Notes:

SAMANTHA MCCLELLAND (1820 to 1896)
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - Oct, 2018)

Samantha McClelland was married to William McFarland, 5 Dec 1850, b y A O Rockwell (*1). She was the daughter of William and Hannah McClel land, both born in Pennsylvania, who came to Poland, Ohio, the next to wn south of Coitsville, in the 1820's . Samantha is indicated in the 18 30 Poland census as their first daughter.
By 1840, Samantha, with her parents, had moved north into Coitsville , quite near various McFarland families, including her future husband , William McFarland. Samantha and her parents are still found there i n 1850, living in the same neighborhoo d with the McFarlands, McBrides , Harris', Kimmels and Kirks, all future relatives of hers (by marryin g a McFarland, and then a Reed). After their wedding in late 1850, th e couple may have stayed in Coitsville with William's parents, Willia m an d Betsy, or with her family. Land records here would be the most h elp to see if they had been granted any land to start with on their ow n.
They had two sons; Virgil and William Mason McFarland, and then appare ntly, her husband William died. The widow Samantha is found (with he r children) at her McClelland parents Coitsville home in 1860.
March 4th 1863, at age thirty-five, she married John H Reed, (widowe r of Jane Kimmel, *2 p 175). John was also from the same 'neighborhood ' in Coitsville. He was twelve years older than she, and had four chil dren of his own. Samantha and Joh n had two more daughters; Althea an d Pluma. This new family is presented in the 1870 census, still livin g in the same general area of Coitsville. In their household is Samant ha's youngest McFarland son, Mason, age seventeen, helping out as a f a rm laborer on his stepfather's farm. In 1880, Mason is with the Willia m Reed family in Coitsville.
Samantha (McClellend) McFarland Reed is listed in the 1880 Coitsvill e census with her farming husband John Reed and their two daughters. S amantha Reed died 12 March 1896 and was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetey , Youngstown, Ohio.

(Research):PFM's SOURCES for Samantha (McClelland) McFarland
1830 census; Poland, Ohio p 242; with her father William McClelland (S amantha's age, under 5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 188; with her father William McClellan d (Samantha's age 5-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 579; with her father William McClellan d (Samantha's age 23, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 16; with her father William McClellan d (Samantha's age 32, born in Ohio)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 95; with John Reed (Samantha's age 42 , keeping house, born in Ohio, both par born in PA)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 89; with John Reed (Samantha's age 52 , keeping house, born in Ohio, both par born in PA)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90; (Samantha's son Mason's age, 26, b orn in Ohio, farm laborer)
1890 census; not extant

Other REFERENCES
*1 Marraiges of Mahoning county, Ohio 1846-1851 p 177
*2 History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, Williams, 1882 v 2

Samantha married William McFarland on 19 Dec 1850 in Mahoning Co., Ohio, USA. William (son of William McFarland and Elizabeth Loveland) was born about 1823 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA; died about 1856. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Virgil C McFarlin was born on 15 Oct 1851 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died on 3 Jul 1903.
2. William Mason McFarland was born on 21 Jul 1856 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died on 17 Apr 1891 in Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA.