Sketch of Robert McCluer, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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John McCluer was a soldier in the war of the revolution.  He married
his cousin, Nancy McCluer, the ceremony being performed at the Natural
Bridge, in Virginia.  They were of Scotch-Irish descent.  The names of
their children were: Arthur, John, Nathan, Robert, Catharine, Jeanette,
Nancy and Elizabeth.  Nathan married Jane McClenny.  Catharine married
Samuel McCarkill.  Jeannette married her cousin, John McCluer.  Eliza-
beth married a Mr. Tedford.  Nancy married James Alexander, who settled
in St. Charles County in 1829.  They had four children: John, William A.,
Agnes and Elizabeth, all of whom, with the exception of William A., who
is a prominent lawyer of St. Charles, removed to Virginia, and settled
there.  Mr. Alexander and his wife died in St. Charles County; the 
latter in 1833, and the former in 1835.  Robert McCluer was a physician.
He also served as a soldier in the War of 1812.  He was married in 1816
to Sophia Campbell, a daughter of Dr. Samuel L. Campbell and sister of
Hon. William M. Campbell.  In the fall of 1829, he settled in St. Char-
les County, with his family, consisting of his wife and five children:
Jeannette C., Samuel C., John A., Susan T. and Sally.  Two other child-
ren, Nancy and Robert, were born after they settled in Missouri.  Dr.
McCluer died in 1834, at the age of forty two years, and his wife died
in 1866, in her 72nd year.  John, Susan and Sally McCluer died young.
Jeannette married John B. Muschany, and had seven children.  He died in
1861.  Samuel C. married Lucretia C. Fawcett, and they had ten children.
Nancy married Rev. Thomas Watson.  They had nine children.  Robert was
married to Ellen S. Brown, and they had eight children.
	

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