James was the youngest of eleven children--eight sons and three daughters. All lived to be older than the average of man's life, except on son, who was killed in the War of 1812. One brother lived to 95 and one sister to 97. He moved to Oldham Co. Kentucky in 1819, settling near six of his brothers and two sisters who preceded him, all owning large tracts of land.
He married Sarah "Sally" Fountain Keller 26 Dec 1872 in Oldham Co. Kentucky. She was born 14 Oct 1803 in Jefferson Co. Kentucky. They had twelve children--eight sons and four daughters. All lived to adulthood. Three sons died between 20 and 25 years. James lived to see the rest of his children married and settled on farms of their own, which he furnished most of the money to buy, except for the youngest, a son who was single at his death.
James was six feet one, dark hair, sandy beard, large features. He was a good husband, father, and neighbor, ever ready to distribute to the needy. Before his death he saw a great evil growing in expensive burials; and to teach his children a lesson, he made a written request as to how he wished to be buried. This was as follows: His body was to be dressed with a suit that he was married in, which had been preserved for that purpose. The pants were of white cotton, which was homespun and woven by one of his sisters about the time he was twenty-one years old. His vest was homemade figured linen. A pure Irish linen sheet covered his body. His coffin was to be of poplar wood, without any paint or varnish, flat lid, no lining on the inside, and to be hauled to the graveyard (which was on the farm) in his two-horse farm wagon. He strove to live a strictly honest life, did a cash business, never bought either real or personal property except as he could pay for it in cash.
He was the owner of thirty negroes at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation freeing them, and was not heard to murmur, but felt that he was better off without them and clear of a great responsibility. He died ten years after his wife. He was buried as requested, all his living children were all together, three of whom lived in Indiana, his papers were examined and they found his business so well arranged that, on the third day after his death (there being no debts) the whole estate, existing of 365 acres of good farm land and the personal property, and was divided among the children by themselves, to the perfect satisfaction of all. Three of the brothers took the land, stock, and crops at a fixed value. Household goods were divided as each one wished, and the children separated as loving brothers and sisters, and have been such, for which God is to be thanked, and for having such a father and mother as we had.
Words written (some phrases abbreviated) by James's son John Clore, at age 67--published in book by daughter of Ann Garr (Ann was oldest living daughter, age 71 of James Clore).
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01 Jan 2023, contributor 50904195 provided links to parents, and the following:
HISTORY OF THE CLOAR FAMILY
(The following account is taken from the old Union City, Tennessee Commercial, February 18, 1921) My grandfather's name was Johnnie Cloar, who married Mary Turner, and the names of his brothers were Billie, Elijah and James.
His sister, Mary, married Bynum Ferrill and they lived in Sumner county at Blitzer's Lick, on theCumberland river. They built flatboats and carried their farm produce and livestock and walked back from New Orleans 19 times before the steamboats came to Sumner county. In 1824 they came in a flat-boat to Hickman (Kentucky), then called Mills Point, and settled on Reelfoot Crek (sic), on Troy-Hickman road, 7 miles from Hickman. My father was the oldest son. He had one brother, William, and two sisters, Patsy and Betsy. The lat(t)er married J. T. Dougherty, who was in the civil war. Patsy married a Majors and lived and died in Graves county.
My father, Abb Cloar, married Susan Hubbard and raised a large family. His four oldest boys went to the war and three were killed and I was wounded. Elijah's son, Johnnie married a Hubbard. His three oldest sons went to the war and two of them died. Calvin Cloar, son of William Cloar raised a large family and his eldest son went to the war. Bynum Ferrill settled at Comba Springs. There were four daughters, Harriet, Elizabeth, Mary and Matilda, and a son, James, and another, I don't remember. Harriet married a James and lived near Hickman. Jesse Cloar, a brother of John Cloar, also moved to this county about the same time. His oldest daughter married Dick Mosier and raised a large family. Uncle Elijah Cloar came to this country later on and settled in the same neighborhood. He had two sons, Green and John, who were in the civil war four years and were fortunate enough to get back home. Green Cloar is still living in this county, is ninety years of age and in good health.
When my ancestor came to this country there were no mills, no roads nor churches, so they and the other people that were here went to work and built churches and school houses. They sawed the lumber with a whip saw and make houses out of what is called "hewed" logs, with stick and dirt chimneys. There were no threashers at that time so what little wheat they raised they tramped it out with horses and fanned out with sheets and carried to a little horse mill which my father built on the Troy and Hickman road, and had it and their corn ground. They never had biscuit but once a week, and that was on Sunday morning. They had no place to trade with the exception of Hickman. They made most of their shoes from leather they tanned themselves. The women spun on spinning wheels and wove their cloth on an old fashioned loom and made their clothes. No one idled away any time. They all worked. They cut a road fromTroy to Hickman, one from Dresden to Hickman and one from Dyersburg to Hickman, all running in a northwesterly direction. These roads were called the Public Highway, and they were three notched roads, that is, they put three notches on a tree so when a man got on the highway, he knew he was on the road to Hickman, or to one of these towns. They also cut a road from Reelfoot Lake, running across these roads, crossing the Troy road by the White place, and running down by Old Republican, and out here by Brevard's Crossing, the road forked and the right hand went to Jacksonville (no longer in existence, but just east of present Union City, Tn city limits) and the left hand went to Moscow, KY. These were two-notched roads, and second-class roads. All the little roads running into these roads were one-notched roads, so a man could travel in these days without any trouble. Old Republican church, near this city, was the first church organized in Obion county. It was organized in 1812, and the deed was given for a union church and a school house. These grand old pioneer preachers, Finley Bynum, Gid Bransford, Wade Frost Weaver, John Ward, William White, preached here. So this church went on as a union church until they split up, one wing going to Beulah nearUnion City, and the Glovers, Grays and Howards built Mt. Olive church, while the Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterians built a church called Shiloh, on Troy and Hickman road, afterwards building what is now known as Antioch church
Jerry A. Cloar (At the time this was written, Mr. Cloar was 78 years old)
February 18, 1921
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He married Sarah "Sally" Fountain Keller 26 Dec 1872 in Oldham Co. Kentucky. She was born 14 Oct 1803 in Jefferson Co. Kentucky. They had twelve children--eight sons and four daughters. All lived to adulthood. Three sons died between 20 and 25 years. James lived to see the rest of his children married and settled on farms of their own, which he furnished most of the money to buy, except for the youngest, a son who was single at his death.
James was six feet one, dark hair, sandy beard, large features. He was a good husband, father, and neighbor, ever ready to distribute to the needy. Before his death he saw a great evil growing in expensive burials; and to teach his children a lesson, he made a written request as to how he wished to be buried. This was as follows: His body was to be dressed with a suit that he was married in, which had been preserved for that purpose. The pants were of white cotton, which was homespun and woven by one of his sisters about the time he was twenty-one years old. His vest was homemade figured linen. A pure Irish linen sheet covered his body. His coffin was to be of poplar wood, without any paint or varnish, flat lid, no lining on the inside, and to be hauled to the graveyard (which was on the farm) in his two-horse farm wagon. He strove to live a strictly honest life, did a cash business, never bought either real or personal property except as he could pay for it in cash.
He was the owner of thirty negroes at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation freeing them, and was not heard to murmur, but felt that he was better off without them and clear of a great responsibility. He died ten years after his wife. He was buried as requested, all his living children were all together, three of whom lived in Indiana, his papers were examined and they found his business so well arranged that, on the third day after his death (there being no debts) the whole estate, existing of 365 acres of good farm land and the personal property, and was divided among the children by themselves, to the perfect satisfaction of all. Three of the brothers took the land, stock, and crops at a fixed value. Household goods were divided as each one wished, and the children separated as loving brothers and sisters, and have been such, for which God is to be thanked, and for having such a father and mother as we had.
Words written (some phrases abbreviated) by James's son John Clore, at age 67--published in book by daughter of Ann Garr (Ann was oldest living daughter, age 71 of James Clore).
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01 Jan 2023, contributor 50904195 provided links to parents, and the following:
HISTORY OF THE CLOAR FAMILY
(The following account is taken from the old Union City, Tennessee Commercial, February 18, 1921) My grandfather's name was Johnnie Cloar, who married Mary Turner, and the names of his brothers were Billie, Elijah and James.
His sister, Mary, married Bynum Ferrill and they lived in Sumner county at Blitzer's Lick, on theCumberland river. They built flatboats and carried their farm produce and livestock and walked back from New Orleans 19 times before the steamboats came to Sumner county. In 1824 they came in a flat-boat to Hickman (Kentucky), then called Mills Point, and settled on Reelfoot Crek (sic), on Troy-Hickman road, 7 miles from Hickman. My father was the oldest son. He had one brother, William, and two sisters, Patsy and Betsy. The lat(t)er married J. T. Dougherty, who was in the civil war. Patsy married a Majors and lived and died in Graves county.
My father, Abb Cloar, married Susan Hubbard and raised a large family. His four oldest boys went to the war and three were killed and I was wounded. Elijah's son, Johnnie married a Hubbard. His three oldest sons went to the war and two of them died. Calvin Cloar, son of William Cloar raised a large family and his eldest son went to the war. Bynum Ferrill settled at Comba Springs. There were four daughters, Harriet, Elizabeth, Mary and Matilda, and a son, James, and another, I don't remember. Harriet married a James and lived near Hickman. Jesse Cloar, a brother of John Cloar, also moved to this county about the same time. His oldest daughter married Dick Mosier and raised a large family. Uncle Elijah Cloar came to this country later on and settled in the same neighborhood. He had two sons, Green and John, who were in the civil war four years and were fortunate enough to get back home. Green Cloar is still living in this county, is ninety years of age and in good health.
When my ancestor came to this country there were no mills, no roads nor churches, so they and the other people that were here went to work and built churches and school houses. They sawed the lumber with a whip saw and make houses out of what is called "hewed" logs, with stick and dirt chimneys. There were no threashers at that time so what little wheat they raised they tramped it out with horses and fanned out with sheets and carried to a little horse mill which my father built on the Troy and Hickman road, and had it and their corn ground. They never had biscuit but once a week, and that was on Sunday morning. They had no place to trade with the exception of Hickman. They made most of their shoes from leather they tanned themselves. The women spun on spinning wheels and wove their cloth on an old fashioned loom and made their clothes. No one idled away any time. They all worked. They cut a road fromTroy to Hickman, one from Dresden to Hickman and one from Dyersburg to Hickman, all running in a northwesterly direction. These roads were called the Public Highway, and they were three notched roads, that is, they put three notches on a tree so when a man got on the highway, he knew he was on the road to Hickman, or to one of these towns. They also cut a road from Reelfoot Lake, running across these roads, crossing the Troy road by the White place, and running down by Old Republican, and out here by Brevard's Crossing, the road forked and the right hand went to Jacksonville (no longer in existence, but just east of present Union City, Tn city limits) and the left hand went to Moscow, KY. These were two-notched roads, and second-class roads. All the little roads running into these roads were one-notched roads, so a man could travel in these days without any trouble. Old Republican church, near this city, was the first church organized in Obion county. It was organized in 1812, and the deed was given for a union church and a school house. These grand old pioneer preachers, Finley Bynum, Gid Bransford, Wade Frost Weaver, John Ward, William White, preached here. So this church went on as a union church until they split up, one wing going to Beulah nearUnion City, and the Glovers, Grays and Howards built Mt. Olive church, while the Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterians built a church called Shiloh, on Troy and Hickman road, afterwards building what is now known as Antioch church
Jerry A. Cloar (At the time this was written, Mr. Cloar was 78 years old)
February 18, 1921
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James was the youngest of eleven children--eight sons and three daughters. All lived to be older than the average of man's life, except on son, who was killed in the War of 1812. One brother lived to 95 and one sister to 97. He moved to Oldham Co. Kentucky in 1819, settling near six of his brothers and two sisters who preceded him, all owning large tracts of land.
He married Sarah "Sally" Fountain Keller 26 Dec 1872 in Oldham Co. Kentucky. She was born 14 Oct 1803 in Jefferson Co. Kentucky. They had twelve children--eight sons and four daughters. All lived to adulthood. Three sons died between 20 and 25 years. James lived to see the rest of his children married and settled on farms of their own, which he furnished most of the money to buy, except for the youngest, a son who was single at his death.
James was six feet one, dark hair, sandy beard, large features. He was a good husband, father, and neighbor, ever ready to distribute to the needy. Before his death he saw a great evil growing in expensive burials; and to teach his children a lesson, he made a written request as to how he wished to be buried. This was as follows: His body was to be dressed with a suit that he was married in, which had been preserved for that purpose. The pants were of white cotton, which was homespun and woven by one of his sisters about the time he was twenty-one years old. His vest was homemade figured linen. A pure Irish linen sheet covered his body. His coffin was to be of poplar wood, without any paint or varnish, flat lid, no lining on the inside, and to be hauled to the graveyard (which was on the farm) in his two-horse farm wagon. He strove to live a strictly honest life, did a cash business, never bought either real or personal property except as he could pay for it in cash.
He was the owner of thirty negroes at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation freeing them, and was not heard to murmur, but felt that he was better off without them and clear of a great responsibility. He died ten years after his wife. He was buried as requested, all his living children were all together, three of whom lived in Indiana, his papers were examined and they found his business so well arranged that, on the third day after his death (there being no debts) the whole estate, existing of 365 acres of good farm land and the personal property, and was divided among the children by themselves, to the perfect satisfaction of all. Three of the brothers took the land, stock, and crops at a fixed value. Household goods were divided as each one wished, and the children separated as loving brothers and sisters, and have been such, for which God is to be thanked, and for having such a father and mother as we had.
Words written (some phrases abbreviated) by James's son John Clore, at age 67--published in book by daughter of Ann Garr (Ann was oldest living daughter, age 71 of James Clore).
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01 Jan 2023, contributor 50904195 provided links to parents, and the following:
HISTORY OF THE CLOAR FAMILY
(The following account is taken from the old Union City, Tennessee Commercial, February 18, 1921) My grandfather's name was Johnnie Cloar, who married Mary Turner, and the names of his brothers were Billie, Elijah and James.
His sister, Mary, married Bynum Ferrill and they lived in Sumner county at Blitzer's Lick, on theCumberland river. They built flatboats and carried their farm produce and livestock and walked back from New Orleans 19 times before the steamboats came to Sumner county. In 1824 they came in a flat-boat to Hickman (Kentucky), then called Mills Point, and settled on Reelfoot Crek (sic), on Troy-Hickman road, 7 miles from Hickman. My father was the oldest son. He had one brother, William, and two sisters, Patsy and Betsy. The lat(t)er married J. T. Dougherty, who was in the civil war. Patsy married a Majors and lived and died in Graves county.
My father, Abb Cloar, married Susan Hubbard and raised a large family. His four oldest boys went to the war and three were killed and I was wounded. Elijah's son, Johnnie married a Hubbard. His three oldest sons went to the war and two of them died. Calvin Cloar, son of William Cloar raised a large family and his eldest son went to the war. Bynum Ferrill settled at Comba Springs. There were four daughters, Harriet, Elizabeth, Mary and Matilda, and a son, James, and another, I don't remember. Harriet married a James and lived near Hickman. Jesse Cloar, a brother of John Cloar, also moved to this county about the same time. His oldest daughter married Dick Mosier and raised a large family. Uncle Elijah Cloar came to this country later on and settled in the same neighborhood. He had two sons, Green and John, who were in the civil war four years and were fortunate enough to get back home. Green Cloar is still living in this county, is ninety years of age and in good health.
When my ancestor came to this country there were no mills, no roads nor churches, so they and the other people that were here went to work and built churches and school houses. They sawed the lumber with a whip saw and make houses out of what is called "hewed" logs, with stick and dirt chimneys. There were no threashers at that time so what little wheat they raised they tramped it out with horses and fanned out with sheets and carried to a little horse mill which my father built on the Troy and Hickman road, and had it and their corn ground. They never had biscuit but once a week, and that was on Sunday morning. They had no place to trade with the exception of Hickman. They made most of their shoes from leather they tanned themselves. The women spun on spinning wheels and wove their cloth on an old fashioned loom and made their clothes. No one idled away any time. They all worked. They cut a road fromTroy to Hickman, one from Dresden to Hickman and one from Dyersburg to Hickman, all running in a northwesterly direction. These roads were called the Public Highway, and they were three notched roads, that is, they put three notches on a tree so when a man got on the highway, he knew he was on the road to Hickman, or to one of these towns. They also cut a road from Reelfoot Lake, running across these roads, crossing the Troy road by the White place, and running down by Old Republican, and out here by Brevard's Crossing, the road forked and the right hand went to Jacksonville (no longer in existence, but just east of present Union City, Tn city limits) and the left hand went to Moscow, KY. These were two-notched roads, and second-class roads. All the little roads running into these roads were one-notched roads, so a man could travel in these days without any trouble. Old Republican church, near this city, was the first church organized in Obion county. It was organized in 1812, and the deed was given for a union church and a school house. These grand old pioneer preachers, Finley Bynum, Gid Bransford, Wade Frost Weaver, John Ward, William White, preached here. So this church went on as a union church until they split up, one wing going to Beulah nearUnion City, and the Glovers, Grays and Howards built Mt. Olive church, while the Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterians built a church called Shiloh, on Troy and Hickman road, afterwards building what is now known as Antioch church
Jerry A. Cloar (At the time this was written, Mr. Cloar was 78 years old)
February 18, 1921
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He married Sarah "Sally" Fountain Keller 26 Dec 1872 in Oldham Co. Kentucky. She was born 14 Oct 1803 in Jefferson Co. Kentucky. They had twelve children--eight sons and four daughters. All lived to adulthood. Three sons died between 20 and 25 years. James lived to see the rest of his children married and settled on farms of their own, which he furnished most of the money to buy, except for the youngest, a son who was single at his death.
James was six feet one, dark hair, sandy beard, large features. He was a good husband, father, and neighbor, ever ready to distribute to the needy. Before his death he saw a great evil growing in expensive burials; and to teach his children a lesson, he made a written request as to how he wished to be buried. This was as follows: His body was to be dressed with a suit that he was married in, which had been preserved for that purpose. The pants were of white cotton, which was homespun and woven by one of his sisters about the time he was twenty-one years old. His vest was homemade figured linen. A pure Irish linen sheet covered his body. His coffin was to be of poplar wood, without any paint or varnish, flat lid, no lining on the inside, and to be hauled to the graveyard (which was on the farm) in his two-horse farm wagon. He strove to live a strictly honest life, did a cash business, never bought either real or personal property except as he could pay for it in cash.
He was the owner of thirty negroes at the time President Lincoln issued his proclamation freeing them, and was not heard to murmur, but felt that he was better off without them and clear of a great responsibility. He died ten years after his wife. He was buried as requested, all his living children were all together, three of whom lived in Indiana, his papers were examined and they found his business so well arranged that, on the third day after his death (there being no debts) the whole estate, existing of 365 acres of good farm land and the personal property, and was divided among the children by themselves, to the perfect satisfaction of all. Three of the brothers took the land, stock, and crops at a fixed value. Household goods were divided as each one wished, and the children separated as loving brothers and sisters, and have been such, for which God is to be thanked, and for having such a father and mother as we had.
Words written (some phrases abbreviated) by James's son John Clore, at age 67--published in book by daughter of Ann Garr (Ann was oldest living daughter, age 71 of James Clore).
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01 Jan 2023, contributor 50904195 provided links to parents, and the following:
HISTORY OF THE CLOAR FAMILY
(The following account is taken from the old Union City, Tennessee Commercial, February 18, 1921) My grandfather's name was Johnnie Cloar, who married Mary Turner, and the names of his brothers were Billie, Elijah and James.
His sister, Mary, married Bynum Ferrill and they lived in Sumner county at Blitzer's Lick, on theCumberland river. They built flatboats and carried their farm produce and livestock and walked back from New Orleans 19 times before the steamboats came to Sumner county. In 1824 they came in a flat-boat to Hickman (Kentucky), then called Mills Point, and settled on Reelfoot Crek (sic), on Troy-Hickman road, 7 miles from Hickman. My father was the oldest son. He had one brother, William, and two sisters, Patsy and Betsy. The lat(t)er married J. T. Dougherty, who was in the civil war. Patsy married a Majors and lived and died in Graves county.
My father, Abb Cloar, married Susan Hubbard and raised a large family. His four oldest boys went to the war and three were killed and I was wounded. Elijah's son, Johnnie married a Hubbard. His three oldest sons went to the war and two of them died. Calvin Cloar, son of William Cloar raised a large family and his eldest son went to the war. Bynum Ferrill settled at Comba Springs. There were four daughters, Harriet, Elizabeth, Mary and Matilda, and a son, James, and another, I don't remember. Harriet married a James and lived near Hickman. Jesse Cloar, a brother of John Cloar, also moved to this county about the same time. His oldest daughter married Dick Mosier and raised a large family. Uncle Elijah Cloar came to this country later on and settled in the same neighborhood. He had two sons, Green and John, who were in the civil war four years and were fortunate enough to get back home. Green Cloar is still living in this county, is ninety years of age and in good health.
When my ancestor came to this country there were no mills, no roads nor churches, so they and the other people that were here went to work and built churches and school houses. They sawed the lumber with a whip saw and make houses out of what is called "hewed" logs, with stick and dirt chimneys. There were no threashers at that time so what little wheat they raised they tramped it out with horses and fanned out with sheets and carried to a little horse mill which my father built on the Troy and Hickman road, and had it and their corn ground. They never had biscuit but once a week, and that was on Sunday morning. They had no place to trade with the exception of Hickman. They made most of their shoes from leather they tanned themselves. The women spun on spinning wheels and wove their cloth on an old fashioned loom and made their clothes. No one idled away any time. They all worked. They cut a road fromTroy to Hickman, one from Dresden to Hickman and one from Dyersburg to Hickman, all running in a northwesterly direction. These roads were called the Public Highway, and they were three notched roads, that is, they put three notches on a tree so when a man got on the highway, he knew he was on the road to Hickman, or to one of these towns. They also cut a road from Reelfoot Lake, running across these roads, crossing the Troy road by the White place, and running down by Old Republican, and out here by Brevard's Crossing, the road forked and the right hand went to Jacksonville (no longer in existence, but just east of present Union City, Tn city limits) and the left hand went to Moscow, KY. These were two-notched roads, and second-class roads. All the little roads running into these roads were one-notched roads, so a man could travel in these days without any trouble. Old Republican church, near this city, was the first church organized in Obion county. It was organized in 1812, and the deed was given for a union church and a school house. These grand old pioneer preachers, Finley Bynum, Gid Bransford, Wade Frost Weaver, John Ward, William White, preached here. So this church went on as a union church until they split up, one wing going to Beulah nearUnion City, and the Glovers, Grays and Howards built Mt. Olive church, while the Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterians built a church called Shiloh, on Troy and Hickman road, afterwards building what is now known as Antioch church
Jerry A. Cloar (At the time this was written, Mr. Cloar was 78 years old)
February 18, 1921
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JAMES CLORE.
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AUG. 29, 1872.
AGED 78 YEARS
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