Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: John McCLUNG

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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JOHN McCLUNG - born May 19, 1809, on the farm now owned by Franklin McCLUNG,
in Williamsburg District, has always lived in this district, and been one
of its farmers for many years.   His first wife was Rebecca, daughter of
Aaron and Rebecca (COLLINS) BURR.  She was born in this county, on Spring
Creek, June 12, 1807, and her parents were married and died in this county.
Her father was born in Connecticut, about 1776, and came to Greenbrier
County with his father between 1780 and 1785, and he died in 1834.  His
wife was born in Hampshire County, (then) Virginia, and she died about
1852.  John McCLUNG and Rebecca BURR were married April 19, 1833, and
their children are recorded:  Mary Jane, born July 30, 1834, is the wife
of Albert Fulwider, living in Harrisonville, Meigs County, Ohio;  James
Robert, born May 23, 1836, was in the Confederate service, took a fever
at White Sulphur Springs and died May 8, 1862;  Sarah Isabella, born
January 8, 1839, married William DEARING, and lives in Williamsburg
District;  Harriet Virginia, born July 11, 1841, married George W.
HUNLEY, and lives in Williamsburg District;  Susan Elizabeth, born
March 20, 1844, died July 22, 1858;  Margaret Rebecca and Martha Waite,
born October 10, 1847, died - the first-named September 17, 1848, the
last six days later;  Louisa Steele, April 18, 1850, died July 19, 1858.
The second wife of John McCLUNG is Eliza S. BURR, whom he married in this
county, September 13, 1882.  She is a daughter of Aaron BURR, jr., who
died suddenly September 17, 1882, and Margaret (McMILLION) BURR, who died
January 2, 1858.  William McCLUNG, known to local fame as "Long Billy
McCLUNG", father of John McCLUNG, was born in Greenbrier County, April 1,
1777.  He was a son of James McCLUNG, who was a son of Samuel McCLUNG,
who came from Ireland and settled in Meadow Bluff District, this county,
in pioneer days.  The mother of William McCLUNG was of unknown parentage,
found deserted in the fort in her infancy, and adopted and raised by
Colonel DICKENSON.  William McCLUNG first married Margaret BOLLAR, who
was the mother of the subject of this sketch, and for his second wife he
married Martha McMILLION.  Margaret Bollar was born in June, 1781, in
Bath and William McCLUNG died August 10, 1866.  John McCLUNG's postoffice
address is Williamsburg, 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.