Our uncle George Washington McCrary (John Memorials Bro) was a secretary of war

SOME BENTONSPORT PEOPLE Hon. George W. McCrary, Sec'y of War The Honorable George McCrary, son of James and Matilda McCrary, was born in Evansville, Indiana, August 29, 1835. He came with his parents to a farm south of Bentonsport in 1837, and later attended the elementary schools of Bentonsport and the Academy. Doing much of the hard labor of the pioneer era, he gained in physical as well as mental stature. After leaving school at Bentonsport he decided to study law and entered the law office of Miller and Rankin at Keokuk. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and became a resident of Lee County.