Mary Nancy Moore

Origins

i-2 JOHN McCLUNG, h. probably in Ireland, d. about
1788, in Rockbridgc Co., Va., at an advanced age. He emi-
grated from Ireland to Penna.; thence to Rockbridge Co., Va.
Ile was a farmer and owned 278 acres of land in Rockbridge
Co., Va., in what was known as tite "Forks." He sold this
farm to his son Edward on Apr. 23, 1783. When he sold his
farm a neighbor asked him what he proposed to do now. He
replied in a jocular manner: "I propose to live like a gentle-
manand have all the whiskey I want to drink." Even ministers
of the gospel drank whiskey freely in those days. He owned
a still-house valued at £ioo. He m. Rebecca Stuart who Was
related to Hon. Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, of Staunton,
Va., who was Scrctary ofState in President Franklin Pierce's
Cabinet. John McClung survived his wife several years, and
resided with his daughter, Nancy Moore during the latter
years of his life.