Person:Edward McClure (3)

"Edward J. McClure was born in 1803 in South Carolina - probably Anderson County. He married Milley F. Whitfield from Georgia. (1850 and 1860 census show her as being born in Georgia. The death certificate of her daughter Isabella White who died in 1931 shows South Carolina as birth place of Milley). Edward J. died on March 11, 1868. His obituary from the Anderson Intelligencer issue of 18 March 1868.

"'Obituary - Drowned - We regret to learn that Mr. E. J. McClure, of this District, committed suicide by drowning himself in the Seneca River on last Saturday. He left his home about daybreak and proceeded directly to the river through his own Plantation. His prolonged absence alarmed the family and search being instituted, his tracts were easily discovered and later in the day the body was found in the river. The deceased was a man of large family and maintained through life industrious habits. His mind had been affected for some days and there is no reason to doubt that he ended his life in a fit of insanity. He was about 60 years of age.'

"A family story handed down indicates that Edward J. was a thrifty and industrious person. He had accumulated dome gold (amount unknown) by the beginning of the Civil War. In fear that it would be stolen by the Yankees he buried the gold somewhere on his plantation near the Seneca River. After the war was over he was unable to locate where he had hidden the gold. He became obsessive with this fact and therefore the insanity that caused him to take his own life. (JBarfield)

"Edward J. is buried in the Roberts Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Rock Mills township in Anderson County, South Carolina. His wife Milley f. Whitfield was born 19 September in 1805 in Georgia (see above). She died in November of 1863 and is buried along side of Edward J. (Conjecture; Edward J. had 4 sisters. His father's name was William McClure born about 1780. His mother's name was Mary. Possible brothers are John, Josiah, James, Charles, Samuel and George T.)"

In the Lineage Chart for Annalyne Louise Hall, Jane Barfield conjectures that William McClure's father's name was James McClure. BLBIII

E.J. McClure-The Lost Gold http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=104b12e1-79a9-48f9-af1d-ad85332421a6&tid=3577269&pid=-1640864148

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2. ↑ Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.).
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree. (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.).