Jeremiah Brinker and Jennie Barclay

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Husband Jeremiah Brinker ^{1 2}

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           Born: Sep 1833 - near Hannastown, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 5 Jul 1899 - near New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: George Brinker (1801-1874) 1 2
         Mother: Anna Thompson (      -1880) 1 2

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       Marriage: 24 May 1892 3

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Wife Jennie Barclay ³

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           Born: 15 Sep 1842 - Westmoreland Co, PA 3
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         Father: John Barclay (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Georgianna Brinker ³

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           Born: 7 May 1893 3
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General Notes: Husband - Jeremiah Brinker

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He was reared to the sturdy discipline of the farm, and availed himself duly of the advantages afforded in the common schools of the locality and period, continuing to attend school a portion of each year until he had reached the age of sixteen years. Thereafter he was identified with agricultural pursuits in Westmoreland County until the outbreak of the war of the rebellion, when he was prompted to at once tender his aid in defending the Union. At the age of twenty-eight years, he enlisted as a private in Company K, Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in which he enrolled April 22, 1861, at Harrisburg, and after the expiration of his original term he re-enlisted, continuing in the service until the close of the war and making an enviable record for fidelity and valiant conduct. He participated in many of the notable battles of the great conflict and was first lieutenant of his company when mustered out. He retained his interest in his old comrades, being a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. In politics he was an uncompromising advocate of the principles of the Republican party, but never sought official preferment. He was a member of the United Presbyterian church, with which Mrs. Brinker also was actively identified. After the close of the war Mr. Brinker returned to his native county and resumed farming, eventually becoming the owner of a valuable estate of 133 acres in Derry township in the vicinity of the village of New Alexander. There he continued to reside until his death, which occurred July 5, 1899. While Mrs. Brinker still retains possession of the fine homestead, which is one of the valuable farms of the county, having good improvements and being maintained under a high state of cultivation. Mr. Brinker was a man of unpretentious bearing, kindly and considerate in all the relations of life, true to duty in whatever form it presented itself and loyal and public-spirited as a citizen, so that he naturally maintained a tenacious hold upon the confidence and esteem of those who knew him.

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General Notes: Wife - Jennie Barclay

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After the death of her husband she and her daughter removed to Latrobe, Pennsylvania, in 1900.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 605.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 460.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 461.