Hubby's 3d great-grandparents (John McClure and Ann McFall) married in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1801. One of their sons was Benjamin McClure (1812-1896), the subject of
my Facebook genealogy experiment (which has attracted one McClure researcher so far).
There is strong evidence that the McClure family (specifically, John's father Alexander and grandpa Halbert) was from Donegal.
Actually, it seems to be a Scots-Irish connection. I still have more work to do proving the connection, of course...
How appropriate that I can showcase one of hubby's three Irish ancestral links during the week leading up to St. Patrick's Day!
This weekly prompt about Virginia is part of the "Genealogy by the States" series by Jim Sanders.
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