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McClure Family Genealogy
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Welcome to our family web page. Hopefully, it will help you add to your family tree. In turn we hope that you can help us do the same.
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Back row: Virginia (Pollard) McClure, Hallie Griffith, Richard McClure, Laura (McClure) Griffith, Arlene Griffith.
Middle row: Mabra McClure, Jane Moore, Will T. Moore, William Griffith, unk. female.
Front row: Lena Mae and Corinne McClure, unk. girl, Earl Griffith.
Identities were determined by consensus of Forrest McClure, Lucy Escue, Tim McClure, John Griffith; May 2005.
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Taken about 1907: Photo courtesy of Pat Vassilaros.
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 | “The origin of the name of McClure is uncertain and is believed by many authorities to have been derived from the Gaelic MacGiolla-odhar, meaning ‘son of the pale one,’ which was contracted to MacIlure, and then through various stages to McClure, while other authorities claim that the McClures, were a branch of the clan McLeod and that their name was a corruption of McLuide, the original form of McLeod.”
“The name is found on ancient records in the various forms of MacLour, Maklure, McCluer, McClewer, MacLure, McLuir, McLewer, McLure, and McClure, of which the last is the most generally accepted form of today.”
“Families of the name of McClure were first settled in Galloway, in the Southwest of Scotland and later spread to Ayreshire, from which place one branch of the family went into Ireland about the beginning of the seventeenth century.”
(Genealogical and historical sketch compiled by The Media Research Bureau, 1110 F Street, Washington, D.C.)
This is our family genealogy, as we know it:
James McClure and Margaret (last name unknown) had four sons: James, Henry, Robert and Thomas. Oral family history is that James was an linen merchant in Ireland, but of Scotch descent. Presently, we only have descendant source information* starting with Thomas:
Thomas McClure (b. March 2, 1817, Belfast, Ireland; d. Dec.16, 1882, Corsicana, TX; buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Corsicana). On April 03, 1849 in New Castle, KY, he married Jane Moore (b. Jan. 12, 1829 Shelbyville, KY; died on Dec. 18, 1913 Corsicana, TX; buried next to Thomas). Her father was Richard Moore and her mother was Nancy Jones. One of her brothers, William Thomas Moore, was a renowned preacher in the closing years of the Christian Church Restoration Movement. Thomas McClure and Jane Moore had 12 children:
1. Harry J. McClure (b.Henry County, KY; d. in infancy on June 25, 1852 in Henry County, KY)
2. Mary Jane McClure (b. June 25, 1850, Franklinton, Henry County, KY; d. March 12, 1852, in Henry County).
3. Nancy Elizabeth (Nannie) McClure (b. March 19, 1852, in New Castle, Henry County, KY; died, unmarried, June 9, 1882; buried Harmony Grove, Navarro County, TX).
4. Florence Amanda Belle McClure (b. Dec. 28, 1854 or 1853, New Castle, Henry County, KY; d. June 24, 1933, in Dallas, TX). She married George Washington Holland Nov. 3, 1875 in New Castle, Henry County. They had nine children and migrated to TX between 1881 and 1883.
5. James Thomas McClure (b. Sept. 6, 1856, in Eminence, Henry County, KY; d. Nov. 5, 1938, Celina, Collin County, TX; buried in the Celina Cemetery). He married Margaret Kyle (Maggie) Hardeman on July 5, 1891. For a number of years they lived at Corsicana and Ferris, operating a picture show at Ferris. In 1917, they moved to Celina, TX. They had 7 children:
i) Verna McClure married (first name unknown) Bristow. The couple was living in Celina, TX at the time of her dad’s death in 1938.
ii) Unknown female McClure married Joe Roberts. The couple was living in Celina, TX in 1938.
iii) Mary Jane (b. 1901, in Corsicana, Navarro County, TX). She married Earl Hart (b.1897 in TX). Mary Jane and Earl were living in Dallas, TX in 1938. They had a daughter, Lillian Hart (b. 1919).
iv) James Thomas Jr. (b. 1904). James was living in Vallejo, CA in 1938.
v) R. C. McClure was living in San Francisco, CA in 1938.
vi) Roy K. (b.1899 TX). In 1919 he married Elsie (last name unknown, b. 1902, TX). They were living in Henderson, TX in 1938. Roy was a driller for a pile company.
vii) Helen McClure (b.1906) married Henry Wiggins. The Wiggins were in Bay City, TX in 1938 (Note: Not sure, that Helen is the daughter married to Henry Wiggins.)
6. Hallie A. McClure, 6th child of Thomas and Jane, (b. April 30, 1858, in Pleasureville, Henry County, KY; d. Nov. 16, 1885, in Corsicana, Navarro County, TX). She never married & is buried next to her parents.
7. Laura Alice McClure (b. April 22, 1860, in Henry County, KY; d. May 10, 1953, in Port Arthur, TX). On Dec. 18, 1888 in Corsicana, Laura married William Grant Griffith (b. 1862 PA; d. Sept. 27, 1933; buried in Greenlawn Cemetery). They had 3 children.
8. Richard Moore McClure (b. May 12, 1862, in KY; d. Feb. 10, 1962 in Trinidad, CO). He and his brother Mabra ran McClure & McClure blacksmiths, wheelwrights on 118 E. 4th Avenue in Corsicana, TX. On Nov. 10, 1907 in Corsicana, Richard married Nellie May McCandless (b. Sept. 3, 1876, New Marysville, Indiana; d. Oct. 19, 1966, Trinidad, CO). Richard & Nellie are buried in Trinidad’s Odd Fellow’s Cemetery. They had 2 children:
i) Hughes (Hugh) Thomas McClure (b. Jan. 5, 1909, Corsicana, TX; d. June 10, 1974 in Aguilar CO, Las Animas County; buried Masonic Cemetery, Trinidad, CO).
ii) Samuel Richard McClure (b. July 10, 1912, Corsicana, TX; d. March 14, 1998, Golden, CO). He married Betty Jane (last name private) and adopted her son, Forrest Rollin McClure. Betty died April 14, 1968 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Lakewood, CO. Forrest married Patrice Lynn (last name private) and they had three children, Melanie, Brian, and Molly. Samuel is buried next to his third wife, Mary Ellen (last name private), in Crown Hill, not far from Betty.
9. Mollie C. McClure, 9th child of Thomas and Jane, (b. March 19, 1864, in KY; d. Feb. 11, 1898, Corsicana, TX; buried Oakwood Cemetery, next to her parents). In 1888 she married Clinton (Clint) M. Winkler, Jr. (b.1866 in TX; d. Feb. 26, 1927, Fort Worth, TX; buried Oakwood Cemetery). Clint was a conductor. They had one child, Virgie A. Winkler (b. Dec. 14, 1888, Corsicana, TX).
10. Georgia A. McClure (b. Sept. 27, 1866 KY; d. Dec. 7, 1948, Corsicana, TX; buried Oakwood Cemetery, next to her parents). She was a dressmaker. She never married.
11. Mabra J. McClure (b. Sept. 25, 1869, Eminence, Henry County, KY; d. Sept. 28, 1951, Corsicana, TX). Mabra was an engineer at M. Drane and Son in Corsicana and a partner in the McClure Brothers Blacksmiths. On May 28, 1897 in Fort Worth, TX, he married Virginia Frances (Jennie) Pollard (b. Aug. 12, 1875; d. Dec. 16, 1970, Corsicana, TX). They had 8 children:
i) Lena Mae McClure (b. Oct. 27, 1898 in Corsicana, TX).
ii) (Almes) Corrine McClure (b. Oct. 13, 1900, in Corsicana, TX).
iii) Jennie Belle McClure (b. Nov. 17, 1902, Corsicana, TX; d. Oct. 2, 1989, in Corpus Christi, TX). She married L. B. Burris on Dec. 2, 1924, and they had 1 child, Martha Jane.
iv) George Pollard McClure (b. April 25, 1905, Corsicana, TX; d. Aug. 12, 1995 Corsicana, TX).
v) Thomas Mabra McClure (b. Nov. 5, 1907, in Corsicana, TX; d. April 7, 1973 in Corsicana). On Feb. 21, 1935 in Corsicana, he married Renee’ Coulson. (d. Oct. 4, 1996 in Austin, TX). The couple had 3 children: Thomas Mabra McClure, Jr. (legal name changed to Timothy Coulson McClure); David Lawsen McClure; Michael Earl McClure.
vi) Hallie Elizabeth McClure (b.Oct. 14, 1911, in Corsicana, TX). She married Les Gourely on Sept. 13, 1950. They had 2 children, Elizabeth and Janet.
vii) Alice Lillian McClure (b. Nov. 26, 1912, in Corsicana, TX; d. Dec. 6, 1979, in Corsicana).
viii) Robert Wallace McClure (b. Oct. 3, 1917, Corsicana, TX). He married Bernice Loraine Nielson Runyan Dec. 7, 1946. They had 3 children: Terry Lee (b. in Seattle, Washington), Robert Wallace Jr.(b. in Corsicana, TX), and Virginia Frances (b. in San Luis Obispo, CA).
12. Margaret (Maggie) McClure (b. March 5, 1871, in KY; d. April 3, 1934, Dallas, TX; buried Oakwood Cemetery, Dallas, TX) last child of Thomas and Jane she married Walker A. Dunavent (d. Nov. 30, 1921 Chicago, Illinois).
*Source information is from family Bibles, census records, Henry County death records, obituaries, and other standard resources. I am indebted to my distant cousin, Judy Watson (Judith Anne Apple), for her excellent research.
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