Col. James "Uncle Jimmy" Johnston and Jane Sparks

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Husband Col. James "Uncle Jimmy" Johnston ^{1 2}

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         Father: Col. James Johnston (      -1765) 1 2 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Brown (      -      ) 4 5

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Wife Jane Sparks ²

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General Notes: Husband - Col. James "Uncle Jimmy" Johnston

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He served in the Revolutionary War. After the war he went to England, and while there had a carpet woven with a blue ground, and the American Coat of Arms as a center piece, which was the first imported carpet in this country.

He was a mem­ber of the Legislature when it met in Philadel­phia, and boarded with a Mrs. Parker, a widow with four children-one son and three daughters-whose reverses in fortune, it is said, induced him at the age of sixty-five to marry the widow and take the flock home. The daughters were very handsome; one was the mother of Maj. Linton, great-grandmother of the beautiful Miss Chamberlain, who was quite famous both in America and in Europe.

He went to Baltimore upon the death of his half-brother, Mr. Findlay, and took home with him the child, Elizabeth Findlay, to whose education and training he gave special attention.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 179.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 458.

3 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 449.

4 G. O. Seilhamer, Esq, The Bard Family (Chambersburg, PA: Kittochtinny Press, 1908), Pg 462.

5 Alfred Nevin, D.D., LL.D., Men of Mark of the Cumberland Valley, Pa. 1776-1876 (Philadelphia, PA: Fulton Publishing Co., 1876), Pg 151.