John McClay and Sarah Taggart

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Husband John McClay ^{1 2}

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            AKA: John McCloy 3
           Born: 1809 - Hopewell Twp, Washington Co, PA 4 5
     Christened: 
           Died: Jan 1895 - Canton Twp, Washington Co, PA 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: Samuel McClay (      -1838) 2 6
         Mother: Sarah McClelland (      -1842) 7

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       Marriage: 1857 5 8

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   Other Spouse: Jane Smith (      -Bef 1841) 5 8 - 26 Apr 1838 5 8

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   Other Spouse: Jane Welch (1815-1853) 8 9 - 15 Sep 1841 or 1843 5 8 9

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   Other Spouse: Margaret C. Brownlee (      -      ) 3 5 8 - 15 Dec 1869 8

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Wife Sarah Taggart ^{5 10}

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1858
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         Father: James Taggart (      -1863/1863) 11 12 13
         Mother: Martha Fergus (      -Bef 1863) 12 14 15

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John McClay

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Canton Twp, Washington Co, PA

He was born on the home farm in Canton township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and passed his early youth on the farm, receiving a very limited education in the primitive schools of the period. [CBRWC, 652]

He was a successful business man and carried on farming and stock raising for many years, devoting much attention to the growing of sheep. In his early political life he was a Whig and later became a strong advocate of the abolition of slavery. During the Civil War he lent his support heartily to the preservation of the Union. In early days he was a member of the Covenanter Church but later was identified for years with the North Buffalo United Presbyterian Church, in which he was an elder.

He was for many years a director in the First National Bank of Washington.

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah Taggart

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She lived about fifteen months after her marriage to McClay.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 652, 920.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 562, 588.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 690.

4 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 920.

5 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 562.

6 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 652, 920, 1382.

7 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 690, 875.

8 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 921.

9 Rev. James Marcus Welch, Ancestry and Kin of the Cowden and Welch Families (Indiana, PA: 1904), Pg 169.

10 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 921, 1138, 1290.

11 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 689.

12 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1138, 1290.

13 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 874.

14 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 713.

15 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 875.