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Source for: Nancy Ann T. McWilliams, 16 SEP 1794 - 24 MAR 1878
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Name source: S252Birth source: S252Death source: S252
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Source for: Martha Jane Meek, 1839 -
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Name source: S87Page: Page 14
Family Histories: Baird, Holcomb, Goddard, Adams, Lewis, McClurken, ..., (State of Illinois: Illinois Society, D.A.R. 1950). page 14
Name source: S11Text: David McClirkin - Indiana
Name source: S152Page: James A McClurkin Martha Jane Meek 5/26/1860
Birth source: S11Text: David McClirkin - Indiana
Residence source: S11Text: David McClirkin - Indiana
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Source for: Wilberta Menke, 19 MAY 1920 - 08 FEB 2005
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Name source: S163 Narratives of Randolph County McC - McM. Page 80.
Birth source: S215Death source: S215
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Source for: Lois Caroline Meyer, 17 APR 1901 - OCT 1982
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Birth source: S163 Narratives of Randolph County McC - McM. Page 63
Birth source: S21Text: Lois Meyer
Occupation source: S163 Narratives of Randolph County McC - McM. Page 63
Occupation source: S242Page: page 124
Text: For much of the information contained in this section, your compiler
is indebted to Miss Lois Myers of Kittredge, Colorado, herself
a McClurken descendant, and to Mrs. Price R. Reid of Wichita,
Kansas, who joined the Daughters of the Colonists on her descent
from James McClurken as an Original Landowner. Miss Myers
spent some time in the native town of the McClurkins (as they spell
it in Ireland), Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, and also traveling
over much of the United States gathering information for a
book which she is writing.
Occupation source: S270Page: July 2000, Vol. 7, Iss.3, Page 8
Text: --- McClurken Family in America ---
My father, Mr. William H. Meyer, began the hobby of family records by making a record of the Meyer family for a reunion. He found it to be so much fun, that following the death of my mother in the fall of 1940, he began building the records of the McClurken family. My mother's maiden name was McClurken. The purpose of the hobby was that we might have a reason to travel, and have an interest in common, as I was an only child. We found this to be such a fascinating hobby, that we began to build a record of the entire McClurken family in America, in addition to my own direct ancestry. I am a descendant of Thomas McClurken, a son of the early family below. This hobby gave us the opportunity to meet and make friends in all sections of the United States. Unfortunately, my father did not live to complete this hobby, as he died in 1944. It was his request that I carry on the hobby, and complete the records, where possible. I am endeavoring to comply with this request.
James McClurken brought a family of ten children to America from County Antrim, Ireland, on the ship "Don Luce" in 1772. He received land in Chester County, South Carolina in 1773. The family is originally Scotch, but I cannot trace the family into Scotland, at present, but perhaps, a trip to Ireland may reveal records that I may be able to trace the family into Scotland. James McClurken and his family lived in South Carolina until his death in 1795. He left a Will that named his children, which is on file in the Court House in the town of Chester, S.C. After 1800, the descendants began migrating to other sections of the United States.
Your ancestry traces back to this same family. Among the children named in the Will was a deceased son, James, who died in 1784, in S.C., who is your ancestor. The elder James McClurken says in his Will "to the children of my deceased son, James McClurken," There was only one widow in the 1790 census, James McClurken, living in Spartanburg County, S.C. She had five daughters and one son, all young in the 1790 census. Since there were no other McClurkens in the entire United States at that time, it seems logical this Jane must have been the widow of the deceased son, James. This Jane took land in her own name in May of 1785, thus the reason for thinking her husband's death year must have been 1784.. She sold her land in S.C. in November 1799, and moved to Rutherford County, North Carolina. There is no trace of the son in the. 1800 census, thus it is supposed he died young between 1790 and.1800. Thus the man McClurken immediately died out with the five daughters.
The Will of Jane McClurken is on file in the Court house at Birmingham, Alabama. She migrated from North Carolina to Jefferson County, Alabama. about 1818, according to deeds, of her land grants. The Will was written Dec. 5, 1821, and probated May 25, 1822. Thus she died in the Spring of 1822. She names her five daughters as follows:
1. To my eldest daughter, Elizabeth, wife of Micajay Lindsey. This family moved to Tishomingo County, Mississippi.
2. To my daughter, Nancy, wife of Robert Waldrop. They stayed in Alabama.
3. To my daughter, Jane, who died in Jefferson County, Alabama in 1864, Single.
4. To my daughter, Hester, wife of Zachariah Waldrop. This family also stayed in Jefferson County, Alabama. The above Robert and Zachariah are brothers.
5. To my daughter, Vesta, who was single when the mother died, later married in 1825, Isaac Berger, but left no descendants.
Thus there are three groups to trace of the five daughters.
Residence source: S21Text: Lois Meyer
Event source: S75Text: For Member #313155, Lois C. Meyer
Death source: S215Occupation source: S27Text: William Meyer
Occupation source: S271Text: William Meyer
Residence source: S24Text: William Meyer
Residence source: S27Text: William Meyer
Residence source: S271Text: William Meyer