Family/Spouse: Bill Orr. Bill died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The census of 1920 showing Jim S. Scroggins with wife Iva, born in Texas, says that Jim is born in Ky. Also, Loma is not present, but shows brother Harland, and sister Hazel.

"James S was a cowboy, and was not a good farmer, but he did try, and he gave up the life he loved, after Sterling Rodney was born, as his wife, Iva Lena McFarland wanted him to stay closer to home. He and Iva stayed close to her parents until Arthur, her father, died, (before April 16, 1998, as I calculated. It seemed that shortly after sterling was born, 1/21/1893, they all moved to Chickasha, Indian Territory, now oklahoma, where Arthur Rodney got a job as a mailcarrier." notes from Loma Patton, 2004
The census of 1920 showing Jim S. Scroggins with wife Iva, born in Texas, says that Jim is born in Ky. Also, Loma is not present, but shows brother Harland, and sister Hazel.

"James S was a cowboy, and was not a good farmer, but he did try, and he gave up the life he loved, after Sterling Rodney was born, as his wife, Iva Lena McFarland wanted him to stay closer to home. He and Iva stayed close to her parents until Arthur, her father, died, (before April 16, 1998, as I calculated. It seemed that shortly after sterling was born, 1/21/1893, they all moved to Chickasha, Indian Territory, now oklahoma, where Arthur Rodney got a job as a mailcarrier." notes from Loma Patton, 2004

James married Iva Lena McFarland on 9 Jul 1891 in Coleman Co., Texas. Iva (daughter of Arthur Rodney McFarland and Mary Ellen Terry) was born on 8 Oct 1874 in Fannin County, Texas; died on 11 Jan 1956 in Vancouver, Washington; was buried in Vancouver, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1880, Precinct 9, Coleman, Texas, USA

Notes:

Thirteen children in this family. "Iva Lena McFarland was about 5'4" tall-black curly hair but grayed early. brown eyes and average complexion-she was of stocky build, which was called "plump" She did not "behave" as the Scroggins women thought she should, altho they all admitted she was the prettiest woman in Fannin County. The Scroggins women were "straight laced" and exact in their manners. Moma rode horseback, with her hair blowing in the wind. She could "ride with the best of them." notes from Loma Patton 2004

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: School teacher and circuit preacher, rancher
• Occupation: School teacher and circuit preacher, rancher
• Residence: 1850, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1860, Beat 4, Fannin, Texas
• _MILT: 9 Aug 1862, 31 Texas Cavalry-Co. I, Haupe's Regiment of Texas Dismounted Cavalry-Brush Battalion. Served out of Ft. Wishita, Indian Territory
• Residence: 2 Aug 1867, Fannin, Texas
• Residence: 1870, Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 9, Coleman, Texas, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
During the Civil War, Arthur is first recorded as being at Ft. Washita on Dec. 27, 1861. He is 17, black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion, on a horse valued at $150. and rigging $35. He is part of Taylor's Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifles, 22nd Cavalry, Co. C. On the Muster Roll for Jan 16, to June 30, 1862, the Co. C is now call the 1 Indian Reg't Texas Cavalry, and it lists the enrolling commander as J.W. Piner for a period of 12 months. Then the next muster role is for June to Dec. 1862 and it says that he was discharged July 16, 1862 by order of Gen. Albert Pike, in compliance with Act of Congress approved April 16, 1862. Other records for A. McFarland show him enlisting on August 9, 1862 at Fort Washita for the duration of the war. He was part of the 31st Regiment, Texas Cavalry, also known as Hawpe's Regiment Texas Cavalry or Mounted Volunteers that was organized first on May 14th, 1862 with companies A to H. Company I was organized on August 9th, 1862. Then on December 28th, 1862 he is listed Absent without leave. Then in March and April of 1863 listed an Present and entitled to bounty, and last paid on June 30th, 1863.

On census in 1870 Arthur is shown at 26 married to Mary E, age 30, from Illinois, with three children using McFarland name: James F. 3, Lillian E. 5, and Edwin age 1. In 1880 Arthur and family is found in Coleman County, Texas where he moved after the family argument over the land erupted after father James' death with no will and mother's will leaving the land to Arthur and brother Newton. Deed records show that his father alloted 150 acres to Arthur from the original land grant, but mother Jane left Newton and Arthur the 302 acres she and James had still in their name.

"Arthur McFarland, during his life, was a school teacher and a circuit preacher - a rancher - and at the time of his death he was a sub - contractor for a Star Route Mail Carrier, out of Chickasha, Oklahoma, then Indian Territory. He died the *8th of October, 1899 of diarrhea, at Chickasha, and as I have stated before, is buried there.... Mama always said the happiest days of her life were those when she and her father camped out near the school where he taught- going home only on weekends." * "I was unable to find the actual date of Arthur's death, so, in order to obtain the stone (memorial at McFarland Cemetery) I used the birthdate of his daughter. Does it matter so much what date a man dies, more than the memory of his life?" Loma Scroggins

Loma Patton thinks Arthur died shortly before the birth of Noble Dugan Scroggins (his grandson born in Princeton Texas), because Arthur's wife Mary Ellen moved to Princeton with the Scroggins family. She thinks that Arthur died in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma and is buried on a hill-Rose Hill Cemetery. If he was buried there, the on-line records of those gravesites do not mention him.

Coleman County: Beginning in September 1879, Mary E. McFarland settled on land surveyed for W.D. Wyatt in Coleman County in June 1879. She purchased the 160 acres of that pre-emption survey #137 from him in June 1882. Papers were filed and the official state patent #519 was issued to Mary E. McFarland for the 160 acres on May 23, 1884. But while this was happening, it seems that another pre-emption was being filed. On October 18, 1881 a survey #154 was done for 160 acres of vacant land for Arthur McFarland, that he occupied starting in August 22, 1881. A proof of settlement was filed on August 25, 1884. That land was adjacent to, and surrounding, the W.D. Wyatt survey #137. Then on Sept. 9, 1884, Mary E. and Arthur McFarland sold survey #154 of 160 acres to D.F. and W. B. Roddan for $200. The property was resurveyed Nov. 1886 as a corrected survey.
During the Civil War, Arthur is first recorded as being at Ft. Washita on Dec. 27, 1861. He is 17, black hare, dark eyes, dark complexion, on a horse valued at $150. and rigging $35. He is part of Taylor's Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifles, 22nd Cavalry, Co. C. On the Muster Roll for Jan 16, to June 30, 1862, the Co. C is now call the 1 Indian Reg't Texas Cavalry, and it lists the enrolling commander as J.W. Piner for a period of 12 months. Then the next muster role is for June to Dec. 1862 and it says that he was discharged July 16, 1862 by order of Gen. Albert Pike, in compliance with Act of Congress approved April 16, 1862. Other records for A. McFarland show him enlisting on August 9, 1862 at Fort Washita for the duration of the war. He was part of the 31st Regiment, Texas Cavalry, also known as Hawpe's Regiment Texas Cavalry or Mounted Volunteers that was organized first on May 14th, 1862 with companies A to H. Company I was organized on August 9th, 1862. Then on December 28th, 1862 he is listed Absent without leave. Then in March and April of 1863 listed an Present and entitled to bounty, and last paid on June 30th, 1863.

On census in 1870 Arthur is shown at 26 married to Mary E, age 30, from Illinois, with three children using McFarland name: James F. 3, Lillian E. 5, and Edwin age 1. In 1880 Arthur and family is found in Coleman County, Texas where he moved after the family argument over the land erupted after father James' death with no will and mother's will leaving the land to Arthur and brother Newton. Deed records show that his father alloted 150 acres to Arthur from the original land grant, but mother Jane left Newton and Arthur the 302 acres she and James had still in their name.

"Arthur McFarland, during his life, was a school teacher and a circuit preacher - a rancher - and at the time of his death he was a sub - contractor for a Star Route Mail Carrier, out of Chickasha, Oklahoma, then Indian Territory. He died the *8th of October, 1899 of diarrhea, at Chickasha, and as I have stated before, is buried there.... Mama always said the happiest days of her life were those when she and her father camped out near the school where he taught- going home only on weekends." * "I was unable to find the actual date of Arthur's death, so, in order to obtain the stone (memorial at McFarland Cemetery) I used the birthdate of his daughter. Does it matter so much what date a man dies, more than the memory of his life?" Loma Scroggins

Loma Patton thinks Arthur died shortly before the birth of Noble Dugan Scroggins (his grandson) in Princeton Texas, because Arthur's wife Mary Ellen moved to Princeton with the Scroggins family. She thinks that Arthur died in Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma and is buried on a hill-Rose Hill Cemetery. If he was buried there, the on-line records of those gravesites do not mention him.

Coleman County: Beginning in September 1879, Mary E. McFarland settled on land surveyed for W.D. Wyatt in Coleman County in June 1879. She purchased the 160 acres of that pre-emption survey #137 from him in June 1882. Papers were filed and the official state patent #519 was issued to Mary E. McFarland for the 160 acres on May 23, 1884. But while this was happening, it seems that another pre-emption was being filed. On October 18, 1881 a survey #154 was done for 160 acres of vacant land for Arthur McFarland, that he occupied starting in August 22, 1881. A proof of settlement was filed on August 25, 1884. That land was adjacent to, and surrounding, the W.D. Wyatt survey #137. Then on Sept. 9, 1884, Mary E. and Arthur McFarland sold survey #154 of 160 acres to D.F. and W. B. Roddan for $200. The property was resurveyed Nov. 1886 as a corrected survey.

Arthur married Mary Ellen Terry on 17 Nov 1867 in Fannin Co., Texas. Mary was born in 1840 in Greene Co., Illinois; died in 1921. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1880, Precinct 9, Coleman, Texas, USA

Notes:

Her marriage certificate to J.F. Chamlee lists her name as Mary A. Terry, instead of Mary E. as she always signed.
"Mary Ellen was a faith healer, and my older Sister, Prudence, told me how she would stick her with pins to "get the devil out of her." notes from Loma Patton, 2004
Mary McFarland was found living as an inmate in the insane asylum at Las Vegas, San Miguel County, New Mexico in the 1920 census. ED 180, p. 15 A. Loma told me that Mary Ellen did not have a permanent home after Arthur died, but moved around from relative to relative. Edwin got a phone call to come get her in 1921 in New Mexico, but when he went to where she asked him to come, she was gone and no one knew what happened to her. It seems the family did not know she had been living in the asylum. It is not known where she is buried.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Baptist
• Religion: Baptist
• _MILT: Between Sep and Nov 1838
• Possessions: Between 1826 and 1836, St. Francois Co., Missouri
• _MILT: 1838, Volunteer for Republic of Texas at Fort Decalb under Capt. Isaac Lyday
• Possessions: 1845, Land grant of 1280 acres (two sq. miles) near North Sulphur River, two miles north of present-day Ladonia-Patent #264
• Possessions: 1847, Fannin County, Texas; Tax List: shows James with 1180 acres, his patent. A.J. (Jackson) with 1000 acres from 3 patents, and A. (Albert) with 320 acres. Also on the same page is Samuel McF. with 213 acres, not a part of this family.
• Residence: 1850, Fannin, Texas, USA
• Residence: 1860, Beat 4, Fannin, Texas
• Possessions: 1865, Fannin County, Texas; Tax records shows James with 685 from his patent. Son Newton with 160 from James' patent and Mary McFarland (J.R.'s widow?) with 160 from James' patent.
• Residence: 1870, Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines research and notes:

I just bet that James E. stands for James Ewing.

Missouri Records:

Land: Deed Book A: pp. 234-235 Oct. 20, 1826 Elliott Jackson gives to daughter Jane and her husband James McFarland 151 acre tract on the waters of St. Francis River, on northwest corner of James Davis's 400 arpen tract.
On pp. 442-443. James McFarland purchased 340 acres for $960. on northwest corner of Nathaniel Cook's 800 arpen track from Elliott Jackson.

On p. 456 James McF.and wife Jane sells to Ambrose Willliams 225 acres for $650. on Aug. 23, 1831.
On p. 498 James and wife Jane sells to Wm Brewer 170 acres for $500. on Nov. 5. 1832.
On. Oct. 10, 1836 James and wife Jane sells 340 acres of Davis Survey to Samuel P. Harris for $1050 (Twnship 35, section 24, 25, Range 6 east)

Not sure where this record is, but Lola McFarland Hill was informed by the St. Francois County Clerk of a record I missed where on Nov. 1, 1832, Elliott Jackson, as attorney for Rucker Jackson of Hempstead Co. Arkansas sold 170 acres to James McFarland. This is probably in Book A as well. The family probably stopped in Arkansas for a short time before moving on in to Texas in 1837.

Texas:
Credited as a founder, with Daniel Davis, of the Ladonia community. Daniel Davis was the earliest settler, arriving in 1836, therefore receiving a Class 1 land grant. Because of his early death in Nov. 1837, his family sold his land and moved away. James McFarland purchased much of it that connected to his own land grant, and his grandchild James Franklin McFarland's homestead was on Daniel Davis land.

Southwestern Historical Quarterly: History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843, p. 297 is discussing the Indian attack on the home of Daniel Davis in Nov. 1837 "Davis, less fortunate, had one arm broken and received a ball through his breast that killed him instantly. During that night a heavy rain had fallen forcing a scouting party of twelve or fourteen men from Lyday's Fort to seek shelter at the Davis house. This proved a fortunate thing for the remainder of the family, for no sooner had the Indians fired upon the two at the gate than they charged the house. They were swarming over the fences when the rangers opened the door. The sight of their unexpectedly large numbers caused the savages to retire in spite of the fact that the scouts were caught unarmed by the sudden attack and did not fire a shot. The rangers moved the dead man and his family from the scene of the tragedy to James McFarland's place three miles to the eastward, and it was there that Andrew Davis, the son, learned of his father's death, at ten o'clock in the morning, as he was returning fom the fort where he had been sent the night before with an old slave to obtain some hogs."

If this account is accurate, then it might be that Daniel Davis is buried in the McFarland cemetery, and was its first burial.

See "Our McFarland Family's History and Migrations" for more history about the settlement of Texas. More information on land titles, wills, probates, etc. can be found in the document "Land Issues Concerning James McFarland and his Children" written by Mary Helen Haines. Note: in some places his middle initial is shown as an M. This is a typo deriving from the Mc in McFarland, I believe. It is possible that his middle name is Ewing, since this name appears several times in this family.

Patent #264 for 1280 acres. 2nd class grant. February 23, 1845. In the original survey James' land includes the North Sulphur River, but in a survey dating from the 1870s it stops short of the river and two plots that include the river are in the names of a Cunningham and a Fulton.

James makes a few other purchases. In 1847 he buys from Morgan Mullens part of the Rice Smith survey for $9.75. (Book G. p. 368) Then in 1853 he buys land in the Davis Creek area from Allen Tilly. (Book G. p. 442)

In the 1850 census James and Jane are fam. #217 living with James, 17, Wm, 16, Mary Jane, 14, Newton, 10, and Arthur, 5. James land is valued at $1000. Land is valued at approximately $1.00 an acre. Fam. #216 is Anna McF. Etheridge with husband Howard on land valued at $100. Fam. #218 is Sarah McF. Sebastian with husband Elijah on land valued at $30. Jackson is living with his family #221 on land valued at $1500. Living not too far away is John McFarland, James older brother, fam. #229 living with his wife Mary, daughter Eliza and her husband Francois Deguire. Jasper McFarland is fam. #225 living next to Andrew White, Thomas P. Ratton, and John and Nancy Pence (Artemissa's father and mother). Jasper's land is only worth $89. Cintha A. McF. Tucker is living with husband James C. Tucker, but they have no land. Fam. #176 is Rebecca McF. and husband Hezekiah Blankenship, with no land, living next to Albert, fam. #175 who has land valued at $240.

Unaccounted for is John Ewing McFarland. On July 7, 1845 James and Jane appear at the Fannin County court to claim a land certificate for 640 acres in the name of their deceased son, John Ewing McFarland. They are issued certificate #152- a 2nd class headright. I assume he is the McFarland son who died in the Indian raid that led to the establishment of the McFarland cemetery. James and Jane hold on to this certificate until February, 1871 when they sell it to O.P. Richardson for $320.00, or .50 cents an acre. The document reads "the land certificate issued by the Board of land Commissioners of Fannin Co. to our deceased legitimate son John Ewing McFarland." (Book T, p. 199). When this land was finally surveyed in 1874, it was located in Hunt County along the Caddo Fork of the Sabine River, near present day Caddo Mills. In 1875 the formal land grants, #636 and #637, were issued by the State of Texas to the Heirs of John Ewing McFarland. (certified copies of both documents)

James then proceeds to give grants to his daughters and sons-in-law. In 1853 he gives Mary Jane and her husband Wm. R. Terry 130 acres of land from Daniel Davis survey, and Allen Tilley purchase. (Deed Book G, p. 444) He gives Elijah Sebastian, his son-in-law, and his daughter Sarah, a deed of 44 acres, July 28, 1855 (Book L, p. 84.) Hezekiah Blankenship dies in 1852, leaving Rebecca a widow and Jackson McFarland is the executor of his estate (Box 3, Case #114).

In the 1860 census, James and Jane are fam. #598 living with Newton and Arthur R. on land valued at $4000, with personal property valued at $2000. Fam. #598 is L. Cunningham, married to Mary Jane McF. Cunningham, who has already buried 2 husbands. They are living on land valued at $300, personal property at $600. Fam. #599 is Elijah Sebastian and Sarah McF. with land valued at $400 and personal property at $200. The Moses Cunningham and John Hulsey families have moved in and bought big chunks of land near by. Jackson is Fam. #586 on land valued at $3000, with personal property of $2000.

James and Jane sell 200 acres of their headright to son Newton McFarland for $100 on May 23, 1870. Deed Book T, p. 275

Starting in May, 1870, filed for record Oct. 27, 1871, In Deed Book U, pp. 50, 51, 52
All three documents are the conveyance of land titles to Anna Ethridge, Sarah Sebastian and Arthur McFarland. It seems that James and Jane McFarland wanted to disperse most of their land to their children while they were still alive, knowing that they would not be living much longer.
Sarah is given 156 acres, Anna is given 160 acres, Sarah gives to Arthur 44 acres that she had been given previously in 1855 (part of Rice Smith survey).

Location must have been in Missouri, judging from the birth locations of his brother John's children. The trip from North Carolina must have taken place in 1814 and arrived by 1815. There is no record of this marriage in the Ste. Genevieve, nor the later St. Francois county records.

James married Jane Jackson on 1 Dec 1816 in Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri. Jane was born on 5 Feb 1801 in Scott Co., Kentucky; died on 14 May 1872 in Fannin Co., Texas; was buried in McFarland Cemetery 3 miles north of Ladonia, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1850, Fannin, Texas, USA

Notes:

Location must have been in Missouri, judging from the birth locations of his brother John's children. The trip from North Carolina must have taken place in 1814 and arrived by 1815. There is no record of this marriage in the Ste. Genevieve, nor the later St. Francois county records.