CLORE, John

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DEATH OF JOHN CLORE.

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A Well Known and Prominent Citizen
of the County.

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Sunday morning at 4:30 o’clock, John Clore died at his home in White River township. He had been sick for about three weeks with grip and other complications which affected his heart. The immediate cause of death was heart failure.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning at his late residence, conducted by Rev. J. C. Miller.

Deceased was one of the best known citizens of Johnson county, and was a man of strong character—honest, in­dustrious, enterprising and endowed with intellectual qualities above the average.

Deceased was the son of James and Sarah Clore and was born in Oldham county, Ky., May 9, 1826. He remained on the farm with his parents until twenty-three years old, gaining in the meantime a good business education.

In 1849 he married Margaret E. Welsh, of Jefferson county, Ky., to which union were born four children—William R., James R., John A. and Joel. In the spring of 1850, he came to this county, settling in White River town­ship, where he continued to reside the rest of his life—a period of forty nine years.

His first wife having died, he was married in 1863 to Mrs. Diana Rice, whose death occurred but eleven months afterward. In 1865 he was again married to Mary Utterback, who is still living and also two children born to this union, viz, Leonard B. Clore and Mrs. Anabel Kerlin.

During life he prospered and has been able to give to each married child forty acres of land and other assistance. The homestead contains 240 acres of land and is in a high state of culti­vation. He was a model farmer and always took an active interest and part in all organizations and meetings de­signed to promote agriculture. At the age of eighteen he became a member of the Christian church and during his life time in Johnson county, was a leading member and officer in the church at Bargersville. From 1874 to 1877 he served the county as commissioner from the third district and made an able and conscientious officer.

In a sketch of his life published in the Johnson county Atlas it was well said: “Too much praise cannot be bestowed on such men as John Clore. As a farmer he is a success, and his farm is one of the model ones of Johnson county. While a servant of the people he, like other men, gained for himself some enemies—and what man does not? He did what he deemed his whole duty in behalf of the people of his county.”

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 24, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 37, page 6 column 3

FROM OVER THE COUNTY

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BARGERSVILLE.

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John Clore, one of our oldest and most respected citizens, died at his home here Sunday morning at 4:30 o’clock of apoplexy. The funeral was held Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. J. C. Miller. Burial at Hopewell, directed by Covert Bros.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 31, 1899,
Volume XXXIX Number 38, page 1 column 3

Local and Personal.

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The will of the late John Clore was probated Monday. The original was written in 1877 and attested by Judge T. W. Woollen and Judge Banta. A codicil was added in 1887, attested by the same persons, a second codicil in 1898 attested by Judge Buckingham and Edward F. White, and a third Feb. 18, ’99, attested by John W. Ragsdale and Victor Smith. The original will with the codicils provided for an equal dis­tribution among the children, the last codicil naming Joel Clore as executor. The widow is given eighty acres of the home farm to be so set apart as to include the residence and all out­buildings together with household goods. Joel Clore qualified as executor Monday.

Link to John Clore’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry