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Rh and partly bought, and where he now (1914) lives, a worthy and honored citizen.

He married July 27, 1865, Sarah Catherine Bumgardner, b. in Carroll Co. Mo., March 18, 1842; daughter of Lewis Bumgardner and Hettie Ann Halstead, Rev. Francis McFarland, D. D., officiating.

It was a home building indeed, the family had been living in cramped quarters since the loss by fire of the substantial and commodious brick structure built in 1844, and no sooner settled than he erected the present brick building, inferior in size and appointments to the former one, but the scene of a happy home, and with the exception of the oldest, the birthplace of their nine children, as follows:

a. Lewis Bumgardner McClure, b. in Greenville, Va., Feb. 12, 1866.

After a good business education, secured at a classical school at Tinkling Spring and at Dunsmore's Business College, he located in 1887 in Russellville, Arkansas. He has been for a number of years Cashier of the People's Exchange Bank of that place, enjoying the confidence and the esteem of his community.

He was ordained an Elder in the Southern Presbyterian Church of Russellvill, April 6, 1892. Was a commissioner from Washburn Presbytery to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Lexington, Va., May, 1903.

Married May 8, 1890, Allie Bayliss, d. of Benjamin Franklin Bayliss and Sarah Evants, both of Pope County, Arkansas; the former a Confederate soldier, and at the time of his death in 1886, was clerk of the Circuit Court of his County. His father, Andrew Jackson Bayliss, moved to Arkansas from Tennessee in 1836. He was one of the pioneer school masters in that part of the State. He later practiced law, and for many years served as a clerk and as Judge of the County and Probate Court. He personally preserved the records of his county from destruction during the Civil War by removing them to the Ozark