Grandma Hannah was almost left out of our family tree. Her husband, David McClure, a Revolutionary War medical doctor, was married three times. In an early 20th century letter to a great-uncle, a contact in Connecticut wrote that David McClure's mother was Lucy Kibbe. But a check of official records shows that David's father, Dr. David McClure, first married Jane Moore, then after she died, he married Hannah in Stafford, Connecticut in 1768. She was only 20 and he was 35. Also, the transcribed Stafford vital records lists her as "Mrs." but copies of the First Congregational Church handwritten records clearly show "Miss."
Hannah lived through a hard time - - the Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783) in which her husband was a medical doctor and no doubt away from home a lot. She died when she was only 34 and our ggg grandfather, David, was a boy of six. His father married a third time in about 1788 when David was 10 to Lucy Kibbe.
Grandma Hannah's ancestors were active in their communities over the years. The Richardsons were early immigrants and have been traced to England in the sixteenth century. Her mother's family, the Greens, were in New England in the early 17th century and one source states her grandpa was a Harvard graduate. Hannah and David lived in Stafford, Connecticut and attended the First Congregational Church.
There is a family story about her husband's gravestone. My great aunt and uncles were in Roxbury, VT in 1958 and searched for Dr. David McClure's gravestone. They were directed to a man's barn where the gravestone had been stored after the cemetery was moved. My aunts and uncle stashed the gravestone in the trunk of their car and took it back to New Frankfort, IN.
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