Atkins Jefferson McLemore

1857 - 1929  (71 years)

• Name	Atkins Jefferson McLemore  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Born	13 Mar 1857	Spring Hill, Maury County, Tennessee   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Died	4 Mar 1929	Laredo, Webb County, Texas   [6]
  Buried	Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas   [6]
  Notes	Author of "Indianola and Other Poems" (1904). McLEMORE, Atkins Jefferson, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Spring Hill, Maury County, Tenn., March 13, 1857; educated in the rural schools and by private tutors; moved to Texas in 1878; employed as a cowboy, printer, and newspaper reporter, and later as a miner in Colorado and Mexico; returned to Texas and settled in San Antonio and engaged principally in newspaper work; moved to Corpus Christi, Tex., in 1889, to Austin in 1895, and to Houston in 1911, where he engaged in the newspaper publishing business; member of the Texas house of representatives of 1892-1896; member of the board of aldermen of Austin, Tex., 1896-1898; secretary of the Democratic State executive committee 1900-1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the newspaper publishing business in Hebronville, Jim Hogg County, Tex., and resided in Laredo, Tex.; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928; died in Laredo, Tex., March 4, 1929; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Tex. McDonald, Timothy G. "The Gore-McLemore Resolutions: Democratic Revolt Against Wilson's Submarine Policy." Historian 26 (November 1963): 50-74. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present Kerrville Times Thursday, March 7, 1929 (Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore) Jeff McLemore, Pioneer Newspaperman, Is Dead Jeff McLemore, 71, native of Spring Hill, Tenn., who came to Texas in 1878, was one of the pioneer newspaperman of this state, and a politician of note, died in his quarters in the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Laredo Monday morning following a six-day illness from pneumonia. His wife and daughter and a number of friends were at his bedside. The 1930 Webb County, Texas census lists a widowed Mary W. McLemore (indexed as Mclemone), born 1886, Female, White, born in England, and working as a Journalist in Laredo. She was a naturalized citizen, and immigrated from England in 1886. She was a lodger in the Robert E. Lee hotel on San Bernardo, Avenue in Laredo. Name Jeff Mc Lemore Event Type Death Event Date 04 Mar 1929 Event Place Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States Gender Male Marital Status Married Birth Date 13 Mar 1858 Birthplace Springhill, Texas Father's Name Robt Anderson Mc Lemore Mother's Name Mary Hargood Mc Ewen Certificate Number 18585 GS Film number 2114764 Digital Folder Number 005145255 Image Number 02680 Citing this Record: "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3QK-VKT : accessed 19 Oct 2014), Jeff Mc Lemore, 04 Mar 1929; citing certificate number 18585, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2114764. (Research): Census Listings: 1880 Census Colorado, Gunnison County, Ruby City Enumerated 19 Jun 1880 Page 19 SD --- ED 57 Stamped 167 145 Anderson, Hilder W M 31 Widowed Saloon Keeper Sweden Sweden Sweden McLemore, Jeff W M 23 Bookkeeper Tenn Tenn Tenn (plus seven other single men, apparently all boarding in the saloon/home together) 1900 Census Texas, Travis County Precint 3, Austin City Enumerated 5 Jun 1900 SD 10 ED 98 Sheet 6A Ward 10 Page Stamped 184 Congress Ave 5027-100-110 McLemore, Jeff Head W M Marc 1857 43 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Painting Co Zimpperman, Walter BoarderW M Jan 1874 26 S Germany Germany Germany 1898 2 Na Bookkeeper/Bank 1910 Census Texas, Nueces County, JP 1, Corpus Christi Enumerated 22 Apr 1910 SD 15 ED 98 Sheet 5B 405-101-111 Jenkins, Emory E Head M W 54 S Ind Ky Mass Capitalist McLemore, Jeff Lodger M W 50 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Editor Paper Otis, Arlington B Lodger M W 22 S Ind Ind Ohio Journalist Newspaper 1920 Census not located
  Person ID	I26107	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2015

  
  

  Father	Robert Anderson "Andrew" Jefferson McLemore,   b. 28 Jul 1823, Tennessee ,   d. 2 May 1891, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Mary Harwood McEwen,   b. Abt 1831, Tennessee ,   d. Aft 1860, Tennessee  (Age ~ 30 years)
  Married	23 Dec 1851	Williamson County, Tennessee   [7]
  	Williamson County marriages, courtesy of Tom Heseltine Robert A. McLEMORE -- Mary McEWEN 23 Dec 1851 Robert A. McLEMORE -- Ann F. KINNARD 16 Jul 1868 Didn't locate a third marriage yet.
  Family ID	F11282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Died - 4 Mar 1929 - Laredo, Webb County, Texas Buried - - Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  McLemore, Atkins Jefferson b. 1857 Tennessee d. 1929 Texas Served in the Texas House, District 87, as a Democrat from Corpus Christi/Nueces County from Jan. 10 1893-Jan. 24, 1897

  
  

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