J. Davis Barnard’s Great Grandfather
We found a misplaced folder of my grandfather Barnard’s notes! Here is part of what he writes as “genealogical memories” addressed to his three children:
“George Allen Barnard, my great grandfather, came to Western
Pennsylvania from near Hartford, Connecticut about 1835 selling and
repairing clocks. He took up land on Cowanshannock Creek. Later he
married a widow, Rose Irwin, the mother of three children. One of those
children, David Johnston Irwin became a minister of the Presbyterian
Church and served for years as pastor of the Ebenezer Presbyterian
Church in Indiana County, Pa.”
The above is from the memo dated November 11, 1965.
