Robert married Ida V. Keister on 21 Sep 1893 in Sedalia, Pettis Co., MO. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Emmett McFarland was born in 1901 in Ennis, Ellis Co., Texas; died on 13 May 1958 in Dallas Co., Texas.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1877, Cooper, Missouri
• Residence: 1880, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Several descriptions of this cemetery follow:
First was shared with me by Dianne Gomez:

MCFARLAND FAMILY GRAVES

These notes were made by Doris Smith Haley in August, 1981, taken from six gravestones found on Charles Loesing farm, four miles south of Boonville, MO on Rankin's Mill Road.
Rankin Family Graves (Reuben McFarland line). Cemetery is fenced with wrought iron and a cedar tree at each headstone facing east.

(Picture of the stones next to one another, starting on left: Reuben, Eunice, Robert, Infant Daughter, Ida Crowther, Zibba L.

Reuben M. McFarland Born in North Carolina Born October 17 1804 Died January 26 1882 Became citizen of Missouri A.D. 1869
True to himself, his family, his country and his God, his children rise up and called him blessed.

Eunice McFarland
Daughter of Archibald and Zibba Rice And wife of Reuben McFarland
Born March 6 1805
Died December 24 1874
Why weep for thy loved Mother the
Angel said, though gone from thy
Sight she is not dead. Her home is with Him of the thorn crowned head. And When thy work on earth is done, thou Wilt meet again thy much loved Mother
And worship with her at the Father's throne In the beautiful surnmerland.

Robert A. McFarland
Son of Reuben and Eunice Died September 8 1863
Age 28 years 6 months 11 days Then rest thee, loved one rest. Thy warfare roam is o'er.
We'll strive to meet thee with the blest
Where sorrows come no more.

T.W. and A.M. McFarland
Infant dau. (of T. Warren and Malvina McFarland, whose property this was)
Died October 15 1866
The lovely bird so young and fair, Called home by early doom.
Just came to show how sweet a flower In paradise could bloom. Rest.

Ida Crowther McFarland
Daughter of Reuben and Eunice Died October 20 1871
Aged 34 years 3 months 20 days (Legend was not discernible)

Zibba L. McFarland
Daughter of Reuben and Eunice
Died October 23 1876
Aged 47 years 9 months
(Her gravestone was broken and lower half buried in dirt)

Reuben McFarland Cemetery

Township:
T-48-N
Range:
R-16-W
Section:
18

Southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section in Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri; T-48-N; center of the section on the north side of hill; elevation 670'; on the farm of J. C. Loesing.

History:
The cemetery was named after Reuben McFarland, who was born in North Carolina, one of eight children of Jacob and Nancy nee' Cathey McFarland.

Nancy Cathey was a daughter of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families all came to Missouri about 1816; to St. Genevieve County and lived there two years and then came to Cooper County, in 1818; and settled the land where they lived out the remainder of their lives. The cemetery had head stones and an iron fence around it, with tall cedar trees just outside the fence.

Recorded by Mr. and Mrs. Grover Debo.

Updated:
September 19, 2000

Crowther
Louisa nee' McFarland; born 21 Jun 1837; died 18 Oct 1871

Goodrich
Lavina nee' McFarland; born 22 Jun 1829; died Oct 1876

McFarland
Eunice nee' Rice of North Carolina; born 06 Mar 1805; died 24 Dec 1874; wife of Reuben McFarland; married 17 Jan 1828

McFarland
Infant daughter of Warren and Malvina nee' Wear McFarland

McFarland
Jacob; died 1843; "Buried in private cemetery on their old home place" p1662 History of Cooper County Missouri by W. F. Johnson

McFarland
Matilda nee' Fleming; died 1846

McFarland
Reuben; born 17 Oct 1804; died 26 Jan 1882; "Born in North Carolina; buried on the old McFarland place."; son of Jacob, Sr. and Nancy nee' Cathey McFarland, wife of Jacob, Jr.; husband of Eunice nee' Rice McFarland

McFarland
Robert A.; born 27 Feb 1835; died 08 Sep 1863; A Union soldier in the Civil War

Name: Reuben McFarland
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1804
Death Date: 26 Jan 1882
"Born in No. Carolina; buried on old McFarland place." Son of Jacob, Sr. and Nancy (Cathey) McFarland, wife of Jacob, Jr.; hus. of Eunice (Rice) McFarland
Cemetery: Reuben McFarland Cemetery
Description: Location: In Boonville Township, Cooper County, Mo; T-48-N; R-16-W; Section 18; Center of the section on the north side of hill; elevation 670'; on the farm of J. C. Loesing. "The cemetery was named after Reuben McFarland, who was born in North Carolina, one of eight children of Jacob and Nancy (Cathey) McFarland. Nancy Cathey was a daughter of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families all came to Missouri about 1816; to St. Genevieve County and lived there two years and then came to Cooper County, in 1818; and settled the land where they lived out the remainder of their lives. The cemetery had head stones and an iron fence around it, with tall cedar trees just inside the fence." Recorded by Mr. and Mrs. Grover Debo.
Cemetery Records of Cooper County, Missouri Volume III

Reuben McFarland Cemetery

Township:
T-48-N
Range:
R-16-W
Section:
18

Southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section in Boonville Township, Cooper County, Missouri; T-48-N; center of the section on the north side of hill; elevation 670'; on the farm of J. C. Loesing.

History:
The cemetery was named after Reuben McFarland, who was born in North Carolina, one of eight children of Jacob and Nancy nee' Cathey McFarland.

Nancy Cathey was a daughter of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families all came to Missouri about 1816; to St. Genevieve County and lived there two years and then came to Cooper County, in 1818; and settled the land where they lived out the remainder of their lives. The cemetery had head stones and an iron fence around it, with tall cedar trees just outside the fence.

Recorded by Mr. and Mrs. Grover Debo.

Updated:
September 19, 2000

Crowther
Louisa nee' McFarland; born 21 Jun 1837; died 18 Oct 1871

Goodrich
Lavina nee' McFarland; born 22 Jun 1829; died Oct 1876

McFarland
Eunice nee' Rice of North Carolina; born 06 Mar 1805; died 24 Dec 1874; wife of Reuben McFarland; married 17 Jan 1828

McFarland
Infant daughter of Warren and Malvina nee' Wear McFarland

McFarland
Jacob; died 1843; "Buried in private cemetery on their old home place" p1662 History of Cooper County Missouri by W. F. Johnson

McFarland
Matilda nee' Fleming; died 1846

McFarland
Reuben; born 17 Oct 1804; died 26 Jan 1882; "Born in North Carolina; buried on the old McFarland place."; son of Jacob, Sr. and Nancy nee' Cathey McFarland, wife of Jacob, Jr.; husband of Eunice nee' Rice McFarland

McFarland
Robert A.; born 27 Feb 1835; died 08 Sep 1863; A Union soldier in the Civil War

Reuben married Eunice Rice on 27 Jan 1828 in Howard, Missouri, USA. Eunice was born about 1807 in Tennessee; died on 24 Dec 1874; was buried in Reuben McFarland Cemetery, Boonville Twn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 21 Feb 1772, Fincastle, Montgomery, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1810, Haywood, North Carolina, United States
• Residence: 1830, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1840, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Death: 13 Oct 1846, Booneville, Cooper, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
Jacob McFarland's first marriage would have taken place in Tennesee in Greene/Jefferson County. Jefferson County was created in 1782 and its marriage records start in 1798. I assume his first, and or second wife died and he then married Nancy Cathey in 1804 when he purchased land from George Cathey. The McFarlands did not move to Buncombe County before 1799.

Regarding the children: the son George W. McFarland born Oct. 18, 1809 may be incorrect, or he has become mixed up with George W. McFarland, born Jan. 25, 1809, son of James Ray McFarland.

Also, the marriage to Elizabeth Webb, and then the marriage to Nancy Cathey...yet there are children born before that marriage.

Buncombe County Deed Records:
On April 20, 1804 Jacob McFarland purchases 65 acres on the east side of the Pigeon River from George Cathey. Vol. 8, p. 271. Haywood Co. is created out of Buncombe Co. in 1808.

Haywood Co. NC, County Court Pleas, Vol. C, p. 11, in June 15, 1812, Jacob McFarland was foreman of the Grand Jury, James McFarland served, and John McFarland, Esq. was a Justice. Dec. 1814, Jacob and James McFarland serving as grand jurors (p. 90). March session, 1815, Jacob is serving again, John McFarland Esq. is Justice.( p. 103)

Haywood County N.C. Deed Records:
Book A, p. 363. On Sept. 19, 1815, Jacob McFarland sold to Daniel McDowell 67 acres on the east side of the Pigeon River, where he lives, for $700. The land intersects the said McFarland spring branch. George Cathey witnessed. This must have been shortly before the move to Missouri. (Daniel McDowell is the son of James McDowell, therefore a brother to Margaret McDowell who married David McFarland, Jacob's brother.)

Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-12
Collection of cemetery records from Cooper County, Missouri. More information below (MHH note: mistake in the records below: the Jacob married to Matilda Fleming is Jacob Jr., not the Jacob born in 1772.)

Name: Jacob McFarland
Birth Date: 21 Feb 1772
Death Date: 13 Oct 1846
hus. of Matilda (Fleming) McFarland; hus. of Nancy (Cathey) McFarland; (buried?) Note: Nancy Cathey was a dau. of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families came to St. Genevieve Co., Mo., in about 1816; lived there for two years; and in 1819 came to Cooper Co., where they lived out their lives.
Cemetery: Reid Cemetery
Description: Number 1 Also, called McFarland Cemetery Location: T-48-N; R-17-W; Section 25 About a mile from the new bridge on Route B, south, out of Boonville on a country lane not far from the Petite Saline Creek on the farm once owned by Ed (Jack) Melkersman is a cemetery about twenty feet square with an iron fence around it. On the gate is the name "McFarland". The farm is now owned by Henry Grathwohl. There are no visible tombstones inside this enclosure but on the outside was found one foot marker with the initials, J. McF. on it. It is our thinking that this is a marker for the grave of John S. or Jessie McFarland who had come to Cooper County between 1815 and 1820 after William McFarland, the first sheriff of Cooper County, who resided on the Byler farm now owned by Larry Lymer of the Rankin Mill Community. Other markers scattered around over an area of some fifty by seventy five feet were found that had not been broken beyond reading and these were:
Cemetery Records of Cooper County, Missouri Volume VI

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Location: T-48-N; R-17-W; Section 25 on the Charles Grathroohl land.
p. 15, correction
Bousfield: Henry
Crawford: George; b. March 8, 1795 d. July 29, 1852.
p. 16, correction
Mcfarland: Jacob; b. Feb. 21, 1772 d. 1843; hus. of Matilda (Fleming) McFarland (deceased 1846).
Atlas Survey: 1877 land atlas - no cemetery symbol on the William A. Reed land. 1915 land atlas - no cemetery symbol on the Ed. Melkersmann land. 1978 plat book - no cemetery symbol on the Charles Grathwohl land. 1991 plat book - no cemetery symbol on the Charles Grathwohl land.
Note: Grathwohl land was 4-5 miles south of Boonville, on Route "B".
Inquire and Please, ask permission to enter Private Property.
Missouri Cemetery Records Volume XI Addendum to the Volumes I to X of the records Part Two
Reed Cemetery #1
Volume VIA, pp. 15-16

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The following are notes from the McFarland genealogy website of Gary Morris: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hollow/8143/genealogy/mcfarland/rbtlanc.txt --

***** 46 ***** Jacob McFARLAND, son of John McFARLAND and Mary KINDER, was born
21 Feb 1772 in Bedford County, Virginia, died 13 Oct 1846 in Cooper-Moniteau
County, Missouri. Jacob married (1) to Elizabeth (Betsey) WEBB born about 1770
in Virginia(?), died 1796/1798 in Virginia. Jacob married (2) 1796/1799 in
Pigeon Valley, Buncombe County, North Carolina to Nancy CATHEY daughter of George
CATHEY and Margaret CHAMBERLAIN, born 1 Jan 1780 in Burke County, North Carolina,
died 29 Aug 1870 in Booneville, Cooper County, Missouri.

----- NOTES FOR Jacob McFARLAND:
SOURCE: World Family Tree #9 and #10 and #12.
CENSUS: 1800 NORTH CAROLINA, Buncombe County 00010-10100. P. 177.
RESIDENCE: Lived 1806 Buncombe County,North Carolina.
CENSUS: 1810 NORTH CAROLINA, Buncombe County. Jacob McFarland P. 197.

----- NOTES FOR Nancy CATHEY:
PARENTS: George CATHEY and Margaret CHAMBERLAIN.
DEATH: Also listed as Pettis Co, MO 24 Aug 1870.

===CHILDREN of Jacob McFARLAND and Nancy CATHEY

154 Elizabeth (Betsy) McFARLAND b 6 Feb 1795 Buncombe
County, North Carolina.
+ 155 Catherine McFARLAND b 12 Feb 1800/1801 Buncombe County,
North Carolina. M Nicholas McCARTHY.
+ 156 Sarah McFARLAND b 8 Aug 1802 Buncombe County, North
Carolina. M Reuben GEORGE.
+ 157 Reuben McFARLAND b 17 Oct 1804 Buncombe County, North
Carolina. M Eunice RICE.
+ 158 Ann McFARLAND b 26 Apr 1806 Buncombe County, North
Carolina. M Jesse McFARLAND.
+ 159 William McFARLAND b 26 Jan 1808 Haywood County, North
Carolina. M Martha A. ROBERTS.
160 George McFARLAND b 18 Oct 1809 Haywood County, North
Carolina.
+ 161 Jacob McFARLAND b 30 Oct 1811 Haywood County, North
Carolina. M Matilda FLEMING.

Jacob McFarland's first marriage would have taken place in Tennesee in Greene/Jefferson County. Jefferson County was created in 1782 and its marriage records start in 1798. I assume his first, and or second wife died and he then married Nancy Cathey in 1804 when he purchased land from George Cathey. The McFarlands did not move to Buncombe County before 1799.

Buncombe County Deed Records:
On April 20, 1804 Jacob McFarland purchases 65 acres on the east side of the Pigeon River from George Cathey. Vol. 8, p. 271. Haywood Co. is created out of Buncombe Co. in 1808.

Haywood County N.C. Deed Records:
Book A, p. 363. On Sept. 19, 1815, Jacob McFarland sold to Daniel McDowell 67 acres on the east side of the Pigeon River, where he lives, for $700. The land intersects the said McFarland spring branch. George Cathey witnessed. This must have been shortly before the move to Missouri.

Cooper County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-12
Collection of cemetery records from Cooper County, Missouri. More information below

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Name: Jacob McFarland
Birth Date: 21 Feb 1772
Death Date: 13 Oct 1846
hus. of Matilda (Fleming) McFarland; hus. of Nancy (Cathey) McFarland; (buried?) Note: Nancy Cathey was a dau. of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families came to St. Genevieve Co., Mo., in about 1816; lived there for two years; and in 1819 came to Cooper Co., where they lived out their lives.
Cemetery: Reid Cemetery
Description: Number 1 Also, called McFarland Cemetery Location: T-48-N; R-17-W; Section 25 About a mile from the new bridge on Route B, south, out of Boonville on a country lane not far from the Petite Saline Creek on the farm once owned by Ed (Jack) Melkersman is a cemetery about twenty feet square with an iron fence around it. On the gate is the name "McFarland". The farm is now owned by Henry Grathwohl. There are no visible tombstones inside this enclosure but on the outside was found one foot marker with the initials, J. McF. on it. It is our thinking that this is a marker for the grave of John S. or Jessie McFarland who had come to Cooper County between 1815 and 1820 after William McFarland, the first sheriff of Cooper County, who resided on the Byler farm now owned by Larry Lymer of the Rankin Mill Community. Other markers scattered around over an area of some fifty by seventy five feet were found that had not been broken beyond reading and these were:
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Location: T-48-N; R-17-W; Section 25 on the Charles Grathroohl land.
p. 15, correction
Bousfield: Henry
Crawford: George; b. March 8, 1795 d. July 29, 1852.
p. 16, correction
Mcfarland: Jacob; b. Feb. 21, 1772 d. 1843; hus. of Matilda (Fleming) McFarland (deceased 1846).
Atlas Survey: 1877 land atlas - no cemetery symbol on the William A. Reed land. 1915 land atlas - no cemetery symbol on the Ed. Melkersmann land. 1978 plat book - no cemetery symbol on the Charles Grathwohl land. 1991 plat book - no cemetery symbol on the Charles Grathwohl land.
Note: Grathwohl land was 4-5 miles south of Boonville, on Route "B".
Inquire and Please, ask permission to enter Private Property.
Cemetery: Splice Creek Baptist Church Cemetery
Description: Location: T-47-N; R-15-W; Section SW 1/4 of Section 10. The Splice Creek Baptist Church is nearby - only about one quarter mile south of the cemetery, at the crossroads in the N. E. 1/4 of Section 16.
Cooper County, Missouri Cemetery Records Volume XI Addendum to the Volumes I to X of the records Part Two
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Name: Reuben McFarland
Birth Date: 17 Oct 1804
Death Date: 26 Jan 1882
"Born in No. Carolina; buried on old McFarland place." Son of Jacob, Sr. and Nancy (Cathey) McFarland, wife of Jacob, Jr.; hus. of Eunice (Rice) McFarland
Cemetery: Reuben McFarland Cemetery
Description: Location: In Boonville Township, Cooper County, Mo; T-48-N; R-16-W; Section 18; Center of the section on the north side of hill; elevation 670'; on the farm of J. C. Loesing. "The cemetery was named after Reuben McFarland, who was born in North Carolina, one of eight children of Jacob and Nancy (Cathey) McFarland. Nancy Cathey was a daughter of George Cathey, a Revolutionary Soldier. These families all came to Missouri about 1816; to St. Genevieve County and lived there two years and then came to Cooper County, in 1818; and settled the land where they lived out the remainder of their lives. The cemetery had head stones and an iron fence around it, with tall cedar trees just inside the fence." Recorded by Mr. and Mrs. Grover Debo.
Cemetery Records of Cooper County, Missouri Volume III

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Jacob married Nancy Cathey about 1804 in Buncombe Co., NC. Nancy was born on 18 Jan 1780 in Burke Co., North Carolina; died on 29 Aug 1870 in Boonville, Cooper Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Boonville, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA
• Death: 29 Aug 1870, Pettis, Missouri, USA
• Death: 29 Aug 1870, Pettis, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

In 1810 census in Haywood Co. NC, George Cathy and William Cathy Sr. and Jr. are listed. In 1800 census they also are present in Buncombe Co. NC. The Catheys were neighbors of the McFarlands and traveled with them to MO. They appear in the 1830 census in Cooper Co. MO as John and Joseph and Nancy Cathey households near the McFarlands.