Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....M’Clure, William  January 17, 1863
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Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898: 23 Sep 1863
William M’Clure, the subject of the following notice, was born in Dauphin County,
Pa., on the 14th of March, 1779. Deprived in early life of a father's care and
instruction, the responsibility of his moral and mental training devolved on his
widowed mother; and well and faithfully did she perform the task assigned her by
Providence. At the age of nineteen, he made a public profession of religion at
Lebanon church, Allegheny County, Pa., then under the pastoral care of Rev. Wm.
Woods, and during a long and useful life he adorned the doctrines of the Gospel, and
was ever the ready witness for Jesus. He was three times elected elder, and in that
capacity faithfully served the churches of Lebanon, Tarentum, and Bethlehem. Nor was
he less useful in the affairs of State; he successively held' the offices of Clerk
of the Court, Commissioner, and Alderman, in the city of Pittsburgh, and Justice of
the Peace in Tarentum. After a residence of nearly seventy years in Allegheny
County, in the Spring of 1855 he removed with his family to Beaver County. Here he
lived nearly eight years, and endeared himself to all who knew him; being of a
cheerful disposition, with a smile and a pleasant word for all, he won the love and
respect of old and young wherever he went. During the last year of his life it was
evident to all that he was maturing for heaven… Thus fell asleep in Jesus our
beloved friend, on the 17th day of January, 1863, in the eighty-fourth year of his
age. 

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