Obituary:  Stamper, McClellan - January 24, 1940

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Clay City Times - Feb. 1, 1940 
Rev. Stamper dies 

The Rev. McClellan Stamper, 78, died Wed. Jan. 24, 1940 at his 
home near Beattyville following a brief illness of pneumonia. Funeral 
was held Friday. For more than 50 years, Bro. Stamper was a minister 
in the Christian Church and served two years as evangelist of the 
Second London District. He had preached at Clay City and Vaughn's 
Mill churches at different times, where he gained many friends who 
will be saddened at learning of his death. 

Surviving are his second wife, and twenty children- twelve sons and 
eight daughters, one of whom is an infant; 75 grandchildren and 30 
great grandchildren. It was said of him that he acted as a Good 
Samaritan in taking care of the widows and orphans. 

Mrs. Grace Stamper Townsend, of Stanton, and Mr. Larkin Stamper, 
of LaGrange, are cousins.
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