This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brown,McClure,Beamer,Harvey,Turner Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACE/912 Message Board Post: I am looking for the McClure family who followed this path: McClure family VA>WV>ILL>MO>Benton County, Arkansas I would like to find family of James Robert McClure who was born June 22, 1822 in Virginia and died February 28, 1895 in Arkansaw or Missouri. He married Elizabeth Beamer on September 16, 1846 in Monroe County, Virgina and then moved to Braxton County, West Virginia area by 1860 and in 1870 he was living with many of his eight children in Osage Township Benton County, Arkansas. He may have died in Jasper County, Missouri. Samuel P. McClure was his only known son. He was born September 7, 1859 in Braxton County, Virginia and died November 20 1932 in Benton county, Arkansas. Samuel married Lizzy or Mary Elizabeth Brown in 1888 in Benton County, Arkansas. Mary’s family is of special interest. Her father was John Jacob Harvey Brown and her mother was Martha A. Turner.