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Robert Houston McLaury

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Robert Houston McLaury

Birth
Kortright Center, Delaware County, New York, USA
Death
7 Jul 1893 (aged 82)
Hazleton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA
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Hazleton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Robert was a lawyer and farmer from Kortright, NY. In 1841, he, his wife, Margret and his growing family moved to a 200-acre farm in Merideth. In a tragic accident, the family home burned down killing their second son, Hugh. They rebuilt their home and lived there until 1855 when they decided to pull stakes and move to Iowa. They settled in Benton Co., near Belle Plaine where Robert practiced law and had more children. About this time, they took to spelling their name "McClaury." In testament to the hardiness of the pioneer women of that time, Margaret averaged a child every two years from 1833 to 1859. In 1859 a typhoid epidemic took the life of Margaret.

A man of considerable means, Robert's combined value at the time of the 1860 US Census, Buchanan Co., IA., was listed at $4500.00. Toward the end of 1860, Robert then bought an 800 acre farm in Buchanan Co., Iowa near Hazelton. By the 1870 US Census, Robert's value had grown to $13,320.00.

Declaring his need for a woman to take care of his younger children, Robert met and married Anna "Annie" Leigh, a widow 30 years his junior (about the same age as his 9th child, Christiana) who had children of her own. This caused a rift in the family and some of his older children cut themselves off from Robert and his new wife. About this time, Robert had again changed the spelling of the name to, "McLaury." Robert sired three more boys, the third at the age of 77. Of the 6 boys of his first marriage, only William survived his father.
Robert was a lawyer and farmer from Kortright, NY. In 1841, he, his wife, Margret and his growing family moved to a 200-acre farm in Merideth. In a tragic accident, the family home burned down killing their second son, Hugh. They rebuilt their home and lived there until 1855 when they decided to pull stakes and move to Iowa. They settled in Benton Co., near Belle Plaine where Robert practiced law and had more children. About this time, they took to spelling their name "McClaury." In testament to the hardiness of the pioneer women of that time, Margaret averaged a child every two years from 1833 to 1859. In 1859 a typhoid epidemic took the life of Margaret.

A man of considerable means, Robert's combined value at the time of the 1860 US Census, Buchanan Co., IA., was listed at $4500.00. Toward the end of 1860, Robert then bought an 800 acre farm in Buchanan Co., Iowa near Hazelton. By the 1870 US Census, Robert's value had grown to $13,320.00.

Declaring his need for a woman to take care of his younger children, Robert met and married Anna "Annie" Leigh, a widow 30 years his junior (about the same age as his 9th child, Christiana) who had children of her own. This caused a rift in the family and some of his older children cut themselves off from Robert and his new wife. About this time, Robert had again changed the spelling of the name to, "McLaury." Robert sired three more boys, the third at the age of 77. Of the 6 boys of his first marriage, only William survived his father.

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