The Back side of the McClear Bluff
Monument.
All names on both sides of Monument
BAIRD, Eliza, b.1835, d.1856
BAIRD, Eliza, d.7-jan-1856, a.20y 9m, p. s. & n. baird
BAIRD, Elizabeth, h.thomas baird
BAIRD, John M., b.1839, d.1857
BAIRD, John P., b.1844, d.1864, co. g. 48th reg. Ill inf.
BAIRD, Mary a.Ellis, b.1812, d.1852, h. ralph c. baird
BAIRD, Ralph C., b.1796, d.1859
BAIRD, Ralph Jr., b.1835, d.1856
BAIRD, Samuel, b.1807, d.1844
BAIRD, Samuel, d.25-feb-1844, a.39y
BAIRD, Thomas W., b.1836, d.1855
BAIRD, Thomas, 186
BAIRD, Thomas, b.1828, d.1858
BALLARD, John, b.8-jan-1857, d.19-aug-1857, a.7m 1d, p. jas. m. & mary ballard
BALLARD, Mary J., b.1833, d.1857
BRUCE, Nancy, b.1817, d.1865
CARLTON, Isaac, b.3-oct-1857, d.24-oct-1858, p. j.g. & clara carlton
CARLTON, Isabella McCleary, b.1793, d.1843
CARLTON, Isabella, b.4-nov-1793, d.4-feb-1843, a.49y 3m 1d, h. james g. carlton
CARLTON, James G., co e. 63rd ill inf
CARLTON, James Glenn, b.1830, d.1866, co. e. 63rd ill inf
DENHAM, John M., b.1810, d.1856
DENHAM, Rachel B., b.1817, d.1865
DENHAM, William W., b.1823, d.1870
DENHAM,James, b.1782, d.1855, war of 1812
GLENN, Margaret, b.1775, d.1844, h. john mccleary
GRAY, Margaret B., b.1823, d.1845
HEWET, Rebecca A., b.1844, d.1856
HUNTER, Isabella G., b.1863, d.1857
J.M.B.,
J.P.B.,
McCLEARY, John, b.1767, d.1837
McCLEARY, Rebecca, b.1838, d.1855
PHAR, Eliphalet N., b.1812, d.1864
PHAR, Ephraim, 186, pioneer
PHAR, Nancy, h.ephraim phar
PHAR, Samuel, b.1818, d.1856
PHAR, Sarah McCleary, b.1812, d.1865
TRUSCOTT, Charles W., b.1842, d.1862, co. e. 40th ill inf vol.
TRUSCOTT, Charles W., d.6-apr-1862, a.18y 8m 24d, p. geo & margaret truscott, co e 40th ill inf vol
TRUSCOTT, Margaret McCleary, b.1808, d.1844
TRUSCOTT, Margaret, d.12-dec-1844, a.36y, h. george truscott
TRUSCOTT, Mary, b.1838, d.1870, h. dr. truscott
TRUSCOTT, Mary, d.4-nov-1870, a.31y 10m 25d, h. dr. j. truscott

The following information is from a program at the dedication ceremony at the McCleary Bluff near Keensburg, Ill. Monument erected in 1918. Services about 1926.

"The following historical sketch was read by
Mr. Hickey The sketch follows:

John McCleary was a soldier of the War of 1812, enlisting from Pennsylvania. In 1814, when living in Canton Ohio, accompanied by his wife and eleven children, started westward, living two years in Indiana, then settling on the Bluff which bears his name, in either 1816 or 1818.

His first dwelling was a half-faced camp, covered with bark and lined with bed quilts. The first year this served as a home and a sleeping place for the women folks, while the boys sought lodging in the army covered wagons. Later he built his log house about 600 (?) yards south of this monument on what is now known as the Batson place.

Upon arriving here, John McCleary went to Shawneetown and entered a full ---- section of land, paying for it the fabulous sum of 25 cents per acre. This section is thought to include the farms of Schrodt, Batson, Milburn, Venable, and others.

Among John McCleary's pioneer neighbors, who with him lie buried here, Ephriam Phar and his wife who came from the east through Tennessee, settling here about 1820 on what is now known as the Bruce farm, lying between the Bluff and Koensburg. These families inter-married.

The descendants of John McCleary are rather numerous and scattered out through this and other counties.

His two sons are John (1804) and James (1800) McCleary. His daughters were Elizabeth, who was Aunt Betsy Rigg of Bellmont; Julia Ann who was Aunt Julia Ann Baird of Bellmont; Mary McCleary Taylor of Fulton County, Illinois; and the three following daughters who with their husbands are buried here: Isabella, the wife of Wil— Carlton; Margaret, the wife of George Truscott; Sarah, the wife of Eliphalet Phar.

It is most pleasing to record that we have living yet with us five of John McCleary's grandchildren; Aunt Malinda McCleary