MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - Frederick B. McClure
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FREDERICK B. McCLURE, farmer of Marshall County and son of John and Sarah
(Cooper) McClure. The father was born in North Carolina and there married
Miss Jameson, who bore him five children. They came to Tennessee about 1811
and located in Rutherford County. His wife died and he then wedded Mrs.
Cooper. To them were born four children. Both husband and wife were members
of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. The father was a tanner by trade and
worked thereat in early life. Later he betook himself to farming. The
mother died in 1845 and the father in 1848. Our subject was born in
Rutherford County, August 15, 1827, but attended school very little in
boyhood, owing to poor health.
At the age of twenty he began farming and later purchased a farm in
Marshall County. In 1862 he volunteered to serve in the commissary
department, continuing until the close of the war. In 1866, after his
return, he wedded a Miss McAfee, daughter of Green and Elizabeth (Scales)
McAfee, and to their union were born five children, three now living. Mr.
McClure is a stanch Democrat and is the owner of 163 acres of land in the
garden spot of Marshall County.

Surnames: Cooper, Jameson, McAfee, McClure, Scales
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."