Notes:

His death certificate notes that he was born with spina bifida, and says that is the main cause of death.

Notes:

1920 census: Milton E. McFarland, adopted age 13, Ill, Ill , Ill, living with Ida C. Callahan, born 1860 Ill, NY, NY. Ida was Ida Caroline Miller, who was Charlotte Miller's sister, and therefore Milton Elwood's great aunt.

Information from son Neal R. McFarland:
My father, Milton E. Mc Farland, was a 32nd degree mason and was a past master of the Masonic Lodge AF&AM No. 484 that used to be located in E.St. Louis, IL. He also was very active for many years in the Scottish Rite and Order of Eastern Star, where he served was a past patron.
He only had an 8th grade education, but was very self-educated and an outstanding mechanic. At age 13 he started driving a truck and at age 16 he enlisted in the US Army during WWI, serving at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, where he trained polo ponies for the Army polo team. He became an electrician and worked for about 49 years for the Sachs Electric Co. in St. Louis. During WWII, he was drafted into the US Navy, but received a last minute deferment right before boarding a train to ship out, because of my birth.
My mother worked for many years in the insurance and real estate industries.
He and my mother were strong members of the former Winstanley Baptist Church in E. St. Louis, IL, where I was baptized.
Both my parents loved to travel, even when I was a small child growing up. They visited every state, except Alaska (which my mother finally visited after my father passed away), and most of Canada and Europe, including of course, Scotland.
They moved from E. St. Louis, IL to Glendale, MO in 1950 and continued to live in other cities in St. Louis County until he retired. Then they moved permanently into a weekend home my father built himself in Lone Dell, MO., which is where they lived until he died. After his retirement, they spent winters in their motor home in Ft. Myers, FL.
When my mother and I were making arrangements for dad's burial, the undertaker asked us how we would best describe him. I immediately answered, "He loved people." My mother agreed.

Milton married Thelma Smith on 9 Jun 1934 in East St. Louis, St. Clair Co., Illinois. Thelma was born on 30 Mar 1911 in Campbell Hill, Jackson Co., Illinois; died on 16 Apr 2008 in Ocoee, Florida; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Belleville, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Thelma M. Smith

Notes:

It looks as if Fred T. McFarland was actually born October 10, 1883. At least that is what is recorded in the St. Louis, Missouri birth registry. It says he was born to Milton P. McFarland from Missouri, and mother was Lotta from New York. At the time of birth, they were living at 1317 N. 15th St. in St. Louis.

This WW I record seems to be Fred's.

Roster of the Men and Women who served in the Army or Naval Service (including the Marine Corps) of the United States or its Allies from the State of North Dakota in the World War, 1917-1918 Volume 3 Larkee to Rice

Name: Fred Thomas McFarland
Army #: 5,031
Registrant: no, over age
Birth Place: St. Louis, Mo.
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1883
Parent's Origin: of (nationality of parents not given)
Occupation: carpenter
Comment: enlisted in Company F, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Carrington, on July 10, 1917; called into federal service, World War, on July 15, 1917; served in Company F, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (116th Sanitary Train, 162nd Field Hospital), to June 13, 1918; Center Tank Corps No. 311, Army Postoffice No. 714, to Sept. 7, 1918; Company B, 344th Battalion, 304th Brigade Tank Corps, to discharge. Grade: Private 1st Class, July 9, 1918; overseas from Dec. 13, 1917, to Jan. 1, 1919; wounded, severely, Sept. 26, 1918; Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa. on March 12, 1919, as a Private 1st Class, Surgeon's Certificate of Disability, 20%.

This means that he was out of the country and wounded at the time of his wife's death from tuberculosis on Feb. 2. 1919.

It also looks like Fred T. is Fred Thomas McFarland, and he moved to North Dakota in 1917 and then appears in the Carrington, ND census in 1920 married to Alma. If this is the same Fred then he remarried very quickly.

In 1930 he is living in San Francisco in a mission and is widowed he says, and then he died in Los Angeles, May 27, 1945 according to the California Death Index. That death index says that he was born Nov. 10, 1883 in MO. Died May 27, 1945 in Los Angeles and his mother's maiden name was Miller. This matches the record of Milton McFarland, boat captain.

Notes from Neal McFarland's research:
Fred McFarland Timeline-1919
Taken from Fred and Elma's birthdays and newspaper accounts.

September 26, 1918 Fred is wounded in France and is hospitalized.
October 10, 1918 Fred turns 35 years old.
January 1, 1919 Fred returns to US in Newport News, VA. Sends a post card from there to a Mr. Thornhill in Carrington that is received on January 8th. Goes from Newport News to Army Hospital in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
January 21, 1919 Fred arrives in Carrington on furlough from hospital in Ft. Dodge.
February 2, 1919 Maude dies
March 12, 1919 Fred discharged from the Army and hospital.
March 13 or 14, 1919 Fred back in Carrington.
March 25, 1919 Elma turns 18 years old. (Is this when he proposed to Elma?)
Week of May 18/24 Fred retires as police chief (Because of new job as railroad laborer?)
June 16, 1919 Fred and Alma married in Moorhead, MN.
June 17, 1919 Fred (and Elma) back in Carrington.
October 10, 1919 Fred turns 36 years old.
January 14, 1920 1920 Census reports Fred and Elma living in Carrington.

Fred married Ida Maude Cranmer on 2 May 1906 in St. Clair Co., Illinois. Ida was born on 17 Mar 1885 in Minnesota; died on 2 Feb 1919 in Koch Hospital, St. Louis Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Maude McFarland's death certificate was discovered in St. Louis County, Missouri. Maude was listed as married with husband Fred McFarland. She died of tuberculosis in the Robert Koch Hospital, at age 33 years, 10 months, and 16 days on Feb. 2, 1919, which puts her birth at March 17, 1885 if I did the math correctly. She is buried at the Green Wood Cemetery, in French Village, Illinois and the undertaker was Martin Schroeppel of Collinsville, Illinois. She was working as a maid at a hotel called Illmo Hotel and although she was born in Minnesota, her parents were born in Missouri. The death certificate was very faded, so the full names of her parents were not clear, but further research made it clear as Austin Cranmer and Addie Dickerson.

Notes:

Mary Helen Haines notes:
Why does the 1900 census for Milton McFarland say he was born in December, 1852, instead of 1850. Is this Milton McFarland the same as Milton P. McFarland from St. Francois Co. MO. who was born in March of 1850 according to the census in 1850 in St. Francois County ? The details in the sketch below indicate it is the same person when referring to his grandfather, and father, yet dates do not match on all the censuses.

There also is a marriage record in East St. Louis, St. Clair Co. for a William McFarland to an Ida Price on Oct. 6, 1897. If this is the correct Ida, then the transcriber made a mistake in putting William, instead of Milton. This also could be the marriage to Floyd McFarland.

This was sent to me by Suzanne Richardson, descendant of Milton P. through daughter Pearl. Suzrichards7@aol.com

PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD ST CLAIR COUNTY, ILLINOIS CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PROMINENT AND REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS CHICAGO CHAPMAN BROS. 1892

CAPT. MILTON McFARLAND The original of this notice is the pleasant and accommodating Superintendent of the Wiggins Ferry Company under Capt. Sackmann. He has a through understanding of his business and is one of the most efficient men in the employ of this company.
The grandfather of our subject was a planter in North Carolina, of Scotch descent, and the father was born in the same State, where he turned to agricultural pursuits. When a young man, he emigrated to Missouri and made a settlement at Farmington, where he married and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he improved and operated until 1866, when he came to St. Louis. Here he lived retired until his death in 1873. He was a quiet, easy-going man, and a Democrat in politics, often serving in township offices. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. The mother of our subject was Amanda Frezelle, who was born in North Carolina, and died at her home in 1865. She was the mother of twelve children, and all grew to maturity and ten are now living. Three brothers of our subject, John, Newman and George, were in the Civil War in the Confederate army.
The original of this sketch was reared on the farm until he was seventeen years of age and was given the rudiments of knowledge in the little log schoolhouse of the district. His birth took place at Farmington, Mo, December 14, 1849, he being the third youngest. He was reared on the farm until he was tired of his duties, and as there was no school during the war, he learned little in books in those disastrous years. In 1866, he came to St. Louis and obtained employment with the Chicago & Alton Railroad Transfer Company in East St. Louis, and remained there until the spring of 1871, when he began with the Wiggins Ferry Company as a dock hand on the “Ed C. Wiggins” for Capt. Pernoe, and then for Capt. Trendley on the same boat. He worked his way until he became pilot on the old “Simon C. Christy, “ and for five or six years he remained as pilot, but in 1880 he became Captain of the old “Springfield” and ran it for four years. He then became Captain on the tug “Samuel C. Clubb,” and for three years he ran that noisy little boat and had charge of various other boats until 1890 he was made Assistant Superintendent under Capt. Sackmann and this important post, requiring a man of energy and experience, he has held ever since.
Our subject was married in East St. Louis, in 1873, to Charlotte Miller, a native of Buffalo, N.Y. They have five children living, Harvey, Floyd, Lotta, Pearl and Freddie. The Captain is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Honor, and in politics is a Democrat, but lives too busy a life to care for office. He has clung to the faith of his ancestors and attends the Presbyterian Church.
Capt. McFarland, like all the other captains in the employ of the Wiggins Ferry Company, is a whole-souled man is also a thorough business man. We cannot account for it, but there seems to be a peculiar spirit of friendliness about these good captains which makes them pleasant men to meet. And they all have long tales of experiences which never happen to men in other lines, which they tell for the stranger’s entertainment. Long live Capt. McFarland.

Research done by Kathy Wieland has found that Milton McFarland purchased two plots at St. Peter's Cemetery in East St. Louis in 1887, one was used by an infant buried July 11, 1887. Since there is no name, it must be assumed it was a child who died at birth. This cemetery was condemned in 1920 and the bodies moved elsewhere.

This was sent to me by Suzanne Richardson, descendant.

CHICAGO CHAPMAN BROS. 1892
CAPT. MILTON McFARLAND The original of this notice is the pleasant and accommodating Superintendent of the Wiggins Ferry Company under Capt. Sackmann. He has a through understanding of his business and is one of the most efficient men in the employ of this company.
The grandfather of our subject was a planter in North Carolina, of Scotch descent, and the father was born in the same State, where he turned to agricultural pursuits. When a young man, he emigrated to Missouri and made a settlement at Farmington, where he married and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he improved and operated until 1866, when he came to St. Louis. Here he lived retired until his death in 1873. He was a quiet, easy-going man, and a Democrat in politics, often serving in township offices. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. The mother of our subject was Amanda Frezelle, who was born in North Carolina, and died at her home in 1865. She was the mother of twelve children, and all grew to maturity and ten are now living. Three brothers of our subject, John, Newman and George, were in the Civil War in the Confederate army.
The original of this sketch was reared on the farm until he was seventeen years of age and was given the rudiments of knowledge in the little log schoolhouse of the district. His birth took place at Farmington, Mo, December 14, 1849, he being the third youngest. He was reared on the farm until he was tired of his duties, and as there was no school during the war, he learned little in books in those disastrous years. In 1866, he came to St. Louis and obtained employment with the Chicago & Alton Railroad Transfer Company in East St. Louis, and remained there until the spring of 1871, when he began with the Wiggins Ferry Company as a dock hand on the “Ed C. Wiggins” for Capt. Pernoe, and then for Capt. Trendley on the same boat. He worked his way until he became pilot on the old “Simon C. Christy, “ and for five or six years he remained as pilot, but in 1880 he became Captain of the old “Springfield” and ran it for four years. He then became Captain on the tug “Samuel C. Clubb,” and for three years he ran that noisy little boat and had charge of various other boats until 1890 he was made Assistant Superintendent under Capt. Sackmann and this important post, requiring a man of energy and experience, he has held ever since.
Our subject was married in East St. Louis, in 1873, to Charlotte Miller, a native of Buffalo, N.Y. They have five children living, Harvey, Floyd, Lotta, Pearl and Freddie. The Captain is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Uniform Rank of the Knights of Honor, and in politics is a Democrat, but lives too busy a life to care for office. He has clung to the faith of his ancestors and attends the Presbyterian Church.
Capt. McFarland, like all the other captains in the employ of the Wiggins Ferry Company, is a whole-souled man is also a thorough business man. We cannot account for it, but there seems to be a peculiar spirit of friendliness about these good captains which makes them pleasant men to meet. And they all have long tales of experiences which never happen to men in other lines, which they tell for the stranger’s entertainment. Long live Capt. McFarland.

Milton married Charlotte Miller in 1873 in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Charlotte was born in 1855 in Greene Co., Ohio; died in 1896 in prob. east St. Louis, Illinois; was buried in St. Clair Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Clair county, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]