Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of WILLIAM E. McCLUNG. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 214-215 WILLIAM E. McCLUNG. On a beautiful highly cultivated little farm near Fort Spring, in the Irish Corner district, lives W. E. McClung, another representative of the large McClung family in Greenbtier county. W. E. McClung, son of J. T. and Cynthia Thompson McClung, was born November 29, 1873, at Meadow Bluff, in Meadow Bluff district, and he lived there until October 15, 1900, when he moved with his parents to Fort Spring, in Irish Corner. On September 24, 1907, he married Relda Burdette, daughter of J. Harrison and Catherine Rodgers Burdette, and to this union three children have been born, namely, Thomas Harry, born May i8, 1911; Wanda, December 10, 1912; Frank Gasaway, September 28, 1914. Mrs. McClung is a great granddaughter of Ishman Burdette, the first of that name who settled on Wolf creek, Monroe county, one hundred years ago. His son, Jackson, the father of J. Harrison, was born in 1813, and died in 1876. He lived and died in Monroe. His wife was Elizabeth Schumake. She was born on New river and lived and died there at the age of nearly one hundred years. They had ten children: J. Harrison Burdette was born November 22, i85o. He married, in 1875, Catherine Rodgers (see sketch of the Rodgers family) and has always lived on the old Michael Rodgers homestead. To this union were born six children: K. L., who married Mary Bud; Relda, who married W. E. McClung; Ella, who married Frank Brown; Wilbur, who died in 1905; Mary and Eyrette, who are single. On January 1, 1908. Mr. McClung purchased the farm on which he now lives of I. T. Mann. It was a part of the old Mathew Mann estate, and at the time Mr. McClung bought it it was without a fence, except the one on the road, and no buildings at all; but improvements were begun at once. In 1911 the barn was built and in 1912 the house was built, and he moved onto the place at that time. Now the farm is well fenced and is in a high state of cultivation.