Grandma Orilla lived in New York state. Her son, gg grandfather Dexter, moved on out to Indiana but many of the rest of the family stayed in New York and were not close with the Indiana cousins. Her name is unusual and a Spanish word, but I've never uncovered any Spanish ancestors. Her family tree seems to be all English.
Orilla was born in Connecticut to Moses and Rachel Rider Warner whose families had been in New England for several generations. She met and married David McClure whose father had been a medical doctor during the Revolutionary War. They married June 1805 in Stafford, CT, and on June 19, l806, set out for eastern New York state, arriving July 3. Their first child, Hiram, was born in April 1806, so they made the trip with a small infant.
Hiram's daughter, Agnes, who died in 1940, wrote,
"The year of his [her father, Hiram's] birth, 1806, there was an eclipse of the sun and his mother - Grandmother Orilla Warner McClure - determined to give her first born every advantage and experience possible, carried him out of doors that he might behold the wonder of the heavens and take his first lesson in astronomy."
Orilla and David had nine children, three of them becoming medical doctors like their grandfather McClure. They lived in Cattaraugus County in the southwestern part of the state. Orilla died when she was 67 years old and they are buried in Cadiz Cemetery.
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