Allegheny County PA Archives- Obituaries: Johnston, William, May 1892 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Victoria Valentine, , Jan 2009 Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/ ________________________________________________ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/allegheny/obits/johnston-william.txt May 1892 McDonald Outlook The death of Capt. William JOHNSTON, of general debility, occurred at the family residence in Mt. Pleasant township on Friday morning, May 6. Mr. JOHNSTON was one of the oldest citizens in the county, being ninety-two years of age at the time of his death. Mr. JOHNSTON was widely known for more than half a century in the northern part of the county as a man of unusual enterprise and public spirit. In early life he was a pioneer in the far west and was on the frontier at the time of the Black Hawk war where he met with Abraham LINCOLN who was a captain of Illinois volunteers. Captain JOHNSTON married Miss Mary MCCLAIN, who was one of the MCCLAINE (sic) family that lived near the County Home. Mrs. JOHNSTON still lives and among the earliest recollections of the writer are the motherly attentions of this good woman to those who had no mother. "JOHNSTON", as his admiring neighbors were wont to call the deceased, was a manly man. In religion he was a Covenanter and attended Rev. Wm. SLATER’s Church until the outbreak of the war, when he went to the United Presbyterians that he might vote for every measure against slavery. In courage he was a match for "Old John Brown" any day. Thos who knew him know that he would without a doubt have undauntedly faced and fought Milton’s Personal Devil himself. He was full of fun and at "raisings" and fall "butcherings" he was always the leading man. His family consists of Martha, wife of John P. MCCONNELL; Darlington, married and with a family living at the homestead; Jane, wife of Samuel WILLISON; Robert, a resident of Beaver county, whose wife recently died and left him with a large family.