Cassville Republican, Nov. 27, 1919
Jane Gay McClure was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gay, of the locality of Newtonia about the time of the organization of Newton county in the year 1839. Mrs. McClure was born February 12, 1840. Sometime later the family moved to Barry County and located in the vicinity of Washburn. She was married to William McClure in July 1861. Mr. McClure was engaged in the milling business at the Roaring River spring and was in the mercantile business at Washburn, then Keetsville and at Cassville and from 1866 to the early eighties the family lived at different times at each of these places. Later one of the fine Washburn Prairie farms on the old wire road near Washburn became the family home and remained so until Mr. McClure's death many years later. Mrs. McClure was the mother of six children: Mrs. Rebecca Chandler, wife of Dr. S.W. Chandler of this city; Alice George, deceased, wife of the late J. W. George, William D. of Claremore, Okla., Charles of Lawton, Okla., Guy W. of Springfield and R. White McClure, deceased of Springfield.
Cassville Republican, Nov. 27, 1919
Jane Gay McClure was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gay, of the locality of Newtonia about the time of the organization of Newton county in the year 1839. Mrs. McClure was born February 12, 1840. Sometime later the family moved to Barry County and located in the vicinity of Washburn. She was married to William McClure in July 1861. Mr. McClure was engaged in the milling business at the Roaring River spring and was in the mercantile business at Washburn, then Keetsville and at Cassville and from 1866 to the early eighties the family lived at different times at each of these places. Later one of the fine Washburn Prairie farms on the old wire road near Washburn became the family home and remained so until Mr. McClure's death many years later. Mrs. McClure was the mother of six children: Mrs. Rebecca Chandler, wife of Dr. S.W. Chandler of this city; Alice George, deceased, wife of the late J. W. George, William D. of Claremore, Okla., Charles of Lawton, Okla., Guy W. of Springfield and R. White McClure, deceased of Springfield.
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