Hugh + Emily Ella Crosby. Emily was born on 2 Nov 1852; died on 2 Nov 1914 in Hollis, Republic, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: William Brackenridge

Notes:

Buried in the Pioneer Methodist Cemetery, Coitsville, Ohio

PFM's sources for William Brackenridge; Farmer
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 246 with William Brackenridge sr (Will iam jr's age15-20)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with Melissa McFarland (William' s age 20-30, engaged in agriculture)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 581 (his age 40, farmer, born in Pa, r eal val $1,000)
1860 census; ?

(Research):PFM's sources for William Brackenridge; Farmer
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 246 with William Brackenridge sr (William jr's age15-20)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190 with Melissa McFarland (William's age 20-30, engaged in agriculture)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 581 (his age 40, farmer, born in Pa, real val $1,000)
1860 census; ?

William married Mary Jane McFarland on 9 Mar 1841 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Mary (daughter of James McFarland and Melissa Hard) was born on 18 Oct 1821 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA; died on 13 Feb 1911 in Cloud Co, Kansas, USA; was buried in Hollis Cemetery, Cloud, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Mary Jane McFarlin

Notes:

MARY JANE (MCFARLIN) BRECKENRIDGE (1821 to 1911)
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, updated June 2019)

This first child of James and Melissa (Hard) McFarlin was born in Coit sville, Trumbull co, Ohio on 12 October, 1821. She married William Bre ckenridge about 1840 and remained in Coitsville. In 1850 William, Mar y and children live next door to he r brother John McFarlin and his wif e Sarah. In John's household is their mother, Melissa McFarlin.
Her husband William Brackenridge III died 10 Aug 1854 and by 1860, Mar y had moved with her five children to Viola, Mercer co, Illinois, wher e she remained through 1900. In both 1880 and 1900 she reports that he r father (James) was born in Irela nd.
By 1910 Mary was living with her farmer son Hugh and family in Grant , Kansas. Mary McFarlin Breckenridge died in Kansas at age eighty-nine .
She was buried in the Hollis cemetery, Cloud co, Kansas.

(Research):PFM's REFERENCES
Much of the vital statistic information for Mary Jane and her childre n was taken from a public tree on ancestry.com and has not been verifi ed.

PFM's SOURCES for Mary (McFarland) Brackenridge;
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249; with father James McFarland (Mary 's age 5-10)
1840 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 190; with widowed mother Melissa McFar land (Mary's age 15-20)
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 581; with husband William Brackenridg e (Mary's age 28, born in Ohio)
1860 census; Viola, Mercer co, Illinois p 809; Mary Breckenridge b Ohi o age 38 with Rufus M a 19, William C a 15, John W a 12, hugh e a 10 , Alice a 8 (all b Ohio)
1870 census; Mary and family not located
1880 census; Viola, Mercer co, Illinois p 288; widow Mary Breckenridg e a 58 b in Ohio, f b in Ireland, m b in Vt, with mother Melissa a 7 7 b VT
1900 census; Viola, Greene, Mercer co, Illinois p 30B; widow Mary Jan e B living alone a 78 b Oct 1821 Ohio f b Ireland, m b VT
1910 census; Grant, Republic co, Kansas p 140 Mary a 88 with son Hug h and Emily Breckenridge and their son Denzel

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Farmer and Distiller
• Alt. Birth: 1788
• Immigration: 1796

Notes:

JAMES MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN - SCOTS/IRISH IMMIGRANT and OHIO DISTILLER (1
795 - 1838)
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, revised June 2019)

ARRIVAL IN PENNSYLVANIA - THEN TO OHIO
James McFarland, was just one year old when he arrived in America wit h his family in 1796. This date of arrival is chosen since his two old er brothers, Alexander and William, both stated that was the year whe n they had immigrated to America (*1
). I assume the whole family arriv ed in America together, including their father John.
As shown before, in the notes for his mother and older brothers and si sters, the family spent about four years elsewhere in Pennsylvania. Th en by 1799/1800 they lived about two years in Hopewell (New Bedford) , Mercer county, Pennsylvania with h is mother's brother, John Anderson . (see his 1800 US census pg 433 for Mercer co, PA)
About 1802/1803, the widow Margery McFarland, with her four sons and t wo daughters, came to Coitsville, Ohio. James was about seven then an d no doubt helped out on the family farm. He remained with his mother , Margery for the rest of her life i n Coitsville (she died in 1835).
By the 1820 census, he is newly married and head of his own family, ha ving settled "...on the road leading west from the village..." (*2 p 1 68). His wife is Melissa Hard, possibly a weaver, since she is from th e sheep farming area of Huntsbur g (Franklin co), Vermont.
James is said to have had one of the four early distilleries in Coitsv ille, his older brother William having another (*2 p 171). They "...pu shed their business with energy for some years, consuming about twenty -four bushels of grain daily at le ast one hundred and fifty days out o f the year, thirty-six hundred bushels per annum, and putting upon th e market nine thousand gallons, more or less, of ardent spirits". Jam es, the distiller, may be the person in his 1820 Ohio census househol d , 'engaged in manufactures' (unless it might be his wife Melissa, runn ing a loom?).
When his first son is born in 1823, they name him John Anderson McFarl and; probably the John after James' father, and the Anderson for his m other's maiden name. By 1830, they have three children living with the m; probably Mary, John and Louisa . Also in their household is James' m other, widow Margery, the original pioneer matriarch from Ireland. How ever, she dies in 1835, seventy-nine years old.
James then died in June of 1838 at age 43 (*3). His estate was probate d from 21 June 1838 to June 1841. At the latter date, a John Stewart w as chosen guardian by both his son John Anderson McFarlin, age 18, an d daughter Louisa McFarlin, age 14 , and the same John Stewart is appoi nted guardian to the younger children; Sarah M McFarlin, age 8, Lysand er J McFarlin, age 6 and Robert W McFarlin, age 4. The 'McFarlin' spel ling of the surname was used in these probate record's (*4). James w a s buried near his mother in the Hopewell Presbyterian cemetery, New Be dford, Pennsylvania (*5). This is where most of the early settlers o f Coitsville were interred since it was the nearest church in the earl y 1800's.
The Hopewell Cemetery records indicate that his mother's name was MARG ARET, and James' last name in 1838 was spelled MCFARLIN (*6).
Melissa carried on, raising the family, and remained a widow for forty -seven years.

PFM's SOURCES for James McFarland(McFarlin);
1820 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 240; (his age 16-26, engaged in manufa ctures)
1830 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 249; (his age 30-40)

REFERENCES
*1 1809 Depositions On Contested Election; OGS Report 24:3(1984) p 202
*2 History of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties; Williams, 1882 v 2
*3 Henry R Baldwin Records Index; p 833
*4 Trumbull county Probate; James McFarlin Sr. 9-266, 9-313, 9-316, 11 -61, 11-150, and 11-168.
*5 Henry R Baldwin Records; LDS microfiche 6051349-1 p 1
*6 Hopewell Cemetery Records, New Bedford, Lawrence co, PA; "IN Memor y of JAMES MCFARLIN who departed this life 11 june 1838 aged 43 years " (verbatum from headstone)
FSID 2Z3X-HLR

James married Melissa Hard on 16 Nov 1820 in Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA. Melissa was born on 7 Apr 1803 in Franklin, Franklin, Vermont, USA; died on 8 Mar 1885 in Viola, Mercer, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

MELISSA (HARD) MCFARLIN (1803 to 1885)
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, reviewed May 16, 2018)

Melissa was a daughter of Lysander Hard and the first of his three wives, whose name is unknown to me. Melissa's father was born 25 March, 1 769, in New Milford, Connecticut , the sixth child of Abraham Hard and Charity Munsee. Lysander shows up i n the 1800 Huntsburg, Vermont cen sus with wife and four children. They are living near the Lemuel Rober ts family and, after Melissa's mother dies, he apparently married on e of Lemuel's daughters, Rosamond Roberts in 1808. He had yet a thir d wi fe (Hannah Holcomb) by 1813.
Melissa was likely one of the two Hard daughters under ten, listed i n the 1810 Franklin, Vermont census, where the family was raising shee p and were taxed for a loom. Sometime from 1810 to 1820, the family mo ved to Ohio, perhaps staying in or n ear Coitsville for a while, wher e Melissa met and married James McFarland. Lysander Hard's brother, Ab raham Hard (b1766), and his family do appear in the (incomplete) 182 0 Wadsworth, Ohio census, and even though the NARA index shows Lysande r t o be on that census page also, his data do not show there. He repor tedly lived until 1851, but I could not locate him in any census listi ng after 1820.
It appears that Melissa Hard and James were married about 1819-1820, b ecause the 1820 census in Coitsville shows James and one female (age 1 6-26), probably Melissa, and one female (age 45+), very likely Marger y (Anderson) McFarland, but no chil dren yet. His mother Margery live d with them for fifteen more years.
In 1830 the family continued to grow, with one son and three daughter s by then. In 1835, widow Margery died, at age seventy-nine. Three yea rs later, Melissa was widowed by her husband James' death, his age for ty-three (*1). During the probate o f his estate (*2), some goods wer e set off to widow and children, debts were collected, and at the vend ue (sale) in July, 1838, Melissa was one of the buyers, probably the h ome-farm, since she is listed as head of family and likely owns rea l e state.
By 1840, at age thirty-seven, she was head of her family, with six chi ldren, ages three to eighteen. It is possible that the older male (ag e 20-30) that is also listed there, is William Brackenridge, who had j ust married Melissa's oldest daught er, Mary, and perhaps was staying o n to help until they could afford their own homestead.
Ten years later, in 1850, Melissa was still living in Coitsville, bu t now only with her unmarried sons John (age 29), and Lysander (age 15 , at school) (both farmers), and daughter Sarah (age 17, at school). L iving at the farm next door now, i s William Breckenridge (age 40, farm er) and his wife Mary (age 28, Melissa's daughter), along with their f ive children.
In 1860, Melissa age fifty-seven, was still living with her son John ( farmer, age 36), and his wife and three children. And, once again, liv ing next door, was another of her daughters; Sarah (age 27), with he r husband Leonard Hogg and their tw o young children.
By 1870, Melissa and the Leonard Hogg family had moved to Viola, Illin ois, still farming. In 1880, Melissa and her widowed daughter Mary Bra ckenridge, were sharing a home together in Viola, next door to the Cra wford Breckenridge family. Crawfor d was Mary's son and Melissa's grand son. However, Melissa was now "disabled" with "consumption" and, in 18 85, she died at age eighty-two.

PFM's SOURCES for Melissa (Hard) McFarland; Weaver?
1810 census; Huntsburg, Franklin co, Vermont p 269; with her father Ly sander Hard (her age under 10)
1820 census; Westfield, Wadsworth, Medina co, Ohio p 104 (Lysander Har d listed originally just after Abraham Hard?)
1820 census; Coitsville, Trumbull co, Ohio p 239; (her age 16-26)
1830 census; Coitsville, Trumbull co, Ohio p 249; with James McFarland , her age 20-30
1840 census; Coitsville, Trumbull co, Ohio p 190; Melissa McFarland a s family head a 30-40, with her children
1850 census; Coitsville, Mahoning co, Ohio p 580b; John McFarlane farm er a 29 b Ohio, Sarah McF a 17 b O, Lysander McFa a 15 b O, Melissa Mc F a 48 b VT
1860 census; Coitsville, Mahoning co, Ohio p 15; John McFarland farme r a 36 b O, Lovina McF a 27 b O, Grant W McF a 3 b O, William J Mc F a 1 b O, Melissa McFarland a 57 b VT
1870 census; Viola, Green, Mercer co, Illinois p 197; (her age 64sic , born in Vermont)
1870 census; New Windsor, Rivoli Twnshp, Mercer co, Illinois p 366 wit h her son Robert W McFarland (her age 67, b VT)
1880 census; Viola, Green, Mercer co, Illinois p 288; with Mary Brecke nridge (Melissa's age 77, born in Vermont, both par b in Vt)

Other REFERENCES
*1 Henry R Baldwin Records
*2 Trumbull co probate records; 9-266, 9-313, 9-316, 11-61, 11-150, an d 11-168