Born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Bleakney
and Jean (Morehead) Bleakney
Sister of
James Blackney, William Blakeney Bleakney, James Bleakney, Samuel Bleakney, Fergus Forgey Blackney Blakeney, Anna Ann Bleakney, Margaret Blakely Bleakney, Janet Jane Bleakney and Catherine Katherine Bleakney
Wife of
Moses McClain Sr
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 78
in Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Biography
Sarah or Sally Bleakney or Blakely went from Franklin County to Armstrong County.
SARAH (SALLY)6 BLEAKNEY (JEAN5 MOORHEAD, JOHN4, JOHN3 MUIRHEAD,THOMAS2 MOORHEAD II, THOMAS1) was born 25 Oct 1776 in Franklin County, Pennyslvania, and died 14 Feb 1855 in Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. She married MOSES MCCLAIN 22 Jul 1808 in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He was born 19 Mar 1783 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and died 01 Jul 1865 in Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Children
Sarah married Moses McClain. They had at least four children together:
- James B (b. abt. 1815)
- Margaret Jane (b. abt. 1819)
- MOSES7 MCCLAIN, b. 1805, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; d. 22 Jun 1865, Armstrong County, Pennyslvania; m. 1842 MARY; b. 1818; d. 16 Jul 1896, Armstrong County, Pennsyvania. MOSES MCCLAIN was buried in Sumlin Cemetery, Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania. MARY was buried in Sumlin Cemetery, Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
- WILLIAM MCCLAIN, b. Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; d. Abt. 1880; m. Abt 1842 REBECKA MARGARET MOORHEAD, Kittanning, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; b. Abt. 1806, Washington Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania; d. 21 Apr 1888, Texas. District: 14; Image: 0414.
Sarah was buried in Feb 1855 in Smullins Cemetery, Mahoning Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Unsourced family tree handed down to Sandra (Patton) Patton-Imani.
- 1850 US Census[1]
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M44X-LB4 : 12 April 2016), Sarah Mcclain in household of Moses Mcclain, Redbank, Armstrong, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 305, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sally by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sally:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Sally by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Sally:
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~3.12%
~12.50%
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~1.56%
~6.25%
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Paddy Waldron
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Blakely-728 and Bleakney-43 appear to represent the same person because: they are sisters with the same name, same approximate birth year and same birth state, albeit variant surname spellings.
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