Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Williamson, Robert Barclay September 20, 1900
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Daily Local News, September 21, 1900
Daily Local News
September 21, 1900

WILLIAMSON- In Phoenixville, on September 20th, 1900.  Robert Barclay 
Williamson, in the 80th year of his age.  Friends and Relatives of the family 
are invited to attend the funeral without further notice, from his late 
residence, at Phoenixville, on Sunday, September 23d, at two o’clock.  
Interment at Morris Cemetery.

Daily Local News
September 21, 1900

Robert Barclay Williamson, who was one of the early band leaders in West 
Chester, died yesterday in Phoenixville, at the age of about 79 years.  

In his youth he worked at chairmaking in a factory, which the late William 
Sweney conducted, on West Gay Street, where the building of E. Malin Hoopes now 
is, and at intervals while learning his trade, he devoted attention to music.  
First he learned the clarinet, on which he played very well, but afterwards he 
studied the E-flat copper bugle, an instrument which required a great deal of 
skill.  Proving such an adept at this and having a natural aptitude for music, 
he was made leader of the old Wayne Brass Band, which flourished in town about 
the year 1840.  He also played the E-flat bugle, and in company with Captain 
Benjamin H. Sweney he used to play duets of martial music, which woke the 
echoes of patriotism.


While here he was familiarly know as “Sixer” on account of his height, he being 
over six feet in stature.

About 1850 he removed to Phoenixville, where he had since been employed in the 
iron works and at other occupations, until a few years ago. Soon after reaching 
that town he became a member of the Phoenix Military Band, with which 
organizations he went out for three months’ service during the Rebellion, 
playing at that time the first tenor.  

After a period of years he left the Military Band and joined the Citizen’s 
Band, with which he remained until half a dozen years or more ago.  He was of 
kind disposition and because of this he never was at a loss for friends. 

A wife and a number of children survive him.



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