A CLEMENTS FAMILY RECORD with Notes on Allied Families •tt FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY 35 NORTH WEST TEMPLE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84150 Compiled by Jaquetta Clements Wallace Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania February 1959 C 5~11 w List of Families Page 1. CLEMENTS Page 62. CRESSON Page 16. GRAHAM Page 63. EMLEN I Page 20. STEWART Page 61+. WARDER Page 21. ANDERSON Page 61+. ROBERTS, CALVERT, WILSON Page 21. McCREADY Page 61+. LUKENS Page 23. ZIMMERMAN Page 67. PENINGTON Page 26. JORDAN Page 67. LEWIS, ELLIS Page 28. ARMSTRONG Page 68. LLOYD, WALTON, WALMSLEY, PAXSON Page 28. SOLES Page 69. CONRAD, formerly KUNDERS Page 31.. BROWNLEE Page 70. ELY Page 35. LOUGHEAD Page 70. WALN, SIMCOCK, MARIS Page 35. TILLBROOK Page 71. CORSON Page 35. HERSHEY Page 71. LEE Page _+2. NEWCOMER Page 72. DUNGAH Page u_3. STONER, STEINER Page 72. WEAVER Page Ik*. ELLIOTT Page 73. LATHAM Page 1.7. McILVEEN Page 75. BEAUFORT, de BEAUFORT Page 1+7. WALLACE, WOODS Page 76. WILLSON Page 52. CAMPBELL-ARGYLL BRANCH Page 77. CROTTA Page 53. BAIRD Page 79. RAMPONI, BIGGI Page S^>> RIDDLE, various forms. Page 79. MALTIDO Page 60. WILLIAMS Page 80. TOSI Page 61. WEAVER, WEBER Page 81. WACHTER Page 61. ROACH PREFACE For about twenty-five years we have been accumulating the mater­ ial in this record., and have paid more attention to the material than to the sources. We have not kept a detailed record of the sources. We have examined the genealogical material concerning the fami­ lies mentioned in the New York Library, the Philadelphia Library, the Library of Congress, the Pennsylvanian Genealogical Library at Harrisburg and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Among the books read and used were the Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Penn­ sylvania, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Philadelphia, Line­ age Books of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Pennsylvania Archives, Hayden's Virginia Genealogy., Brumbaught5 s Maryland Records, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, Great Historic Families of Scotland, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, J. Pinkerton's History of Scotland, Americans of Royal Descents Encyclopedia Brittanica, Book of the National Society of Daughters of the Barons of Runnymede, and publications of the Edinburgh Scottish Record Society. We have ex­ amined various county histories? parish registers, and the Rev. Mr. Illing's Book. Among the family histories and records used were, Woods-McAfee Memorial, the Riddle book, the Lukens8 Family record, the Widener record., the Welles record and the Hershey family history. Public records were used to check and substantiate data x__enever possible, tax lists, wills and census reports. Family data was fur­ nished in many cases, and dates were checked with cemeteries when­ ever possible. The only reason for giving more about some families than others Is that more was available. We have given all we have. If there seems to be an emphasis on important people, it is because it Is much easier to find out about them. Some of this material was secured from representatives of fami­ lies several years ago. We regret that it is impossible to review it and bring it up to date. We are very grateful to all who have helped either with data or interest. The Clements family is an English one,-the name coming from Latin and Norman-French, clemens, dementis. Like many other old surnames, it has been spelled in various ways,-Clement, Clemens, Clemons, Klemens, Klementz, Clemence, etc., according to the education, nationality or whim of the tax-collectors and census takers. By the first part of the 16th century there were branches of this family in several counties,-Leicester, Devon, Surrey and poss­ ibly others. And one Gregory Clements was a merchant in London Town. He was a member of the "Long" Parliament, and was one of the judges who sentenced Charles I to death. After the Restoration, he was hanged, drawn and quartered, exposed to public view, his proper­ ty confiscated, and his family driven out. Early immigrants by this name settled in Virginia in 1617; in New England, Dorchester, l635» Haverhill, 1638, and Boston, 161+1+j and in New Jersey about 1690. Our concern in this record is with the descendents of William Clements, who came to Philadelphia from Ireland, about 176O, and with the ancestors and descendents of those families connected with them by marriage. There is some reason to believe that this William was a descen­ dant of Gregory or at least a relative of his. The family from which William came had apparently gone to Ireland soon after Gregory was executed; they were staunch Presbyterians; then we see William enlisting In the American Army after a very short residence in the country, which would suggest an old grudge. William Clements, of English descent, b.c. 1735, came to Phila­ delphia, from Ireland, about 1760. He was a weaver. He enlisted in Capt. Josiah Harmar's Co., 1st Penna. Bat., in 1775* He was married and had at least two sons and two daughters, and probably another son. His wife's name may have been Alexander. His child­ ren were as follows: (Not sure of the order.) 1. James Alexander, b.c. 1765* d. 1820, or a little later, married Margaret Hamilton, b. 1768, d. Apr. 1, I863. They were living in Delaware Co., Pa., in 1790, hut had no children then. They came west, first to Westmoreland Co., where they were living in l802. Later they settled in the eastern tip of Plum Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa., buying land from G. Miltenburger, in l8_i+. 2. David, married and living in Delaware Co., in 1790, but had no children then. Alexander Clements, veteran of the War of 1812, was almost certainly his son. 3. Margaret, b. 1768, d. 181+9* was unmarried and lived with her brother, James' family, then with her nephew, James' family. She is buried at Oakmont. 1+. Daughter, living at home in 1790. This may have been the Elizabeth Clements, who married Joseph Herbert, Jan. 1, 1795* at the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia. 5. Son, under sixteen in 1790. This could have been an appren­ tice. James Alexander and Margaret Hamilton Clements had four i-ons: -- (no daughters) ,.• as follows: 1. William Alexander. 2. James, married and had at least three children, as follows: a. Matthew, b. 181+8, d. 1891. married and had at least one child, Blanche, b. 1886, d. 1888. b. Isabelle, b. 1850, d. 1912. Unmarried. c. James, b. 1853* d. 1906. Unmarried. 3. David, b. Sept. 9, 1796, d. Nov. 28, 1872, married 1st Rebecca Graham, daughter of Robert Graham, of Greensburg, Pa.; 2nd Maria Anderson, daughter of John and Margaret McCaslin Ander­ son; and 3rd Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson. 1+. Jesse, b. l8l5. d. 1853* married Anne Barr, daughter of Robert Barr. They had two sons, Jesse Allen (about whom later) and David, who ran away when about seventeen, and was not heard of again, Page 1 David and Rebecca Graham Clements had two sons and a daughter, as follows: 1. Robert, b. Dec. 11, 1823, d. Sept. 7* 1885. married Ann Eliza Meanor, b. 1827* d. June 15, 1869. They had eight children as follows: a. David A. (probably Alexander) d. July 12, 1900, married Margaret Kennedy, and had one child Lyda, who married George Peffer, and has children. b. Rebecca Jane, married Samuel McQuilkin, b« 181+5* son of James and Rebecca McQuilkin. They had one child, Arthur, who died in childhood. c. Rachel Elizabeth, b. Nov. ll+, 1855* d. July 13, 1891. Unmarried. d. James, b. 1857* married Jennie Saxman. No children. e. Maria Ellen, b. Dec. 22, 1859, d. Nov. 191+1, married William H. Wylie, b. Aug. 1859, d. Apr. 1918. They had six children, as follows: 1. Melville Clements Wylie, b. 1881+, d. 1951* married Margaret Beatty. They had a son, Melville Beatty Wylie, who married Mary Josephine Harris, and has a daughter Susan Wylie. 2. Dr. Wendell L. Wylie, married Eliza Moss. They had a son, Wendell L. Wylie, Jr., who is married and has two children. 3. Lura Wylie, b. Apr. 18, 1889* d. 1919* married John M. Young. They had two daughters, Florence Young who married Hervey M. Kellogg and Lois Young who married . 1+. Clarence C. Wylie, b. Jan. 1892, married Mary Reimer. They have a son, Robert Wylie, and two daughters, Joanne Wylie, who married Kirkland, and Mary Jane Wylie, who married Paul Hart- man, and has three sons, Robert, Richard and Allen Hartman. 5. Moulton J. Wylie, b. 1891+, married Muryl Doughty, d. 1953. They had a son, William H. Wylie, 2nd. 6. Florence Eleanor Wylie, b. Aug. 1+, 1897* d. 1908. f. Anna Martha, b. 1861, d. Oct. 6, 1887. Unmarried. g. Mary N., b. Jan. 7, 1861+, d. Nov. 12, 1896. Unmarried. h. Robert Given, b. 1866, d. 1903* married Sara Leslie, who survived him and later married Mr. Reed Stewart, a brother of Eliza Stewart Clements. No children. Page 2 2. James (2nd son of David and Rebecca Graham Clements), b. Oct. 25* 1825* d. Aug. 10, 1886, married Margaret McCready, daughter of John and Nancy Milligan McCready, b. Oct. 10, l82f>* d. Apr. 29, 1887. They had three children, as follows: a. David, b. 1851+» d. 1925* married Nancy Jane Thompson, b. 1855* d. 1918, daughter of John and Nancy Thompson. They had nine children, as follows: 1. Margaret, b. Nov. 17, 1879* d. May 9, 1953, mar­ ried James Daugherty, only son., of Joseph and Letitia Rowan Daugherty, and grandson of William and Margaret Daugherty. They had two children, Joseph and Letitia,Daugherty. Both died in child­ hood. - 2.