Mary McLemore: Strong McLemore Ancestry

Generation: 1

Mary McLemore was born after 1775 in South Carolina; and died.

Notes:

This widow, Mary McLemore, was a South Carolinian, the daughter of James McLemore (died 1796), son of Joel MacLemore (1739/40-1795), the son of John Macklemore. She was thus probably Harrison's third cousin. She qualified on Harrison's intestate estate on July 22, 1822, with Richard Harrison and Alexander Peete as her sureties (Southampton Order Book 16, p. 19), filed her inventory and appraisal of his estate on October 21, 1822 (Southampton Order Book 16, p. 133), and won a law suit in her fiduciary capacity on the same date (October 20, 1823) as she bound out her son. (James L. McLemore, III, p 52).

Family/Spouse: Harrison McLemore. Harrison was born about 1780 in Virginia; died about 1822. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Richard F. McLemore was born before 1810 in Virginia; and died.

Generation: 2

Richard F. McLemore

(1.Mary¹) was born before 1810 in Virginia; and died.

Notes:

If Richard was 12 to 14 (when his mother apprenticed him out in 1823), the oldest possible age at which he might logically be apprenticed, his birth date would have been, at the latest, 1810. (James L. McLemore, III, p 52).

Richard....bought 110 acres in the western part of Sussex County, near the Dinwiddie County line, from Littleton H. BROWDER by deed dated December 31, 1856, and recorded April 1, 1858 (Sussex Deed Book V, p. 645). He sold this property years later, after the Civil War, to Richard WINFIELD of Dinwiddie County, by deed (in which his wife, Mary F. McLEMORE joined) dated March 15, 1870, and recorded May 15, 1873 (Sussex Deed Book Z, p. 478). His signature was acknowledged before a Petersburg notary public indicating he may have moved there. (James L. McLemore, III, p. 53).