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- Family records show that Thomas Edward McFarlin married Anna (Ann) VanBuskirk July 12, 1888 (*1). The two Ohio census listings from 1870 and 1880 record his first name as Edward and Eddie, but not Thomas. Last name was spelled McFarlin throughou t all but one censuses.
In the 1895 Kansas census T M McFarlin is married to "Annie" (age 29 b Kansas), and is a grain dealer living in Sabetha in northeast Kansas. They have three children; Leota a 5, Marnie a 3, and Phoebe a 2 months. Thomas had recently arrived from N ebraska, although his three young daughters were all born in Kansas. This perhaps indicates that he had been working in Nebraska while the family stayed at home in Sebatha, Kansas.
In 1900 he was again on the move, living in Sterling, Colorado without his family and rooming with; a flour-milling contractor, Isaac Shepardson (a 56), Isaac's son, and a book-keeper, Harry P Long (a 25). Thomas was now a RR grading foreman, a ve ry similar profession to his older brother William K McFarlin (who had recently moved east in 1899 to East Orange, NJ). Thomas' wife and family remained in Savannah, Missouri with her father Harvey VanBuskirk. (Information for Thomas E McFarlin wa s also given to the census taker in Missouri, but with an incorrect birthdate for Thomas - he being away at the time?).
Perhaps Thomas McFarlin and brother William had been working together for the Rock Island or A T and Sante Fe railroad companies, as the railroads pushed new lines westward.
By 1910, Thomas McFarlin, Anna and now their four children were living in Kansas City, Missouri, renting at 720 Euclid Avenue where he is listed as a (RR?) office labor agent. They'd had five children with four now living. The youngest, Albert, wa s born in Missouri (Kansas City?). In 1915 he and Anna returned to Kansas, living in Belleville, while daughter Elva was housekeeping for an elderly couple in LaBette, Kansas. Thomas, Anna and Albert McFarlin (age 11) were still living in Bellevil le in 1920 where Thomas was a proprietor of a restaurant, at age fifty-four.
Thomas Edward McFarlin, born in Coitsville, Ohio (son of Anderson McFarland/McFarlin), and his wife Anna, remain living in Belleville, Kansas in 1930, now at 1510 Q Street, where he owns his own home and is retired, age 64. No death records locate d for Thomas and Anna McFarlin.
(Research):PFM's sources for Thomas Edward McFarlin;
1870 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 107 with his father Anderson McFarland (Edward's age 4, born in Ohio)
1880 census; Coitsville, Ohio p 90 with his father Anderson McFarland (Eddie's age 14, attending school, born in Ohio, both parents b in Ohio)
1895 (Kansas) census; Sabetha, Nemaha co. Kansas; T M McFarlin a 29 grain dealer, b Ohio, had recently came from Nebraska, and; Annie a 27 b Kansas, Leota a 5, Mamie a 3, Phoebe a 2m (all three children were born in Kansas).
1900 census; Savannah, Andrew co, Missouri; Thos. E McFarland (son-in-law to Harvey Van Buskirk, who is head of this household), Anna McFarlin and their daughters there too.
1900 census; Sterling, Logan co, Colorado; Thomas E McFarlin b Oct 1865 Ohio, RR grading foreman, rooming with the Isaac Shepardson family.
1910 census; Kansas City, Jackson co, Missouri; Thomas E McFarlin a 43, office labor agent, with; wife Anna A a 39 b Kansas, dau Leota a 20 b Ohio, dau Mamie a 18 b Kansas, dau Elva a 15 b Kansas, son Albert a 1 4/12 b Missouri
1915 (Kansas) census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; T E McFarlin a 49, Anna a 43, Mame a 23, Robert (sic=Albert) a 6.
1920 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas E McFarlin a 54 restaurant proprietor, wife Anna A a 47
1930 census; Belleville, Republic co, Kansas; Thomas McFarlin a 64 no occupation, a 29 when married, wife Anna A a 58 a 16 when married.
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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1865 - 1947 (81 years)
