Nathaniel DeHass McClure of California, Pennsylvania, together with his wife, Emeline Oglevee McClure, and nine of their ten children, moved from Pennsylvania to Alabama in the latter part of the nineteenth century, 1899. Their oldest child, Clarendon, remaining in Pennsylvania.
N. D. McClure purchased a saw mill at a small town in Baldwin County, known as Dyas, Alabama. He operated the mill there until 1902 when he purchased the mill property at Wagar, Alabama. he continued mill operations there until the saw mill burned in 1920, after which he retired and moved to Mobile, Alabama, in the early part of 1921, where he purchased the home on the N. W. corner of Old Shell Road and Foote's Lane, and resided there until his death on October 29, 1924. His widow continued to live in the same home until her death on July 6, 1945.
Their ten children all married and, to these various unions, there were born 29 Grand Children - 15 boys and 14 girls.
