Amos McLemore of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister and merchant. The oldest son of John and Anna Maria McLemore, he opposed Southern secession from the Union in the months preceding the American Civil War but nevertheless volunteered to command a company in the Confederate army once invasion from the North seemed inevitable.
McLemore was born on August 23, 1823, probably in Simpson or Copiah County, Miss...
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Amos McLemore of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister and merchant. The oldest son of John and Anna Maria McLemore, he opposed Southern secession from the Union in the months preceding the American Civil War but nevertheless volunteered to command a company in the Confederate army once invasion from the North seemed inevitable.
McLemore was born on August 23, 1823, probably in Simpson or Copiah County, Mississippi. On the eve of the Civil War, Major McLemore's family had been established in the South for nearly two hundred years. The patriarchs and matriarchs of the American McLemore family were James and Abraham McLemore, who probably were brothers, and Fortune (Gilliam) McLemore, James's wife. James arrived in America, probably from Scotland, not later than March 1, 1691. The name McLemore derives from the Gaelic patronymic Macghillemhuire (the spelling of which has varied from writer to writer and from time to time in Scotland, Ireland, the...
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