Carl McLemore

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Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 shows he served in the U.S. Army.

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.dade/1432

William Y. McLemore, born in Dade County in 1852, son of Archibald and Mary (Brown) McLemore, is the senior member of the firm of McLemore Brothers, general merchants and dealers in farm implements, live stock, etc., established in July, 1884. The value of their sales annually is about $30,000 the value of the stock being about $8,000. The subject of this sketch, the fourth child of a family of six, three sons and three daughters, was raised on the farm, received a common school education, and remained at home till 1878, when he entered the mercantile business at Crossroads with G. W. Wilson, where they remained in business till the railroad was built, at which time they removed to Everton and built the first store building, which was in the woods. The firm continued till 1882, in September, when Mr. McLemore retired, and in 1884 established the present firm with his brothers, Robert F. and Jasper M. This firm is one of the strongest mercantile firms in Dade County, They began with nothing, are thorough-going and live business men, and upright citizens. In 1881 William Y. married Serepta C., daughter of Calvin and Acenith Wheeler, formerly of East Tennessee, but early settlers of Dade County, where Mrs. McLemore was born, and where the father died. The mother died in Kansas. Mr. Wheeler was a merchant and manufacturer. Our subject has had three children, two of whom are living. In politics he is a Republican, voting for Hayes in 1876. He and wife are Presbyterians.

His death certificate, issued by the State of Missouri, lists his usual occupation as a Banker, and shows him to be the son of Archibald McLemore and Mary Brown of Tennessee. The informant was Clarence McLemore of Everton, MO. (Copy courtesy of Paul Williams).

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Census Listings:

1900 Census
Texas, Missouri, Dade County, Rock Prarie Township, City of Everton, Ward 1
Enumerated 2 Jun 1900
SD 6 ED 67 Sheet 2B
39-40
McLemore, William Y Head W M Feb 1852 48 M 19 Mo Tenn SC Retired Merchant
McLemore, Serepta C Wf W F Feb 1859 41 M 19 7/6 Mo Tenn Tenn
McLemore, Clyde G Son W M Mar 1883 17 S Mo Mo Mo At School
McLemore, Clarence L Son W M Jun 1888 1 S Mo Mo Mos At School
McLemore, Forrest Dtr W F Feb 1892 8 S Mo Mo Mo At School
McLemore, Ray Son W M Dec 1893 6 S Mo Mo Mo
McLemore, Dewey Dtr W F Mar 1897 3 S Mo Mo Mo
McLemore, Carl Son W M Marc 1899 1 S Mo Mo Mo
Ritchie, Edv J Lodger W M Apr 1870 30 S Ky Tenn Ky Merchant

1910 Census
Missouri, Dade County, City of Greenfield, Ward 2
Enumerated 3 May 1910
SD 6 ED 65 Sheet 16A
316-322
McLemore, William Head M W 58 M 30 Mo Tenn Tenn Store Owner General Store
McLemore, Nettie Wf F W 51 M 30 8/7 Mo Tenn Tenn Owner
McLemore, Clarence Son M W 21 S Mo Mo Mo Student
McLemore, Forrest Dtr F W 18 S Mo Mo Mo Student
McLemore, Ray Son M W 16 S Mo Mo Mo Student
McLemore, Dewey Dtr F W 13 Mo Mo Mo
McLemore, Carl Son M W 11 Mo Mo Mo
McLemore, Gretta Dtr F W 9 Mo Mo Mo

William married Serepta Claranette "Nettie" Wheeler about 1881. Serepta was born in Feb 1859 in Dade County, Missouri; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Serepta C., daughter of Calvin and Acenith Wheeler, formerly of East Tennessee, but early settlers of Dade County, where Mrs. McLemore was born, and where the father died. The mother died in Kansas. Mr. Wheeler was a merchant and manufacturer. (From Biography of her husband, William Young McLemore)

...A daughter of Calvin and Asenith (Carlock) Wheeler. (Stout, Montana, Its Story and Biography, Vol. III, P. 1366)...

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This is a biography is transcribed from "HISTORY OF HICKORY, POLK, CEDAR, DADE AND BARTON COUNTIES, MISSOURI, 1889"; Published by Goodspeed, and can be found at the following website:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~modade/bio_p4.htm

Archibald McLemore, farmer, and an old citizen of Center Township, five miles northeast of Greenfield, is a native of Knox County, Tenn., having been born in 1817. His father was Archibald McLemore, of North Carolina, who went to Knox County, Tenn., when a young man, where he married Sarah Plumley. In 1820 they removed to Monroe County, where he died in 1825, at about at he age of forty-five, his wife dying in 1824. She was the mother of eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh, who, after his parents' death, lived with his brother, Abram, working for him until he was nearly grown. In 1827 he assisted the governor to remove the Cherokees to their reservation in Indian Territory. September 15, 1842, he married Miss Mollie Brown, who was born in South Carolina, in 1817, the daughter of Robert and Jennie (Dennis) Brown, who moved to Monroe County, Tenn., about 1820. In 1842 Mr. McLemore came to Dade County, Mo., and settled two miles from Greenville, on the farm which is now owned by John Higgin. He remained two years, when, owing to ill health, he returned to Tennessee, and, in 1849, again came to Dade County, settling on the farm which he now owns, comprising about 265 acres. Their family consisted of six children: Mary, who died in 1886, aged forty-three; Robert, a merchant at Everton; Sarah Ann, wife of James McConnell; William, merchant at Everton; Paulina, wife of George Wilson, merchant at Everton. Mr. McLemore is a highly respected citizen; in politics he is a Republican, casting his first vote for Van Buren in 1840, being a Democrat before the war. He and his wife belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Obituary of Archibald McLemore from the Greenfield Vadette 5 FEB 1905.

Archibald McLemore

"Born in 1817, Mr. McLemore died at the home of his son Wm. Y. McLemore in this city Sunday, Jan. 29th, 1905, in the 88th year of his age.

Mr. McLemore was born in Knox County, Tennessee, in 1817. His Father, Archibald, a native of North Carolina, died in 1825. His Mother, a native of South Carolina, whose maiden name was Plumley, died in 1824, so that the death of his Father left him an orphan at the age of eight years. Until fifteen years of age, he lived with an older brother, when he and another brother walked 300 miles to the gold mines of Northern Georgia, and began life for themselves. He remained but a short time, going thence to Tennessee, where he engaged in farming until 1837, when at the age of 17, he enlisted in the Tennessee Militia, and was engaged with the troops in the removal of the Cherokee Indians to their reservation in the territory.

In 1842, he was married to Mollie Brown, born in South Carolina in 1817. Sometime after their marriage, they decided to settle in Southwest Missouri. He had a large wagon constructed and came through the swamps of Southeast Missouri, an over Ozarks to Springfield. They subsisted principally on game killed by Mr. McLemore while en route. They stopped near Springfield, which was then but a small settlement, but a short time. Being unsatisfied with the conditions there, they pushed on through the wilderness, stopping near Hoyt's Mill, on Turnback, even two and one-half miles East of Greenfield, in 1842. Here, he began the construction of a cabin, and the preparation of a tract of land for farming, but because of sickness of himself and his wife, which lasted a year, they moved to the mountain districts of East Tennessee.

In 1849 he returned to Missouri and located on the Sac River, about five miles Northeast of Greenfield. By unremitting toil, he made enough rails to enclose his tract of land, entered it for a homestead, and has since resided there, except during the brief period recently in which he made his home with his son, Wm. Y. McLemore, our County Recorder, in this city.

The funeral discourse was preached by Rev. J. E. Johnston, local pastor at the C. P. Church Monday afternoon, from where the burial took place.

Another good man and good citizen has gone to his reward.

He was a consistent Christian gentleman, blessed with as many friends as usually fall to the lot of any man. Cursed with as few enemies as any man of conviction could be. What a pity the world is not full of such."

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Census Information:

1850 Federal Census
Missouri, Dade County, ED 25
Enumerated 23 Sept 1850 by James J. Tuck
294-305
Arch McLemore 30 M Farmer TN
Mary McLemore 31 F SC
Mary McLemore 5 F Mo
Robert McLemore 4 M TN
Sarah McLemore 1 F TN

1860 Census
Missouri, Dade County, Center Twp, Post Office Greenfield
Enumerated 12 July 1860
Page 79
532-532
Archibald McLemore 43 M $2000 $1000 Tn
Mary McLemore 43 F S. Carolina
Mary McLemore 16 F Mo
Robert F. McLemore 13 M Tn
Ann McLemore 11 F Tn
William McLemore 8 M Tn
Pahlina F McLemore 5 F Mo
Jasper McLemore 3 M Mo

Archibald married Mary "Mollie" Brown on 15 Sep 1842 in Monroe County, Tennessee. Mary was born on 2 Apr 1817 in South Carolina; died on 14 Oct 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In Goodspeed's Dade County, Missouri biographies, she is shown as "---the daughter of Robert and Jennie (Dennis) Brown, who moved to Monroe County, Tenn., about 1820."

Dates of birth, marriage and death per copy of newspaper obituary kindly provided by Melba Gene McLemore. Undated unferenced clippling, signed by Geo F. Harour.

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A photo of a double tombstone for Archibald and Sarah Plumlee can be seen on FindAGrave, in the Click Cemetery, Madisonville, Monroe, Tennessee. However, it appears to be a comtemporary marker, probably placed sometime well after their deaths. Additionally, the dates of birth and death, at least for Archibald, are not correct. A photo of this marker can be seen here:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=38295337&PIpi=18611681

The dates on this headstone for Archibald are listed as 1767-1829.

1767 is the approximate date of birth of another Archibald McLemore, the progenitor of the Sampson/Duplin line, and not the Archibald McLemore that lived in Knox County, Tennessee. A biography of a A. J. McLemore, a son of Archibald McLemore of Knox County, states that his father Archibald was born "on March 11, 1787."

Additionally, it appears that Archibald was alive in 1829, most likely dying in the mid 1830's.

Tom Heseltine, who is descended from Archibald McLEMORE and Sarah PLUMLEY of Knox Co emailed, in June, 2009 that "Most available information, including the 1917 Dade Co MO book, the 1889 Goodspeed book, and the obituary of Archibald McLEMORE jr., all state that Archibald McLEMORE and wife Sarah PLUMLEY died ca 1824/1825. This is curious since their son Wesley was born 1827 and the youngest son Andrew Jackson was born 1828. And, the 1830 Knox Co TN census lists one Archibald McLEMORE with the correct number of young sons and a female the correct age to be his wife. I strongly suspect that the family story about their deaths has been miscalculated by at least 5 years and, most probably, 10 years."

Eddie Maynard agrees with Tom, but has a more specific estimate of the date of death, putting it about 1832: "If you combine the two Bios for his sons Andrew Jackson and for Archibald Jr, it sort of make sense for Archibald Sr's death date. Since Andrew knew his father's birth date, he must have had a Bible or source to have known the complete date....very often people would just say the year or he was about 45 when he died. BUT, since Andrew knew the complete date, I think he really did know. Next, I do think that Archibald Jr knew the age of his father's death of 45. So, if you take the date of 1787 and add 45...Archibald Sr died in 1832...which does make more sense. Archibald Jr says his father died in 1825 which we know had to be wrong since Andrew was born in 1829 and Archibald is on the 1830 Monroe County, TN census. Also, Archibald Jr says that he went to live with his brother Abram as a young man and in 1827 was part of the "posse" to gather the Cherokee for the Trail of Tears....it couldn't be 1827, it was 1837-38. Now, if Archibald J r(B.1817) is a young man when he went to live with his brother...he would have been - 20 at that time he went on the "posse". If his father died in 1832, Archibald Jr would have been only 15 and probably did live with his brother Abram. Archibald Sr couldn't have lived much later than 1832 because then Archibald Jr would have been an adult and probably wouldn't have needed to live with his brother since the children inherited land in Monroe."

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Census Listings:

1830; Census Place: Regiment 98, Monroe, Tennessee; Series: M19; Roll: 175; Page: 121; Family History Library Film: 0024533

Head of Household Archibald McLamore
Free White Males
Under 5: Two
5-9: Two
10-14: Two
15-19: Two
20-29: One
40-49: One
Free White Females
Under 5
5-9: One
10-14
15-19
20-29
40-49:One
Free Whites Under 20: Nine
Frees White 20-49: Three
Total Free Whites: Twelve
Total ALL Persons: Twelve

Archibald married Sarah Plumlee in Knox County, Tennessee. Sarah was born about 1785; died after 1830 in Monroe County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MaryLynn Santa shows her as the daughter of Jesse Perry Joseph PLUMLEY.

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Married:
This is excerpted from a biography of their seventh son, Archibald McLemore, named for his father. It is transcribed from "HISTORY OF HICKORY, POLK, CEDAR, DADE AND BARTON COUNTIES, MISSOURI, 1889"; Published by Goodspeed, and can be found at the following website:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~modade/bio_p4.htm

Archibald McLemore('s).....father was Archibald McLemore, of North Carolina, who went to Knox County, Tenn., when a young man, where he married Sarah Plumley. In 1820 they removed to Monroe County, where he died in 1825, at about at he age of forty-five, his wife dying in 1824. She was the mother of eleven children, the subject of this sketch being the seventh.....