Benjamin J. Franklin McLemore

Notes:

McLemore Burying Ground, Montgomery, Alabama

From DAR records 1936

Benjamin J. Franklin McLemore
------
Dec 29, 1834
Son of James and Elizabeth McLemore,
aged 2 years, 2 months, 18 days

The McLemore Burying Ground is about one mile off the Montgomery -Atlanta
Highway to the right facing east, and is about five miles from Montgomery.
It is on a knoll behind the old James McLemore home built about 1820. In
1936 Mrs. Lizzie Taylor Dickerson occupied it. A low brick wall and
iron fence surrounds the lot. Outside the main cemetery is another smaller
one, also enclosed. There are graves of slaves and faithful servants, mostly
unmarked outside all enclousures. Graves listed begin at the southwest
corner of the plot.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/cemeteries/mclemore.txt

Notes:

The younger James (IV), a minister, died in 1834 in Alabama, leaving a widow Mary Elizabeth (Harper) and ten children. (James L. McLemore, III, p 50).

"Born in North Carolina and for more than 30 years was a leading divine of the Baptist persuasion. He had finished his pilgrimage on earth and nothing of him now remains but the memory of his virtue."

Melba Gene McLemore notes that the "Alabama Genealogical Register, V. 6, No. 3.4, Sept-Dec 1964 cites a Will for a James McLemore, will dated 31 July 1832, probated 26 Jan 1835.


McLemore Burying Ground, Montgomery, Alabama

From DAR records 1936

The McLemore Burying Ground is about one mile off the Montgomery -Atlanta
Highway to the right facing east, and is about five miles from Montgomery.
It is on a knoll behind the old James McLemore home built about 1820. In
1936 Mrs. Lizzie Taylor Dickerson occupied it. A low brick wall and
iron fence surrounds the lot. Outside the main cemetery is another smaller
one, also enclosed. There are graves of slaves and faithful servants, mostly
unmarked outside all enclousures. Graves listed begin at the southwest
corner of the plot.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/cemeteries/mclemore.txt

James married Mary Elizabeth Harper about 1808 in Hancock County, Georgia. Mary was born on 25 Dec 1786 in Virginia; died on 22 Nov 1853 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; was buried in McLemore Taylor Burying Ground, Montgomery County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Elizabeth McLemore
Dec 25, 1786
Nov 22, 1853
(Mary Elizabeth Harper McLemore)
Consort of James McLemore

McLemore Burying Ground, Montgomery, Alabama

From DAR records 1936

The McLemore Burying Ground is about one mile off the Montgomery -Atlanta
Highway to the right facing east, and is about five miles from Montgomery.
It is on a knoll behind the old James McLemore home built about 1820. In
1936 Mrs. Lizzie Taylor Dickerson occupied it. A low brick wall and
iron fence surrounds the lot. Outside the main cemetery is another smaller
one, also enclosed. There are graves of slaves and faithful servants, mostly
unmarked outside all enclousures. Graves listed begin at the southwest
corner of the plot.

http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/montgomery/cemeteries/mclemore.txt


PAR Number 20185411
State: Alabama Year: 1854
Location: Montgomery Location Type: County

Abstract: A. J. McLemore asks the court to approve the sale of the personal estate, including slaves, of Elizabeth McLemore, deceased. McLemore explains that the estate cannot be properly divided without a sale of the property.

http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/petitions/results.aspx?s=3&sid=339&lRec=20185208&lastset=75&perpag=25

(Research):Census Information:

1840 Census
Alabama, Montgomery County
Folio 17
Stamped 162
Names of Heads of Families

The first four listings below were in consecutive order:

Elizabeth McLemore
One Male 15 to 20
One Male 20-30
One Female 50-60

William McLemore
One Male Under 5
One Male 20-30
One Male 30-40
One Female 15-20

Andrew J. McLemore
One Male 20-30
One Female under 6
One Female 20-30

Moses McLemore
Two Males under five
One Male 5 to 10
One Male 30-40
One Female under five
One female 20-30

James McLemore
One Male 20-30

Also listed in Montgomery county, Alabama in 1840, but on d
iffering pages, were a 50-60 year old Pleasant McLemore, alone in a household, and a J.J. McLemore, with one male 15-20, one 20-30 and one 30-40, one female 15-20 and one 50-60. Relationships unknown.

1850 Census
Alabama, Montgomery County, The First District
Enumerated 20 Sept 1850
Stamped 73
59-61
Elizabeth McLemore 63 $1000 VA
Jas M McLemore 22 M Manager Ga
60-61
Rebecca Smith

Notes:

Married:
Mark Freeman lists their children as William, Martha, James, Joseph, Moses, Rebecca, Andrew, Pleasant and Lousia. He does not list Benjamin.

Mary Lynn Santa shows an additional son, John, being the youngest, as opposed to Benjamin.

Notes:

In 1769 we find a James McLemore and three taxable whites listed in Granville County, North Carolina. This was probably James III, his wife Elizabeth, and their two oldest children. A year later (1770) "James McLemore Sr." (James Jr.) took an oath in Granville, and the use of the Sr. indicated the presence of a namesake son (James III), who was probably the subject of the above mentioned tax list reference the year before. James III would have been about thirty at this point. Then, in 1772 a James is mentioned in the will of Robert WALLACE, but it is unclear which one of the two is meant. However, the James McLemore who signed the (subsequent?) Granville County Oath of Allegience on May 30, 1778, was most probably James III, then about age 39.

James McLemore, Jr. (III) bought land from Benjamin McCULLOH in Granville County in 1779. The use of "Jr." indicates that his father may still have been living.

Futher references to James McLemore in Granville County probably refer to this James McLemore, or to his son, the Rev. James McLemore (1782-1834). Father and son moved to Hancock County, Georgia, after 1803, where the elder James died in 1811. His children were subsequently named in the will of his brother, Charles McLemore who died in Georgia as well in 1815. Charles had no children and named as his heirs James's children: John, William, James Jr. (IV), Rebecca Jones, Pleasant and Jesse. James' widow, Elizabeth, was named as executrix.

(James L. McLemore, III, pp 49, 50).

James + Elizabeth Walker. Elizabeth was born before 1758 in Granville County, North Carolina; died after 1815 in Hancock County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Inherited land from his father on Peahill Creek on the north side of the Roanoke River, in what would become Northhampton County. He also got some land on the island between his brothers William and Charles (James L. McLemore, III, p 46). Based on the migration patterns of his children, he is probably the ancestor of the Georgia and Alabama McLemore families. (James L. McLemore, III, p 50).

James Jr. began his independent productive life on the lands devised him by his father on Peahill Creek. As James MACLIMER, he witnessed a deed from Walther LASHLEY of Viriginia to (his sons?) Patrick and William LASHLEY dated August 17, 1737, and recorded in Bertie County. The following year, 1738, he married Nancy JONES of the same county. He witnessed deeds in Bertie County (as James MACKLIMORE in 1740, and after Northampton County was formed in 1741, in that county as well (in 1751 and 1753), indicating that he was still living on Peahill Creek. The last of these was the deed from Atkins MACLAMORE to his brother Young.

On May 9, 1755, James MACLAMORE was granted a patent for 612 acres in Northampton County, North Carolina, and within a few days conveyed 340 acres of this tract, located on Lizzard Creek at Spring Branch, to Jesse GILLIAM (May 20, 1755). He held onto the rest until 1758, when he conveyed 172 acres , located on "Jesse Gillham's Spring" to Marquess RAWLINGS, a Brunswick County, Virginia tailor. (Northhampton Deed Book 2, p. 445). By computation, this left him with about 100 acres of patented land, plus his homeplace inheritied from his father. However, this was the last reference to him in Northampton County.

He may have taken an oath in Granville County in 1770.

(James L. McLemore, III, pp 48, 49).

Robert McLemore Butler cites the following from "North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots & Descendants" Vol II:

James McLemore (R-PAT-NC) c 1718-1800 m. Nancy Jones

James married Nancy Jones about 1738 in Bertie County, North Carolina. Nancy was born before 1720; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]