Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: James Harvey McCLUNG

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Transcribed and submitted by Ed Johnson, <EDEAJ @aol.com>, 1998.
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JAMES HARVEY McCLUNG - is a grandson of Samuel McCLUNG, who was one of the
first to enter land in Meadow Bluff district, Greenbrier County, and who
came near losing his life in the last raid the Indians made in Greenbrier
County.  He was loading logs for building a barn, when the Indians shot at
him from ambush, one ball cutting off his "cue," and another making a slight
wound across the back.  He was able to run, however, and make his escape
down the mountain to his own house, where they did not venture to molest
him.  Samuel McCLUNG, born in November, 1790, and Elizabeth E. (ARBUCKLE)
McCLUNG, both born in Greenbrier County, were the parents of James H., and
he was born in this county, near Lewisburg, January 28, 1834.  He volunteered
in the Confederate service, September 8, 1864, and took part in several
battles, receiving discharge in April, 1865.  Prior to his enlistment he
had sent out two substitutes.  October 27, 1868, in Upperville, Fauquier
County, Virginia, James H. McCLUNG and Bettie Ella LUNCFORD were joined in
wedlock, and in their home in Falling Spring District, are seven children
of their union, and death has taken one away.  Samuel H. was born September
8, 1869;  Mary Kate, February 15, 1871;  Augustus Brown, July 27, 1872;
John Edward, February 14, 1874;  Julia Alzira, August 7, 1875, died October
6, 1876;  Mattie L. and Sarah C., September 7, 1877;  Addie Patton, June 5,
1880.  Harrison and Julia A. (McPHERSON) LUNCFORD, of Upperville, Fauquier
County, Virginia, are the parents of Mrs. McCLUNG, and she was born in that
place about the year 1844.  James H.  McCLUNG's farm of 550 acres lies near
Falling Spring, which is his postoffice address.

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.