Caldwell County MO Archives History .....McCLINTOCK FAMILY IN MIRABILE AND HAMILTON 
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THE McCLINTOCK FAMILY IN MIRABILE AND HAMILTON
	Narrators:  Joe Davis, 77, and Mrs. Mittie Whitman, 73

     These narrators are cousins, and Mr. McClintock was an uncle by marriage 
to them.  Dr. J.H. McClintock married a sister of both Mrs. Whitman's father 
and Mr. Davis's father.  He came into the county about 1855.  No one seems to 
know where he came from.  He appeared in Mirabile and asked for the village 
school, which he taught.  His future wife went to school to him, and he fell 
in love with her.  Another pupil was Judge W.J. Wyatt, later a prominent 
citizen of Hamilton.  After his marriage, he managed a store at Kingston for 
his brother-in-law A.G. Davis and one of the clerks then was William Napier, 
who later moved to Hamilton and lived here to the end of his life.  When A.G. 
Davis started the new town of Hamilton and opened a store, Dr. McClintock came 
here to manage it for him for a while.
     While here, he built a house in which he lived on the site where now 
stands the post office building (1935).  This house became better known as the 
A.G. Davis cottage, for he sold it to Davis after the latter left the old 
Davis hotel.  Later on, of course, the Davis family moved to the big house in 
the north east part of town, known yet as the old Davis house.
     Dr. McClintock had the title of Doctor, because he was a regular eye 
doctor and fitted glasses.  After giving up the store work here, he and wife 
moved to Kansas City about 1872 and from there went south to Texas.  His wife 
was Mildred Penney, one of the daughters of the Rev. Eli Penney a Baptist 
preacher and a very rich farmer or plantation owner in Mirabile township 
before the war.  She was married to Dr. McClintock at Mirabile 1856.  In 1857-
8 they lived in this county.  Then they made a grand tour of old Mexico, Cuba, 
and various southern states, finally locating in Houston Texas where he was an 
eye doctor and she kept a boarding house.  She died Sept 19 1903, at the home 
of her brother Ed Penney in Kansas City, and he died 1909.  She was buried 
first in the old cemetery at Hamilton in one of the Davis lots, but after her 
husband died and was buried in the new cemetery, the Davis kin also took her 
up and buried her with him.
     They had no children, and no relatives save those of her family.
     Interviews  1935.


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