John Johnston and Jane Wintermute

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Husband John Johnston ¹

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           Born: 30 Mar 1806 - Hickory, Washington Co, PA 1
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         Father: George Johnston (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Isabel Rock (      -      ) 1

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Wife Jane Wintermute ¹

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           Died: 27 Apr 1891 1
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Children

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1 M George W. Johnston ¹

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2 F Eliza J. Johnston ¹

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         Spouse: William Ball McCormick (1843-      ) 2
           Marr: 7 Oct 1880 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Johnston

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He learned the carpenter trade with George Groff. He was prominent as a contractor and lumberman for many years. He was a director in the Monongahela bank for nearly fifty years. He was a member of Christ's Episcopal church, being vestryman for many years, and was one of a committee of three appointed to superintend the building of the church.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Wintermute

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The Wintermute family is of German extraction and tradition says the founder of the family in America was a sailor, who, when his vessel was lying off the coast of New Jersey, went on shore with others of the crew, and being pleased with the country, concluded to remain. Below will be found the inscription on his tombstone in Stillwater cemetery, New Jersey, which was copied from the stone by Mr. J. P. Wintermute while on a visit there in 1876.
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"(Here rests in God George Wintermute, born May 11, 1711, in the city (or town) of Inpung, Europe; came to America in the year 1736 and was married to M. E. Bernhartin in the year 1739, and had eight children; lived in wedlock 43 years and 3 months. He died in the year 1782, the 19th of December in the evening at to P. M. His age was 71 years, 3 months and 8 days and left behind 3 sons and 3 daughters alive)."
Of these eight children one was renowned as having built Port Wintermoot near Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. One was said to have been killed in the Massacre of Wyoming; one killed in battle; one uniting his fortunes with the British, removed to Canada where his descendants resided near Port Erie, and another was the great-grandfather of Mrs. McCormick, who after bringing up a large family at the old homestead in New Jersey, finally, in his old age, removed to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where several of his children were residing, and where he died at the ripe old age of ninety years.

1 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 853.

2 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 852.