good many years a successful merchant of Lexington, Ky., but during the last years of his life devoted himself almost entirely to his farm. His home, a beautiful estate in Jessamine County, is still known as "The McClure Place."
He m. Jan. 23, 1827, Rachel Sarah Barton, (b. January, 1790, d. Nov., 1874), d. of John Barton, a family well known both in Virginia and Kentucky.
They had one child:
(1). Sarah Barton McClure, b. June 27, 1828, d. Aug. 17, 1866. She m. Feb. 21, 1854, Isaac Shelby (Dec. 28, 1815—July 1, 1873), son of General James Shelby and grandson of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky.
Two children:
a. Sarah Barton, b. at Lexington, Ky., Sept. 20, 1859; m. Oct. 14, 1884, Edmund Shelby Kinkead (Oct. 14, 1856—Oct. 2, 1910), a son of Judge Wm. B. and Elizabeth Shelby Kinkead, of Covington, Ky. Two children:
- (a). Edmund Shelby Kinkead, Jr., b. Oct. 3, 1885.
- (b). Elizabeth Fontain Kinkead, b. Oct. 29, 1887.
b. James, (July 24, 1861—June 23, 1862).
LINE OF ELEANOR McCLURE.
C. Eleanor McClure, the third child and oldest daughter of James and Agnes McClure, was born in Ireland about 1725, and died in Augusta County, Va., in 1799. Her will is on file in box 41, office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Staunton, Va.
She married about 1755, Hugh McClure, who was probably a son of William McClure of page 21.
They owned a good estate near Fishersville, Augusta County, where Hugh died 1872.
They left seven children:
- I. Isaac, who died single in 1828, His will, written Feb. 5, 1828, was proven April 21, 1828, by the oaths of John McClure, Samuel H. McClure and
