Note: Our website is divided into two sections: the Database where abstracts and transcriptions
of original records are posted. Some of these were previously published in the McClung Family
Association Journal. These are referenced by volume and page. Those since our last mailing
of volume 31 are listed as "New".
The other part of the website is for family listings. We have started with the McClung
Genealogy (1904) by Rev. William McClung and have attempted to correct errors and omisions.
In some cases whole lineages have been added. We are adding the family album pages. If you
have pictures to send, everyone would like to see them.
The Georgia Index Page has a new look. We eliminated the extra intro page by
combining them and tabulated the links. This is intended to make it easier to get around on the site.
The general index and the spouses index have been updated with the ID numbers assigned to each person.
Everyone please check your own families to see that they are entered into the indexes correctly.
We have worked on Reuben's file to number it and index it. In the process we checked the 1900 census
for the family of Rev. John Franklin who was living at that time in Italy, Ellis Co., Texas. If you
are descended from this family, please check this over as some things have changed. Make sure that it is
corrected.
In the 1870 Census of Florida, we find in Walton County (p. 30; #184/184)
James McClung 65 M b. Georgia (1805), laborer
Martha McClung 32 F b. GA (1838) (given as wife but could be a second wife)
John McClung 8 M b. FL (1862)
This is not the James McClung who md Sarah Cleland from SC because they remained in SC and were enumerated
there in the 1870 Census of Newberry County. There were SC lines in Georgia but not until after 1830.
So this has to be a man from the Georgia lines. There has been no record to indicate a son of John born
after Sewell in 1804. Reuben's first son, Jonas M., was born in 1807. We are missing a son for Reuben but
that man was born ca 1818. None of the other sons of John had children that early.
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James Buford McClung was a son of Soldier John and his third wife, Nancy Luster. They lived in Sumner County
Tennessee and then James moved on to Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas. He had almost as many children as
did his father and seemed to follow is lead in moving the family about. The civil war disrupted many
families and Bill Davenport has found that James Buford also served. His family was from the South but
here he was living in Illinois at the time. It appears that he was conflicted about where his loyalties
lay. Of course many people suffered atrocities at the hands of the soldiers and allegiances changed
during the course of the war with those in the border states.
Bill Davenport contributes:I think there is
a good possibility that this guy served briefly, as JB McClung in the 8th
Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate Army, before deserting at Bird's Point, MO
which is just across from Cairo, IL and just two counties south of Franklin
County, IL where a Buford McClung enlisted at Benton in March 1865 in the
7th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, Union Army. Love him or hate him, this man
was quite a colorful character.
United States National Archives. Civil War Compiled Military Service Records
[database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-.
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 14 March 1865
Enlisted in Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 15 March 1865.
Mustered out Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 04 November 1865 in
Nashville, TN.
MCCLUNG, Buford Recruit Benton Mar 15, 1865 Mustered out Nov 4, 1865
Regimental history in part: January 13, 1865, found the command at Gravelly
Springs, numbering 199 officers and men for duty, and they subsisted for
about ten days on parched corn after arriving there. On the morning of
December 13, 450 men were reported for duty, showing a loss of 251 in the
short space of one month. After remaining at Gravelly Springs about three
weeks the Fifth Division was dismounted and sent to Eastport to receive
recruits, who poured in from every quarter, until the Regiment numbered over
1,600 men.
After the surrender of the rebel armies it was sent down to Okalona, Miss.,
where it remained until the first of July. It then moved to Decatur, Ala.,
and was mounted. It remained near Decatur until October 20, when it marched
to Nashville and was mustered out of service and received its final pay and
discharge November 17, 1865, at Camp Butler. Its period of service was about
four years and three months.
The Index to Spouses has been revised and posted. The new ID numbers have
been added and the whole file
was searched because earlier the field for the McClung name was sometimes the Christian name for the
Spouse Surname. If a change was overlooked when going through the text, a number could be found for the
more unusual names. The common names need to be searched for the one marrying a person of that surname.
This has not been done yet. If you would volunteer to do that, email your results to Judith. As you look
through the list, you will see the ones with -- or -?- and know that those need to be searched in the record.
You go to the general index and get the numbers of the McClungs with that name and look them up to find
the one marrying a person of the surname on the spouse index.
Everyone: Please check your own families to see they are entered into the indexes properly.
Charles Edward Thompson has a question: James C McClung married Lydia Walker 22 Dec 1851 in Greenbrier
County West Virginia. Do you have any information on him? Such as birth date, death date., parents etc.
([email protected]) Does anyone know who this is?
Everyone has been assigned an ID number and added to the indexes for the South. We have a general index
and one with the surnames of the spouses. These indexes are on the McClung Association Main Page.
We have added about a dozen people to Josiah's file from the 1900 census of Smith County, Texas. Some of
that family had left the county. If you can add these, please send them in.
I am trying to do some research of my grand-mothers family: Ella Mae Hamett Hall Born: Mar.5,1867 in
S.Carolina. Her parents H.C.(Lum)Hamett And S.V.(Sally)McClung. Married: Dec.9,1866, S.Carolina. Sally
Born Feb.17,1846(?) H.C. Born.(?).Sallys parents: James G. And Jane Ashmore McClung. They were married
Sep.21,1830. (I think).
This info was found in the Family Bible and is hard to read so not sure about the dates.
James G. McClung Born April 5.1809.
We have a Mary M McClung and John D Carns married Dec.30,1800 or 1860.
I have some of the marriage dates also.
I have found some McClungs in the Greenville Co.1860 census at Pg.371b Ashmore Store,Fork Shoals
Inhab. Is this any connection with your McClungs and if so do you have any thing on the Hamett Family?
We were told that Lum had 12 brothers and that he was killed on a trip to the ocean taking a load of
freed blacks there. Any help would be appreciated.
Note: In subsequent letters there is some confusion about whether the name is McClury or McClung.
The 1860 census of Greenville County on Heritage Quest looks more like McClurg.
Wendy McClung ([email protected]) writes: I thought you'd like to know that
my husband is the great-grandson of Rev. James A. and Annie E. Meharry
McClung, the Canadian McClungs and grandson of ROBERT WESLEY MCCLUNG. His
father, Mark, was the youngest child of Robert Wesley and Nellie McClung (the famous suffragette).
Anita McClung asks:
Have you ever heard tell of a McClung, Virginia? It is or was supposed to be located in Bath County.
Cemetery Location: 4.5 miles north of McClung, Virginia on Route #501 Bath County. If you have any
information or know anyone who does, I would like to hear.
From Kevin Roberts ([email protected]) Along with a few distant cousins I have begun an ancestral
search of our family with very little information to go on. Some cherokee application records would
indicate a Clung ( or as I suspect, McClung ) family name in our line. I was curious if, in your
research, you have encountered a name of Caldonia/Caladonia Clung/McClung?
She would have married a Green family ancestor by the name of Fleming Green.
Thanks for your help. We first find Fleming Green and wife Caladonia in 1860 Lincoln County Tennessee.
I believe that her birthplace was to have been Alabama. In 1870 we find F. Green and Margaret C.
( I suspect Caladonia/Caldonia) in Johnson Co, Texas. Our Green line, as early as we can find them so
far seemed to reside in Madison Co., Alabama to the best of our research.
James A. Green and 4 children had made an application/petition for Cherokee assistance of some sort,
I believe relocation funds, but were denied since they were unable to show movement or cohabitation
with the tribe at the time of removal. In addition, the mothers name, as listed by James A. Green,
was Margaret Caladonia Clung. I have suspected it was McClung and that they may not have known the
complete name. I know that there is Native American ancestry in our family somehow but I am more
concerned with trying to find out who they were as opposed to what they were at this point. Any
assistance that you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated. Until I can solve the "Clung vs
McClung" mystery I am not sure how to move forward.
From Jeff Price ([email protected]) I am looking for a possible family link for my GGfather, Charles
McClung Price, to explain his middle name. He was born October 14, 1823 in Rhea County, Tenn. He moved to
northwestern Ark. in 1852. On the banks of the Arkansas River he founded the town of Price Spring and
married Eliza (Snodgrass) Price. He died October 1, 1899 in Price Spring, Franklin County, Ark. and is
buried in the Price Spring Cemetery near what is now Cecil, Ark. His father was Thomas Price, born @1779
in Rhea County, Tenn, died November 1832 buried Rhea County, Tenn. Can anyone make the connection?
Richard Van Wagenen wonders how the McClungs are related to his family:
Jane and Caleb had son Samuel M. BROWN who married ca 1867 Wapello County, Iowa, Marilla N. DERBY and
their 2nd son was named Harold McClung BROWN.
JUST A NOTE TO TELL YOU THAT MY AUNT DONNA (McCLUNG) CUNNINGHAM PASSED AWAY RECENTLY.
DONNA WAS BORN OCT. 14, 1915 IN HARPER, KS. THE DAU. OF JOHN RALPH McCLUNG AND EDITH ENLOW. DONNA
WAS MARRIED TO WILLIAM (BILL)BENTON CUNNINGHAM (BILL DIED IN 1970.) DONNA PASSED AWAY JUNE 14, 2004 IN
BOISE, IDAHO. SHE HAD TWO SONS WILLIAM (BILL) BENTON CUNNINGHAM JR. AND MARK CUNNINGHAM. HER BROTHERS
WERE HAROLD McCLUNG, ROSS McCLUNG, AND GENE McCLUNG ALL BORN IN HARPER, KS. HARPER CO., THEY ARE ALL
DECEASED. THANKING YOU, MRS. JANIS (McCLUNG) DUNN DAU. OF ROSS McCLUNG ([email protected])
You can e-mail me at Judith McClung if you have corrections or additions to our record.
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Last updated by Judith McClung