Notes:

ALBERT ANDERSON MCFARLIN (1908 to 1981)
(Research by Peter F McFarlin, Dec 2013, revised Oct 2018.)

Albert Anderson McFarlin was born in Kansas City Missouri, and was liv ing with his parents in Kansas City, Jackson co, Missouri in April o f 1910 for the U S Census. He was age 1and 4/12, with his older sister s Leota a 20, Mamie a 18, Elva a 15 . His older sister Phoebe had die d by 1910.
In the 1920 census, Albert A McFarlin, a 11 and attending school, is w ith his father and mother and a lodger (Maude G Fulton a 20 - counte r girl at restaurant) living Belleville City, Republic co, Kansas. Hi s father was a restaurant proprietor.
The 1925 Kansas State Census lists Albert a 16 with A A McFarlin a 5 9 (restaurant) and Anna a 53.
Albert McFarlin and Neva (Elliott) were married by the 1929 Lawrence , Kansas city directory's listing where he is shown as a student, res . 911 1/2 Massachusetts.
In 1930 the Census of Lawrence, Kansas has Albert A and Neva M McFarli n living at 941 Tennessee St. She is a saleslady in a gift shop and h e is not employed. No children listed.
He apparently attended college for five years. (info found in the 194 0 Hays, Kansas census where his name is Bob McFarland.) Also listed in the 1940 census is their daughter Anna Low McFarland age 5. In the 194 8 Hays City inumeration list Alber t A McFarlin is listed with 3 person s in the family - possibly their daughter Anna?
By 1963 they were listed in the Hays, Kansas City directory; Alber t A McFarlin, editor Hays Daily News. Mrs Neva M McFarlin is the vic e president of The News Publishing Co.
Albert McFarlin SS # 512-07-0066 of 67601 Hays, Ellis, Kansas died Ja n 1981.
Neva Meriam McFarlin SS # 509-10-4768, apparently moved to 345 Esplana de, Irvine CA 92612 where she died 4 Aug 1988.
They are both buried in the Mount Allen Cemetery in Hays, Kansas.

Albert married Neva Meriam Elliot about 1928 in Lawrence, Osborne, Kansas, USA. Neva was born in 1911 in Kansas; died in 1988 in Orange Co., California, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1925 Kansas State Census listing, Neva M Elliott a 14 was livin g with her sisters Carmen M Elliott a 17, Noel E Elliott a 16 in thei r grandmother Mary E Hoagland's home in Osbourne, Kansas.

Notes:

Family records show that Thomas Edward McFarlin married Anna (Ann) VanBuskirk July 12, 1888 (*1). The two Ohio census listings from 1870 and 1880 record his first name as Edward and Eddie, but not Thomas. Last name was spelled McFarlin throughou t all but one censuses.
In the 1895 Kansas census T M McFarlin is married to "Annie" (age 29 b Kansas), and is a grain dealer living in Sabetha in northeast Kansas. They have three children; Leota a 5, Marnie a 3, and Phoebe a 2 months. Thomas had recently arrived from N ebraska, although his three young daughters were all born in Kansas. This perhaps indicates that he had been working in Nebraska while the family stayed at home in Sebatha, Kansas.
In 1900 he was again on the move, living in Sterling, Colorado without his family and rooming with; a flour-milling contractor, Isaac Shepardson (a 56), Isaac's son, and a book-keeper, Harry P Long (a 25). Thomas was now a RR grading foreman, a ve ry similar profession to his older brother William K McFarlin (who had recently moved east in 1899 to East Orange, NJ). Thomas' wife and family remained in Savannah, Missouri with her father Harvey VanBuskirk. (Information for Thomas E McFarlin wa s also given to the census taker in Missouri, but with an incorrect birthdate for Thomas - he being away at the time?).
Perhaps Thomas McFarlin and brother William had been working together for the Rock Island or A T and Sante Fe railroad companies, as the railroads pushed new lines westward.
By 1910, Thomas McFarlin, Anna and now their four children were living in Kansas City, Missouri, renting at 720 Euclid Avenue where he is listed as a (RR?) office labor agent. They'd had five children with four now living. The youngest, Albert, wa s born in Missouri (Kansas City?). In 1915 he and Anna returned to Kansas, living in Belleville, while daughter Elva was housekeeping for an elderly couple in LaBette, Kansas. Thomas, Anna and Albert McFarlin (age 11) were still living in Bellevil le in 1920 where Thomas was a proprietor of a restaurant, at age fifty-four.
Thomas Edward McFarlin, born in Coitsville, Ohio (son of Anderson McFarland/McFarlin), and his wife Anna, remain living in Belleville, Kansas in 1930, now at 1510 Q Street, where he owns his own home and is retired, age 64. No death records locate d for Thomas and Anna McFarlin.

(Research):PFM's sources for Thomas Edward McFarlin;
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (Edward's age 4, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with his father Anderson McFarland (Eddie's age 14, attending school, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)
1895 (Kansas) census; Sabetha, Nemaha co. Kansas; T M McFarlin a 29 grain dealer, b Ohio, had recently came from Nebraska, and; Annie a 27 b Kansas, Leota a 5, Mamie a 3, Phoebe a 2m (all three children were born in Kansas).
1900 census; Savannah, Andrew co, Missouri; Thos. E McFarland (son-in-law to Harvey Van Buskirk, who is head of this household), Anna McFarlin and their daughters there too.
1900 census; Sterling, Logan co, Colorado; Thomas E McFarlin b Oct 1865 Ohio, RR grading foreman, rooming with the Isaac Shepardson family.
1910 census; Kansas City, Jackson co, Missouri; Thomas E McFarlin a 43, office labor agent, with; wife Anna A a 39 b Kansas, dau Leota a 20 b Ohio, dau Mamie a 18 b Kansas, dau Elva a 15 b Kansas, son Albert a 1 4/12 b Missouri
1915 (Kansas) census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; T E McFarlin a 49, Anna a 43, Mame a 23, Robert (sic=Albert) a 6.
1920 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas E McFarlin a 54 restaurant proprietor, wife Anna A a 47
1930 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas McFarlin a 64 no occupation, a 29 when married, wife Anna A a 58 a 16 when married.

Other References
*1 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and no tes in his possession at that time.

Thomas married Anna A. Van Buskirk on 12 Jul 1888 in Lancaster Co, Nebraska, USA. Anna was born in Jan 1872 in Kansas, USA; died in 1937 in Kansas?; was buried in Mount Allen Cemetery, Hays, Ellis, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anna was born in Kansas, possibly Doniphan co, in 1872 and lived with her mother, printer father and young sister Edith (b 1873). She lived in Troy, Kansas in 1875 and 1880, but by 1885, her mother Cora was living once again in White Cloud on th e Missouri River in northeastern Kansas.
In that year of 1885, while her father was away, Anna's mother Cora Van Buskirk was letting out rooms in her home to an Ohio teacher named Thomas Cecil, twenty-five year-old William McFarlin, born Ohio, and others. Fourteen year-old Anna and ten y ear-old Edith were in the household also.
William McFarlin's younger brother, Thomas Edward McFarlin somehow meets Anna and the two marry three years later, in 1888.

(Research):(Also see Thomas McFarlin).

PFM's sources for Anna VanBuskirk of Kansas;
1875 (Kansas) census; Troy PO, Centre, Doniphan co, Kansas with Harvy (a29), Anna (a4), and Edith (a 2).
1880 census; Troy, Doniphan co, Kansas; Cora (a25), husband Harvy (a 33), Dau Anna (a8) and dau Edith (a6).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Anderson McFarland
• Name: Anderson McFarland

Notes:

ANDERSON MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN 1828 - 1890
by; Peter F McFarlin - 2008

This was written in 1881-1882 (*1 p 168) about William (son of John)
McFarland; he "...reared a large family. Eleven children arrived at years of maturity. But one son is living, Anderson, at Coitsville. Four of his daughters are living, viz: Mrs Lydia Mahan, Liberty, Trumbull county; Miss Jemima McFarlin, Niles; M rs Matilda Price, Coitsville, and Mrs Lavina Harris, Youngstown...". In the sketch for William McFarland's wife, Elizabeth Loveland, (*1 p 165), Williams wrote, "...Elizabeth became the mother of six sons and six daughters."
This Anderson McFarland (McFarlin) was born April 12, 1828, at the William McFarland farm on the Hazelton road, Coitsville, Ohio. He was the ninth of twelve children and eventually outlived all of his five older brothers. The 1830 Coitsville censu s first enumerated him in his father's household as the boy under five. Then in 1840, at twelve, he was still the youngest man shown, along with his two older brothers, William age sixteen, and Amos age twenty-eight. It's likely he helped on the f amily farm while he went to the local school, at least until about sixteen, when he farmed at home full time. During the 1840's, he became acquainted with miss Jane Kirk, who lived nearby with her family. Her parents, Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin ) Kirkpatrick were living in the northwest part of Coitsville in 1850, near Thorn Hill.
Anderson and Sarah Jane were married April 26 1849,(*2),(*3), probably in Coitsville, by A O Rockwell. Soon after, when they are listed in the 1850 census, they are shown in the census-taker's sequence that puts them on the Hazelton road, (perhap s on a part of his father's farm there). The listing order of the 1850 census is particularly informative, in that almost all the neighbors on the later 1874 town map (*4), are enumerated in the same order as in the 1850 census. If true, this woul d put their first small farmstead between the McCartney's and the Vale's farms, and also near the Mahoning River valley farms of Anderson's grand parents, Amos and Jemima Loveland, and their families. Town land records would prove this, or not.
During the next few years, their family life had a number of personal tragedies. Sarah's mother, Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirkpatrick died in May 1851, age sixty-nine. Then Anderson and Sarah's first child, William E McFarland, died in August, 1851, ju st nine months old. Next, Anderson's father, William McFarland, passed away in December of 1853, his age seventy-three, and finally, Anderson's second child, Alice Kirk McFarland, died in August, 1854, at age two.
But their lives turned for the better, as their next six children lived. In 1860, Anderson apparently was still living on the Hazelton road (near the McCartneys) and was still next to his widowed mother Elizabeth (Loveland) McFarland with her smal l household. Anderson and Sarah at the time, had; Lovina age six, Mary age four, Betsy age two and William Kirk McFarland four months old.
By the next census in 1870, the Anderson McFarland family had prospered. They had moved to a new neighborhood in the center of Coitsville village (see map). Also moving up to the center, in a household next door to Anderson's farm, were his mothe r Elizabeth, brother Amos and sister 'Lucinia' (Lavina). Anderson's farm real estate value had increased by twenty times to over ten thousand dollars, the eighth highest 1870 valuation in the township (out of more than two hundred). About this tim e of 1870-80 the Anderson McFarland/McFarlin family began spelling their last name McFarlin.
Indicated in the 1880 census, Anderson was still farming, Sarah kept house, and five of their six living children were with them, (Mary Olivia McF having moved out). Vine J McFarland, the oldest daughter at twenty-six, was a school teacher, as wa s her sister Betty McFarland, age twenty-two. Perhaps they were both giving classes in the corner school just to the north, a mile and half away on the main road (see map).
William Kirk McFarlin, their oldest son, was now twenty and listed as still attending school, however this 'school' was the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio where William registered at the University as "...Will K McFarlin, son of A McFarli n."(*5). A younger brother, Frank McFarland, age sixteen, was helping on the farm while finishing up his primary schooling, (taught by his sisters?). Anderson's youngest child, Eddie McFarland, age fourteen, was also still in school while living a t home.
Information is given in the 1880 census as to the birth places of the parents of all people listed. This becomes good confirming evidence for tracing obscure data as to various ancestor's locations. For Anderson and Sarah McFarland, the places o f birth given in 1880 are very useful; Anderson's father (William McFarland), was born in Ireland, and his mother, (Elizabeth Loveland), born in Vermont. For Sarah, her father, (Andrew Kirkpatrick), was born in New Jersey, and her mother, (Elizabe th Baldwin), was born in Pennsylvania.
Williams had stated in his 1882 biographical sketch that Anderson had become the "...owner of a good farm of one hundred and ninety acres situated near the center of the township...Mr McFarlin (sic) has been a Republican since the party was formed . He was postmaster at Coitsville for seventeen years. The family are well known and highly respected in this county" (*1 p 175).
Anderson died in August 1890, at the age of sixty-two, probably at his home/farmstead in Coitsville center.

PFM's sources for Anderson McFarland(McFarlin); Farmer, Postmaster;

1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249 with his father William (Anderson's age <5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with his father William (Anderson's age 10-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584 (his age 22, farmer, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 (his age 32, farmer, born in Ohio, real value $450, pers value $600)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 (his age 42, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, real value $10,220, pers value $1,630)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 (his age 52, farmer, born in Ohio, spelled McFarland, father b in Ireland, mother b in Vermont)
Other References;
*1 Williams; 1882 v 2
*2 McFarlin; 2008 Many of the McFarlin births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarlin by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 1877 (1897?). Ph otocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes and letters, were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that time.
*3 Marraiges of Mahoning county; 1846-1851 p 108
*4 1874 Map of Coitsville, Ohio
*5 1971 letter to P F McFarlin from Ohio State University
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Family Tree for Mr. Peter Folsom McFarlin

Anderson married Sarah Jane Mary Kirk on 26 Apr 1849 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Sarah was born on 21 Jan 1830 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died in 1893 in Coitsville, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Sarah Mary Kirk

Notes:

"...Mrs McFarlin is the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirk. Andrew Kirk came at an early date from Washington county, Pennsylvania; he was originally from New Jersey. Elizabeth Baldwin was the daughter of Caleb Baldwin, one of the fir st settlers in Youngstown..."(*1 p 175).
Sarah Jane Kirk, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Kirk(patrick), was the youngest of thirteen children. Her father Andrew was one of the first blacksmiths in Youngstown, Ohio (about 1800). Andrew's blacksmith shop (and home?) was next t o Caleb Baldwin on the north side of Federal street in 1805 -10. Caleb reportedly had given his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Andrew a farm of fifty-three acres nearby in Coitsville, just south of the Thorn Hill area on the McGuffey road. Thi s farm they made their homestead at least by 1826, and Sarah was born there in Coitsville, Ohio, January, 1830.
In 1849, at age nineteen, Sarah married Anderson McFarland, who grew up on the William McFarland farm, two miles to the south on the other side of Dry Run Creek in Coitsville. The young couple first lived on the Hazelton road near his father Willi am's farm, where they began their family. They lived in this area for at least the next ten years and, with many of their neighbors, attended the nearby Methodist Episcopal church on the Youngstown-New Bedford (PA) road where the Poland road inter sects it (*1 p 170).
By 1870 they had moved to a larger farmstead two miles east, just to the north side of Coitsville center near the Bissels and McGeehans (see 1870's Coitsville map). Here, on their large farm of 190 acres, they remained at least until 1882 when Wil liams writes of them and their children in the History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties (*1 p 175). They had nine children, with two dying young.
In 1877 (1897?) Sarah (Kirk)McFarland presented her husband Anderson's family bible to her oldest son, William Kirk McFarlin (along with a small, ca 1875 photo of her brother, Thomas Kirk) (*2).
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Family Tree for Mr. Peter Folsom McFarlin
Sarah McFarland's date and place of death have not been located and further searching of vital and church records is needed here.

Sources for Sarah Jane Kirk(patrick)
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 248 with her father Andrew Kirkpatrick (her age <5)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with her father Andrew Kirkpatrick (her age 5-15)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584 (her age 20, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 (her age 30, born in Ohio)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio 107 (her age 40, born in Ohio, keeping house)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 (her age 50, wife, born in Ohio, keeping house, father b in New Jersey, mother b in Penna)
1890 census; not extant
1900 census; Sarah McFarland(McFarlin) not found

Other References
*1 Williams; 1882 v 2
*2 McFarlin; 2003 Many of the McFarlin (McFarland) births, marriages, and deaths, with the names, are from the 1832 William McFarland bible, presented to his grandson, William Kirk McFarland by Wm K's mother, Sarah (Kirk) McFarland, March 9, 187 7 (1897?). Photocopies of the vital records pages in that bible, plus copies of other vital record notes were given to Peter F McFarlin in 1974, by his uncle, Charles Kirk McFarlin, in Short Hills, New Jersey, who had the bible and notes in his po ssession at that