John St. Clair

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth: From Gravestone, 18 Aug 1819, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: Farmer, 1850, Rain Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. From 1850 Census

His property value is listed as $1,800.

His age is given as 32. His wife, Nancy, age 29, son, William, age 7, and daughter, Jane, age 5, are living with him.

• Cemetery: Okland Cemetery, Nov 1900, White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania. From Treasures of the Past

StClair John
(Indiana, go 1900)

b. 18 Aug. 1818
d. 21 Nov. 1900
age: (82y)
Section B

• Family History: From Indiana County Pennsylvania, Her People, Past and Present, by Professor J. T. Stewart. John St. Clair, the son of James and Jennie (Slemmons) St. Clair, was born Aug. 18. 1818, in a log house in White township. His educational advantages were meager, being limited to those afforded by the old subscription schools. He followed farming all his active life in the place where he was born, but died while visiting with his daughters in Chicago, Nov. 21. 1900. His wife. Nancy (Miller), died in Indiana Dec. 20, 1904. at the age of eighty-four. They were Presbyterians in religious faith. In politics he was first a Whig HISTORY OF INDIANA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 1015 and afterward a Republican. Four children were born to this couple : William A.; Jane, public school teacher of Chicago, who died there Dec. 17, 1908; Harry, of Los Angeles, Cal., a chiropractic, who married Clara Lowry; and Mary Agnes, who has been a teacher in the Chicago public schools for twenty-two years.

• Family History: 1745 - 1880 History of Indiana County Pennsylvania by J. A. Caldwell, 1880, Page 517. The children of John (a son of our subject) were: William A., m. first to Catharine Fulman, d, and second to Harriet Wharrey; Jane; Harry, m. to Clara Lowry; and Mary Agnes.

John married Nancy Miller. (Nancy Miller was born on 22 May 1821 in Pennsylvania and died on 20 Dec 1904 in White Township, Indiana, Pennsylvania.)