Vintage

The Everetts and the Alabama-Texas Connection

by

Judy Everett Ramos
Hurst, Texas

This article explains the connection between the Everetts of North Carolina

and Georgia to a branch of the family in Alabama and south Texas.

When I was 11 years old, I bought a book on genealogy at a school book fair, and I was hooked. I interviewed my parents, and they drove me around our small town to interview aging relatives, and I jotted notes in my little paperback.  There is not a lot to do in San Diego, Texas, a town with a population of just under 5,000, located 54 miles west of Corpus Christi. There was no bookstore, no movie theatre, no mall – there still aren’t today – so my new hobby helped pass the time.  We moved there from Corpus Christi when I was in third grade, after my paternal grandfather, Ernesto Everett, passed away. It was a temporary move, I was told, just until we could help Grandma get used to being on her own. We never left.

RICHARD UMPHREY McLURE

BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY

(1853-aft. 1904)

Pike County, Alabama

RICHARD UMPHREY McLURE, for many years a prosperous farmer of Troy, Alabama, and in 1904 justice of the peace there, was born near Brundidge, Pike county, Alabama, Oct. 30, 1853. His father, Samuel Rankin McLure, was a native of Camden, Kershaw county, S. C. He came to Brundidge in 1836, when he was eleven years old, with his parents, Richard Rankin and Mary (Young) McLure. He was a justice of the peace. He served in the Confederate army, and died in Richmond, Virginia, March 29, 1865, while in the service of the Confederacy. He was a grandson of John McLure, the first American ancestor of the McLure family, who came to America with his wife from Scotland and settled in South Carolina.