John Young Barclay and Isabella Johnston

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Husband John Young Barclay ¹

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            AKA: John T. Barclay 2
           Born: 29 Nov 1798 - Bedford Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Feb 1841 3
         Buried:  - St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Isabella Johnston ³

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           Born: Abt 1800 - Kingston, Westmoreland Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Feb 1841 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 4
         Buried:  - St. Clair Cemetery, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Alexander Johnston (1773-1872) 5 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Freame (1781-      ) 6 7

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Children

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1 M Thomas Johnston Barclay ^{3 8}

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           Born: 1824 - Westmoreland Co, PA 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Aug 1881 8
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Rebecca Kuhns (      -      ) 8
           Marr: 5 Sep 1854 8

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2 F Elizabeth Barclay ⁹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Gen. James Keenan (1823-1863) 10 11
           Marr: 1857 12

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3 F Sarah S. Barclay ²

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           Born: 15 Mar 1834 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Mar 1884 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Wilson Baughman (1836-1895) 2 13

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General Notes: Husband - John Young Barclay

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He was a nephew and namesake of Judge John Young.
About 1817 he came to Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to read law with his uncle, and was admitted to the bar in the November term, 1819. He was a man of large frame, being about six feet high, strongly built and of a fair complexion. He devoted himself entirely to the practice of his profession. He rode from one county to another in company with the judge and the more prominent lawyers, after the fashion of the olden time, and soon acquired a good practice in each county of the Tenth judicial district. He was a member of the constitutional convention which framed the Pennsylvania constitution of 1838, but further than this he never sought or obtained office. He was a Mason in Anti-Masonic times, a Democrat and a stanch supporter of Andrew Jackson; yet, notwithstanding this, he supported Thaddeus Stevens and Governor George Wolf in their efforts to establish the common-school system of Pennsylvania. For this Mr. Barclay was violently opposed, the opposition even threatening to mob him, but nothing daunted, he still advocated the cause of the common schools and lived to see his ideas triumph.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 349.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 365.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 350.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 511.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 437.

6 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 354x.

7 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 472.

8 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 524.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 360.

10 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 441.

11 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 350, 657.

12 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 657.

13 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 168.