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

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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.

Delila married Richard Crabtree McFarland on 17 May 1888 in Fannin Co., Georgia, USA. Richard (son of James C. McFarland, BY28612) was born in Oct 1838 in Fentress Co., TN; died in Oct 1904 in Ellijay, Gilmer, Georgia, USA; was buried in Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry Bently Law McFarland was born in 1870 in Gilmer Co., Georgia, USA; died on 15 Apr 1950 in East Point, Fulton, Georgia, USA.
2. James Law McFarland was born in 1872.
3. Tolliver Wheeler Law McFarland was born on 18 Jun 1873 in Georgia, USA; died on 11 Apr 1952 in Fannin Co., Georgia, USA.
4. Andrew Jackson Law McFarland was born in 1876.
5. Noah Law McFarland was born on 14 Sep 1879 in Georgia, USA.
6. Miranda Adeline McFarland was born on 15 Sep 1881 in Blue Ridge, Fannin, Georgia, USA; died on 19 May 1950 in Rockwood, Roane, Tennessee, USA.
7. Grover Cleveland McFarland was born in Oct 1883 in Georgia, USA; died on 29 Jan 1932 in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA.