Lucretia "Cressy" Clifton

Notes:

Mark Freeman noted that Lucretia 'Chrissy' Clifton was mentioned in will of her father William Clifton, Chester Co., SC 1803.

The McLemore & Maddox descendants website, an MSN group, has posted the following information about Lucretia and John: "John married his cousin, the Widow Patrick, sister to Claiborne Clifton. The Widow Patrick had one son Curtis Clifton, and a daughter Sarah. Curtis died unmarried; Sarah married Andrew Wallace. Major John McLemore had by his only one wife, John and Joel and a daughter Eliza. John married a Miss McMorris who had two sons, John and Mark, and one daughter Victoria. Eliza married William Meyer, and died childless."

James McLemore, III points out that "What does bother me is the reference by this Andrew Wallace to Major John's "only one wife". It lists three children by her, but aside from Eliza(beth) who married William Meyer, who was probably the daughter of Cressy or Crissy Clifton Patrick (the "Widow Patrick"), daughter of his father Joel's older sister Sarah who married Thomas Clifton, the two boys had to have been born before Cressy or Crissy was widowed by her first husband Mr. Patrick and she had married Major John - or they themselves had to have married and began producing their own children while they were still pre-teen boys! The chronology just won't admit of enough time for her to have been their mother. In addition, I have other children for Capt. Joel McLemore besides the three boys and one girl mentioned by Wallace, including a possible one named Matthew who after Joel's death appears along the Georgia/South Carolina border on or near land Joel supposedly held there, and who numbered among his own descendants (like your Joel III) issue named Joel and Howell, a strong indicator of the connection."

Lucretia married Major John McLemore about 1797 in South Carolina. John (son of Joel McLemore and Elizabeth Wyche) was born about 1776 in South Carolina; died after 1837 in South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]