NATHAN CLEAVER, born in York county, Penn., in 1801, was married, March 1, 1832, to Sarah Linton, a daughter of Mahlon Linton, who was born east of the mountains, in 1776. He married Ann Hilles in 1803, and after their marriage they came to Washington county, Penn., locating on a farm in East Bethlehem township, where he died in 1831, followed by his wife in 1838. To the union of Nathan and Sarah (Linton) Cleaver one daughter was born, Martha, wife of William H. Mitchell. Mr. Cleaver was a prominent citizen and prosperous farmer. He voted with the Republican party, and served one term as county commissioner. He died June 22, 1887, at his home in Monongahela, to which city he removed from his farm after his second marriage, in 1888, with Mrs. E. C. Leonard. He was laid to rest in the old Friends' burying ground at Westland beside his first wife, who died in 1873, and near the site of the Friends' meeting-house where they were publicly united in marriage under the Friends' ceremonial, fifty-five years before. Both died in the Quaker faith.

Text taken from page 878 of: Beers, J. H. and Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893). Transcribed March 1997 by Neil and Marilyn Morton of Oswego, IL as part of the Beers Project. Published April 1997 on the Washington County, PA pages at http://www.chartiers.com/.

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