byterian minister and his two sons emigrated to Ireland. There is a tradition that they were weavers by trade. Coming to America they settled in Virginia, where my grandfather, Thomas McClure, was born about 1775. He had a brother, John, an Indian fighter, who went to Kentucky. Also a sister, Matilda, who married a Skidmore and went to Kentucky. Her grandson, Peyton Skidmore, died in Aztec, N. M., in 1902, and left an only daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hoyle, one-eigth Cherokee Indian. She is now a widow, wealthy and beautiful. Thomas McClure moved to N. C. prior to 1800, and died near Dalton, Ga., 1865.
His children, born in N. C., were (1) Andrew, (2) John, b. 1800 and died at the foot of Pike's Peak in 1880. He left a son, William, who now lives near Gordon, Erath County, Texas; (3) William, who lived and died near Waynesville, Haywood County, N. C., leaving two sons, Pinkney and Rowland; (4) Thomas; (5) a daughter, who m. a Moody and had two sons,—Joseph who lived in Jackson County, N. C., and Rev. Hiram Moody, a Baptist preacher, who was in Texas 1875 and afterwards in Oklahoma; (6) Col. Joseph McClure, born near Raleigh, N. C, July 16, 1810, m. October 29, 1835, on a farm that is the present site of Birmingham, Ala., Patience McLain; commanded a regiment in the Mexican War, and died in Fayette County, Ala., Nov. 2, 1856. He left five children:
a. Martha A., b. Murray County, Ga., Jan. 23, 1837, m. J. J. Spain April 23, 1855, and now lives with her family near Alto, Texas.
b. Thomas M., b. Murray County, Ga., Sept. 14, 1840, lives near Alto, Texas; is the father of Rev. J. T. McClure, of Dallas, Texas.
c. Columbus C., b. Murray County, Ga., August 9, 18—, died in Winchester, Va., February 9, 1862. A marble slab shows his grave in the N. E. corner of the old cemetery there. A Confederate soldier.
d. Adolphus B., b. Fayette County, Ala., February 25, 1848, now lives at Aztec, N. M.; interested in real estate.
