5. Samuel H., b. about 1785, m. on February 14, 1805, Barbara Fauber, Rev. John McCue officiating. Died in Augusta County at an early age, leaving one child, Elizabeth, who mar. on March 8, 1838, Jacob Shreckhise of Augusta County, Rev. Jas. Wilson officiating. From her descended Miss Martha McClure Shreckhise, a highly talented young lady, now living in Staunton, Va,, a graduate of the Mary Baldwin Seminary.
6. Josias, b. about 1787, and died about 1800.
7. Eleanor, b. August 23, 1789, m. March 3, 1814, Jos. Peck, Rev. John McCue officiating. She died June 3, 1859, at the home of her nephew, Andrew Steele McClure. Her grave is shown in the old cemetary at Tinkling Spring. Her son, Henry Peck, was an honored citizen and for some years sheriff of Augusta County.
8. Elizabeth, b. 1791, d. s. 1833. Her will is recorded at Staunton, Va.
IV. Samuel (twin brother to James, above) b. in Agusta County May 16, 1748, and died in Clark County, Ill., December 18, 1845. He received from his father, 1781, 306 acres of land in four tracts, which he and his wife, Jane, later conveyed to his brother John, (See D. B. 23, p. 390).
The following is found among the Draper papers in the Wisconsin Historical Society:
At the April term of the Circuit Court in and for the County of Clark and State of Illinois, begun and holden at Darwin on Monday, the 22d day of April, A. D. 1833, came Samuel McClure, who made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 7th of June, 1832, relative to the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution. The said Samuel McClure, being first duly sworn in open court, doth on his oath say, that he was born in Augusta County, Virginia, in the year A. D. 1748: that he first volunteered for a period of three months under Capt. George Mathews; that they rendezvoused at Staunton in Virginia, from thence they marched to the
