Edith Stratton Vance Nicholson (1922 - 2013)

Born 21 Sep 1922 in Washington, District of Columbia

Wife of David Holmes McKillop — married 22 Dec 1956 in Washington, District of Columbia

Died 16 Sep 2013 at age 90 in Essex, Connecticut

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Biography

Stratton Barclay, who spent about 25 years as co-owner of Gardens to Order, a Washington area garden design business, died Sept. 16 at an assisted living home in Essex, Conn. She was 91.

The cause was a heart attack, said her son Peter McKillop.

Mrs. Barclay co-owned Gardens to Order from the mid-1970s to 2000 and afterward operated a landscape design consultancy. In earlier years, she accompanied her second husband to Brussels and Tunisia for his Foreign Service assignments. She maintained a home in Washington after moving to Essex in the early 2000s.

Edith Stratton Vance Nicolson was born in Washington, where her father was president of the old D.C. Paper Co. in Georgetown. Her paternal grandfather spent about 40 years as manager of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal before the federal government bought it in 1938.

Stratton Nicholson, as she was known, was a 1940 graduate of Western High School and a 1944 graduate of Connecticut College in New London.

She did volunteer work with Meals on Wheels and the now-defunct environmental activist organization Concern Inc. Her memberships included the Sulgrave Club and the Waltz Group of D.C., a social organization. She also belonged to garden clubs in Washington and was a bridge player.

Her first husband, Dwight Griswold, whom she married in 1946, died of polio in 1952. She was then married to David H. McKillop, a Foreign Service officer, from 1956 until his death in 1986. Her third husband, John Barclay, died in 2004 after four years of marriage.

Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Dwight S. Griswold of Brussels and Edith Griswold of Ivoryton, Conn.; three children from her second marriage, Peter McKillop and David H. McKillop Jr., both of Manhattan, and Alice Semler of San Francisco; 10 grandchildren; and a great-grandson.

— Adam Bernstein (Washington Post)

Sources

• "United States Public Records, 1970-2009," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KTMJ-YK6 : 23 May 2014), Stratton N Barclay, Residence, Essex, Connecticut, United States; a third party aggregator of publicly available information.