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e. Charles Frederick Gilbert, an attorney at York, was born August 12, 1862, at Carlinville. Married Pearl Barcefer, of Kansas City, Mo., December 16, 1891. No children.

f. William White Gilbert, dealer in real estate at Muskogee, Oklahoma, was born January 27, 1865, at Carlinville, Illinois. Married Mary Bronaugh, daughter of Perry Bronaugh, of Virden, Illinois, in June, 1903.

(15). Milton McClure, Sr., born in Nicholasville, Ky., in 1832. Died January, 1903. Married Martha K. Neale, of Springfield, Ill., in 1854. They had two children:

a. James Allen McClure, born August 7, 1856. He devotes his time to real estate and other interests. In 1905 he married Mary Agnes Davis, daughter of Mr. Landon and Myra Davis, of Bolivar, Missouri.
b. Harriett B. McClure, married Thos. B. Mellersh, of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born Feb. 1858, and died in San Francisco, Cal. They have two children, Neale Mellersh, now of San Francisco, Cal., and Claude M. Mellersh, of San Francisco, California.

2. Eleanor Weight McClure, second child of Rev. Andrew McClure, born in Augusta Co., Va., Nov. 25, 1785, was taken as an infant to Bourbon County, Ky., 1786. She was killed July, 1817, by lightning striking the Presbyterian Church where she was worshipping. There is extant a printed notice of her funeral from her home on Hill street, Lexington, Ky., July 21, 1817, at 10 o'clock A. M.

She was twice married. First to John Lawson, of Lexington, Ky., and second to L. McCullough.

Her only child, Mary Pierce Lawson, was born June 16, 1807; m. March 23, 1825, John Bowman and died Sept. 28, 1862. Her thirteen children:

(1). Eleanor Lawson, b. Dec. 30, 1825, and d. in Gates ville, Texas, in 1907 in her 82nd year. She m. Aug. 3, 1843, Philip S. Woodward and had five children, three of whom married.
(2). Isaac Bowman, b. March 1, 1827, m. Grandison