OBITUARY:  Wm. F. McClewer, 4 Oct 1885 - Smith County, TX

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15 Sep 2002

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 24, 1885, p. 7, c. 2-3|

McCLEWER. Wm. F. McClewer was born in Bedford county, Tenn., 
Dec. 27, 1817; was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal 
Church in the summer of 1835. He came to Texas in the year 1837; 
returned to Tennessee in the fall of 1838, and on Jan. 23, 1839, 
was happily married to Miss E. P. Johnson, and immediately they 
returned to Texas and settled in Nacogdoches county, where they 
lived till he moved to this (Smith) county in 1847. On last 
Sunday, at about five o'clock p.m., Oct. 4, 1885, his happy s
pirit left for its heavenly home. Bro. McClewer was a devoted, 
consistent member all the fifty years he was in the church, 
serving as class-leader, steward, Sunday-school superintendent, 
or in some official relation nearly all his life. His wife still 
survives him, also an adopted son, and his wife and babe. 

                                  C. H. SMITH.