Person:Thomas McClure (8)

Information on Thomas McClure

From "The McClure Family", by James Alexander McClure:

VI. Thomas, b. 1748. Was doubtless the Thomas McClure of N. C, Ensign, Revolutionary War, enlisted April 1, 1776. Mentioned in Wheeler's History of N. C, p. 80, from Salisbury District. Was wounded in the fight at Hanging Rock August 6,1780, in which battle Capt. John McClure was mortally wounded. In my judgement he is the great grandfather of Mr. Adolphus B. McClure, of Aztec, New Mexico, who, in a letter dated July 18, 1911, gave me the following:

"My family originated in Scotland, from whence a Pree? byterian minister and his two sons emigrated to Ireland. There is a tradition that they were weavers by trade. Coming to America they settled in Virginia, where my grandfather, Thomas McClure, was born about 1775. He had a brother, John, an Indian fighter, who went to Kentucky. Also a sister, Matilda, who married a Skidmore and went to Kentucky. Her grandson, Peyton Skidmore, died in Aztec, N. M., in 1902, and left an only daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hoyle, one-eigth Cherokee Indian. She is now a widow, wealthy and beautiful. Thomas McClure moved to N. C. prior to 1800, and died near Dalton, Ga., 1865.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Wilson, Howard McKnight. The Tinkling Spring, Headwater of Freedom. (Privatetly published by The Tinkiling Spring and Hermitage Presbyterian Churches, pub. Fishersville, Virginia)
   pg. 478.