Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Andrew Hutchison McCLUNG

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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ANDREW HUTCHISON McCLUNG - farmer and stock-raiser of Meadow Bluff 
district, owning 550 acres of valuable land on Big Clear Creek, is a native 
of Greenbrier County. He was born on Meadow River, May 18, 1832, and he 
married on Laurel Creek, this county, March 12, 1856. John and Hannah 
(McMILLIAM) McCLUNG were his parents, and he married Nancy Ann, daughter 
of Alexander and Elenor (THOMPSON) McCLUNG. She was born in Greenbrier County, 
April 20, 1857. Their children were born: Onalaska, December 26, 1856, died 
August 24, 1876; Lenora, January 24, 1859, died October 11, 1865; Leanna Ada, 
November 7, 1860; Robert Otte, December 23, 1862, died October 5, 1865; 
Lewis Edgar, April 28, 1865; Paul Hudson, February 24, 1867; Louisa, June 18, 1869, 
died in infancy; Homer, September 23, 1873; Cary, July 18, 1875. The living 
children are all at home. The father of Andrew H. McCLUNG was born in Augusta County, 
Virginia, January 20, 1762, came to Greenbrier County in 1766, and 
died in this county, July 20, 1850. Hannah, his wife, was born in this 
county, February 14, 1795, and here died November 30, 1861. William McCLUNG, 
father of John, was the first settler on Meadow River, locating here in 1766. 
He took a tomahawk entry for 100,000 acres on Meadow River and its 
tributaries, and made his home here when the Indians were so troublesome 
that he plowed with his rifle strung to his shoulder and his wife and three 
children took refuge in the dense swamp while he was working, only returning 
to the cabin at night when he was there to defend them. The parents of Mrs. 
McCLUNG were born in Greenbrier County, her father in 1805, and her mother 
in 1815, and they are still living here. Andrew H. McCLUNG was captain of 
Company C, 79th Virginia military, Confederate service, war between the 
states. He was sixteen years justice of the peace in Meadow Bluff district, 
and has been for twelve years postmaster at Big Clear Creek P.O., Greenbrier County, 
West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.