Notes:

Joined the Air Corps for a three year stint on Sept. 9, 1940 in Lubbock, Texas. It listed his nativity as Oklahoma, with a Post-Graduate education and working in manufacturing automobiles. His death date and place comes from the SSDI record.

Numan married Rebecca Butler in PRIVATE. Rebecca was born on 14 Jul 1919 in Penelope Hil, Texas; died on 22 Nov 2005. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Living McFarland
2. Living McFarland

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1900, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1910, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Found a newspaper photo of the Freshman Class of 1908 at Mayo College. It includes 10 young men, including Esker Scott and Neuman McFarland. This college was then called Mayo's East Texas Normal College of Commerce Texas. It is where Sam Rayburn graduated before going to the Univ. of Texas in Austin for his law degree. Mayo's became East Texas University. Esker Scott is Walter Esker Scott, who marries Numan's first cousin Euna Estelle McFarland, daughter of Newton Jackson McFarland.

The 1920 Census has name as Newton, not Numan.

Numan married Mary Cathenry Myers on 7 Aug 1911. Mary was born on 24 Oct 1893 in Mt. Selman, Cherokee Co., Texas; died on 25 Jan 1966 in Lubbock, Texas; was buried in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer and Ginner
• Occupation: Farmer and Ginner
• Residence: 1870, Precinct 4, Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Possessions: 1889, Fannin County, Texas; Tax list shows John E. with 397 acres, most from the Daniel Davis patent.
• Residence: 1900, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1910, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1920, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
Buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery in Ladonia, Tx. In the family bible and in early documents his name is shown as John Win McFarland. 1890 address P.O. was Bonham, lived in Silver City. Had 407 acres in cultivation. Married his second cousin.

Flowers for the Living: Ladonia News
The passing of another week bring into existence another flower, just as rare and beautiful as any which we have strawn along the pathway of life. This week we have selected a farmer of the great Ladonia country, Mr. J. E. McFarland.

Mr. McFarland owns a large farm and beautiful home about 7 miles northeast of Ladonia, on the Bonham pike in the Silver City community. He is the kind of farmer who believes in diversification, and usually raises large crops of grain, fruits, caught, poultry and pork. He is also a man who believes in a good community, always taking a leading part in school and church affairs and it is largely through his effort that they are rated among the best rural in the County. Mr. McFarland has served Woods school for years as an efficient trustee.

As a young man Mr. McFarland united with the First Christian Church and has been an active worker in that congregation for years and has always supported financially and otherwise. He has proven himself in many ways to be an influential citizen.

Mr. McFarland and family enjoy the many luxuries the farm now affords, electric lights, radio, Victrola, piano; automobile and good roads.

As to the affairs of community, county and state you can always depend on Mr. McFarland being well informed. He believes in selecting the man for a public office who is competent and best qualified to fill the trust, and has never voted for a man merely through sympathy our friendship. You can always depend on his being on the right side of every question. Mr. McFarland is a good acquaintance, a special friend and he always finds the warmest welcome wherever he goes. Mr. and Mrs. McFarland have reared a large family of Christian girls and boys and they are now enjoying the latter years of life is only those can who live in contentment.

Obituary:
PIONEER LADONIA CITIZEN IS DEAD

John E. McFarland was born April 19th, 1849, and passed away at 1:05 on the morning of August 13th, 1927, being at the time of his going, 78 years 4 months and 4 days of age.

He was united in marriage to Nancy B. Horn, on September 25, 1873. To this union seven children were born, six of whom are living; Susie McFarland Abshire, (deceased) Artimessia McFarland Rattan, James N. McFarland, John J. McFarland, Cordelia McFarland Bartley, Annette McFarland Milford, Newman Horn McFarland.

John McFarland was born, reared and died, on the same farm. This is unusual, and complimentary too, for his boy-hood friends loved him as in the days of their youth. He was of a generous nature and ready at all times to lend a hand and means to his fellow man. Living in his house by the side of the road, he proved himself a real friend to all who passed his way.

He was a Christian for thirty-six years, and his life was such that he will be missed by his community as a man of true worth and benefit to all. Those who knew him loved him for his cheerful and hopeful disposition which was in evidence, even to the time of his going.

He leaves to hold him in cheerished (sic) memory, the companion, the six children, thirty-one grand children, and thirteen great-grand children, together wild a host of relatives and friends, numbered by those who knew him.

Funeral services were held at the First Christian Church of Ladonia Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, conducted by Rev. E.B. Chancellor, minister after which the remains were interred in the local cemetery. The funeral services were largely attended by the relatives and friends.

Six of the grandsons acted as pallbearers.

John married Nancy Bayless Horn on 25 Sep 1873 in Cooke Co., Texas. Nancy (daughter of Dudley Horn and Amanda Hughes) was born on 24 Jan 1854 in St. Francois, Missouri; was christened on 24 Jun 1883 in By Rev. T. R. Burnette; died on 31 Aug 1928 in Texas; was buried in McFarland lot in Ladonia Cemetery behind Presbyterian Church, Fannin Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1870, Liberty, Farmington, St Francois, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1900, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1910, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1920, Justice Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Fannin County, Texas
• _MILT: 1839-40
• _MILT: 1838, 1st Lieutenant for Republic of Texas at Fort Decalb under Capt. Isaac Lyday, paid $180.
• _MILT: 1841
• Residence: 1845, No Township Listed, Fannin County, TX
• Possessions: 21 Nov 1845, Patents #520, #521-320 acres each in Fannin Co., 2nd class grant-File 115, certificate #73: bought 640 acres from Reuben Brown Nov. 4, 1845
• Residence: 1850, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Religion: 1853, Flag Springs church organized by Methodists and Baptists
• Religion: 1853; Flag Springs church organized by Methodists and Baptists
• Residence: 1860, Beat 4, Fannin, Texas
• _MILT: Between 6 Jul 1861 and 1865, private in Texas State Brigade, 14th Regiment, Capt. John W. Piner 1st Co., Gen. S.A.Roberts, then Co. K, 2nd Reg't Cav. of Texas State Troops, and Chamber's Batt'l of Texas Reserve Corps Infantry, CSA
• _MILT: Between 6 Jul 1861 and 1865
• Residence: 1870, Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, United States
• Religion: Jul 1879, Charter member of Oak Ridge Church of Christ
• Religion: Jul 1879; Charter member of Oak Ridge Church of Christ
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 5, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

Memory of Mary Arabella McFarland Jennings about her grandfather: "I was under five years old when my grandfather died, but I remember his driving to our house in a new buggy-he must have been ill at the time, for he was very pale-I thought of him as a kind and generous grandfather-he gave us children candy-a rare treat.

Property: Although Jackson was awarded 640 acres from the Republic of Texas (Patents #520, and 521), he actually lived on the 640 acres bought from Reuben Brown.
Patent #520 was 320 acres of land adjacent to Jonathan S. Hobby (Hobbs?) and was dated Nov. 21, 1845, from abstract #11347.
Patent #521 was 320 acres of land beginning on Daniel Davis's southeast corner and Hobbs on east side.

Military Service during the Republic:
Fort Decalb Nov. 29, 1838. This is to certify that Jackson McFarland has served as a Volunteer in the Service of the Republic of Texas for the term of three months at said Fort and is hereby honorably discharged from saidd service and is entitled to all the pay and endowments (?) for such service.
Isaac Lyday Capt. Jno. H. Dyer Brig.

Military Service during Civil War:
In Johnny Rebs of Hunt Co. Texas, by Frances Terry Ingmire, 1977, p. 24, transcribed the document signed by A.E. Pace Brig. Gen. of the Texas State Troops the Jackson McFarland Jr. (?) was elected as 2nd Lieut. for Beat 4, of Fannin Co. on April 15, 1862 in the 14th Brigade. According to own personal records that are now lodged at the Barker Museum in Austin, Texas, Jackson was also part of Chamber's Battalion of the Texas Reserve Corps Infantry, CSA. Papers in the National Archives show him as being sent home to Fannin County in August, 1864 to thresh grain for 60 days. This corresponds to paperwork in his possession. He is also part of Wm. Dulany's Company, who was the Captain of Co. K, of the 2nd Reg't. Cavalry of the Texas State Troops. He also joined the Masonic Order, Bethel Lodge #134, in Ladonia.

Fannin Co. Court House Record: Box 16 Case #532
(the handwriting is hard to decipher)
Transcription as best I can interpret:

Filed March 3rd, 1870
The State of Texas In County Court Fannin County ...Feby 7, 1870
To the Hon. F. D. Piner, County Judge in and for said County,

Your petitioner Jackson McFarland, a resident of your County, has to state that sometime in the year 1866, he was appointed guardian of the person's and estates of the minors Peter and Angeline MacFarlane ( free persons of color,) formerly his slaves - That now, said minors are of an age, now 14 years of age, that they are able to earn a living and to take care of themselves - that they are not easily managed and controlled - that they have been until recently satisfied and controllable, and that they have been well clothed and fed and cared for - but, under the circumstances, your petitioner asked to be discharged from further trust and liability as such guardian, and as in duty bound will ..(? Cannot decipher last few words)
Jackson McFarland
F.D. Piner
County Judge
Property: Although Jackson was awarded 640 acres from the Republic of Texas, he actually lived on the 640 acres bought from Reuben Brown. In Johnny Rebs of Hunt Co. Texas, by Frances Terry Ingmire, 1977, p. 24, transcribed the document signed by A.E. Pace Brig. Gen. of the Texas State Troops the Jackson McFarland Jr. (?) was elected as 2nd Lieut. for Beat 4, of Fannin Co. on April 15, 1862 in the 14th Brigade. According to own personal records that are now lodged at the Barker Museum in Austin, Texas, Jackson was also part of Chamber's Battalion of the Texas Reserve Corps Infantry, CSA. Papers in the National Archives show him as being sent home to Fannin County in August, 1864 to thresh grain for 60 days. This corresponds to paperwork in his possession. He is also part of Wm. Dulany's Company, who was the Captain of Co. K, of the 2nd Reg't. Cavalry of the Texas State Troops. He also joined the Masonic Order, Bethel Lodge #134, in Ladonia.

Andrew married Artemissa Pence on 7 Jul 1845 in Fannin Co., Texas, according to Ingmire source. Artemissa was born on 2 Mar 1829 in near the Sinking R., Breckenridge Co., Kentucky; died on 6 Jul 1907 in Fannin Co. Texas; was buried in McFarland Cemetery 3 miles north of Ladonia, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1880, Precinct 5, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:

Memory of Mary Arabella McFarland Jennings about her grandmother: "Grandmother McF. impressed me as kind of an iron woman, ready to defend her own against any odds. When Minta and I spent the summer with her and attended school at Oak Ridge we had potatoes boiled with the jacket on every night for supper-and loved it. I thought she was a beautiful woman-erect posture and wavey black hair."

Artemissa's name is also spelled Artimissa by other descendants. However, on documents from the time period, it is spelled with an "e."

Memory from a letter from Bose McFarland to Lola McF. Hill, dated Jan. 29, 1967: "I remember Great-grand-ma-ma (Artemissa) when she was living with Aunt Jane Cunningham. She smoked a little clay pipe. And one day she showed me about twenty or thirty pennies; that were beginning to turn green, that she kept in a small tobacco sack."

In 1890: P.O. was Ladonia, and she had 1196 acres in cultivation.

In 1893 she must have been living with son Bose and his wife Sude, because she received letters from her sisters and they were always asking about them and Willie and the baby.

Below is the transcription of her obituary made by Lola McFarland, her granddaughter.

GONE HOME _ ARTEMISSA PENCE MCFARLAND
--- Ladonia News, July 1906
Saturday, July 6, the spirit of Grandma McFarland went home to
God. Aged 81 years . four months, and four days, Mrs. Artemissa McFarland
was born at Land Of Sinking, Ky., March 2, 1829. When a young
girl she moved with her parents to Texas, settling in Fannin county.
In July 1845, she married Jackson McFarland, one of the pioneers of
this country, who preceded her almost a quarter of a century ago.
Mrs. McFarland leaves five children, four sons and one
daughter, over thirty grandchildren and over twenty great grandchild-
ren and a great host of friends to mourn her loss.

Coming to this country when Texas was a republic, she spent the
early days of her life amid scenes which were as full fo exciting and
thrilling as they were of inconvenience and self-denial.

None but the few remaining pioneers of this country can adequate-
ly appreciate the hardships that were undergone by those who settled
here in an early day and transformed a wilderness into a cultured,
Christian communities. Without commercial, educational or Christian
opportunities, they toiled and denied themselves these pleasure that
rising generations might enjoy the products of their frugality.
Grandma McFarland was one of this number. She lived to see her desc-
endants to the third generations enter into and enjoy the fruits of the
struggles of herself and her frontier neighbors.

She was the product of those days and conditions when society
was free from artificialities, when friendships were genuine, and
life was delightfully simple and real. I am told by friends who knew
her well that she was a woman of strong, positive convictions; one
who viewed life from a practical, business standpoint;. Industrious
and frugal, she lived a quiet, unassuming life. She was a devout
Christian, but her church life, like her social living was free from
ostentation. Her life was the constant expression of her faith in
God.

Dear old faithful mother! She now rests from the eighty years
but the gentle influence, which, by a constant life, was set in mo-
tion shall live on in the hearts of others long after the frail body
has returned to dust. To sorrowing children and friends we would say:
Trust the same God that brought her a good old age and in whom she be-
lieved.

In a lonely graveyard, Not very far away,
Lies a dear old mother, 'Neath the cold, cold clay.
Memories oft returning of her tears and sighs;
If you love your mother, meet her in the skies.

Now the old home, vacant , Has no charms for you,
One dear soul is absent, Mother, kind and true.
Ever more she dwells where pleasure never dies
If you love your mother, meet her in the skies.

Sunday evening a large company of friends followed her remains
to the family cemetery and after services, conducted by Brothers, Lee
and Parker she was laid to rest by the side of her husband.
Patient and gentle in life, she was glorious in death.

A Friend and Brother.

Artemissa's name is also spelled Artimissa by other descendants. However, on documents from the time period, it is spelled with an "e." Excerpt from letter from Bose McFarland to Lola McF. Hill, dated Jan. 29, 1967: "I remember Great-grand-ma-ma (Artemissa) when she was living with Aunt Jane Cunningham. She smoked a llittle clay pipe. And one day she showed me about twenty or thirty pennies; that were beginning to turn green, that she kept in a small tobacco sack."

1890: P.O. was Ladonia, had 1196 acres in cultivation.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist
• Religion: Baptist
• Occupation: 1860, Blacksmith
• Occupation: 1860; Blacksmith
• Residence: 1870, Liberty, Farmington, St Francois, Missouri, USA
• Residence: 1870, Liberty, St Francois, Missouri, United States

Notes:

In 1870 the family was living in Liberty, St. Francois Co. MO.

Daugher says father born in Tenn. on 1900 census question Fannin Co., p. 19, #325
According to 1900 census, daughter Nancy Bayless Horn says both parents were born in Tennessee.

Dudley married Amanda Hughes on 11 Jan 1842 in Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri. Amanda (daughter of Joseph Hughes and Anna McFarland) was born on 10 Feb 1822 in St. Francois, Missouri; died on 8 Mar 1907 in Gainesville, Cooke Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1828
• Residence: 1870, Liberty, Farmington, St Francois, Missouri, USA

Notes:

Date and names for children, and grandparents passed down through family records.