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- Betty B McFarland was the fifth child of Anderson and Sarah Jane (Kirk) McFarland and was born in Coitsville, Ohio August 11th, 1858 on the family's farm. she grew up there with her older sisters Vine and Olive, and brothers; Wm Kirk, Frank, and T homas.
In 1880, Betty was teaching in nearby Liberty while boarding with the J D Everett family. In 1888 Betty married Wm L Jacobs, of Youngstown. They had two children; William MacFarlin Jacobs and Sarah Jacobs. By 1910, she, husband Will, son William a nd daughter Sarah, were living in Columbus, Ohio where Will owned a retail hardware store. By 1920, still in Columbus, Will had retired and they lived together alone.
1930 finds widow Betty living in her own apartment in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, next to the apartment of her son William MacFarlin Jacobs and his wife Bethel. She died sometime after 1936.
(Research):PFM's sources for Betsy B McFarlin; School-teacher
1860 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 13 with her father Anderson McFarland (Betsy's age 2, born in Ohio)
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with her father Anderson McFarland (Bettie's age 11, at home and school, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with her father Anderson McFarland (Betty's age 22, born in Ohio, school teacher, both parents b in Ohio)
1880 census; Liberty, Ohio p 6, Bettie McFarland boarding with J D Everett family (her age 21, born in Pa sic, teacher, both parents b in Ohio)
1889-1890 Youngstown, Ohio directory, The Stambaugh Thompson Co, Elm St
1890 census; not extant
1900 census; Betsy not found
1910 census; Columbus, Franklin co, Ohio ED 173 p 54, with W L Jacobs (Betty, wife, her age 50, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)
1920 census; Columbus, Franklin co, Ohio ED 261 p 1, with Will Jacobs
1930 census; Charleroi, Washington co, Pennsylvania ED 63-34 p 40 (Betty B Jacobs, widow, age 71, born in Ohio, both parents 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.
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