The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Liberty Township, pages 645-646
Charles W. McClure is a native of East Tennessee, born Sept. 2, 1826, the third son of a family of ten children of William and Fanny (Rose) McClure, natives of Virginia. In the spring of 1830 his parents moved to Hendricks County, Ind., and settled on a tract of wild land two miles southwest of Clayton. The mother died in the spring of 1850, and the following fall when the father was rolling logs the chain broke and a log fell on him, crushing him in such a manner that he lived only a few hours. Charles W. McClure was reared and educated in Hendricks County, remaining with his parents till manhood. He then engaged in farming at which he has been uniformly successful. He was married in 1851 to Edna Hiatt, daughter of Harmon and Martha (Boyd) Hiatt. After his marriage he went to Iowa and remained three years, and in 1854 returned to Hendricks County, and located on his present farm, which contains eighty acres of valuable land with a good residence and farm buildings. Mr. and Mrs. McClure have had six children--Laura E., wife of Melvin Harkrider; Elizabeth, wife of Reed Pick; Fannie V., Charles A., William A. and James W. Mr. McClure is a member of Clayton Lodge, No. 463, A.F. & A.M. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. McClure's father, Harmon Hiatt, was born in Grayson County, Va., Nov. 20, 1796, and her mother, Martha Boyd, was born Aug. 18, 1792, a daughter of John Boyd, a hero of the Revolutionary war. They were married July 25, 1819, and in 1822 moved to Hendricks County, Ind., and settled in Guilford Township removing to Liberty Township in 1834. The father died in 1849, and the mother July 24, 1882. They had a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, of whom two sons and one daughter are living, all in Indiana.