Robert M. McLemore

1769 - 1823  (53 years)

• Name	Robert M. McLemore  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	30 Nov 1769	Bute County, North Carolina   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Jan 1823	Williamson County, Tennessee   [1]
  Notes	Sometimes shown as born in Warrren County versus Bute County. Kevin McLemore mclemorek@charter.net descends from this line and shared information on Robert's descendants with Mark Freeman in March 2005, some of which is copied below. 1790 NC Census Halifax District, Franklin County lists Robert McLemore, 1 free white male 16 years and up and 4 slaves. 1799 Franklin County Tax List has McLemore, Rob. 2wp, 3bp, 450 ac (this is the parcel he inherited from his father) 1800 NC Census Franklin County lists Robert McLemore 1 male 10-16, 1 male 16-26, 1 male 26-45, 1 female 16-26, 9 slaves. Franklin Co. NC Loose Estates Papers Vol. I has Robert McLemore buyer part of the estate of Benjamin Williams in 1804. Equity Bond Docket, 1789-1817, Hillborough District and Orange County, N.C. number 264 lists Robert McLemore place of abode on 19 Apr 1803 as Tennessee. Williamson County Deed Abstracts 1799-1811 Deed Book A2 page 91 "Page 378 Indenture 18 Oct 1806 John Spencer and Robert McLemore, $2750 paid, 1 tract on water of Harpeth, 220 acres, tr adj N T Perkins corner" 1807 Williamson County Tax Book lists McLemore, Robt. 220 acres W. Harp. 1 white 5 blacks. "The Reconstructed 1810 Census of Tennessee, 33,000 Long-Lost Records" by Charles A. Sherrill lists: McLemore, Robert Williamson County, 1810 Tax List From "Maury County Tennessee Newspaper Abstracts 1810-1844" by Jill Knight Jarrett 1965: The Western Chronicle Sat 28 Mar 1812 "Whiskey - The High Bred Stallion will stand the ensuing season. Signed P.R. Booker. Affadavit of R.P. Curras and Robert McLemore of Williamson County". Williamson County Deed Book E page 174 Thomas Shute conveyed to Robert McLemore 39 acres of land between Big & West Harpeth Rivers Registered 27th August 1817. 1820 Tennessee Census: Robert McLemore Williamson County: 2 males under 10, 2 males 10 to 16, 2 males 18 to 26, 1 male 45 and up. 1 female under 10, 1 female 10 to 16, 1 female 26 to 45. 24 slaves. There were a couple challenges to Robert's will. One by his widow and her second husband wanting 1/3 of the estate, another by his son John D. McLemore for 1/4 of the slaves. Will probated April 1823 Williamson County Will Book 3 page 625. Williamson County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, May 1806-April 1812, by Carol Wells, Heritage Books, Inc., p. 176: [Book1, p. 577] "Monday 13th January 1812. Order Nicholas Perkins Senr Daniel Perkins Edward Warren & Robert McLemore any three settle with Hendley Stone gdn of Peter Pryor & Green Pryor orphans of John Pryor decd & report thereof to our ensuing County Court." [Book 1, p. 608] "Tuesday 14th April 1812.Settlement with Hendley Stone guardian of Peter & Green Pryor orphans of John Pryor decd returned." Jane A. "Xan" Alexander emailed, in November 2011, that Robert McLemore wrote his will 14 Apr 1822. In his will and the probate file in Williamson County, Tennessee, we find: "beloved wife Peggy and our four children John Dabney McLemore, Polly Minor McLemore, Robert Weakly McLemore, and Peggy Smith McLemore"; "son Atkins J McLemore", "my daughter Bethenia Anne Greene McLemore" In the will he also says "I desire that my worthy friend Daniel Perkins should be guardian to my daughter Bethenia (who is also his granddaughter)". Thus we see that Atkins Jefferson McLemore and Bethenia Anne Greene McLemore were not children of Robert McLemore's last wife Peggy. Jane added that the current wife at the time of his death was Margaret "Peggy" S Dabney, daughter of John Dabney and Peggy Smith and sister to Bethenia Dabney who later married Atkins Jefferson McLemore. (Medical):DNA R1b1 A direct male descendant of Robert McLEMORE is an exact 12 marker Y DNA match to descendants of both John McLEMORE, born 1822 in North Carolina and Keton Jones McLEMORE, born 1809 in Kentucky. This means there is an 80% probability that they share a common ancestor within the last 16 generations, and over a 90% probability that this ancestor occurred within 24 generations. For more information see: http://www.geneticousins.com/morrison/ Look for Group O. More about John McLemore and Keton Jones McLemore can be found in the index of this file. The members of R1b are believed to be the descendants of the first modern humans who entered Europe about 35,000-40,000 years ago. Those R1b forebearers were the people who painted the beautiful art in the caves in Spain and France. They were the contemporaries (and perhaps exterminators) of the European Neanderthals. R1b is the most common Y haplogroup in Europe - more than half of men of European descent belong to R1b. Fourteen of the 30 most common haplotypes in the YSTR.org database are typical of R1b.
  Person ID	I21674	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Atkins McLemore,   b. Abt 1724, Bertie County, North Carolina d. May 1791, Warren County, North Carolina (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Sarah Jones,   b. Aft 1735, Virginia d. 10 Mar 1808, Warren County, North Carolina (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1750	Granville County, North Carolina   [2]
  Family ID	F7610	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Barbara Williams,   b. 2 Jun 1781, Franklin County, North Carolina d. 10 Oct 1803, Davidson County, Tennessee (Age 22 years)
  Marriage	16 Jan 1800	Franklin County, North Carolina   [1]
  	Abstracts of Vital Records from Raleigh NC Newspapers 1799- 1819, compiled by Lois Smathers Neal, page 325, "M. on the 16th ult., Mr. Robert M'LEMORE to Miss Barbara Williams, both of Franklin County. RR 4 Feb 1800 3:5." (Courtesy of Jane A. "Xan" Alexander) Betty Pritchett shows the marriage date as 16 January 1800.
  Children	1. Robert McLemore,   b. Abt 1801, Franklin County, North Carolina d. 27 Jul 1821, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 20 years)   2. Atkins Jefferson McLemore,   b. 9 Mar 1801, North Carolina d. 30 May 1849, Thompson Station, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F8477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2021

  
  

  Family 2	Leah Prior Perkins,   b. Aft 1769   d. Abt 1812 (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1805	Tennessee   [1]
  	The Rev. William P. McLemore instead shows that Leah Prior Perkins Married Robert GREEN, not Robert McLEMORE. the book by Sue Oden titled "Hold Us Not Boastful - History of Thompson's Station, TN", date of publication not listed and with the caution "The correctness of this biographical material cannot be guaranteed. It was obtained through interviews with family members, research they had done and my own research at the Williamson County Archives. Research in such detail is always subject to error. Everyone must validate the facts for their own use." instead shows Bethenia Anne Green McLemore, the wife of Sugars McLemore, as born to Robert McLemore by his wife Margaret "Peggy" Dabney, not Leah Perkins.
  Children	1. Bethenia Ann Green McLemore,   b. 19 Oct 1807, Warren County, North Carolina d. 21 Sep 1835, Tennessee (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F8478	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family 3	Margaret S. "Peggy" Dabney,   b. Bef 1790, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	8 Jun 1812	Williamson County, Tennessee   [1]
  	The following Family Histories have been taken from the book by Sue Oden titled "Hold Us Not Boastful - History of Thompson's Station, TN." This biographical collection includes 86 histories of pioneer families of Thompson's Station and Southern Williamson County. The stories are about families who are proud of their roots and their place in history. We hope that you will be able to connect your roots with ours, and become part of us. The correctness of this biographical material cannot be guaranteed. It was obtained through interviews with family members, research they had done and my own research at the Williamson County Archives. Research in such detail is always subject to error. Everyone must validate the facts for their own use." http://www.tngenweb.org/williamson/history/tsfamhisMO.html Robert McLemore and Margarete O. (Peggy) Dabney were married in Williamson County June 8, 1812. They had six (sic) children: Robert Weakly McLemore who married Harriett S. Figures; Atkins Jefferson McLemore (sic) (1801-1849) who married Bethenia S. Dabney (1803-1857) on September 9, 1821, daughter of John Dabney, Sr. (1749-1831) and his second wife, Margaret (Peggy) Smith; John Dabney McLemore who married Elizabeth Marr; Bethenia Anne Green McLemore who married Segar (or Sugars) McLemore; Mary (Polly Minor) who married William O. Perkins; Margaret Smith (Peggy) McLemore who married General Fount de Graffeureio. John Dabney was born May 3, 1749 in Albermerle County, Virginia. He was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary War and lived in Prince Edward County from 1777 to the end of the war. He died March 11, 1831 in Williamson County. Atkins Jefferson and Bethenia McLemore had nine children: Barbara Ann McLemore who married Thomas B. Bond, Margaret Williams McLemore who married John T. Word, Robert Anderson McLemore who married first Mary McEwen, second Anna Fleming Kinnard and third Rebecca Frierson; William S. McLemore who married Annie Louise Wharton, John Dabney McLemore who married Lucy A. (Lesey) Pope, Sydney S. McLemore who married Eunice Ann Hobbs, Bethenia J. McLemore who married William Bond, Elizabeth Minor McLemore who married James C.Alexander and Lemuel H. M. McLemore who married a Frierson from Maury County, Tennessee. Atkins and Bethnia McLemore are buried in the Bond Cemetery in Thompson's Station on land which is now the Cameron Farms development. Robert Anderson McLemore married three times: first to Mary H. McEwen, daughter of C. E. McEwen and the former Narcissia F. Newsom; second to Anna Fleming Kinnard, daughter of Claiborne Holmes and Elizabeth A. Fleming Kinnard; and third, to Rebecca Frierson. Robert A. and Mary McEwen McLemore had five children, Jefferson, Narcissia, Dora (Mrs. John T. Kesterson), Maggie A. and R. Sallie McLemore. Robert and Anna Fleming McLemore were married July 16, 1868 and had Mary McEwen (1870-1871) and Claiborne Kinnard McLemore (1872-1944). Claiborne married twice, first to Patti DeGraffenreid (1883-1913) who died when her daughter, also named Patti, was born and second to Nellie Greene (1885-1975) of Dover, Tennessee. Four children were born to this marriage, Margaret Moore, Ann, Claiborne Kinnard, Jr. and Jeff. The only child who lived past childhood was Claiborne, Jr. Claiborne Kinnard McLemore, Jr. married Margaret Elizabeth Mefford, daughter of William Archdeacon Mefford (1867-1954) and the former Margaret Elizabeth Hicks (1882-1967) May 28, 1946 in Thompson's Station. Margaret Hicks was from the Burwood Community. Children of this couple are Margaret Elizabeth McLemore who married Thomas K. Pritchett March 17, 1968 in Franklin and Claiborne Kinnard McLemore, III (b. 1955) who married Suzanne S. Grand November 14, 1987 in Nashville.
  Children	1. John Dabney McLemore,   b. 3 Aug 1813, Tennessee d. 28 Jun 1880, Mississippi (Age 66 years)   2. Mary "Polly" Minor McLemore,   b. Abt 1817, Tennessee d. Abt 1853 (Age 36 years)   3. Margaret "Peggy" Smith McLemore,   b. Abt 1819, Tennessee d. Yes, date unknown   4. Robert Weakley McLemore,   b. 19 Apr 1821, North Carolina d. 6 Nov 1897, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F8479	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 30 Nov 1769 - Bute County, North Carolina Marriage - 16 Jan 1800 - Franklin County, North Carolina Marriage - 14 Dec 1805 - Tennessee Marriage - 8 Jun 1812 - Williamson County, Tennessee Death - 20 Jan 1823 - Williamson County, Tennessee  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S321] Freeman, Mark (mwfgenealogy@verizon.net) "Mostly Southern" http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=markfreeman ; Ver. 2008-09-19 17:51:13. [S206] McLemore, James L. III ("The Early History of the McLemore Family of Virginia and the Carolinas"), p 44 (Reliability: 3). [S1094] Carroll County Homecoming '86 Historical Book Committee "History of Carroll County, Tennessee" (Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY) First Printing 1986, Second Printing 1998, p. 257 (Reliability: 3).