Cyrus Rupert "Rupe Hinton" McCLUNG

  General Notes:

West Virginia in History, Life, Literature and Industry by Morris Purdy Shawkey, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1928, Vol. 5, pp. 183-184.

Mr. [Alvaro Rupert] McClung was born January 21, 1886, at Rupert, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and is a son of Cyrus Rupert and Rebecca (Crane) McClung. He is a member of a pioneer family of Greenbrier County, who established their home here at an early day, clearing and cultivating land, spending a goodly part of their time hunting, and gradually developing substantial homesteads. Cyrus R. McClung was born and reared in Greenbrier County, where he received a country school education and in young manhood was engaged in teaching in the rural districts. He was a private in a West Virginia infantry regiment during the war between the states, in which he saw service in a number of major engagements, and afterward engaged in farming and carried on coal operation on his farm on Big Sewell Mountain for the benefit of the farmers of that community. He died in 1897 and was buried at old Amwell Cemetery at Rupert. He married Rebecca Crane, who was also born and reared in Greenbrier County, where she was given a public school education. She was always active in the Baptist Church, in the faith of which she died in 1886, and was laid to rest in the Amwell Cemetery. She and her husband were the parents of nine children: P. W., Ada, Ida, A. B., W. A., Eulalia, Pearl, and an infant who died at birth and Alvaro R.


Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers

Name: Cyrus R McClung
Enlistment Date: 11 May 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Unit Numbers: 781 781
Service Record: Promoted to Full Private (Reduced to ranks)
Enlisted as a Sergeant 4th Class on 11 May 1861 at the age of 24
Enlisted in Company F, 27th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 11 May 1861.
On rolls on 01 October 1861
Deserted Company F, 27th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 18 April 1862


Federal Census Record: Greenbrier Co., WV 1890 Veterans Schedule

McClung, Cyrus R., Sergeant, Co. B, 27th Virginia Infantry
Enlisted: 11 May 1861
Term: 9 months
Residence: Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV
Remarks: no discharge

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military: Civil War: 4th Sergeant/Civil War: Private, Co. F, 27th Virginia, 1861. ^286,1762 Infantry

• Occupation: farmer, coal miner, and teacher.

• Census, 1870, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV. ¹⁷⁶³

Rupe Hinton married Rebecca Ann CRANE, daughter of George Washington CRANE Sr. and Jane "Jenny" McCLUNG, on 12 Oct 1865 in Greenbrier Co., WV.¹⁷²¹ (Rebecca Ann CRANE was born in 1842 in Greenbrier Co., VA,¹³ died on 31 May 1886 in Greenbrier Co., WV ¹⁷²² and was buried in Amwell Baptist Church Cemetery, Rupert, Greenbrier Co., WV ¹⁷²³.). The cause of her death was pneumonia.

  Marriage Notes:

Married by Andrew C. Callison.

Rupe Hinton next married Isabelle Jane McCLUNG, daughter of Unknown and Elizabeth "Betsy" McCLUNG, on 22 Jan 1894 in Greenbrier Co., WV.²⁶ (Isabelle Jane McCLUNG was born on 21 Mar 1854 in Rupert, Greenbrier Co., VA,^13,92 died on 6 Jun 1940 in Kieffer, Greenbrier Co., WV ⁹² and was buried on 8 Jun 1940 in Kieffer, Greenbrier Co., WV ¹⁷⁶⁴.). The cause of her death was old age.