George Robb BARTLEY

                   On the 1850 census, Page 422B, the entry for George R. and Catharine Barlbey should be BARTLEY. George Robb Barkley, the son of Henry Barkley and Mary Robb, was born in Pennsylvania 9 June 1803. He moved from Mifflin County, PA to White County, IN and bought land in Monticello in 1831. His marriage to Catherine McCulloch on 24 November 1834 was the first marriage in Big Creek Township. For some unknown reason he changed the spelling of his name to Bartley after the move to Indiana. He died in Monticello in January 1871. By 1838 his father Henry Barkley and the rest of his children moved to Jasper County, IN.

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CATHERINE BARTLEY
Catherine Bartley was born in Logan County, Ohio, in 1810, came to White County prior to its organization and located on the Tippecanoe River at what is now Springboro. After her marriage to George R. Bartley she made her home in Monticello, where she died January 8, 1881. She was a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church and one of those early settlers to whom we owe so much for having opened a wilderness and caused it to blossom as the rose. Her funeral was held at her residence, conducted by Rev. John B. Smith, of the Monticello Presbyterian Church, and her remains were interred in the family cemetery south of Monticello.