John Dabney McLemore b. 3 Aug 1813 Tennessee d. 28 Jun 1880 Mississippi: Strong McLemore Ancestry

1813 - 1880 (66 years)

Name	John Dabney McLemore [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Birth	3 Aug 1813	Tennessee [1, 3, 4, 5]
Gender	Male
Death	28 Jun 1880	Mississippi [1, 2, 6]
Notes	A 36 year old John D. McLemore, born in Tennessee, is located in the Southern Division of Carroll County, Mississippi at the time of the 1850 census. John appears to be living with his wife, Sarah, and four children: Daniel, Price, Jefferson and Adalaide. As several researchers show John Dabney McLemore as the father of Price Perkins McLemore (although the evidenced for this is not documented in their trees), it appears likely that this John D. McLemore is indeed John Dabney McLemore. Rev. William McLemore shows that he was actually born in North Carolina, and does not list a location of death. Several online trees show he died in Panola County, Mississippi, but no sources are cited for this. It is further shown on the 1850 census that John is married to a 24 year old Sarah, born in North Carolina. She would have been too young to be the mother of the three boys in the household, but is likely the mother of John's one year old daughter, Adalaide. He reported that he owned property worth $2,000. In 1860, the same John D. McLemore appears to still be listed in Carroll County, but without a wife or children enumerated with him. His real property was reported to be worth $381,000 and personal property was reported at $400,000. This is a huge increase in value in a relatively short time period. He is shown as a Farmer/Merchant. It appears that the "personal property" was likely his inventory of slaves. This appears likely based on the following: CARROLL COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES and SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS Transcribed by Tom Blake, October 2001 MCLEMORE, John D., 200 slaves, Dist. 4, page 289B (? no stamped number located) MCLEMORE, John D., 89 slaves, Dist. 4, page 289 MCLEMORE, Jno. D., 79 slaves, Dist. 3, page 280 MCLEMORE, John D., by W. D. Warren overseer, 68 slaves, Dist. 2, page 259 FORMAT. This transcription lists the names of those largest slaveholders in the County, the number of slaves they held in the Police District where counted, the number of the Police District and the first census page on which they were listed. The page numbers used are the rubber stamped numbers in the upper right corner of every set of two pages, with the previous stamped number and a "B" being used to designate the pages without a stamped number. Following the holder list is a separate list of the surnames of the holders with information on numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. The term "County" is used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. SOURCES. The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Carroll County, Mississippi (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 596) reportedly includes a total of 13,808 slaves. This transcription includes 75 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in Carroll County, accounting for 5,073 slaves, or 36% of the County total. The rest of the slaves in the County were held by a total of 888 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. Due to variable film quality, handwriting interpretation questions and inconsistent counting and page numbering methods used by the census enumerators, interested researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this transcription for their own purposes. Census data for 1860 was obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Browser, which is a very detailed, searchable and highly recommended database that can found at <http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/> . Census data on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census", available through Heritage Quest at <http://www.heritagequest.com/> Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ajac/mscarroll.htm After the Civil War, in 1865, he filed for a petition of pardon and amnesty from the federal government. "To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America. Comes petitioner respectfully represents that he is now and had been for many years resident of the State of Mississippi; that he has a wife and eight children, and is fifty two years of age [therefore born ca 1813]. That at the commencement of the War he was invested as a partner in a commission house in New Orleans and a a planter in said State of Mississippi & Yazoo and Tallahatchie bottoms, that he was then and is now as a member of the land commission house and as an individual largely indebted, Say altogehter about the amoutn of three hundred thousand dollars, an undertimable amount which is due to orphan children, that he has lost all of his slaves, and second, all of the debt due to him, and said commission house, are now nearly worthless, that the property he now owns is worth more than twenty thousand dollars but that is is wholy insufficient to pay his debts. He is advised that by reason of the value of his property he is not entitled to the benefit of your Excellency's proclamation of Amnesty, dated 29 May A. D. 1865, and that he must apply for an official pardon. He also states that he comes under none of the ??? except form the benefits of ??? proclamation Except the one in relation to persons owning $20,00 in taxable property. He states that he was opposed to the secession of the Southern States and opposed it until it was done. After the war commenced he consciously believed it to be duty to assist his state and section, which he did tot he best of his ability. He was elected a member of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in Oct 1863 and held that office when the war ended. This was all the office of position he ever held during said war. He was not in the army, being exempt from his age. He now states that he desires the benefit of said Proclamation and amnesty. That he has takend the oath ??? prescribed which he hopes to ????, which he declares he will conciously observe. He also states that no proceedings have been commenced to condemn or subject any of his property under the confiscation laws of th U.S. he now asks that he be allowed a full & free pardon." John D. McLemore. At the time of the 1870 census, a John D. McLemore is once again listed in Carroll County, with a 44 year old wife "Sally" born in North Carolina. This appears to be the same Sarah he was listed with 20 years earlier. Several younger children are listed in the household with them as well. Perhaps his wife and children were living apart from him in 1860, or maybe they were just inadvertantly left off of the census by the enumerator. (Research): Census Information: 1850 Census Mississippi, Carroll, South Division Enumerated 26 Sept 1850 Stamped 227 #447-484 John D. McLemore 36 M Farmer $2000 Tenn Sarah A. McLemore 24 M NC Daniel McLemore 12 M Miss Price P McLemore 10 M Miss Jefferson McLemore 9 M Miss Adalaide McLemore 1 F Miss Daniel, Price and Jefferson were all marked as having attended school during the year. 1860 Census Mississippi, Carroll County, Police District 4 Enumerated 27 Aug 1860 by H.L. Allen Post office Carrollton Page 17 122-122 John D. McLamore 47 M Farmer/Merchant H. $381,000 $400,000 Tenn No family listed?? 1870 Census Mississippi, Carroll County, Div 28 Twp 18 Range 4 Enumerated 24 Jun 1870 Stamped 549 56-56 McLemore, John D 56 M W Planter McLemore, Sally 44 F W Keeping House NC McLemore, John 18 M W At School Miss McLemore, Green (sic) 16 M W At School Miss McLemore, Maggie 9 F W Miss McLemore, Edger 3 M W Miss Gerus, Steel? 45 F B Cook NC Gerus, Tilman 14 M B Domestic Servant Miss 1880 Census Tennessee, Carroll County, 23rd District Enumerated 7 July 1880 Page 40 SD 1 ED 23 349-359 McLemore, John D W M 67 Faremer DEAD Tenn Tenn Tenn McLemore, Sallie A W F 54 Wf Keeps House NC NC NC McLemore, Abram G W M 26 S Merchant Niss Tenn NC McLemore, Maggie W F 19 Dtr At home Miss Tenn NC
Person ID	I25509	Strong Family Tree
Last Modified	23 Sep 2018

Father	Robert M. McLemore, b. 30 Nov 1769, Bute County, North Carolina d. 20 Jan 1823, Williamson County, Tennessee (Age 53 years)
Mother	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.
Family ID	F8479	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Elizabeth S. Marr, b. Abt 1820, Alabama d. Aft 1841, Mississippi (Age 22 years)

Marriage Bef 1838

Children

	1. R. Samuel McLemore, M. D., b. 28 Aug 1837, Alabama d. 26 Nov 1905, Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi (Age 68 years)
	2. Daniel McLemore, b. Abt 1838, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Price Perkins McLemore, b. 28 Aug 1839, Mississippi d. 16 Jun 1876, Tennessee (Age 36 years)
	4. Jefferson Hardin McLemore, b. Abt 1841, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown
	5. Bettie S. McLemore, b. 27 Apr 1842, Mississippi d. 4 Feb 1850, Mississippi (Age 7 years)

Family ID F8806 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 29 Nov 2011

Family 2 Sarah "Sally" Geren, b. Abt 1826, North Carolina d. Abt 1889 (Age 63 years)

Marriage Abt 1848 Mississippi

Children

	1. Adelaide Amelia "Addie" McLemore, b. 8 Apr 1849, Carroll County, Mississippi d. 22 Oct 1902 (Age 53 years)
	2. John Dabney McLemore, Jr., b. Between 1851 and 1852, Mississippi d. Abt 1931 (Age 80 years)
	3. Abraham "Abram" Geren McLemore, Sr., b. 6 Apr 1854, Mississippi d. 14 May 1922 (Age 68 years)
	4. Fontaine DeGraffenried McLemore, b. 11 Nov 1856, Mississippi d. 25 Dec 1857, Mississippi (Age 1 year)
	5. Margaret "Maggie" DeGraphenreid McLemore, b. Feb 1865, Mississippi d. 16 Feb 1941, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee (Age 76 years)
	6. Edgar McLemore, b. Abt 1867, Mississippi d. Yes, date unknown

Family ID F8807 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 17 Apr 2010

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Birth - 3 Aug 1813 - Tennessee

Marriage - Abt 1848 - Mississippi

Death - 28 Jun 1880 - Mississippi

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McLemore, John Dabney
b. 1813 Tennessee d. 1880

Documents » Slide Show		McLemore, John Dabney Petition for Pardon, page 1 of 3 John Dabney McLemore, because he served in the Confederate Goverment and had extensive land holdings, didn't qualify for the blanket amnesty to those who had been in rebellion agains the U.S. Goverment. This is a copy of his petition for pardon, made directly to the U.S. President at the time, Andrew Johnson. For more on this issue see: http://www.drbilllong.com/LegalEssays/Pardons.html
		McLemore, John Dabney Petition for Pardon, page 2 of 3 "To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America. Comes petitioner respectfully represents that he is now and had been for many years resident of the State of Mississippi; that he has a wife and eight children, and is fifty two years of age [therefore born ca 1813]. That at the commencement of the War he was invested as a partner in a commission house in New Orleans and a a planter in said State of Mississippi & Yazoo and Tallahatchie bottoms, that he was then and is now as a member of the land commission house and as an individual largely indebted, Say altogehter about the amoutn of three hundred thousand dollars, an undertimable amount which is due to orphan children, that he has lost all of his slaves, and second, all of the debt due to him, and said commission house, are now nearly worthless, that the property he now owns is worth more than twenty thousand dollars but that is is wholy insufficient to pay his debts. He is advised that by reason of the value of his property he is not entitled to the benefit of your Excellency's proclamation of Amnesty, dated 29 May A. D. 1865, and that he must apply for an official pardon. He also states that he comes under none of the ??? except form the benefits of ??? proclamation Except the one in relation to persons owning $20,00 in taxable property. He states that he was opposed to the secession of the Southern States and opposed it until it was done. After the war commenced he consciously believed it to be duty to assist his state and section, which he did tot he best of his ability. He was elected a member of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in Oct 1863 and held that office when the war ended. This was all the office of position he ever held during said war. He was not in the army, being exempt from his age. He now states that he desires the benefit of said Proclamation and amnesty. That he has takend the oath ??? prescribed which he hopes to ????, which he declares he will conciously observe. He also states that no proceedings have been commenced to condemn or subject any of his property under the confiscation laws of th U.S. he now asks that he be allowed a full & free pardon." John D. McLemore.
		McLemore, John Dabney Petition for Pardon, page 3 of 3

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[S144] 1850 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005, (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1850 United States Federal Census, the Seventh Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1850 Federal Census.), Mississippi, Carroll, South Division Enumerated 26 Sept 1850 Stamped 227 #447-484 (Reliability: 3).
[S308] 1880 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005., (1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ? Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1880. T9, 1,454 rolls. This database is an index to 50 million individuals enumerated in the 1880 United States Federal Census. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, address, occupation, relationship to the head of household, race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, parents? place of birth. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1880 Federal Census.), Tennessee, Carroll County, 23rd District Enumerated 7 July 1880 Page 40 SD 1 ED 23 349-359 Listed, but marked as DEAD (Reliability: 3).