Dade County, Missouri Biographies-C. C. MCLEMORE

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889.  
Published by Goodspeed, 1889; Pgs. 828, 829

C. C. McLemore, of Washington Township, was born in Monroe County, East 
Tennessee, in 1837.  His parents were John and Delila (Bredon) McLemore, 
of Tennessee, where they lived till 1852, when they came to Dade County, 
where the father died in March, 1880, and the mother, June 30, 1868.  
Mr. McLemore was a well-to-do farmer and blacksmith, of Scotch descent. 
The subject of this sketch was the third of six sons and four daughters, 
all living but one daughter.  He received a common school education, and 
in January, 1868, married Sarah A., daughter of Joshua and Sarah Ragsdale,
natives of South and North Carolina, respectively, who went to Tennessee 
when young, and came to Dade County in 1837, where they spent the remainder
of their lives.  They were among the first white settlers, coming when the
country was wild and new.  Mr. C. C. McLemore has had a family of eight 
children, five sons and two daughters now living.  In 1863 he went to 
Colorado, and for seven years was engaged in the stock business there 
with success.  Since his marriage he has lived in Dade County, where he 
has 837 acres in different farms, 350 of which is under cultivation.  He 
is an extensive stock-dealer, and is engaged in breeding short-horned 
cattle and fine Clydesdale horses.  He is a Democrat, a member of Greenfield
Lodge No. 446, A.F. & A.M., of Royal Arch chapter No. 37, and of Constantine
Commandery No. 27, and is one of the wealthy citizens and practical farmers 
of Dade County.  Mrs. McLemore is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, South.

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