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The Callans and McClarys through the generations to his great-great-great grandson Steven McClary. Then he moved back to Cooper County to live with Ray and Ray’s family for 14 years. John’s daughter-in-law Stella and his grandson Clinton both speak very highly of him, generally describing him as a “fine old man” who was friendly, kind, considerate and helpful. He was good to Stella and helped her with chores around the house. He taught Clinton to “clean off that hoe and shovel and put them away. When you want to use them again they will be ready.” John, Ray and the boys didn’t go to church much, but John was baptized when he was 78 years old. When Ray left the family Stella could not afford to keep John, so John stayed with Everett and Will, dying at Will’s home in 1943. The father of Mary Nancy Brownfield, Jonas Jonas Brownfield, Brownfield, was born 12 Nov. 1820 in Augusta County, Virginia. He married Jael K. Collins on 11 July 1845 in Cooper County. She was born in 1819 and died in Oct. 1887. Jonas migrated with his parents, John Brownfiled and Susan Fauber Brownfield to Tazewell and Woodford Counties in Illinois, then into Pettis County, Missouri in 1838. Jonas and Jael had five children: Susan Francis (“Fannie”); Mary Nancy (Nannie); James Fanklin, Gideon A. and Augustus. Jonas may have served in the Civil War with his John Robert McClary (second from left) and his sons Everett, Charley, Will, George, Ray brothers. Jael was his midwife. Abraham “Abe” Brownfield, Jonas’s half brother, was the father of Stella Ida Brownfield, Bert’s paternal grandmother. As Jonas was the grandfather of Ray McClary and Abe was the father of Ray’s wife, Stella Brownfield McClary, Nancy McClary’s great-great-great-great grandfather John Brownfield and her greatgreat-great grandfather John Brownfield were the same person. There is more information about Abe on page 72. John John Brownfield Brownfield Brownfield was born in 1791 in Augusta County, Va. He died on 8 Sep 1851 in Pettis County, Mo. He married Catherine Catherine Shover Shover on 22 Oct 1829 in Augusta County, Va. She was born in 1801 in Augusta County, Va. She died on 3 Mar 1859 in Pettis County, Mo. ~ 70 ~ John Brownfield served in the War of 1812. He married twice and had 16 children. His first wife, Susannah Susannah Fauber Fauber was born in 1793 in Augusta County, Va. She died in Mar 1828 in Augusta County, Va. The children by his wife Susannah Fauber were: Elizabeth, John J., Thomas, Christian, Jonas (see above), Susan, Daniel, Catherine and Joel. The children by his second wife Catherine Shover were: Jonathan, Rebecca, David, Martin, Abraham (Abe), Gideon, and Samuel. In 1832 he moved with 14 children, his two brothers and their families from Virginia to Illinois, and in 1838 to Pettis County in west central Missouri. The descendants of John Brownfield (1791-1851) are documented in an 800-pagemanuscript compiled in the late 1980s, with much of the on-site cemetery research being done by Clinton McClary. As of this writing, Bert McClary is in possesion of a bound copy of this volume.
Chapter 18 John Raymond McClary and Stella Brownfield John John Raymond Raymond “Ray” “Ray” McClary, McClary, McClary, the fifth of seven children of JohnRobert and Mary Nancy Brownfield McClary, was born on 3 May 1888 in Cooper County, Mo. Ray died on 26 Sep 1967 in Kansas City, Mo. He married Stella Ida Brownfield on 19 Jan 1910 in Cooper County Mo. She was born on 28 Apr 1887 in Cooper County Mo. She died on 15 Mar 1983 in Boonville, Mo. Stella was the youngest of six children of Abraham Brownfield and Surilda Gourley. Stella did not have much of a social life as her parents were old, and they did not go out much. Her father was crippled from a childhood illness and died when Stella was 18. There were some friends and family in the neighborhood that she visited with. Her school was about 2 ½ miles away. She went to school until she was about 16. After she quit school, she stayed at home and worked until she married Ray in 1910. After Ray left in 1937, Stella and her son Clinton moved to Boonville where she worked at the Hamilton-Brown shoe factory for 13 years. In 1950 she married a long-time friend Albert H. Alley, who was a widower. They made their home southeast of Peninsula for several years. Bert, Nancy McClary’s father, enjoyed visiting them because they had an old plow horse he would let Bert ride, and Grandpa Alley would also let Bert drive his tractor all over the farm and up and down the road. Once he ran out of gas and had to walk home. Later they moved to Boonville near Clinton’s home. Albert died in 1970. Stella lived for a number of years with Clinton and his family, suffered a broken hip at age 88, and died just before her 96 th birthday. Ray McClary was the second to the youngest of the surviving children of John and Nannie. He had known Stella Ida Brownfield, his future wife, ~ 71 ~ The Callans and McClarys John Raymond “Ray” McClary and Stella Ida (Brownfield) McClary.. since they were children. Stella’s Uncle Isaac lived near the John McClary household, so when they went to visit they played with the neighbor children. Ray and Stella married in 1910 and lived primarily in the Peninsula, Pilot Grove and Blackwater neighborhoods. They moved to Independence for a short while because Will, Everett and John were there. Ray worked in a grocery store, but he did not like inside work. Stella had a goiter and was nervous and sick. She had thought she wouldn’t have to do so much work if they lived in town. Since they did not like the city, they moved back to Cooper County. They had two sons,
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The Callans and McClarys Presented
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Introduction My earliest memory is
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Chapter 1. Feudal Kings and flax sp
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Nadsluaig on the brink of Loch n-Ua
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Chapter 2. Widows Widows and and ha
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our Callans to live in Ireland. Whe
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year-old Philip in the widow Rose C
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from this home site in 1890. By tha
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Children of Philip and Kitty Callan
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