Person:Andrew McClure (5)

Andrew Scott McClure was the son of James McClure of West Hanover Township, Dauphin County, and his wife, Isabella. He was not the son of Mary Espy, as some accounts suggest. There was a James McClure, born also in 1733, who was the husband of Mary Espy; there is a possibility that this James McClure was the father of Andrew, and that Mary Espy was his first wife. But there is also the possibility that this was a different James McClure.

What is known is that in the will of Isabella McClure, the widow of James McClure, she names this Andrew McClure as her son.

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[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 17, Ed. 1, Tree #1661, Date of Import: Jan 18, 1999]

Andrew McClure married Mary Graham in 1817 and removed to near Franklin, Ohio in 1825. Mary Graham is the sister of the Hugh Graham who married James Cathcart's daughter, Sarah.

Andrew and Mary McClure migrated to Franklin Township in Warren County in 1825 and built a log home. They were part of a larger migration of Scots-Irish Presbyterians from Pennsylvania, some of them soldiers who had fought in the Revolution.

Many Scots-Irish settled in the area of Red Lion, Blue Ball and Dick's Creek in Butler County in the early 1800's. This are was first settled in 1788 but in the first five years these early settlers had a mortality rate of as high as 50% due to battles with Native Americans and to diseases such as smallpox. Many fled their homes to find protection during those years at a nearby fort. After Anthony Wayne's defeat of the Indians in 1794, the settlers returned to the cultivation of their farms. Their meeting house came to be called the Dick's Creek Presbyterian Church. The church and its adjoining cemetery were located on what today is Union Road. The church is long gone but the cemtery remains.

Andrew and Mary McClure were members of this church after they arrived in 1825, as was their son, Thomas "Scott" McClure, and his wife, Rebecca Simpson. Land purchaed by Andrew McClure in Butler County:

In 1826, he bought 58 acres of land for $720 (at a rate of about $12.40 an acre). In 1827, he bought another 23 acres for $187.50 (about $8.15 an acre). On March 15, 1837, he bought 40 acres in the NWSW part of Section 2, Township 1S, Range 8E, Fract. Sect: N, Meredian: 1S. The 1856 map of Franklin Township shows "A. McClure owning 81 acres, in Section 21, in the South East corner of Range IV." Eventually Andrew would own a total of 114 1/2 acres valued at $1,567.50.

Andrew McClure is named on the 1827 tax list in Warren County, with two separate entries, pages 53 and 38.

Blue Ball, notes about other settlers: James McClellan entered and settled the half section south of the McConnell and Williamson tracts in 1807 or 1808. Several of his descendants now own and live on these lands, which they have rescued from an apparent worthless swamp, by a system of extensive draining, and brought to the highest degree of fertility. Thomas Vail built a log-house at what is now the Blue Ball, in 1821, and kept entertainment. He sold to Jonathan Emmons in 1823, who erected a sign in front of his house, which was simply a round ball painted blue. The place derived its name from this circumstance. The blue ball has been conspicuously displayed continuously ever since (according to an old history of the area).

Andrew McClure married Mary Graham in 1817 and removed to near Franklin, Ohio in 1825. Mary Graham is the sister of the Hugh Graham who married James Cathcart's daughter, Sarah.

Andrew was originally buried at Dick's Creek. His original headstone remains there, lying flat in the grass.

ABOUT SAMUEL P. MAGAW, WHO DEEDED LAND TO ANDREW MCCLURE: HE WAS PROBABLY THE SON OF THE FOLLOWING:

2 i. Mary2 Patterson[iv] was born in Newry, County Down, Ireland 04 Jul 1757. Mary died 04 Apr 1842 in Israel Twsp, Preble Co, OH, at 84 years of age. Her body was interred 1842 in Hopewell Cem, Preble Co, OH. She married William McGaw in Abbeville, Abbeville District, SC, 05 Oct 1775. William was born in Dunfermline, County Antrim, Ireland 08 Feb 1750. William died 31 May 1836 in Preble Co, OH, at 86 years of age. His body was interred 1836 in Hopewell Cem, Preble Co, OH. William McGaw and brother John, sons of John, came from Ireland about 1767. They married sisters Mary and Sarah Patterson, daughters of Samuel Patterson. He was elder in Cedar Springs Association Reformed Presbyterian Church in Abbeville and elected ruling elder in the Hopewell Congregation in Preble Co, OH.

William served in the Revolutionary War in the 58th South Carolina Troops Militia from fall or early winter of 1775. He began as a private and was promoted to Captain within a year to 18 months of the unit known as John Anderson's Company. He retained this command until the close of the war. Apparently, he served under two generals, Williamson and Pickens.

William resided 1811-1836 in Israel Twsp (Section 5), Preble Co, OH. Mary and her husband Willian McGaw removed from Abbeville SC to Preble County, Ohio with her parents in 1811.

Her will is dated 6-24-1840, recorded 4-11-1842. Widow of the late William Magaw, son William, daughters Sarah, Nancy Clark, Martha Smith and Abigail Pinkerton. Mentions children of deceased son Samuel P. Magaw; deceased daughter Mary Boyse, deceased daughter Jane Boyse and deceased daughter Margaret Pinkerton. Executor: son, William Magaw - signed: Mary (mark) Magaw. Witnesses; John Pinkerton, John P. Smith and Levi Watt. “Abstracts 1836-1854, Preble County, Ohio, (90), Volume II, Will Book C, State Library of Ohio. THERE WAS A SAMUEL MAGAW WHO WAS A MINISTER IN PA. ALSO SEE THE SAMUEL P. MAGAW WHO MARRIED ANNA GORDON 18 AUG 1818. SHE WAS BORN 1 JAN 1796 IN FAYETTE COUNTY, KY. SEE ALEXANDER MCCALMENT, PROB OF PA, WHO DEEDED LAND TO ANDREW.

Directions to the burial site of Andrew McClure: Go to the Lebanon Cemetery, turn off Silver onto Hunter into the cemetery. Drive through the arch entrance. Go past the 1st intersection which you soon come to. In the middle of the next section (both sides marked Old Section) is a tall monument for Graham on the left. Continue past that (third) section, go past a stone house or vault on right on the corner with name of Robert Corwin at the top of the house/vault. Go to the end of the next section, and turn left. Go halfway down that next section, look on the left for a magnolia tree and beneath it a monument for Todd. On the reverse side of that it is the monument for McClure. The Todds and McClures share a monument, and about 8 feet away from there are grave markers for Andrew, Mary, Sarah E and Isabella. All but Mary were disinterred from the Dick's Creek Churchyard Cemetery, probably at the time of Mary's death, and were reburied with her in 1884.

Latitude 39 26.2878 Longitude 84 12.9079

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Brøderbund Software, Inc. World Family Tree Vol. 17, Ed. 1. (Release date: December 11, 1997)
   Tree #1661.

   Date of Import: Jan 18, 1999