Husband: Joseph Benson McCLAIN
Birthdate: 13 Aug 1819
Birthplace: Clermont Co., OH
Death date: 19 May 1888
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Father: Andrew S. MCCLAIN
Mother: Lucy BROWN

Marriage date: 24 July 1851
Marriage place: Libertyville, IA

Wife: Lucinda BETTERTON
Birthdate: 17 June 1831
Birthplace: Addison Twp.,Somerset County, PA
Death date: 16 Aug 1924
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Father: William Gardner BETTERTON
Mother: Mercy LONGLEY

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Edwin Augustus MCCLAIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 30 May 1852
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 22 Aug 1884
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Marriage date: 18 Mar 1875
Marriage place: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Spouses' names: Alice Mary RAINES

Child No. 2: Ann Eliza MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 15 Jan 1854
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 31 July 1855
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
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Child No. 3: Clara Belle MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 4 Dec 1855
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 31 Oct 1944
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Marriage date:
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Spouses' names: John Wesley FRY

Child No. 4: Emmett Wilbur MCCLAIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 3 May 1857
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: Oct 1858
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
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Child No. 5: Edna Alice MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 3 Feb 1860
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 23 June 1946
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Marriage date: 4 Sep 1878
Marriage place: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Spouses' names: John Thomas POLLOCK

Child No. 6: Joseph Emery MCCLAIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 30 Jan 1863
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 16 Jul 1942
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Marriage date: 29 Dec 1891
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Alice Orinda CARSON

Child No. 7: Sarah Elizabeth MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 19 June 1866
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 4 Sep 1952
Place of death: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
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Child No. 8: Frances Eva MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 30 Jul 1868
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 5 Oct 1937
Place of death:
Marriage date: 21 Feb 1895
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Logan B. WILLIAMS

Child No. 9: Mary Gladys MCCLAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 2 Sep 1873
Birthplace: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Death date: 9 Jan 1959
Place of death: Mesa, Arizona
Marriage date: 2 Oct 1894
Marriage place: Libertyville, Jefferson Co., IA
Spouses' names: Emery Silas PEARSON
 
 
Documentation:
1. Copies of Old letters written by Andrew S. McClain and Lucy (Brown) McClain to Joseph Benson McClain in 1844, shortly after J.B.McClain's move to Liberty Twp. from Ohio.
2. 1856 Census for Liberty Twp., Jefferson Co., IA. Enumerator was J.B. McClain.
3. Interviews with nonogenarian relative, still living in Libertyville, Jefferson Co, IA.
4. "The Washington Ancestry and Records of McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families", by Charles Arthur Hoppin, Vol. 2, page 24, 1932.
5. Obituary for Lucinda (Betterton) McClain in Fairfield Daily Ledger, Thursday, Aug 21, 1924.
6. Family Bible Records of Lucinda Betterton McClain, dated 1921, as passed on to family researchers by Josephine Pollock, daughter of Edna Alice McClain and John Thomas Pollock.