The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1917-04-26
A BRIEF HISTORY
Of the Mcclure Family of
this Vicinity.

When the civil war came up between
the States although father was in svmpa-
thy with the South he always held a
quiet position and was seldom moIested
during the rebellion. | was only little
tot at that time but | can remember
several incidents that occurred then j
had several cousins who went to the
South where the war waged the strong
est and gave their assistance TO the lost
cause. had an uncle, E. C.. Mcclure
who left this country in those dark days
and moved to Greenup county and once
he had come back to fathers on BUSH
ness and being disturbed that night they
found the house was surrounded by a
band of so-called home CARDS or gurrillar
(robbeFs1. They came in end took my.
,,,,ple zz..s--.l 5 .sss.lz
ssssss.assssF wear and was about 10 re-
lease him when one of them remarked
che has n shirt would like TO have, it
being beautiful hons spun red flannel.
so they made him pull it OF and give it
up.
The first piece of money | ever had
was five cent piece in green back pre-
scented to me by this dear old uncle.
There were plenty of them then and |
still have it in my home in a small trunk
that my father had in those gloomy da!
which he kept hid in the barn loft cover
ed with flax in which lie kept bis valu-
able papers and money at iimts Father
was strong advocate of the temperance
cause in his day and was for many yeas
an elder in the christian church at White
Oak and when my mind wandels back
to my childhood days | become almost
lost in deep meditation and with the
poet can sing How dear to my heart are
the scenes Of my childhood, when fond
recollectiOns present them to view
When | was four years old / went To-
Bloomington and remember well seeing
General Marshall and his men coming
down through the State About four
years ago ! met a gentleman whose
name | can not recall who told me he
wss in that army and that he had nine
Indians in his company.
When mere boy attended school at
Bloomington. The fuel we used was
saplings cut from the mountain side and
the team used to haul it in consisted OF
boys with yokes and chains made o.
hickory withs.
On March Is, 1878 we loaded on
house bold goods III large fiat boat and
hoated down the Licking to our new
home in Morgan county at the mouth Of
Rockhouse creek.
Father raised a large family consisting
of six boys and four giIls and was th'
fifth in number and was born June -
/ 1858, lived in my native home until a
bout IL years old when we moved Il
Morgan. The ten children are still liv
ing the youngest being about AZ year,
old. Each of the six boys have followed
teaching in the common schools.
taught my first school in 1888 in the
district where now live it being the frs
one taught in that district otter it wa
established.
Mother died August II 1875 and faith
err April IL, 1891. Since that time W
have had TO row our own boat withou
the assistance of parental advice.
On March "a 1897 was married Z
! Delilah Havens, one of the seven daugh
tiers of S. w. Havens. Although fathe
Havens was q republican his daughter
were fortunate enough to marry demo
crat. Strange to say the seven daugh
tiers and one granddaughter married in
to four families two in each.
After fathers death b. F. McGuir
and we're appointed executors to hi
will and we were called together on som
business, | suggested that we make
visit to tie old plantation OF the place c
our birth which was agreed upon. Fiv
Of the SIX brothers set out on foot heu