I found a little about a John McNamar that may be yours,this is from a
book called
"A History of Clay County" written in 1909 by William Travis;
********A HISTORY of CLAY COUNTY*****************
The first English preacher in the United Brethren church in this
country was John McNamar, grandfather of A. J. McNamar, and
William and Henry McNamar, all of whom lived at Bowling Green
thirty-five years ago. John McNamar was born in Virginia in 1779, in
the midst of the Revolutionary struggles, one hundred and thirty years
ago, and reached the age of manhood in the closing year of the eighteenth
century. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction and possessed a very wiry,
tenacious physical constitution. At what age he removed to Ohio we
have not learned, but in the early part of the nineteenth century he was
engaged in school teaching at Fairfield, Greene county. A number of
German United Brethren, living at Germantown, Montgomery county,
had heard of McNamar as a successful teacher and resolved to procure
his services in their vicinity. Several teams went from Germantown
over to Fairfield to transport his family and goods and, on their arrival
at his house, found him, with a number of his neighbors, engaged in
dance and song as a farewell to the schoolmaster of the neighborhood.
The teaching and example of the simple German Christians exerted
an influence upon him, and in 1813 he was taken into full fellowship
in the church. Very soon after this, probably the same year, he was
licensed to preach by the Miami Conference, held in Fairfield county.
In 1814 he entered vigorously into the work of the ministry in which
he continued faithfully the remainder of his life. About the year 1836
he removed to Clay county, Indiana, and settled three miles south of
Bowling Green, on what has since been known as the Orman place,
on the county line. Afterward he removed to Owen county, near
Jordan Village, and settled on forty acres afterward owned by the
Ecret family. Here he lived until his death in 1846. The church history
says he died in Clay county, but this is a mistake. He was taken sick
somewhere in the southern part of the state while actively engaged in
his ministerial work, brought home, and died soon afterward. He was
buried on his own land.
McNamar was, in some respects, a remarkable man. At one time
he had general supervision of the church in southern Ohio and Indiana
and, in fact, he planted the seed which grew and ripened into permanent
organizations throughout the country. He used very good language
in his preaching and was a forceful speaker. Nothing deterred him
from fulfilling his ministerial engagements; no ordinary obstacle
daunted nor discouraged him in the least. His salary ranged from $40
to $130 a year, yet he was content. He was truly a pioneer and veteran
in the cause. No suitable monument to his memory has been erected
over his grave, which is known only by its being surrounded by a par-
tially decayed rail pen with notched corners and shaded by a clump of
paw-paw bushes. The conference of the United Brethren church at
one time appropriated $50 for the purpose on condition that the family
and personal friends add the same amount and plant a $100 monument,
which, however, was not done.
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It does look as tho this John McNamar is buried in Owen County Indiana and
is the same one that Glorianne found.
Later..........Fred
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At 12:51 AM 3/25/98 EST, you wrote:
Greetings,
I didn't ask before about Clay County, IN Cemeterys but I am looking for
the graves of relatives and Clay County would be the logical place as they
lived there.
The first is John N McNamar who died about 1868 in Clay Co and his son Andrew
Jackson McNamar who died 1882. Also Andrew Jackson's wives: 1. Elizabeth
Wease McNamar who died 1-8-1877 in Clay Co and 2. Amy Lutes McNamar.
.....As of now, I have not been able to find this information and would like
to know if they are buried in a Clay Co cemetery or if I need to look some
place else.
Pat Dallas
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