Ewing W MCCLURE

October 19, 1815 - August 17, 1885
Husband of Elizabeth Price McClellan McClure
Postmaster Of Cane Hill 1845

*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, August 20, 1885

McCLURE, Ewing W - Uncle Ewing McClure, an old and honored citizen of Washington county, died at his home in Boonsboro on Monday night. He had lived an upright and blameless life and no man was more universally respected and admired than he. He had been in a very feeble state of health for two or three years and while his death is not a surprise he is no less mourned by a large circle of kindred and friends.

*Obituary
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, August 27, 1885

{edited} Ewing W. McClure was born in Ray county, Tennessee on the 19th day of October 1815 and died at his home on Cane Hill August the 17th, 1885 having nearly finished his three-score years and ten. He has lived on Cane Hill about 51 years and for some time had been numbered amongst the old men of this community. Mr. McClure's father started in 1834 to the Territory of Arkansas seeking a home for the family of children growing up around him. At that time, as is well known, traveling in this country was slow and tedious. A flat boat had conveyed the family from Tennessee to the mouth of the Arkansas river, thence up the river they traveled on a steamboat to Lewisburg. On this steamer the father of the family was seized with that fearful disease, the cholera. He died and the family was put on shore at Lewisburg to bury him. This was a heavy stroke to the immigrants. Ewing was the oldest boy and it fell naturally upon him to take the lead and conduct the family to their destination. He was now about nineteen years old, of good muscular power and strong will. He hired an ox-team and wagon with which he made the trip to Cane Hill. After the mother and children were sheltered in a little cabin near a fine spring of water, he started back to deliver the team and wagon. When he reached the owner he was unable to pay what was due. He owed sixteen dollars and had six. The owner of the cattle, after censuring the young man for not being able to pay the whole amount, took the six dollars in money and a note for the remainder. Mr. McClure came back to his mother, hired out at twelve dollars per month, made the money and paid off that note. In that was displayed genuine heroism! When Col. John McClellan got the contract for surveying this part of the country for the Government Mr. McClure was hired at eighteen dollars per month to carry the chain; hence it was that he was so well posted in the surveys and the lands of the country. In 1840 he bought, on credit, a small stock of goods from Levi Richards and with this he started out in the world as a merchant. He was eminently successful in this business and accumulated a considerable fortune. He was known far and wide as an honest dealer. In 1842 he was happily married to Miss Elizabeth McClellan, by some years his senior, and who still survives him. She was truly a helpmate to him and she has acted well her part in building up the reputation of the family and the fortune which they now possess. For a number of years he has been a member of the masonic fraternity. He did well his work as a mason and at his funeral he received from surviving brethren the honors due. He had been a christian for more than twenty years and was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. F.R. Earle. Boonsboro, August 20th, 1885.

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