Family/Spouse: Ephriam W. Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Richard C. McFarland
• Birth: Oct 1838, Kentucky, USA
• Residence: 1850, District 7, Fentress, Tennessee, USA
• Occupation: 1870, Gilmer Co., Georgia, USA; Cooper
• Residence: 1870, Subdivision 55, Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1870, Subdivision 55, Gilmer, Georgia, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
The descendants of Richard Crabtree McFarland match with the descendants of James C. McFarland, who also match with the descendants of Robert McFarland, 1675-1751 of northern Ireland to Lancaster Co. PA

1850: TN
Fentress Co. TN, Dist. 7, p. 422,
fam. 627:
Alex Atkinson , 45, KY
Rebecca, 34, TN
Richard McFarland, 11, TN
fam. 625: Will Adkison, 33 TN
fam. 626: Will Adkison, 63 TN
fam. 624 Peter Grey, 80, wife Rebecca 80 both NC

1860: GA
874 Dist. G.M. Cohutah Springs P.O., p. 146,
fam.968:
Richard McFarland, 21, TN
Mary, 22, TN
James, 1 GA
fam. 969: A.M. Atkinson, 58, KY, Rebecca, 51, TN; JOhn Fitzgerald, 10, GA, Rebecca Grey, 81, VA

1870: GA
Gilmer Co., P.O. Ellijay, p. ?
fam. 1170
Richard McFarlin, 32, cooper, TN
Mary, 33, TN, keeping house
James, 13, GA, working on farm
Wesley, 10, GA, working on farm
Miller, 8, GA
Thomas, 6, GA
William, 2, GA
Henry, 1 month, GA
Caroline Law 23, GA, keeping house

1880: GA
Fannin Co., GA, p. 691
fam.40:
McFarland, R.C., 41, KY, TN, TN
Mary, 42, wife, TN, TN, TN
Thomas, 15, son, GA, KY, TN
William R. 12, son, GA, KY, TN
Law, Caroline, 35, servant, TN, TN, TN
Henry B. 10, son, GA, TN, TN
James, 8, son, GA, TN, TN
Wheeler, 6, son, GA, TN, TN
Jackson, 4, son, GA, TN, TN
Noah, 2, son, GA, TN, TN
fam. 41:
Atkinson, A.M., 78, farmer, KY, VA, VA
Mary, 71, wife, TN, Md, VA

1900: GA
Gilmer Co., Ellijay Dist., sheet 15 A
fam. 265
McFarland, Richard C. Oct. 1838, age 61, marr. 15, KY, KY, KY
Catherine, wife, July 1865, age 35, marr. 15, 4 child, 4 alive, GA, NC, VA
William E., son, Mar. 1897, 3, GA, KY, GA
Lowery F., son, June 1898, GA, KY, GA
Virginia M., daug., Nov. 1899, GA, KY, GA
Grover C., son, Feb. 1887, age 13, GA, KY, GA

He could not have been married 15 years. Caroline Law McFarland was alive till 1892. Catherine and Richard were married in 1898. The inclusion of Grover C. on this census is a little strange. He appears on the census with his brother Henry B. also, but with a different birthdate.

Richard married Delila Caroline Law on 17 May 1888 in Fannin Co., Georgia, USA. Delila was born about 1847 in Blount Co., Tennessee, USA; died in 1892 in Fannin Co., Georgia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, District 15, Blount, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1870, Subdivision 55, Gilmer, Georgia, USA
• Residence: 1880, Toccoah, Fannin, Georgia, USA

Notes:

Notes found on Delilah Caroline Law on Ancestry tree:

MargaretBoruff originally shared this to McFarland Family Tree
In 2007

It is believed that Delila Caroline Law is related to R.C. McFarland's first wife. It appears from what records I have seen that cousin fits. Her mother is listed some places as Jane/Jennet and one place Jennetta. I was told that they were sisters, if they were ......they would have to be stepsisters according to the info that I have found.
She is listed on one census as a servant in Richard's household in Ga. She has several children and after Mary dies she marries Richard. The story that I was told is that she came to help out in the home after her sister Mary became sick. She then started having children by Richard and then the story repeats when my grandmother, the third wife [Catherine Curtis], moves into the home. She has children by Richard and marries him after Caroline dies. Caroline is listed on one census as a "widow" so.... are all of her children Richard's or are some of them from her previous marriage? It appears from everything that I have seen that they are Richard's. I have always been told that Richard fathered about 22 children by 3 wives.
I have been told that the research on this family caused many feuds among the researchers.....the descendants of the older children calling the descendants of the other children "bastards". My grandfather would never allow the word "bastard" to be spoken in his home and instilled that feeling in his older children if not the younger ones.
Richard Clay McFarland, my grandfather, was the last child born to R.C. and his 3rd wife. Mable Thornton [researcher from Rockwood, Tn.] told me that after he was born his father passed away and Catherine was driven off the farm by the children of the first wife, Mary. According to the Ga. census she went to live and farm her brother's farm. According to my grandfather they went to live with Hardy Garren. Hardy Garren took Richard in and he moved to Calhoun, Ga. Two of the Garren girls married two of the McFarland boys and they bought the homeplace that my grandfather was evicted from.
I also was told that my grandmother was given a "widows share" of the estate which was 1/3 and the other 2/3 went to some of the children.

From member chkrdflag Half-Sisters: You may have already come to this conclusion, but in case you have not, here it is. Jennet Lambert(maiden name) married James Walker. They had 3 children, one of them being Mary Walker. After James died she married Anderson Law, and had 4 children, one of them being Delilah Caroline Law. So Mary Walker McFarland and Delilah Law McFarland were half sisters, sharing the same mother yet a different father. If you got any questions feel free to email me. I've no doubt that Mary got sick and help was needed, and that's what brought Delilah there. This extra wife and kids thing was common in those days and not looked upon as we do today.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: James C McFarland
• Birth: Abt 1785, Virginia
• Residence: 1830, Fentress, Tennessee, USA
• Residence: 1850, Districts 6 and 11, Fentress, Tennessee, USA
• Death: Aft 1860, Clinton Co., KY

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

We know through YDNA testing that this line is connected to the line of Robert McFarland of Lancaster Co. married to Jennet and definitely not the son of Alexander McFarland and Lydia Priest. That family is a completely different haplogroup.

Big Y 700 testing has made clear that the James C. line is the same haplogroup as the George McFarland b. 1776 in VA, and the Duncan McFarland, b. 1774 in VA, and the Barnabas McFarland, b. 1825 in KY lines: BY28612. George and Duncan must have been brothers to James C. and Barnabas the son of another brother who died before his name showed up on records. The only son of John and Mary Montgomery who is unaccounted for is Joseph, b. 1745, who died abt. 1792, but was living in the area that became Wythe Co. along with his brothers till the rest moved on Tennessee in 1783/4. It appears that Joseph's children moved to TN (Overton/Fentress) and KY (Knox and Whitley).

Fentress County was created in 1826 from Overton County.

Records:
1820 census record in Overton County for James McFarland has a male 26-44, with wife in same range. Two males under 10, which would be Wesley born 1817 and another. The John McFarland born 1808 in some trees would be incorrect. There is a female also under 10, and the Mary Ann in some trees born 1805 would be too old also.

1830 census in Fentress County
2 males under 5: Samuel born 1828, age 2 and another unknown
1 male 5-9: James Evans born 1825, age 5 (so if there is a William born 1824, where is he?)
1 male 10-14: Wesley born 1817, age 13
2 males 15-19: born 1810-1815...unknown
1 male 20-29: born 1800-1810...unknown--could be John who shows up in 1833 tax list
1 male 40-49: born 1780 to 90: James born 1785
2 females 5-9: Anna, born 1824, age 6, and another
1 female 10-14: ? Nancy Jane born 1820, age 10
1 female 30-39: Rebecca Rule born 1790-1800

? Mary Ann born 1805 25 years old, probably married

In 1833 tax list for Fentress County is James McFarland, John McFarland

1840 census in Fentress County p. 19
1 male under 5: Young born 1836, age 4
1 male 5-9: Andrew James born 1832, age 8
2 males 10 to 14: Samuel, born 1828, age 12, and ? James Evans, born 1825, age 15?
1 male 15-19: William, born 1824, age 16
1 male 40-19: James C. born 1785, age 55
2 females 15-19: Anna, born 1824, age 16; and Nancy Jane born 1820, age 20?
1 female 40-49: mother of Young?

Wesley is in own household age 20 to 30, p. 19

1850 census in Fentress County
p. 768 District 6-11, fam. 110
Jas McFarland 65 farmer born VA
Priscilla 44
Rebecca Prichet 16
Levi Prichet 14
Sarah Prichet 13
Levina Prichet 10
Thos Prichet 18
Delila McFarland 3
Young McFarland 13 (is on the next page 769)

1860 census in Clinton Co. KY
fam. 577
James C. McFarlin, 73, TN
Prisilla, 55, KY
Eli T, 20, TN
Delila T. 12, TN
Lavisa J. Prichart 3 KY

So, there are several unaccounted for children or people living in this household in the census records.

Older notes:
QUESTIONABLE LINK: Believed to be the son of Alexander McFarland and Lydia
Priest, but not conclusive. Probably based on geographic locale and lack of
any other persons.
CENSUS: 1820-1850 TENNESSEE, Fentress County. James C. McFarland.
CENSUS: 1860 KENTUCKY, Clinton County. James McFarland 73 VA, Priscilla
(wife), and his daughter Delilah and Lavisa J. Prichard f. age 3. Page 81. 14
July 1860.
OCCUPATION: Farmer
RESEARCHER: Descendant Vernon C. McFarland, 957 Unadilla St., Shreveport, LA
71106. Corresponded last July 1997.
RESEARCHER: Descendant of daughter Deliliah and Alexander GOODING; Darrell
Gooding, P.O.Box 714 Jamestown, TN 38556.
RESEARCHER: 1999 Mary P. WINSTEAD &ltmwinstead@eazy.net&gt
WIFE: Records of Howard in Flint, TX, from his Aunt Lillian who was very close
to grandmother Susannah Caroline Wood McFarland. THeir family records state
that James C. McFarland of VA/Frentress Co TN/Clinton Co, KKKY(1785-1860?) was
married to a Barbara Young. This is believed to perhaps be his second wife.
Note, the second wife alos listed as Elizabeth ____. This may be a clue for
researchers. SOURCE (2001) from Mary Haines.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1745
• Possessions: 1772, Bedford Co., VA; Joseph sold 318 acres on Mounts (or Mtn) Creek to John Gallaway (Bedford Deed Bk. 4, p. 394. This had been purchased by John in 1770, so I presume it was a gift from father to son.
• Residence: 1774, Montgomery County, VA
• Residence: 1782, Montgomery County, VA
• Possessions: 1788, Reed Creek area of Montgomery County, Virginia, USA; Mar. 9, 1788 Duncan Gullion, treasury warrant, 92 acres adjoining Nicholas Tarter and Joseph McFarland on Reed Creek...also 129 acres joining George Kinder at Bluespring of Reed Cr. both withdrawn, Vol. 5 Kegley
• Death: 1792

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

Virginia:
1770s:
Bedford Co. VA. 1772, Joseph McFarland selling 318 acres on Mounts Creek to John Galloway. Deed Book 4, p. 394. This is the same property that John McFarland, his father, acquired in 1770. Deed Book 3, p. 498. It would appear that father John gave his son this land, and that Joseph then sold it and moved to Montgomery County with his brothers.

1780s:
Joseph McFarland's name appears in a list of Jehu Stephens militia company list for Montgomery County, with no date, but assuming around 1780. In this listing it says that Jehu Stephens is the Captain, James Finley is the Lieutenant, Robert Love a Lieutenant, and John McFarlan an ensign. Also in the list are McNutts, Wiricks, Davis, and Joseph McFarland is listed as an outlier (which means he is living on the outskirts?). It is interesting that the spelling for Joseph's last name is different than the spelling for John's, however, that changes often. The Joseph McFarland from the Duncan line was born in 1775, therefore too young to be considered as this Joseph.

There is another reference to Joseph McFarland in Kegley's book, p. 561, Early Adventurers On The Western Waters, Vol. V, 2004, where it mentions that during the Indian raids of 1774, Nowell took his family and moved away from all the violence and Joseph McFarlane took possession of the place along with his wife, a sister of Duncan Gullion. On McFarlane's death (year or cause not given), the Loyal Company notified his widow that he would have to sell the land for fees due the company. The Gullions were neighbors in the Reed Creek area, so this does indicate that Joseph had a wife, contrary to earlier statements. The land was sold in 1795, so Joseph's death must have occurred before this.

During the Revolutionary War, many of the residents of the Reed Creek area, especially those in the more remote areas, believed rumors that their area had been sold to the French by the newly declared independent America. They decided to cast their lot with the Tories and refused to take the oath of allegience in 1777. These people were called to court, some were fined, a few were sent to jail, etc. Duncan Gullion, Joseph's brother in law, was to be sent to jail, but as he was being transported, he escaped. Joseph McFarland was given bail, and then later bound over for good behavior. In 1780, Peter Kinder, in his confession of Tory allegience, named the other people who were considered to be Tories as well, and Joseph McFarland was among the list. However, he was not put on trial according to this source. Source: Mary B. Kegley's book, Vol. V, pp. 137-139.

In Montgomery Order Book 3, p. 20. In 1779 "On a Prosecution against Joseph Mcfarland and Jacob Dorter and Joseph Ervin and John Stevens for certain offences committed against the Commonwealth. Whereupon a Jury being sworn (same jury as against O'Gullion except John Bell in the place of John McFarland) the jurty returned their verdict that they should give security for their good behavior. Whereupon the Court were of opnion that they should be bound to thier good behavior for twelve months and a day and thereupon Joseph Mcfarland, Jacob Dorter, Joseph Ervin and John Stevens acknowledged themselves indebted to the Commonwealth... the sum of one thousand each for ther good Behavior as ....

In the 1782 personal property tax list for Montgomery Co. VA, Joseph McFareland is listed, but with the notation "did not give in his property." This may be due to his general refusal to adhere to the newly declared government. He is not living in the immediate area of John McFarelane (John and Mary Kinder McF.), who seems to be living in the area that Robert McFarland had lived before his move to Washington Co. (what becomes Wytheville), rather than the Black Lick area, where the Doaks and Wards were living. Nearer to Joseph McFareland is Alexander and William McFarelane of the Duncan line. Alexander and William McFarelane were living in the Wolf Creek area, north of the Black Lick area.

Tennessee: This Joseph below may have been mixed up with the records of another Joseph McFarland, his cousin, a likely son of Robert McFarland, b. 1730 who moved to the Nolachucky area with his other son Robert. b. 1759. That Joseph has several children born in TN. Descendants from that family believe that the record below is their Joseph, not this one.

Back to VA:

James A. McFarland states that Joseph McFarland was killed in a duel or fight with a Doak, I found the source, it was a notation in the Morristown Bible. In the records passed down by his brother's family (Morristown Bible) it notes for Joseph "Killed by Doke in a Fray"

His wife had to move off the land in Montgomery County that they had been squatting on since it was abandoned back in 1774. That took place in 1795, so he died bet. 1792 and 1795. It is probable that there were at least 3 sons that moved to Knox Co. KY, Whitley Co. KY and Fentress Co. TN. The Big Y 700 indicates they were all brothers.

The following are notes from the McFarland genealogy website of Gary Morris: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/8143/genealogy/mcfarland/rbtlanc.txt --
***** 15 ***** Joseph McFARLAND, son of John McFARLAND and Mary MONTGOMERY, was
born 30 Mar 1745 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, died about 1785/1800 in
Montgomery County, Virginia.

----- NOTES FOR Joseph McFARLAND:
COMMENTS: Gendex says Joseph McFarland born 30 March 1745, Russell Parish,
Lunenberg Co, VA, died before 1780 Montgomery Co, VA.
TORY.
MARRIAGE: Unmarried.
COURT: 1779 "Early Adventures on the Western Waters" LDS microfiche 6125902
Book Vol I May 5, 1779 Joseph McFarlane Montgomery County of Reed Creek
questionable Loyalty to country.
LINKS-LAND: 1784, Jan. 16, Tenn., Greene County John McFarlan entered 228
acres on south side Nolachucky River, opposite mouth of Little Chucky River;
warrant 25 June 1784; granted to Joseph McFarland. (Book 1, page 199)
NOTE: 1785 VIRGINIA, Bedford County. Joseph agreed to not actively take up
arms against the Colony of Virginia, and spent the rest of the war killing wolves
in teh county to protect livestock. IN 1785 Joseph ws paid 350 pounds of tobacco
for four wolves. (MHH notes: Source? Joseph was not living in Bedford county at this time.)
COURT: "Early Adventures on the Western Waters" LDS microfiche 6125902 Book
III-IV 1790 Wythe County Militia. John McFarlin Ensign. Outliers-Joseph
McFarland.
HISTORY: Joseph may have gone to Greene County, Tn at about the same time as
his brothers since some records indicate a Joseph with a close connection to the
family.
DEATH: "Families of Jefferson Conty, Tennessee" 1992 found at Seattle
Genealogical Society. Died unmarried in a duel with Mr. Doak. Other records say
that he was killed in an argument with a Doak, possibly the son of the David Doak
who years earlier purchased the black Lick property from his father, John, Sr.

Joseph married daughter Gullion about 1772 in Montgomery Co., Virginia. daughter was born about 1745 in Virginia; died after 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
From Mary B. Kegley's book, Adventurers on the Western Waters, Vol. 5, p. 561, Duncan Gullion states that Joseph Mcfarlane took possession of abandoned land and after Joseph's death, his widow, sister of Duncan Gullion, could not pay the fees necessary to keep it.