The M'Claughetys. This family is of Scottish origin, and about 1688, with the large tide of emigration then moving from Scotland to Ireland, on account of religious persecution and other causes, emigrated to County Down, from whence sprang the American representatives of that family. James McClaugherty, of County Down, Ireland, married Agnes McGarre, and came with his family to America in the year 1786, settling at Sweet Springs (now Monroe County, West Virginia). In 1809 he started with his family to Tennessee, and on reaching New River found a heavy flood of water had carried away all the boats within reasonable reach, and he stopped at the new River, settling where the late James Floyd McClaugherty and family resided for many years. The sons of James McClaugherty and Agnes, his wife, were James, John and Hugh, and one daughter, Jane. On May 8th, 1813, in crossing New River, Mr. McClaugherty, his wife, Agnes, and daughter Jane were drowned. John, the son of James, married Miss Dingess, daughter of Peter Dingess,and they had a family of sons and daughters. James, the son of James,married Miss Sallie Mullins, and they had sons, James, John and William,and daughters. Captain John McClaugherty became a prominent figure in the affairs of Giles County, and was for long years a magistrate, Deputy Clerk, sheriff,and Deputy Sheriff; lived a long life of usefulness, dying at the age of about ninety-three. John, son of James McClaugherty, married Phoebe Hale,a daughter of Captain Edward Hale, and they had sons, John, Joseph H., Nelson H., Edward, who died in the Confederate military service; D. W.,and Robert C., and a daughter, who married Dr. Evan H. Brown; another, who married W. F. Heptinstall; another, who married Mr. Fillinger, and another, who married Charles A. Deaton. James Floyd McClaugherty, son of Captain John, married Miss Martha Cunningham, and had sons, John, George and Robert, and a daughter, Sallie, who married George Walker; John died young and unmarried. Charles W., son of Captain John, married first, Miss Anne Kyle, second, Mrs. Shanklin; by his first wife he had sons, Robert and J. Kyle; Robert died young; a daughter, Henrietta married Charles W. Walker, and Virginia married John Adair, of New River.