Descendants of James McCrory & Jane Gilmore

 

 

Generation No. 1

 

1. NOTES1

Notes for NOTES:

This tree was put together from the James and Tucker Bibles

By: Robert L. Tucker

14510 South Acuff Court

Olathe, KS 66062

(913) 746-6147

This is also the gentleman who wrote the book about the McCrory family during the American Revolution.

Mr. Tucker also gathered the documentation to prove his work.

 

Child of NOTES is:

2. i. JAMES2 MCCRORY, b. 15 May 1758, Larga, Antrim, Ireland; d. 24 Nov 1840, Alabama.

Generation No. 2

2. JAMES2 MCCRORY (NOTES1)1,2,3,4 was born 15 May 1758 in Larga, Antrim, Ireland, and died 24 Nov 1840 in Alabama. He married JANE GILMORE 28 Feb 1782 in Gilford Co., North Carolina. She was born 1766, and died 01 Jan 1840 in Alabama.

Notes for JAMES MCCRORY:

While a prisoner of the British Crown he was fed Navy Beans so much that the dislike became traditional and some of his decentants would not eat Navy Beans for more than three generations.

He was place on the Revolution Pension Role 13 jun 1829.

James came to Alabmam while it was yet a territory and recieved a plot of land (Pickens County - Section 36, Township 24, Range 2 West) on 10 Oct. 1836. Made his home in Tuscaloosa, Alabama the last 25 years of his life.

The church near where he was burried was later abandoned and torn down but the cemetery remained. Nearby his grave is a small marble slab. It also marks the grave of his wife, Jane, who died Jan 1840.

James' Bible records the result of one fued where one of James' daughters had her name cut out of the Bible and to this day, we do not know her name.

More About JAMES MCCRORY:

Burial: Old Bethany Cem. Pickens Co., Alabama

Military service: 1778, Gen George Washington's body guard at Valley Forge

Notes for JANE GILMORE:

Jean Gilmore's name could really be Jane Gilmore (hard to read in Bible)

Children of JAMES MCCRORY and JANE GILMORE are:

i. THOMAS3 MCCRORY, b. 09 May 1783; d. 22 Oct 1783.

ii. MARGARET MCCRORY, b. 16 Sep 1784; d. 10 Mar 1789.

iii. JOHN MCCRORY, b. 04 Jan 1787, Guilford, North Carolina; d. 09 Aug 1840.

iv. JAMES MCCRORY, b. 09 Feb 1789, Guilford, North Carolina; d. 01 Aug 1844.

v. POLEY MCCRORY, b. 19 Jan 1791; d. 1791.

vi. THOMAS MCCRORY, b. 16 Jun 1791, Sumner County, Tennessee; d. 26 Apr 1884.

Notes for THOMAS MCCRORY:

vii. WILLIAM MCCRORY, b. 13 Oct 1793, Sumner County, Tennessee; d. 21 Dec 1848.

viii. ELIZABETH MCCRORY, b. 13 Jan 1796, Sumner County, Tennessee; d. 13 May 1838.

3. ix. ROBERT MCCRORY, b. 09 Oct 1800, Sumner County, Tennessee; d. 28 May 1870, Kemper County, Mississippi.

4. x. ALEN WALKER MCCRORY, b. 05 Dec 1802, Guilford, North Carolina; d. 1859.

xi. HANNAH CRAWFORD MCCRORY, b. 25 Mar 1805, Guilford, North Carolina.

5. xii. SARAH ANN MCCRORY, b. 01 Jul 1811, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee.

 

Generation No. 3

 

3. ROBERT3 MCCRORY (JAMES2, NOTES1) was born 09 Oct 1800 in Sumner County, Tennessee, and died 28 May 1870 in Kemper County, Mississippi. He married (1) CATHERINE TEASE. She was born 26 Aug 1807, and died 26 Jul 1845. He married (2) LESLE KLEESY ADCOCK. She was born 20 Nov 1812 in Anson County, North Carolina, and died 08 Dec 1895 in DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi.

More About ROBERT MCCRORY:

Burial: Spring Hill Cem., DeKalb, Mississippi

Name change: recorded his name as McRory instead of McCrory.

Occupation: Farmer/preacher

More About CATHERINE TEASE:

Burial: Alabama

Notes for LESLE KLEESY ADCOCK:

Lesia came with other of the Adcock family from North Carolina to Kemper Co, Mississippi about 1847 when her son was about 11 year old. Her first husband stayed behind. The son, therefore took his mother's name and was raised by Lesia and by Lesia's parents. Lesia and Bob McCrory were married when Kaziah Perementer died, and they lent an old housekeeping slave named Gran to Elisha Permenter for a year following his wife's death.

More About LESLE KLEESY ADCOCK:

Burial: Spring Hill Cem., DeKalb, Mississippi

 

Children of ROBERT MCCRORY and CATHERINE TEASE are:

i. JANE ELMIRA4 MCCRORY, b. 16 Jun 1843, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; m. TREADWAY, 1859.

ii. SARAH ELMIRA MCCRORY, b. 16 Jan 1843, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; d. 17 Nov 1939; m. JAMES E. WHITTLE, 06 Dec 1859, DeKalb Co., Mississippi.

iii. THOMAS G. MCCRORY, b. 09 May 1836; d. 1841.

iv. ALBERT T. MCCRORY, b. 18 May 1838.

v. ALLEN J. MCCRORY, b. 09 Jun 1840; d. 19 Aug 1859; m. LESLE KLEESY ADCOCK; b. 1812.

 

Children of ROBERT MCCRORY and LESLE ADCOCK are:

6. vi. JAMES IRA BYRD4 MCCRORY, b. 14 Sep 1853, Kemper, Mississippi; d. 17 Nov 1939, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma.

vii. ROBERT MCCRORY, b. 1869.

 

4. AALEN WALKER3 MCCRORY (JAMES2, NOTES1) was born 05 Dec 1802 in Guilford, North Carolina, and died 1859. He married CATHERINE 1830. She was born 1810 in Tennessee.

More About AALEN WALKER MCCRORY:

Occupation: Farmer

 

Children of AALEN MCCRORY and CATHERINE are:

i. JOHN4 MCCRORY, b. 1831, Alabama; m. MARY, 1850.

ii. JAMES MCCRORY, b. 1835, Labourer, Alabama.

iii. ROBERT MCCRORY, b. 1837, Mississippi.

iv. ALLEN MCCRORY, b. 1840, Mississippi.

v. EMILY I. MCCRORY, b. 1843, Mississippi.

vi. MARY A. MCCRORY, b. 1845, Mississippi.

vii. THOMAS MCCRORY, b. 1846, Mississippi.

viii. MARTHA MCCRORY, b. 1848, Mississippi.

ix. HANNAH MCCRORY, b. 1848, Mississippi.

x. WILLIAM MCCRORY, b. 1850, Mississippi.

xi. VICTORIA MCCRORY, b. 1850, Kemper County, Mississippi.

xii. MISSOURI MCCRORY, b. 1850, Kemper County, Mississippi.

xiii. ANDY MCCRORY, b. 1852, Mississippi.

xiv. HENSHALL MCCRORY, b. 1854, Mississippi.

xv. JANE M MCCRORY, b. 1851, Mississippi.

xvi. JOHN M. MCCRORY, b. 1853, Mississippi.

xvii. SARAH I MCCRORY, b. 1855, Mississippi.

 

5. SARAH ANN3 MCCRORY (JAMES2, NOTES1) was born 01 Jul 1811 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee. She married M. B..

 

Child of SARAH MCCRORY and M. B. is:

i. ELIZA ALBERTHA4 B., b. 01 May 1888, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., Alabama; d. 12 May 1889, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., Alabama.

Notes for ELIZA ALBERTHA B.:

Written for Eliza Alberta

Read ye that run the awful truth

With which I charge my page.

A worm is in the bud of youth

And at the rock of age.

No present health can health ensure.

For yet an hour to come.

No medicine, though if oft-can come,

Can always balk the tomb.

Like crowed forest teers was stand

And some are marked to fall.

The axe wide smite at God's command

Ad soon shall smite us all.

Published in Elmore County, Alabama 15 May 1839

 

Generation No. 4

 

6. JAMES IRA BYRD4 MCCRORY (ROBERT3, JAMES2, NOTES1) was born 14 Sep 1853 in Kemper, Mississippi, and died 17 Nov 1939 in Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma. He married IDA FRANCIS FOLSOM. She was born 07 Mar 1861 in DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi, and died 07 May 1922.

Notes for JAMES IRA BYRD MCCRORY:

James was tried twice for murder about 1870 in Greenwood, Mississippi and Jackson Mississippi. The first trial resulted in a hung jury and the second was dismissed for lack of evidence.

After the Civil War, carpetbaggers and northern sympathizers persecuted white landowners. Leaders among them were assissinated in an effort to prevent organized resistance. Secret clubs were organized to deal with the situation. James belonged to a group call "The Radicals," also know as the "Mountain Club."

The leader of the Carpetbag faction was one judge Chisholm, who the opposition undertook to liquidate. They arrived at his home just under the arrival of a Federal Marshal, due to the plan having leaked. The Marshal tried to deputize James B. McCrory for this mission, but he refused, whereup the Marshal disarmed and arrested him. He jumped out of a window and warned the others. This Marshal deputized a few men, gathered the family around the Judge for his protection and succeded in conveying him to jail in DeKalb, Mississippi. During the trip to DeKalb jail a sniping attempt struck Chisholm's daughter in the wrist and she subsequently died of gangrene. The wound itself has insignificant, thought to have been inflected by a bracelet than directly by the bullet.

Twenty-six men were tried for murdering the Scot. 25 Whites and one black, were tried and they had a hung jury.

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More About JAMES IRA BYRD MCCRORY:

Burial: Boney Graveyard near Emalle, Alabama

Notes for IDA FRANCIS FOLSOM:

Ida was a loyal of the Woman Missionary Society of Emelle Methodist Church

More About IDA FRANCIS FOLSOM:

Burial: Sumpter County, Alabama

 

Children of JAMES MCCRORY and IDA FOLSOM are:

i. ROBERT FOLSOM5 MCCRORY, b. 16 Aug 1879, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; d. 20 Aug 1950, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; m. MONTIE RAY POOLE; b. 06 Mar 1892, Jackson County, Texas; d. 29 Aug 1977, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma.

More About ROBERT FOLSOM MCCRORY:

Burial: 31 Aug 1977, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma

More About MONTIE RAY POOLE:

Burial: 31 Aug 1977, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma

ii. ALBERT HULBERT MCCRORY, b. 31 May 1881, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; d. 19 Jun 1930; m. ETHEL VIOLA WILSON, 15 Jan 1913; b. 14 Sep 1893; d. 15 May 1934.

iii. JAMES FARRIS MCCRORY, b. 16 Oct 1883, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; d. 26 Jul 1972; m. JOSIE MARGARET THOMAS, 1908, Cameron, Texas; b. Cameron, Texas.

iv. FRANCES RUBY MCCRORY, b. 23 Dec 1885, DeKalb, Kemper County, Mississippi; d. 05 Nov 1975.

v. GEORGE WEGG MCCRORY, b. 18 Jun 1888, Sumpter County, Alabama; d. 11 Jun 1948; m. LOUISE M. BRANDT, 25 May 1911; b. 18 Feb 1894, Keo, Arkansas; d. 17 Jan 1971.

Notes for GEORGE WEGG MCCRORY:

Was a wholesaler of oil and gas in Houston, Texas

 

More About GEORGE WEGG MCCRORY:

Burial: San Jacinto Mem., Houston, Texas

More About LOUISE M. BRANDT:

Burial: San Jacinto Mem., Houston, Texas

vi. WILLIAM POWERS MCCRORY, b. 26 Apr 1891, Sumpter County, Alabama; d. 25 Sep 1911, Mississippi.

Notes for WILLIAM POWERS MCCRORY:

Scobba Mississippi Newspaper article the Herald "Killing at Scooba: Slayer is Pursued Sept 25

William was murdered in 1908 in Scooba, Mississippi at the age of 19. He had engaged in a friendly wrestling contest which was interfered with by a third party. Herman Lockley, an older man, possibly 25, tenered an apology of a sort and suggested they forget about it.

Powers then went to spend the night with friends. As he was sitting on the bed, having removed one shoe, Lockly appeared at the door and shot him with a shotgun. The wound was on the inside of the left thigh. He bled to death by morning. The two friends were present and witnessed the shooting.

Lockley escaped into a nearby wilderness area. Friends of the McCrory family combed the countryside for days without success.

Some years later, Arthur was told by one of his brothers that Lockley was standing at the side entrance of Rosenbaum's store and the assailant came out of the store, wearing a cap, and fired two shots into his belly and sent back into the store. Inside the store the cap was exchanged for a had and false beard from a pocket. Upon trying to exit from the corner entrance to the store, Rosenbaum's son tried to bar the way but was persuaded to stand aside by the firing of a shot over his head and a prod with the muzzle of the pistol.

No charges were brought and with the demise of Herman Lockley, the affair was laid to rest.

 

 

vii. CARRIE ANNIE MCCRORY, b. 19 Jun 1875, Sumpter County, Alabama; d. 04 Nov 1932; m. HARVEY A. DARLING; b. California.

viii. ARTHUR KIPLING MCCRORY, b. 30 Nov 1898, Emille, Sumter County, Alabama; d. 17 Jan 1976, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma; m. ALMEIDA JEAN LEDBETTER, 16 May 1922, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma; b. 21 Mar 1904, Fayette County, Texas.

ix. TWIN MCCRORY, b. 30 Nov 1895, Emille, Sumter County, Alabama; d. 30 Nov 1895, Emille, Sumter County, Alabama.

 

 

Endnotes

 

1. 27th Congress Feb 4 1843, 2.

2. Graves of Revolutionary War Patriots, V.3 (L-R), By Patricia Law Hatcher.

3. State of North Carolina 8 jun 1829, 5, Service Summary.

4. David Library of American Revolution, 5, River Road, Box 48Washington Crossing, Penn. 18977(215) 493-6776.