Samuel Sin Clair and Bettie Adams

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Husband Samuel Sin Clair ¹

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         Father: [Unk] Sin Clair (      -      )
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Wife Bettie Adams ¹

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Children

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1 F Eliza Sin Clair ²

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           Born: 30 Dec 1823 - Carlisle, England 1
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           Died: 12 Jun 1895 1
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         Spouse: Charles Christopher Jessop (1817-1887) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Sin Clair

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He was a great historian, a polished and cultured man, and a gentleman farmer of wealth and position, owning a large landed estate in County Derry, Ireland, known as the "Six town lands." He was a member of the Church of England. His brothers remained at the old manor house in County Derry, Ireland, near Tubermore, which was still standing into the early twentieth century, but he came to America at an early day, first to Pittsburgh and thence to Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, where he bought several hundred acres of land near Kittanning at what was known as Blanket Hill. There he lived to vigorous old age, dying of pneumonia when ninety-three years old. He left a large estate, and was survived by six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom lived to old age.

A prized heirloom, a facsimile of the Sin Clair arms and crest done in gold and colored enamels, and which had been willed to him as a lineal descendant of the knight to whom the arms were granted (before the Conquest), was sold by an unappreciative son to a Pittsburgh jeweler, who had so little idea of its value that he destroyed it to use the material. Thus a rare and finely wrought specimen of the ancient craftsman's art was lost forever to those who esteemed it most.

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General Notes: Wife - Bettie Adams

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She was a member of the distinguished Adams family of Carlisle, England, where she was born. She was drowned at sea, in a shipwreck in the English channel, and six weeks later her body was found and identified on the coast of Scotland, where she was buried.

1 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 417.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 416.