Honey Grove, Texas

John T. McCleary Family

Published in the Honey Grove Signal-Citizen about 1938
Written by H. P. Allen, assisted by W. J. Erwin

Mr. McCleary was born in Tennessee March 4, 1842. Came with his father's family to Texas in 1844, and soon the family was settled on a farm east of Lane's Academy, where the young boy grew to manhood. In 1864 he joined Company C in Burnett's battalion, where he served until the close of the was. In 1867 he married Sarah Elizabeth Wood, daughter of B. F. Wood, who was an early settler from Kentucky. Mr. McCleary and his wife were soon established on a farm about one mile south of Honey Grove, where their family of eight children were born. They were upstanding, Christian people, and trained their children well in habits of industry, economy and good morals. Mr. McCleary passed away several years before his wife did. She lived until August, 1937, and had she lived until December she would have been 9__ years of age. Her loyalty to and her faithfulness in attendance at her church services exceeded that of anyone we ever knew. Truly she was a noble mother.

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