Mary Harwood McEwen

Notes:

Middle name shown by some as Hargood.

At the time of the 1850 Federal census, a 19 year old Mary McEwen can be found living in the home of Christopher McEwen (age 60) and his 45 year old wife, Narcissa, in District 8, Williamson County, Tennessee. Christopher was born in Kentucky, and Narcissa born in Tennesse. Mary was the oldest of the six children living in the home at the time of the census.

Mary married Robert Anderson "Andrew" Jefferson McLemore on 23 Dec 1851 in Williamson County, Tennessee. Robert (son of Atkins Jefferson McLemore and Bethenia Smith Dabney) was born on 28 Jul 1823 in Tennessee; died on 2 May 1891 in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Tom Heseltine found the following article in the New York Times, published December 28, 1884

Killed in a stage accident. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 28. --- Miss Maggie McLemore, a teacher in the Gordonsville Academy, was fatally injured today by the capsizing fo the Carthage stage. The horses ran away. Prof. Williams was seriously hurt.

Sallie married William Burr Smithson about 1882. William was born about 1857; died about 1924. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Sometimes shown with the first initial S.

Medora married John M. Kesterson before 1855. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Author of "Indianola and Other Poems" (1904).

McLEMORE, Atkins Jefferson, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Spring Hill, Maury County, Tenn., March 13, 1857; educated in the rural schools and by private tutors; moved to Texas in 1878; employed as a cowboy, printer, and newspaper reporter, and later as a miner in Colorado and Mexico; returned to Texas and settled in San Antonio and engaged principally in newspaper work; moved to Corpus Christi, Tex., in 1889, to Austin in 1895, and to Houston in 1911, where he engaged in the newspaper publishing business; member of the Texas house of representatives of 1892-1896; member of the board of aldermen of Austin, Tex., 1896-1898; secretary of the Democratic State executive committee 1900-1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the newspaper publishing business in Hebronville, Jim Hogg County, Tex., and resided in Laredo, Tex.; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928; died in Laredo, Tex., March 4, 1929; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Tex.

McDonald, Timothy G. "The Gore-McLemore Resolutions: Democratic Revolt Against Wilson's Submarine Policy." Historian 26 (November 1963): 50-74.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


Kerrville Times
Thursday, March 7, 1929
(Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

Jeff McLemore, Pioneer Newspaperman, Is Dead

Jeff McLemore, 71, native of Spring Hill, Tenn., who came to Texas in 1878, was one of the pioneer newspaperman of this state, and a politician of note, died in his quarters in the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Laredo Monday morning following a six-day illness from pneumonia. His wife and daughter and a number of friends were at his bedside.

The 1930 Webb County, Texas census lists a widowed Mary W. McLemore (indexed as Mclemone), born 1886, Female, White, born in England, and working as a Journalist in Laredo. She was a naturalized citizen, and immigrated from England in 1886. She was a lodger in the Robert E. Lee hotel on San Bernardo, Avenue in Laredo.

Name Jeff Mc Lemore
Event Type Death
Event Date 04 Mar 1929
Event Place Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Birth Date 13 Mar 1858
Birthplace Springhill, Texas
Father's Name Robt Anderson Mc Lemore
Mother's Name Mary Hargood Mc Ewen
Certificate Number 18585
GS Film number 2114764
Digital Folder Number 005145255
Image Number 02680

Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3QK-VKT : accessed 19 Oct 2014), Jeff Mc Lemore, 04 Mar 1929; citing certificate number 18585, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2114764.

(Research):
Census Listings:

1880 Census
Colorado, Gunnison County, Ruby City
Enumerated 19 Jun 1880
Page 19 SD --- ED 57 Stamped 167
145
Anderson, Hilder W M 31 Widowed Saloon Keeper Sweden Sweden Sweden
McLemore, Jeff W M 23 Bookkeeper Tenn Tenn Tenn
(plus seven other single men, apparently all boarding in the saloon/home together)

1900 Census
Texas, Travis County Precint 3, Austin City
Enumerated 5 Jun 1900
SD 10 ED 98 Sheet 6A Ward 10 Page Stamped 184
Congress Ave
5027-100-110
McLemore, Jeff Head W M Marc 1857 43 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Painting Co
Zimpperman, Walter BoarderW M Jan 1874 26 S Germany Germany Germany 1898 2 Na Bookkeeper/Bank

1910 Census
Texas, Nueces County, JP 1, Corpus Christi
Enumerated 22 Apr 1910
SD 15 ED 98 Sheet 5B
405-101-111
Jenkins, Emory E Head M W 54 S Ind Ky Mass Capitalist
McLemore, Jeff Lodger M W 50 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Editor Paper
Otis, Arlington B Lodger M W 22 S Ind Ind Ohio Journalist Newspaper

1920 Census
not located

Notes:

Betty Pritchett notes she was a school teacher.

Family/Spouse: John Cornelius. John was born before 1859; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]