Sept. 1836 in Alex. Co., Ill..Samuel M.P. McClure died 15 Oct. 1895 in McClure, Illinois.

5. Mary Ann McClure was born in Alex. Co., Ill..

6. Lucinda A. McClure was born in Alex. Co., Ill..

7. Sarah A. McClure was born in Alex. Co., Ill..

8. Eliza Ann McClure was born 28 Sept. 1847 in Alex. Co., Ill..Eliza Ann McClure died 15 March 1883.

9. Minerva A. McClure was born in Alex. Co., Ill..

10. Virginia McClure was born in Alex.Co., Ill..

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Index to Obituaries and Death Notices

in the Jonesboro Gazette

1858-1875

Jonesboro, Union County, Illinois



Transcribed by:

Darrel Dexter



3 May 1862:

William McGowie, of Lawrence County and the 63rd Illinois, was shot Sunday night (27 Apr 1862).

Matthew M.D. McClure, of Alexander County, aged 60 years and 3 months, died 23 Apr 1862.

Matthew married Phillips, Eliza on 04 Mar 1829 in , Alexander, Illinois. Eliza was born on 21 Jul 1812 in , , Missouri; died on 25 Jul 1864 in McClure, Alexander, Illinois; was buried in Jul 1864 in Old McClure Cemetery, McClure, Alexander, Illinois . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Endnotes for John's family.

1. Missouri Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com.
2. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Page 0019.
3. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume B, Page 585,License # 1165.
4. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume B, Page 134.
5. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume B, Page 529,License # 1050.
6. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume B, Page 547,Certificate # 1087.
7. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume A, Page 20.
8. Missouri Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com.
9. IGI Records, LDS Web Site.
10. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, 1929, Certificate # 177.
11. Missouri Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com.
12. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume 2, Page0154.
13. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume 002, Page0193, License #221.
14. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume E, Page 63.
15. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate # 102.
16. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate # 286.
17. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate # 131.
18. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate 177.
19. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900.
20. Missouri Marriages to 1850, Ancestry.com.
21. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate # 1097.
22. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, Certificate # 6591.
23. Oregon Death Index, 1903-70, 1937, Certificate # 62.
24. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900, Volume D, Page409, License # 837.
25. Social Security Death Index.
26. California Death Record.
27. lllinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763 - 1900.
28. Social Security Death Index.
29. California Death Record.
30. California Birth Record.
31. California Death Record.
32. California Birth Record.
33. California Death Record.
34. California Birth Record.

John married Elizabeth. Elizabeth was born on 08 Mar 1767 in , , Virginia; died on 18 Jan 1855 in , Moniteau, Missouri; was buried in Jan 1855 in Enon Cemetery, Missouri on the farm of Roy Amos, Cole, Missouri . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tombstone photo owned by: Tanya Maggs
Description: Enon Cemetery, Cole Co., Missouri on the farm of Roy Amos

ELIZABETH
WIFE OF
JOHN McCLURE
Born In
VIRGINIA
Mar 8 1767
DIED
Jan 18 1855

MARCH, 1783 (A).
Catherine Parke, late North, vs. John Redmon.--Writ, 22d October,1782.
Was Edward Parks dead?
James Page vs. John Armstrong and Phebe, his wife.--Writ, 21stNovember, 1778.
John Scott and Jane, his wife, vs. Elizabeth Carroll.--Writ, 17thJune,1778.

Notes:

Name Prefix: Mr.
REFN226
!Nauvoo Btz for dead Bk A Albert named Aunts &Cousins

!Petty Papers Vol 10 #2 pg 39 "Kty Baptists" Vol 1 by Spencer Statesthat the father in la w to Ralph Petty was James McClure.


Other possiblesiblings or children: Alexander McClure, Sarah McClure(md H. Kinkaid), John Mc Clure.
Some of these names are on the 1790 Clark Co., KY tax lists.

Possible given name: James


Slaying of the Halbert McClure Family
By Emory L. Hamilton

From the unpublished manuscript,
Indian Atrocities Along the Clinch, Powell and
Holston Rivers, pages 111-113.

On the 20th of September, 1782, Colonel
Arthur Campbell wrote to Colonel William Davies
(1), saying:
On the 11th instant a party of Northward
Indians penetrated as far in this county as the
settlements on the head of Moccasin Creek, which
is within ten or twelve miles of Abingdon, attacked
a family of fourteen in number, (of course secured
in the interior part), killed the husband on the
spot, captivated the wife and six (6) of the
children, three of whom, after being a short space
in the enemies hands, was most inhumanely
murdered. One, a young woman, so long survived
the blows as told the tragic tale. Two made their
escape the first day and night. The old woman and
one child, with a considerable booty in horses,
household goods, etc., was carried forward three
days, some distance down the Sandy River.
When part of our duty, with a
perseverance in purpose, through a most rugged
and difficult way that does them honor, overtook
the Indians and wounded several of them;
recovered unhurt, the two remaining captives,
with the Indian's baggage and plunder they had
taken.
Just seven days before the above letter was
written, Campbell, had on the 13th of September,
1782, written to Col. Preston thusly: (2)
By a few lines received from Major
Dysart, (3) I am informed that the Indians have
murdered Halbert McClure's family, near our
Courthouse, and some other persons, the number
there unknown.
Captain John Carr, who was born on
Carr's Creek in Russell Co., VA, September 6,
1773, and once lived as a boy on Moccasin Creek,
wrote to Dr. Lyman C. Draper, in 1854 from
Sumner Co., TN (4) saying:
...After that time (1776) my father moved
near the head of Moccasin Creek. The Indians
came and killed part of a family and carried off
others as prisoners. This family lived within about
two miles of my father. Their names were
McClure. Sally, the oldest daughter was to be
married the next day after the attack was made by
the Indians. The father McClure was killed, also
a son of his by the name of Moses, and Katherine,
a grown girl, and John McClure, his oldest son
was wounded, but afterwards recovered.
Sally McClure made her escape from the
Indians the first night. She met the party who were
in pursuit of the Indians, as might be expected,
her intended husband was among them. His name
was Kincaid, who married her shortly after her
return.
James Oxer, who once lived on the Clinch,
filed a Revolutinary War pension claim as the only
living heir of his father, George Oxer, who was an
Indian spy on the Clinch and who died in
Montgomery Co., KY, in October 1809. In the
claim filed in Warren Co., Indiana, in 1858, he
states:
That his father served on the Clinch and
was married to Dorcas Shelby (Shelley) who died
in Kentucky in 1824; that his father was in a
skirmish with the Indians in which Captain
(Alexander) Barnett (5) recaptured the McClure
family of Virginia, and placed them in the care of
his father George Oxer.
Joseph Smathers who once lived in this
vicinity before emigrating to Kentucky, tells a very
confused version of this incident to the Rev. John
D. Shane, (6) in which he says:
McClure's lived at the head of Little
Moccasin Gap. McClure's cabin had a wooden
chimney (7) on it. They (Indians) had gotten
between the chimney and cabin. They had learned
to say the old man's grace. (Perhaps a table grace
or prayer they overheard). His daughter was to
have been married in a few days. He (the father
McClure) came and fell on his knee and begged
them to desist and was shot dead. They
tomahawked and scalped a daughter and tread on
her, and left her for dead, but she came to and
lived. Two other daughters were taken off. One
was the bride. They taunted her about her groom
and mocked the grace the old man said. There
never was half as much mischief done (by Indians)
on Holston as on Clinch.
Halbert McClure had settled in 1773, near
the head of Moccasin Creek in Washington Co., in
Rich Valley, on a 400 acre tract of land opposite
and a little east of Cabin Creek Ford and Bromley
Gap on the southside of the North fork of Holston
River. He assigned this tract of land to John
Kinkead in 1781. (8) He was one of the appraisers
of the estate of Benjamin Estill on April 17, 1782,
and was a Juror in Botetourt Co., at a court on 15th
of May, 1771.

(1) Virginia State Papers, Vol. III, page 316-17.
(2) Draper MSS 9 DD 38
(3) Major James Dysart, first Sheriff of
Washington Co., VA, lived east of Abingdon, on
Route U. S. 11, at Book Hall (still standing). He
died in Rockcastle Co., KY, in 1831. Was one of
the Long Hunters and also at the Battle of Kings
Mountain where he commanded a company
(4) Draper MSS 6 XX 99
(5) Alexander Barnett was County Lieutenant of
Militia for Russell Co., VA, after its formation in
1786, and was a militia officer serving on the
Clinch, while the territory was still Washington
Co., VA.
(6) Historical Collection of Rev. John D. Shane,
Draper MSS 12 CC 96-7.
(7) Early settlers often built this type chimney. It
was laid up of sticks of wood, pen fashion and
daubed with clay. They were called "stick and clay
chimneys".
(8) Washington Co., VA Entry Book 1, page 10 &
70.

Contact: Rhonda Robertson at: rsr@mounet.com

Halbert married Young, Alice about 1762 in , Augusta, Virginia. Alice (daughter of Young, Patrick and Todd, Isabella) was born about 1746 in , Augusta, Virginia; died after 1800. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]