BIOGRAPHY: MCCLURE, Hiram H., Lincoln County, KY


From:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)
Date: 06 Sep 1998 



McCLURE   CURRY   SEANEY   SHEPARD

** Note: Hiram H. McClure was son of Samuel and Jane 
(Curry) McClure, who were born in Lincoln County, Kentucky.

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana Chicago:  
The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886
Knox County, Busseron Twp., page 458

HIRAM H. McCLURE, deceased, a prominent farmer, and native of Knox 
County, Ind., was born Sept. 6, 1824, and was the youngest of eleven 
children of Samuel and Jane (Curry) McClure, natives of Kentucky, 
born June 1, 1784, and August 25, 1783, respectively.  They were 
married in 1805, and came to  Indiana a few years later. They were 
among the early pioneers, and lived in a fort to protect themselves 
from the Indians.  The father was in the War of 1812, in the battle 
of Tippecanoe.  He died November 17, 1851, and the mother June 22, 
1839.  Hiram H. was reared on the home farm, where he lived and died.  
At the age of twenty-one he married, and began his career as a tiller 
of the soil.  He was quite prosperous and owned about 200 acres of 
very fine land, well improved with a good brick residence.  He was 
married May 7, 1845, to Rosella Seaney, born in Illinois, October 28, 
1848.  They became the parents of nine children, all but one now 
living: Sarah J., born October 29, 1846; Mary E., born October 2, 
1848, and died April 23,  1863; Samuel B., born June 22, 1850; Albert 
B., born November 19, 1852; Henrietta P., born June 16, 1855; Margaret 
A., born August 6, 1858; Flora A., born March 16, 1861; Edgar M., born 
August 29, 1867, and Jasper F., born April 14, 1871.  Mr. McClure was 
a zealous member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his wife 
and their children were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  
He was a very strong Republican, and was trustee several terms. He 
was very just and honest in his business transactions, and was much 
respected and esteemed by all who knew him.  He was a member of the 
I.O.O.F., and his death, which occurred November 20, 1876, was a great 
loss to the community.  The mother still resides on the old homestead. 
Samuel B. McClure is the third child of Hiram McClure, and was born 
near where he now resides, June 22, 1850.  He received a fair business 
education, and attended the commercial college at Terre Haute, Ind., 
three months.  He made his parents' house his home until about 
twenty-five years of age, when he married and located on his present 
farm, where he has followed agricultural pursuits very successfully.  
He owns seventy-five acres of very fertile land, well improved, with 
a good two-story frame residence in a pleasant location.  He has a 
hay-cellar, made of pressed hay and cemented,  which is very 
convenient, and the only one in the county.  February 21, 1878, he 
was married to Fannie Shepard, daughter of James M. Shepard, whose 
sketch appears in this work.  One child was born to them January 23, 
1880, which died November 3, 1881.  Both husband and wife are members 
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Mr. McClure is a member of 
the I.O.O.F., and has always given his aid and support to the 
Republican party.


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