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(4). Andrew Wellington McClure, b. May 19, 1826, and died at his home (now the residence of Rudolph Bumgardner), 205 N. Augusta street, Staunton, Va., Feb'y 12, 1878. Buried at Bethel. Of the firm of Bumgardner & McClure, he was for a number of years a merchant at Greenville, and later at Staunton, Va. He was a soldier in the Civil War, 10th Va. cavalry, Capt. Ed. Fulcher's company, Gen. Beale's Brigade. Dick, his war horse, lived for many years after the war, showing a bullet wound in the neck.
In personal appearance he was 6 ft. 2 in. in height, a strikingly handsome man.
He married April 5, 1853, Mary Bumgardner, (Aug. 9, 1836—Oct. 20, 1884), oldest d. of Lewis Bumgardner and Hettie Anne Halstead.
Ten children—
- a. Phoebe Jane, a lifelong invalid, b. Oct. 31, 1855.
- b. Malinda Halstead, b. August 22, 1858, m. Warren Case, now deceased, and lives in Jacksonville, Ill. Two children: Warren and Mary.
- c. Mary Stuart, b. March 9, 1863, m. John H. McClure. Four children.
- d. Frank, d. i.
- e. Alice Clara, b. Apr. 17, 1865, m. Horace Bougere, of Louisana. Two children living: Ethel and Carl.
- f. John Andrew, d. i.
- g. Hettie Anne, b. March, 1870, m. James Capps, of Jacksonville, Ill. One child, James Capps, Jr.
- h. Sarah Steele, b. Sept., 1872, m. William Wilcox and lives in Birmingham, Ala. Four children: William, Frederick John, Malinda and James Gallaher.
- i. Andrew Wellington, Jr., d. i.
- j. Katie Wellington, b. Feb. 7, 1877; m. June 10, 1903, Richard C. Reynolds, of Jacksonville, Ill.
