1SGT Abadiah Lawson McClure, CSA

Abdul fought for the Confederacy, in Company "C", 36th VA Regiment, 2nd Kanawha VA Infantry.  He enlisted June 3rd 1861 at the Raleigh County Courthouse.  Was a prisoner of war, captured at Waynesboro, VA, March 2, 1865, apparently held at Ft. Delaware, Delaware.  He was wounded in the knee.     Information from Lynn Dreimiller.   

Abdul married Isabella B. Carper (1851-1939) on December 6, 1866 in Raleigh County, West Virginia.

      Deed between Joseph Carper & wife, Jane to A. L. McClure;  copied  8/6/1992 at Raleigh County Courthouse, Beckley, WV.  Deed - Book D - page 116.

     "This deed made this 21st day of April in the year 1875 between Joseph Carper and Jane his wife of the first part and A .L. McClure of the other part all of Raleigh County and state of West Virginia witnesseth that in consideration of the sum of $5.00 the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged the said Joseph Carper and Jane his wife do grant  unto the said A. L. McClure and to his heirs and assigns a certain tract or parcel of Land containing by survey  23 acres situated in the county of Raleigh state of West Virginia and lying on the water of Piney River adjoining the lands of E. Prince, Jackson Carper and others being surveyed out of the lands of the said Joseph Carper and is bounded as follows: Beginning at a white pine on top of the ridge comes to Jackson Carper and comes to Samuel H. W. Carper and with the later N44 E28 poles to three small gums in a drain and down the branch N23 1/2 W 83 poles to two small black oaks and sourwood on Prince line and with same S51 W37 poles to ash and boxelder by the branch and up the branch S13 E84 poles and with meanders of same to Jackson Carpers line near the wagon road and with same line N73 E26 poles to the beginning.  To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land situated and described as aforesaid with all its appurtenances and the said Joseph Carper and Jane his wife will warrant generally to the said A. L. McClure and to his heirs and assigns the lands hereby conveyed.  Witness the following signatures and seals.   Joseph Carper,  Jane Carper              Information from Lynn Dreimiller

       In 1898 Abdul and wife Belle went to Wallowa, Oregon with their daughter Leach and two children.  Charles Haney, husband of Leach had gone ahead and they were going to join him there.  They went to La Grande, Oregon by train and then on to Wallowa by wagon.  They bought property which indicated they must have considered staying in that area.  The climate was much different than what they were used to, so that may have had a bearing on the fact that they did not stay to long.  I am assuming that when school was out in the spring of 1900 they returned to West Virginia.  As they are recorded on the 1900 census taken in June as being in West Virginia.  In "Oliver Scotts Diary" he does tell in May of the McClures being back and then later he says that Burke McClure and Tom Haney had just returned from Oregon.  

                                         PIONEER CITIZEN PASSES TO REWARD

     Word was received yesterday by relatives in the city of the death of A. L. McClure, of Grandview, who had attained the ripe old age of 86 years.  Death occurred at eleven o'clock yesterday morning following only a brief illness. 

    Mr. McClure was one of the early pioneers of this section, coming to Grandview when but a young man and passing the remainder of his days in that community.  When the call came for volunteers in the war of 1862-1865 he enlisted serving as orderly-sergeant in No. A. Company C, 36th Virginia Regiment, Breckenridge Command, Jube Early's Division.  During his time of service he was engaged in several skirmishes around Beckley, known then as Raleigh Court House.  As a mark of his service he received only a slight wound in the knee. 

     He was married to Miss Belle Carper, sister of the late Andrew Jackson Carper, of Grandview, and of the children born to that union there remain John, Wade, Burke and Robert, all of Grandview,  Mrs. Charles Haney, of Oregon;  Mrs. Charles Scott, of Table Rock;  Mrs. Sallie Rhiner [Riner] of Grandview and Deck McClure, of Beckley. 

     Mr. McClure was one of the staunch, loyal members of the Christian church at Grandview and words are inadequate to express the high esteem in which he was held by friends and neighbors.  His going was the last of an old pioneer family, well known, respected and highly honored. Services will be conducted this afternoon at the Grandview church by Rev. Wm. Riss Lloyd, pastor of the Beckley Christian Church, and burial will be made in the Grandview burial plot.

     Front page of "The Post - Herald, Beckley, West VA., Saturday, April 25, 1925 

* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 4 2018, 16:22:41 UTC

McClure, Abdiel L. BATTLE UNIT NAME: 36th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (2nd Kanawha Infantry) SIDE: Confederacy COMPANY: C
SOLDIER'S RANK IN: Corporal SOLDIER'S RANK OUT: Sergeant ALTERNATE NAME: FILM NUMBER: M382 ROLL 36 PLAQUE NUMBER: NOTES: Company Note - 2 Co. C Battle Unit Note - (2d Kanawha Virginia Infantry.)