John Barclay

BARCLAY, MCCRACKEN, FOURNEY

Posted By: Joanne Williams (email)
Date: 7/7/2007 at 06:36:04

History of Cedar Co., Iowa, 1879

Center Township

Barclay, John, farmer; Sec. 19; P.O. Tipton; born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Feb. 9, 1808; lived there thirty-five years, and moved to Ohio in 1843; lived there twelve years and came to this State in 1855; came by wagon and was about a month of the way; located at Mt. Vernon, Linn County, for three years, then came to this county and has lived here twenty years; owns 120 acres of land, and has held school offices. Married Ellen McCracken from Pennsylvania in 1834; she died in 1844; they had six children--Thomas, Jane, Mary, Martha, Margaret, Ellen and John. He married Mary Fourney from Penn., in 1848; they have six children--William, George, Elizabeth, James, Ann and Ben Franklin. John was in the army in the 2d V. C., and was drowned crossing Wall River, Tenn.