Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Anderson Co.

JOHN McCLURE.  The McClure family is of Irish origin, the original ancestor
having immigrated from Ireland at any early day and settled in Baltimore,
Md., where he became the father of eleven children.  His son James, at the
age of twelve, left home with his parents' consent and went to New Orleans,
where he tarried for a time and then walked to Kentucky through the Indian
Territory and located in Woodford County. He served an apprenticeship to
the tanner's trade, and when he had attained his majority removed to
Anderson County, where he married the widow, Nancy Smith, and entered upon
the life of a farmer.  He wife was a woman of remarkable judgment and
managerial capacity and proved a worthy and useful helpmate to him in all
of his business affairs.  He enjoyed a reputation among his fellows for
perfect honesty of purpose and deed, and earned the respect of all by his
integrity and uprightness of character.  He had three sons: William, John
and Virgil.  The first named immigrated to Missouri, taking with him a
Kentucky wife, and died there, leaving descendants.  Virgil became a
physician and located in Gallatin County, Ky., where he enjoyed excellent
professional reputation and died in 1873.  His only daughter became the
wife of Mr. Griffin, who was appointed minister of the United States to
the Samoan Islands by President Grant and who was at one time consul at
Copenhagen.  John McClure passed his entire life in Anderson County, where
he enjoyed the same reputation as his father as a man of rare honesty and
uncompromising devotion to duty.  He led an industrious, earnest and
energetic life, and died in November 1854.  His wife, who was Miss
Elizabeth Lillard, is still living at the age of eighty-six years.  The
daughters of this worthy couple were Susan, who married Daniel Jackson
Williams, Jr., of Woodford County, and resides at Versailles; Lucretia, who
resides in Anderson County, and Martha, who died in young womanhood.  The
only son, Albert G. McClure, served in the Confederate Army under Gen.
Morgan; was captured during the raid into Ohio; confined in Camp Douglas,
and having made his escape was killed while resisting recapture.

McClure Smith Lillard Griffin
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Woodford-KY Gallatin-KY MD LA Ireland

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