Dr. William McClure, &c., &c., Councillors of State," to which office he was elected.
In 1790 the Senate endorsed memoranda submitted by him. He died in New Bern, N. C., 1804.
The New Bern, N. C., records show that he owned a great deal of property in and around the town.
Heitman gives his death at 1825. This is positively wrong, as his will is recorded in Book B, Folio 207, New Bern, written 1794 and proven 1804. Wife, Elizabeth. Judging from the will he had no sons. He speaks of his brothers and sisters, but not by name. He mentions two daughters, Fanny Bachelor and Hannah, who was not to marry until she was twenty and to live with Margaret Gaston. See Heitman, p. 275.
The name is found in various places in North and South Carolina. Paul Wheeler McLure, Spartanburg, belongs to one of the original families. Also Rev. Daniel Milton McLure, b. Flat Rock, N. C., 1835; graduate Davidson College and Oglethrope University 1858; Columbia Theological Seminary. Ordained 1864 and died 1865.
Thomas Henry McClure, Jr., of Charleston, S. C., is a descendant of David McClure, who came from Londonderry, Ireland. Had a son, William John McClure, father of James and William McClure now (1913), living in Chattanooga, Tenn., and Thomas Henry McClure, Sr., his father. Misses Emily and Margaret McClure, of Charleston, also belong to this family.
Doubtless the best known to-day of the family in the Carolinas is Rev. Alexader Doak McClure, D. D., the beloved pastor of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, Wilmington, N. C., since 1891.
His grandfather, William McClure, was born near Ballemony, County Antrim, Ireland; was brought when three years old to America by his parents, who settled in Tennessee about 1790. He married at Greenville, Tenn., later moving to Marshall County.
Rev. Alexander Doak McClure was b. at Lewisburg, Tenn., July 9, 1850, and was named for his father's friend,
