Greenbrier County, West Virginia         Biography of JACOB O. McCLUNG

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History of Greenbrier County 
J. R. Cole 
Lewisburg, WV 1917 
p. 238-239

JACOB O. McCLUNG.

J.  O. McClung, memher of our county court, comes in line of descent from 
John McClung. Andrew Cavendish McClung (Moccasin Andy) was his grandfather, 
and was horn February 28, 1819, and died about 1900. He married, first, 
Catherine Odell. She died at Hominy Falls, W. Va. Six children were the 
fruits of this union, viz.: (1) Thaddeus, who died a prisoner of war. He was 
unmarried; (2) Sophrona, who went West with her uncle, Mr. Wiseman; (3) Rev. 
Andrew McClung, a Baptist minister who married Irene Dorsey, and they lived 
at Levisay, W. Va.; (4) Rev. Grigsby B. He was a Baptist minister, also, and 
lived at Asbury. He married Fannie McClung, daughter of George Augustus 
McClung. Four children were born to this union, viz.:

Andrew Charlton McClung, the father of Jacob O. He married Miss Etta Deitz, 
and to them were horn: Walla, Bessie, a child who died in infancy, Mary Belle 
(who married Frank Parker), William Geeter, and Jacob Odell, who was born 
February 16, 1851.

J.  O. McClung was reared a farmer. He has also been a stock dealer on a 
somewhat extensive scale. On December 13, 1869, he married Martha Jane 
Callison, horn December i8, 1846, died in July, 1904. To this union four 
children were horn, all married but one and all hountifully provided for. The 
homestead remains a valuable tract of land. The issue to this union was as 
follows:

Dr. Thaddeus Clayton McClung, born September 25, 1870, graduated, March, 
1894, at Louisville (Kentucky) Medical College, since which time he has been 
practicing his profession at Ronceverte. On October 8, 1894, he married Cora 
Hunt, horn March 15, 1872. They have four children. James Andrew McClung, the 
second son, was a school teacher for several years and is now manager of a 
store in Washington, D. C. Mary Malinda married Robert Hunt (see sketch). 
Rebecca Catherine, born January 6, i889, married Dr. David Wall, a practicing 
physician. He was reared on Muddy creek and resides on part of the old 
McClung homestead.

Besides his agricultural interests, Jacob O. Mcclung has given much of his 
time to the official needs of the county.  He was deputy sheriff four years 
under Henry Harold. has been county commissioner six years, and has always 
been a man of political importance to the people of Greenbrier.