John McClister and Bessie Leech

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Husband John McClister ¹

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           Born: Abt 1829 - Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Aft 1914
         Buried: 

       Marriage: Abt 1854 - Ireland

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Wife Bessie Leech ¹

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           Born:  - ? Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1914 - ? Armstrong Co, PA
         Buried:  - Rupp Cemetery, Armstrong Co, PA

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Children

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1 M Frank McClister ¹

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           Born:  - Washington Co, PA
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           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Eliza Heilman (      -      ) 2 3

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2 F Margaret McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Washington Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: Bef 1914
         Buried:  - Heilman Cemetery, Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

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3 F Mary McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Washington Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Marshall Fiscus (      -      ) 4

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4 F Rebecca McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Washington Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: when two years old
         Buried:  - Heilman Cemetery, Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Elizabeth McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Park Everhart (      -      ) 4
           Marr: Sep 1893 4

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6 F Matilda McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 1905 - ? Armstrong Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - Rupp Cemetery, Armstrong Co, PA

         Spouse: Guss Fiscus (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1899 4

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7 F Edith McClister ⁴

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           Born:  - Armstrong Co, PA
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Foolmer Adams (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - John McClister

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He was a native of Ireland, where he grew up and married. Coming to America on their honeymoon, in 1854, they landed at New York and came thence to Pittsburgh, PA, where cholera was then raging, hundreds of people dying daily. Mrs. McClister was taken ill with typhoid fever and was in the hospital for three months. They moved to Washington County, PA, and after a five years' resi­dence there moved to Armstrong County. They settled on the Indiana pike, in Kittanning township, where John McClister acquired a tract of 250 acres, which the fam­ily cleared. He was a strong Republican, and in religious association was a member of the United Presbyterian Church.

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General Notes: Wife - Bessie Leech

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She died at the age of seventy-six years.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 873.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 353.

3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 967.

4 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 874.