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Living married Jacqueline Ruth Spinks Jacqueline was born on 13 Apr 1939; died on 17 Jun 1996 in Phenix City, Russell County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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(Medical):She died of Small cell cancer of the lung, brain, liver and bones.

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1Rev. William P. McLemore, in a section on his website devoted to notable McLemore's (Website: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/3476/mclem1.htm), has the following biography:

Ephraim Hester McLemore was born December 20, 1903 on the farm of his father, Tilghman Richard McLemore, west of Meadville, Mississippi. When he graduated from High School, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He graduated on June 9, 1928 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. "Mac", as he was known by his army friends, soon arrived in the San Antonio area serving with the Field Artillery School at Fort Sam Houston. Here, he met Edith Adeline "Peggy" Pearman and they married November 10, 1931. June 1, 1937, Mac and Peggy moved to West Point, New York, where he became an Instructor in Mathematics at the United States Military Academy. It was here that their three children were born: William Pearman, Ann Schindler, and Tilghman Richard, October 21, 1940. During World War II, McLemore fought in the Pacific as an artillery officer for which he received several commendations including the Bronze Star Award. In July of 1948, he became the Assistant G-4 for the United States Armed Forces in Japan under General Douglas MacArthur. His military career ended with a medical retirement at Fort Monroe, Virginia, in 1955. His first wife had died and he remarried a Betty Sue Lindsay. After years of retirement in Front Royal, Virginia, he died November 19, 1973 and was buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Ephraim married Edith Adeline "Peggy" Pearman on 10 Nov 1931 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas. Edith (daughter of William A. Pearman and Edith Keller Schlindler) was born on 9 Jul 1912 in Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri; died on 29 May 1952 in Fort Monroe, Hampton (Independent City), Virginia; was buried in National Cemetery, Hampton (Independent City), Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edith was named after her mother, and she was born in Warrensburg, MO, where her father, William Arthur Pearman, was Rector of an Episcopal Church. He was later the rector of St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas

The San Antonio Light
Sunday, June 1, 1952

Mrs. Peggy P. McLemore

Services for Mrs. Peggy Pearman McLemore, 30, who died Thursday at Ft. Monroe, Va., will be held there Monday.

She is survived by her husban. Col. E. H. McLemore; daughter Anne McLemore; sosn, Timmy and Billy McLemore; mother, Mrs. Edith S. Pearman, San Antonio, and brothers, F. K. Pearman, San Antonio, R. W. Pearman, Detroit, B. V. Pearman, Pulaski, Va., and K.S. Pearman, Portland, Ore.

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Married:
Rev. Bill writes that they were married in St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Antonio