Moses McCLINTIC

1789 - 1856  (67 years)

• Name	Moses McCLINTIC
  Birth	22 Apr 1789	Present-Day Bath County, VA
  Gender	Male
  Name	Moses "Curly Headed Mose" McCLINTIC
  Death	8 Aug 1856	Greenbrier County, VA [now WV]
  Burial	Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV
  Notes	(1) www.findagrave.com: Moses "Curly Headed Mose" McClintic Birth: Apr. 22, 1789, Bath County, Virginia, USA Death: Aug. 8, 1856, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA [Note by compiler: Bath County, VA did not exist on the decedent's birth date. Bath County was formed from Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier Counties on 14 December 1790.] Moses McClintic was the son of Robert McClintic and Jane Mann. He was the third child of their nine children. He was born in Bath County, Virginia April 22, 1789. On October 22, 1822, he married Margaret (Peggy) Beard, the daughter of Major Samuel Beard. (The Military Rank in the Virginia Militia). At the time of their marriage Moses was 34 years old and Peggy was 20. They were the parents of one child, Samuel who was born September 28, 1823. Moses moved to Greenbrier County, Virginia in 1800 where his parents and four brothers and two sisters settled on a farm on Culbertson Creek near the present town of Williamsburg, West Virginia. (Greenbrier County became part of the state of West Virginia in 1863.) Moses was about 11 years old then and was known as "Curly Headed Mose" because he had dark curly hair. His boyhood was said to have been wild and reckless. At age 23 Moses volunteered as an Ensign in Captain Solomon Taylor's Company of the Virginia Militia that was taken from Lewisburg in the war of 1812. The company was under the command of Colonial William Henry Harrison in the bloody battles of Lake Erie and the Northwest. General Harrison was to later become the ninth president of the United States. While at Fort Meigs, Ohio, Moses was elevated to the rank of Lieutenant. After his return from the war of 1812, some time after 1814, Moses entered the Lewisburg Academy as a student. The Lewisburg Academy was founded by Dr. John McElhenney, the minister of the Old Stone Presbyterian Church. The academy closed in 1861, the year the civil war began and reopened in 1865, after the war ended as Lewisburg Male School, which finally became Greenbrier Military School. While a student in Lewisburg, Moses boarded in the home of Thomas (Old Tommy) Craig. Moses became the superintendent of the Colonel John Stuart Estates at Frankford, which was about 10 miles north of Lewisburg, about 1823, the year in which Colonel Stuart died. Colonel Stuart's farms were left to his son Charles in his will. Moses remained as superintendent until 1837. Charles Stuart died in 1850 and the farm and brick home built by Col. John Stuart, for his son Charles, was acquired by Moses Coffman, the father of Samuel Coffman. In 1839 Moses purchased a farm of 520 acres two miles north of Lewisburg. This farm was owned by the widow of Dr. John Simpkins. Dr. Simpkins acquired the property from the heirs of Col. Samuel Brown. The farm was know as the Samuel Brown Plantation. The Manor House was built from brick before 1820. Col. Brown was one of the first trustees appointed for the town of Lewisburg in 1782. Moses was a member of the Frankford Methodist Church for nine years. After he moved to Lewisburg from his home on Culbertson Creek, he transferred his membership to the Methodist Episcopal Church at Lewisburg. Moses constantly supported his church and gave a gift of one thousand dollars to help pay for building the brick church at Frankford. Moses was known by the endearing title of "Uncle Moses." When he died August 6, 1856 at age 67, he left his estate to his widow and only child Samuel McClintic. Peggy Beard McClintic died some twenty years later on July 8, 1876. Samuel McClintic, her only son, survived her. Two years after her death, in 1878, Samuel married Ellen Bright, the daughter of the Honorable Kyle Bright and sister of Jesse F. Bright. Ellen was twenty-five years younger than her husband, having been born in 1848. Samuel was 55 years of when he married Ellen, who was 30 years of age. Samuel was established as one of Greenbrier County's most substantial farmer and graziers upon whose judgement you could always rely. Samuel McClintic died March 2, 1884, in his 61st year, and was buried beside his mother in the Lewisburg Cemetery behind the present Old Stone Presbyterian Church. As there were no children from his marriage his entire estate passed to his wife Ellen. After Samuel's death, Ellen Bright married Charles W. (Charley Fox) McClung who was six years her senior. Charley Fox died May 19, 1906 at age 64 and was buried near the grave site of Samuel McClintic. Ellen died thirteen years later in 1919, at age 71. She was buried between her first and second husbands in the cemetery behind the Old Stone Presbyterian Church. Her estate passed to her brother's son Raymond E. Bright of Frankford, WVA. In 1951 Mr. Bright sold the farm of 520 acres, including the ten room brick house with its white columns to Mr. Henry Lindsay. Family links: Spouse: Margaret Beard McClintic (1803 - 1876); Children: Samuel Beard McClintic (1823 - 1884) Burial: Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA Plot: C-4 Created by: James Nathan Williams Record added: Aug 28, 2010 Find A Grave Memorial# 57805320
  Person ID	I40618	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Robert McCLINTIC,   b. 1757, County Tyrone, Ireland [now Northern Ireland] d. 21 Jul 1845, Greenbrier County, VA [now WV] (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Jane MANN,   b. Sep 1766   d. 14 Feb 1855, Greenbrier County, VA [now WV] (Age ~ 88 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1781	VA
  Family ID	F17402	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret BEARD,   b. 20 Apr 1803, Greenbrier County, VA [now WV] d. 8 Jul 1876, Greenbrier County, WV (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	22 Oct 1820	Greenbrier County, VA [now WV]   [1]
  Family ID	F17414	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  Details: Details: Details: Details: Details: Citation Text: (1) Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database online], Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999: Name: Moses McCLINTIC Gender: Male Spouse Name: Margaret Beard Spouse Gender: Female Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1820 County: Greenbrier State: Virginia.