Joseph McQuilkin and Sarah Clark

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Husband Joseph McQuilkin ¹

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            AKA: Joseph McQuicken Esq. 2
           Born: 3 Apr 1801 - Salem Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 6 Nov 1881 3
         Buried: 

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         Father: James McQuilkin (      -1802) 1
         Mother: Ann Robison (      -1828) 1

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       Marriage: 18 Jan 1853 3

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Thompson (      -1852) 4 - 31 May 1832 3

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Wife Sarah Clark ³

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           Born: 1819 3
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           Died: 
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         Father: Moses Clark (      -      ) 5 6 7
         Mother: Nancy Humes (      -      ) 6 7 8

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Children

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• They left no descendants.

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph McQuilkin

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He was born in Salem township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, at the head of Thorn Run, where his father had located many years before.
He remained with his mother until her death, and bought out the interests of his brothers and sisters in his father's homestead place. He resided thereon until 1849, when he removed to New Salem, where, Oct. 28, 1851, he purchased from Valentine Bossart a brick house on Pittsburgh Street. He and his first wife united with the Presbyterian Church at Murrysville, in June, 1832, in which they remained until the pastorate of Rev. David Kirkpatrick at Poke Run Church, when they joined it, where they held membership until Salem Church was organized in 1850, when they connected themselves with it.
He was elected justice of the peace in 1862, was re-elected in 1867, again in 1872, and the fourth time in 1877. He settled the estates of scores of people, and for over a quarter of a century did the major part of the conveyancing for his section of the county. He never had any living children by either of his wives. He was a great humorist, and kept a diary of important local events that had transpired in that region for over half a century. He was a stanch Democrat in politics, and a stern Presbyterian in religious faith.

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 627.

2 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 131.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 628.

4 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 131, 628.

5 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 612, 628.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 424.

7 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 509.

8 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 612.