Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887.

J. F. McCLURE was born near Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1834.  His father,
Ewing McClure, who was a native of Rockbridge County, Va., immigrated to
Washington County, Tenn., where he was a farmer.  In the war of 1812 he
commanded a company, and participated in Jackson's celebrated victory at
New Orleans.  John McClure, father of Ewing, and his wife, Elizabeth
(Ewing) McClure, settled in Virginia, but were natives of Scotland.  The
mother of our subject was Antoinette Slemons, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Graham) Slemons, of English origin.  J. F. McClure, the third
of a family of six children, was born and reared on a farm.  He was
educated at Washington College, Tenn., and at Princeton College, N. J.
He began life as a merchant at Jonesboro, Tenn., in which business he
remained until the late war.  He served in the Confederate Army as
lieutenant in the Nineteenth Tennessee, but was severely wounded at the
battle of Shiloh, and subsequently, in 1862, was discharged on account
of disability.  He re-enlisted, and was assigned to staff duty, but was
captured at Vicksburg and held under parole one year.  After being
exchanged he was assigned duty in the Army of Virginia, where he was
surrendered and paroled under Gen. Lee.  After the war he followed civil
engineering, and assisted in the building of the Cincinnati Shortline
Railroad, the Big Sandy Railroad and the Cincinnati Southern.  In 1873
he went into the coal business, opening mines at various places, among
them the first on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, and East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia Railroad.  He is a member of the Presbyterian Church,
and is Democratic in politics.  In 1857 he was married to Miss Letitia
Simpson, daughter of Francis and Mary (Blair) Simpson, of Jonesboro,
Tenn.  She was a Presbyterian in life, and died in 1862, leaving one
child, Antoinette (Dosser).  In 1867 Mr. McClure married Miss Julia E.
Smith, daughter of Granville and Sarah (Boswell) Smith.  Sarah Boswell
is the daughter of Gen. Boswell.  To this marriage have been born three
children: Sallie, Lelia and John.

McClure Graham Simpson Blair Dosser Boswell Slemons Ewing Smith
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Rockbridge-VA Washington-TN Scotland NJ

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