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- MARY (MCFARLAND/MCFARLIN) MCCAIN (1793 -1852)
(Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, revised June 2019)
Mary McFarland/McFarlin emmigrated from Ireland to America with her fa
mily, probably in 1796, at the age of three. We know that she came wit h, at least, her mother Margery, four brothers and older sister Isabel la (*1 p 168). Her father John was with them at first in America. Th e immigrant McFarland family lived i n Pennsylvania for several (eight? ) years, before arriving in newly formed Coitsville, Ohio about 1803/ 4 when she was about ten. By then her father John had "been killed Eas t of the Mtns..."
Mary spent the next ten years on her brother Alexander McFarland's fam ily farm south of the center of Coitsville, with her widowed mother an d older brother Alexander and his wife and children. Her brother Willi am married in 1812 and settled o n top of the hill on the Hazelton road , while her brother Andrew, in 1813, started his own family in the sou thern part of the town.
On Feb 17,1814, Mary married Robert 'McCane' (McKane, McCain) in Ellsw orth, Trumbull co. Ohio. They had moved to his farm in the town of Ell sworth, fifteen miles to the southwest.
She appears to be the female in the 1820 Ellsworth, Ohio census enumer ation, living in Robert McKane's household, with a son and two daughte rs, all under ten. In 1830, she's the female with four daughters unde r twenty and three sons under fifte en. Again, in 1840, the Ellsworth c ensus appears to show her with husband Robert, four boys and three gir ls, (the oldest daughter probably having married and moved out). Will iam's short biographical sketch states they had four sons and four da u ghters (*1 p 99).
The last record found, to date, is in the 1850 Ellsworth, Ohio census . 1850 is the first census to give names, birth places and dates for e ach person in households. Mary McCain (sic) is now the head of the hou se, with a Seth McCain, (age 18, bo rn in Ohio), living on the farm wit h her. The farm is valued at $2,940, an average amount for a good far m in that area then. Importantly, evidence is recorded in this decenni al return that she was born in 'Ireland', probable proof of her McFar l and ancestry. She may have died July 4 1852?
The family bible information about Mary's birth and death dates are fr om researcher Laura Zeh in 2015, of the Canfield, Ohio Historical Soci ety.
PFM's SOURCES for Mary (McFarland/McFarlin) McCain;
1814; Ohio County Marraiges p74; "Robert McCane to Mary McFarlin, bot h of Ellsworth" by John Prince.
1820 census; Ellsworth, Ohio p 240b; with her husband Robert McKane (M ary's age 26-45)
1830 census; Ellsworth, Ohio p 268; with her husband Robert McKane (Ma ry's age 30-40)
1840 census; Ellsworth, Ohio p 422; with her husband Robert McCain (Ma ry's age 60-70 sic)
1850 census; Ellsworth, Ohio p 544; (widow age 57, born in Ireland, re al $2,940)
Other REFERENCES;
*1 History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, Williams, 1882 v 2
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1791 - Abt 1858 (66 years)
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