"John M. Barclay, who had been confined to his home more than six months
by illness, died last Thursday morning at 11:40 o'clock.  Funeral
services were held from the First Christian Church Saturday afternoon at
2 o'clock with the Rev. Mack Cahill of the Church of the Nazarene of
Pomeroy, assisted by the Rev. Leslie Zimmerman, in charge.  Lovely music
was furnished by Mrs. C.A. Badgley and Mrs. Ralph McKinley, Accompanied
at the piano by Mrs. Wayne Fry.....John Barclay...came to [Dayton] county
in 1861.  He followed farming until his retirement about 18 years ago.
He was first united with Laura Williams who died in 1927, and he was
later married to Mrs. Pearl Ball, who survives him."
J. M. Barclay's obituary
The Chronicle-Dispatch
Dayton,  WA
January 1935