McClure, Donegal

"Uncle Benny" McClure, 1812-1896

Hubby's McClure ancestors were originally from the Isle of Skye in Scotland, a sept that was part of the MacLeod clan of Harris. The clans gathered at Dunvegan Castle, a beautiful place I hope to visit one day.

Thanks to the well-researched book Following the McClures--Donegal to Botetourt, I know the 17th century McClure ancestors left Scotland for religious and economic reasons and settled in County Donegal. The most likely patriarch of hubby's line was James Andrew McClure, father of Halbert McClure(1684-1754). Halbert was hubby's 5th great grandfather and, happily for us, the journey taker who led our McClure ancestors to America in the 1730s. (For more about the exodus of people from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania and onward to Virginia and other colonies, read about "Scots-Irish/Irish Genealogy" here.)

Halbert McClure and Agnes (Steele?) had 6 children: Samuel (b. 1709), Moses (b. 1710), Nathaniel (b. 1712), Alexander (b. 1717), Hannah (b. 1719), and John (b. 1725). Halbert's son Alexander McClure was hubby's 4th great-granddaddy. Alexander's son John McClure and his wife Ann McFall, who married in 1801, were hubby's 3rd great-grandparents. John and Ann must have had other children, and I connected with a McFall researcher who had researched Elizabeth McClure and Jane McClure, plus hubby's 2d great-granddaddy, Benjamin McClure (1812-1896), born in Adams County, OH, and a pioneer in Wabash, IN.

Knowing about these other siblings of Benjamin McClure answered a question I had about the name of one of Benjamin's children, Train C. McClure, a Civil War veteran in the Union Army. He was named for his uncle, Train Caldwell, who married Jane McClure in 1831 in Fayette, Indiana.

Benjamin McClure and Sarah Denning's children:

Susan, Theodore, Mary Ann, John N., Martha Jane, Train C., Elizabeth D., Addison D., William M., Amanda "Callie," Anna Adaline

My posts about the McClure family include:

• The Hoosiers in our family, including a man named Train (McClure)
• Lt. Theodore W. McClure's Civil War record
• William Madison McClure died of typhoid fever
• "Uncle Benny" McClure saves a coon on the Sabbath
• Saluting Marian McClure Wood
• William Madison McClure and Margaret Jane Larimer McClure of Wabash
• Uncle Benny McClure sets up a Facebook page
• Sarah Denning McClure's obit
• Mrs. Brice Larimer McClure's obit (Floyda Mabel Steiner)
• Mrs. Brice Larimer McClure's butterscotch brownies
• Brice Larimer McClure's business card--with family notations!
• What it was like when Benjamin McClure was born in 1812
• Portraits of Brice Larimer McClure and Floyda Mabel Steiner McClure
• Mary Ann McClure Cook, daughter of Benjamin McClure and wife of Rev. Cook
• What happened in 1878, the year Brice Larimer McClure was born
• What happened in 1909, the year Marian Jane McClure was born
• The four children of Margaret Jane Larimer and Wm Madison McClure
• Thanks to local genealogy resources, Mary Ann McClure Cook's death cert
• Online libraries lead to Halbert McClure hints
• The McClures in Adams County (court cases and more)
• Marian Jane McClure and Edgar James Wood have their first baby
• Marian and Edgar visit graves in Upper Sandusky, OH
• Ann McFall and John McClure were married in Virginia
• Photo of Margaret Larimer McClure, her daughter Lucy, and son-in-law John deVelde
• Jonas Shank, husband of great-grand aunt Lucinda Helen Bentley Shank, walked 9 miles in 90 min at age 88. 
• Train C. McClure's full name was Train Caldwell McClure and he was probably named after his father's brother-in-law (Train's uncle). 
• Georgiana Olivette McClure was the daughter of Hugh Benjamin McClure and his young wife, Olivette van Roe. Georgiana was my hubby's 1st cousin 1x. 
• Brice Larimer McClure is buried in Old Mission Cemetery, Upper Sandusky, OH. I found him living in Upper Sandusky, OH, in the 1950 US Census, retired and soon to be selling the home to move to Willoughby, Ohio.
• My only photo of Margaret Jane Larimer McClure, her daughter Lucy, and son-in-law John.
• Pioneers Benjamin McClure, Sarah Denning McClure, and the Friends of Falls Cemetery in Wabash, Indiana.
• Marian Jane McClure's birth record from 1909 -- is where?
• Planning a family history booklet about Marian McClure's idea to bring her three grown children and their spouses and children together in Venice, Italy. Not enough interest from descendants, so on back burner in 2022.
• Theodore Wilson McClure married Louisa Jane Austin on April 15, 1858.
• The McClure family tradition of decorating ancestors' graves on Decoration Day.
• Brice Larimer McClure knew 6 generations of his family, including his grandparents on the Larimer side and his grandparents on the McClure side.
• After 150 years in America, the McClure family evolved from pioneer farmers to city folk.
• Maybe new clue about Halbert McClure's father, James Andrew McClure (1660-?). - Not really, just unsubstantiated detail.
• Reading historical fiction for insight into time and place of Wabash, Indiana, where Benjamin McClure and Sarah Denning McClure lived.
• Benjamin and wife Sarah were early settlers in Wabash, and he was involved in organizing an "early settlers" group.
• Sarah Denning McClure's father was Job Denning Sr, an early Ohio pioneer like the settlers who had "Ohio fever" in the David McCollough book, "The Pioneers."
• Hubby's great uncle Hugh Benjamin McClure was an inventor and an entrepreneur in Peoria, ILL. He and his wife Olivette van Roe married on Dec. 17, 1902 in Wabash, Indiana, on a cold winter day.
• Marian Jane McClure Wood's ceramic sculptures will one day pass to her descendants, complete with the story of their creation.
• Two McClure men worked for railroads in late 1800s/early 1900s.
• John N. McClure married Rebecca Jane Coble on New Year's Eve of 1863 in Wabash, Indiana. His Civil War service is of interest to descendants!
• Curating photos of Wood and McClure ancestors to post on online family trees.
• How I learned more about the background of Ira Caldwell, whose aunt married a McClure. Ira served nearly 3 years in the Union Army.
• Pvt Train Caldwell McClure's Find a Grave memorial now has a link to his Fold3 memorial page.
• John McClure's father, Alexander McClure, was already on the WikiTree one-tree platform, with sources, allowing for greater collaboration.
• Some McClure ancestors and in-laws are on WikiTree, where I'm adopting orphaned profiles.
• Finally, a FAN club link shows how Brice Larimer McClure met Floyda Mabel Steiner.
• Categorizing Brice McClure's cemetery location on his bite-sized WikiTree memorial.
  
• Lola McClure Lower was a truant officer in Wabash, Indiana who had to fight for her pay during the Great Depression. She was hubby's great aunt.

In searching for current-day cousins from John McClure's line, I've had only a little success so far. Still looking!