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Levina Jemima McFarland, born April 1854 in Coitsville, Ohio (*1), was the third child of Anderson and Sarah McFarland and grew up as the oldest on the small family farmstead on the Hazelton road . In the 1860's Levina moved with her family to th e 190 acre farm near Coitsville village center. She was known as 'Vine' by her family, and referred to as 'Vina' by Williams (*2 p 175).
In 1880, Vine, at age twenty-six, was still living with her parents, sister Betty and three younger brothers on the prosperous McFarland farm in Coitsville. She and Betty were both school teachers, which may account for them "attending school" i n that census year.
According to family records, she married a Samuel (Lemuel?) M McBride in 1883. However, census records for Ohio and Pennsylvania, that were checked, didn't reveal where he came from, or went to.
She reportedly died in 1886 (*1), and I have no further information about Levina (McFarland) McBride or possible children.
PFM's sources for Levina McFarlin; Schoolteacher
1850 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 584, her parents living on the Hazelton road
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13, with Anderson McFarland ("Lovina J", her age 6)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with Anderson McFarland ("Lovinia", her age 16, at home, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with Anderson McFarland ("Vine J, her age 26, school teacher, born in Ohio, father b in Ohio, mother b in Ohio)
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.
*2 Williams; 1882 v 2
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