String Quartet String Quartet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1393735 Composed by J. Stringer. Celtic,Irish. 15 pages. J. Stringer #977203. Published by J. Stringer (A0.1393735). A minor - 3/4 - Melody occurs in all parts. Bowings are only suggested. Some third position in first violin  Written for my great-great great Grandfather Samuel Cleland. He was born in Ballywoollen, Down Northern Ireland in July of 1786 and worked as a farmer, a mason, and a boot maker. At the age of 27 he arrived in Orange  County, New York to look for land and decided to go back to Ireland to marry Jane Jean Martin.  In 1815 he immigrated to New York with his new wife and  bought a stone house with 60 acres. In 1858, he bought a farm in the Janesville Township of Wisconsin. He and his wife had nine children. His son, Samuel Cleland was my great great grandfather. He and his wife Mary Ann McCartney had eight daughters.The eldest was my great grandmother Helen Burnett Cleland.
