By Request. Source: 1881 History of Grundy County, Missouri Page 686 G. W. M'CLAIN George Washington McClain was born in Bath County, Kentucky, September 18, 1838. In 1845, his parents removed to Iowa and settled in Jefferson County, and after a residence of nine years, they came to Missouri and settled in Mercer County. Here they resided seven years, when the clarion note of war sounded throughout this broad land, and George W. McClain responded to his country's call, and was mustered into the service of the Union at Chillicothe, Missouri, on the 15th of August, 1861. He was enrolled as sixth sergeant of company D, Second Missouri volunteer cavalry, under Captain George C. Marshall and Colonel Lewis Merrill. He served until the fall of 1864, was promoted to fourth sergeant, participated in one desperate battle and several severe skirmishes, and received his honorable discharge from the service in September of the year last mentioned. September 5, 1872, Mr. McClain and Miss Melvina Cantrell were united in the marriage bonds. Rev. James Mack, of the Christian Church, performing the ceremony. She was born November 9, 1855. Mr. and Mrs. McClain have been blessed with two children; named, respectively, Zanie Agues, born October 18, 1873; and Stella May, born July 3, 1875. Mr. McClain owns a farm of one hundred and thirty-three acres, ninety-three of which are fenced and under cultivation, producing one hundred bushels of wheat, four hundred bushels of oats, seven hundred bushels of corn, and twenty tons of hay, per annum. He also deals in livestock, and has considerable invested in the business.