Family/Spouse: Living Johnson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living McFarland
2. Living McFarland

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• Residence: 1950, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA

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Relation to Head: Head; Marital Status: Married

Donald + Kathryn Louise Snyder. Kathryn was born on 26 Apr 1910 in Washington, Indiana; died on 5 Dec 1969 in Tuscon, Pima Co., Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio
• Residence: 1950, Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, USA

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Relation to Head: Wife; Marital Status: Married

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• Birth: 1886, Illinois
• Residence: 1900, East St Louis Ward 1, St Clair, Illinois

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In the 1920 census, George W. McFarland is 34, born in Illinois from parents born in Missouri, and married to Z. Gertrude, 30, born in Illinois, father KY and mother Illinois. there are two children, Donald george, 10 and John B 6. George is working as a fireman of the steam railroad, and they are living on Ohio Street.

In the 1930 census, George W. McFarland is working as a Locomotive Engineer and the family is living on Ohio St. in East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Illinois, Dist. 53, Image 39.

Notes from his grandson, Jonathan Drew McFarland:

My father marked that it was his parents. My grandfather Geo. William McF. worked most of his career for the Missouri & Ohio Railroad (later the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio). Originally an Alabama based railroad, he worked from what would have been it's northern terminus during a lot of its history at St. Louis or rather E. St. Louis, Illinois, where his grandfather, John H. moved with the whole immediate clan from the Liberty area late in life. He was promoted from fireman to Engineer in 1920...a position he kept till the late 1950s when he retired. 1906-20 he was a fireman...the guy that shovels the coal and keeps the fire going...that shovel may mean it's before he was promoted, or when he was? His pinnacle was for many years running the The Rebel, from St. Louis to the Gulf...that was the M&O's flagship passenger train. This engine doesn't seem to me to be the sort running a high speed passenger line...and oddly, that cab either should be marked M&O or the number (decommissioned? can't even tell if there is smoke coming out in that pic) I'm sure it would have been the sort he'd have run earlier in his career. I have his detailed job history. Interestingly, his first job, I think age 12, was a messenger for the Wiggins Street Ferry Company. It's not hard to imagine that his uncle Milton P., the Riverboat pilot, may've put a good word in for him or suggested it as a good place to start. He ran The Rebel when it converted over to diesel, and on it's very last run when he was 72 years old. He was also president of his union local for decades.

George + Zella Gertrude Boaz. Zella was born on 14 Jun 1889 in Ridgway, Gallatin County, Illinois, United States of America; died in 1948 in East St. Louis, Illinois; was buried in Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Birth: 1840, Missouri
• Residence: 1850, District 80, St Francois, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1860, Liberty, St Francois, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1900, East St Louis Ward 1, St Clair, Illinois

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In his marriage certificate, it states his name is William Thompson. Why would he go by Thomas? Was there a mistake in his marriage certificate?

William T. and this family is somewhat a mystery.
In 1850, Wm. T. is the son of John H. in the census in St. Francois County. He is 14 and there seems no question of that, considering he falls in the middle of a slew of children born 2 years apart.

In the 1860 census he is married, age 24, and living with his wife Irena in Iron Mt. in the Liberty township and has a male child W. H. that is 6 months old.

In the 1870 census, he is going by Thomas and now says he is 40, which is off by 4 years and now has two more children, Jennie, 7, and Edward, 5.

In the 1880 census they are all gone. John H., his father, moved to East St. Louis between 1870 and 1880. It seems that William Thomas did also, but it is a mystery about his wife Irene and the children.

Is the William McFarland, husband of Elisabeth McKensie, the same person as William T. McFarland? We know by DNA testing of a descendant of William McFarland and wife Elizabeth that they are part of the same group of McFarlands, but have not seen definite proof that the two Williams are the same.

In 1880 there is a McFarland, living in East St. Louis, age 40, with wife Lissie, born in Ohio, parents both from Ireland, and a daughter named Jennie age 9, born in Missouri, father MO and mother Ohio, so appears to be their child.

In 1900, William McFarland, with birth date listed as January 1840 is living in East St. Louis, married 25 years to Elisabeth. She has given birth to 4 children all alive still and living with them. The oldest, James, was born in Missouri, the rest in Illinois.

In 1910, T. W. McFarland, 69, born MO, with father born NC and mother born MO lis living in Ward 1, Dist. 102, in East St. Louis, St. Clair Co. Illinois with wife Lizzie, 55, born Ohio, parents from Ireland. Both T.W. and Lizzie have been married before, and have been married 34 years. She has given birth to 4 children, all alive. There is a daughter, Goldie, 23, born in Illinois, and another daughter Frances, 18, now married for half a year, to Ben Trilley, also 18, born in east St. Louis and living with them.

In 1920, Lizzie McFarland is living in East St. Louis, and is listed as a widow.

William married Elizabeth McKensie on 8 Feb 1876 in St Clair, Illinois, USA. Elizabeth was born in 1855 in OH; died on 30 Mar 1932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, East St Louis Ward 1, St Clair, Illinois

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In the 1930 census, Elizabeth McFarland, age 70, is living still in East St. Louis, she is living at the school where she is a janitress, and according to the 1920 census, that is the Douglas school. It lists her parents as being, father from Northern Ireland, and mother from the Irish Free State. In her family in 1930 is Goldie Pinkerton, 42, daughter, and Eleanor Smith, granddaughter, 15.