Robert McFarland
1782 - 1863 (81 years)
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Name Robert McFarland [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] Birth 7 Mar 1782 Natural Bridge, Rockbridge, Virginia 
[3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12] Gender Male Residence 1820 Concord, Champaign, Ohio, United States [9] Residence 1830 Concord, Champaign, Ohio, USA [7] Residence 1840 Concord, Champaign, Ohio, USA [8] Residence 1850 Concord, Champaign, Ohio, USA [4] Residence 1860 Concord, Champaign, Ohio [5] Death 28 Dec 1863 Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio [3, 10, 11] Burial Harbor Graveyard, Urbana, Champaign, Ohio [3] Person ID I27721 MacFarlane Last Modified 29 May 2024
Father William McFarland, BY3019, b. 10 Jun 1755, Peters Township, Cumberland, Pennsylvania d. 1 Jun 1825, Indian Creek, Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky (Age 69 years) Relationship natural Mother Rebecca White, b. 1763, Fayette Co., Virginia d. 1 May 1822, Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky, USA(buried Indian Creek Baptist cemetery) (Age 59 years) Relationship natural Marriage 19 Oct 1779 Rockbridge Co., VA Married 19 Oct 1779 Rockbridge County, Virginia [15] Family ID F6978 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Elizabeth Kenton, b. 26 Oct 1793, , , Ohio of d. 8 Jan 1821, , Champaign, Ohio (Age 27 years) Marriage 3 Dec 1814 , Champaign, Ohio Married 3 Dec 1814 Champaign County, OH [2] Children 1. Deborah McFarland, b. 21 Feb 1816, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 1896, Bonner Springs, , Kansas (Age 79 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Frances (Fannie) McFarland, b. 10 Dec 1817, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 10 Nov 1881, , Shelby, Ohio (Age 63 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Rebecca McFarland, b. 8 Feb 1820, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States d. 13 Mar 1906, St. Paris, , Ohio (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F6932 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 May 2024
Family 2 Deborah Gray, b. 4 Jan 1788, , , Kentucky d. 12 Oct 1814, , Champaign, Ohio (Age 26 years) Marriage 27 Dec 1804 , , Kentucky Married 27 Dec 1804 Harrison County, Kentucky, United States [6] Children 1. Willison McFarland, b. 11 May 1806, , Harrison, Kentucky, USA d. Aug 1808, Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky, USA (Age 2 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. Elizabeth McFarland, b. 23 Feb 1808, Lippincott Stat., Harrison, Kentucky d. 3 Oct 1896, Lewistown, Logan, Ohio, USA (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Maximilia McFarland, b. 9 May 1811, , Harrison, Kentucky d. 11 Mar 1836, Concord, Champaign, Ohio, United States (Age 24 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 4. William Harrison McFarland, b. 14 Feb 1813, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 1 Feb 1900, Union City, Champaign, Ohio, USA (Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F6937 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 May 2024
Family 3 Eunice Dorsey, b. 3 Feb 1797, Ellicott Mills, , Maryland d. 17 Sep 1869, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio (Age 72 years) Marriage 3 Dec 1814 Champaign Co., Ohio [10] Married 23 Aug 1821 , Champaign, Ohio Married 23 Aug 1821 Champaign Co., Ohio [10] Married 23 Aug 1821 Champaign County, Ohio, United States Children 1. Sarah Jane McFarland, b. 14 Aug 1822, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 22 Nov 1887, DeGraff, , Ohio (Age 65 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. John Maley McFarland, b. 18 Feb 1824, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 11 May 1895, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 3. Robert White McFarland, b. 16 Jun 1825, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. Aft 1911 (Age > 87 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. Joseph Collins McFarland, b. 27 May 1827, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 13 Aug 1831, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio (Age 4 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. Cynthia Ann McFarland, b. 11 May 1829, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 1 Jun 1892, St. Paris, , Ohio (Age 63 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. Samuel Wright McFarland, b. 3 Feb 1831, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 3 Feb 1831, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 7. Thomas Sims McFarland, b. 14 Jul 1832, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 19 Mar 1914, Champaign Co., Ohio (Age 81 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 8. James Raper McFarland, b. 18 May 1834, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 1911, Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]9. Eunice Elizabeth McFarland, b. 4 Sep 1835, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]10. Mary Catharine McFarland, b. 28 Nov 1836, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 13 Apr 1920, Champaign Co., Ohio (Age 83 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 11. Benjamin Spencer McFarland, b. 15 Apr 1838, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. 4 Sep 1907, Millersburg, , Kentucky (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]12. Emma McFarland, b. Abt 1840, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio d. Abt 1840, Concord Township, Champaign, Ohio (Age 0 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F6960 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 May 2024
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Notes - Mary Helen Haines question: Some trees have that his children by his first wife were born in Harrison Co. KY, yet, the history below says he was in Ohio by 1807. He is not in the 1810 census in KY.
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QUESITONABLE LINK: See SOURCE.
CENSUS: 1820 OHIO, Champaign County, Concord Township, page 502.
SOURCE: "Mcfarland-Dunlap Family Bible Records, 1831-1928 : and other
genealogical data, 1675-1923", Joseph Dunlap. 35 pages. Microfilm copy at FHC
(film #1320635, item 81). Robert Mcfarland, our grandfather, John McFarlands,
oldest brother, was born in 1760 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. <Note,
this cannot be correct, as William, father of John, was born in 1755> His home
was near Urbanah. Was a preacher. Died and buried in Urbana <Champaign county,
Ohio>, and it is said that he was 105 years old when he died. Robert Endicott
(Indicott) daughter was our grandfathers mother. Her oldest child Robert
McFarland was born in 1760.
BIOGRAPHY: "History of Champaign County, Ohio" 1881 on Microfilm 0934880 at
FHC, page 798.. Under biography of son Thomas S. McFarland. Robert McFarland
was born in Rockbridge County, VA, near the Natural Bridge March 7, 1783; his
parents moved to Tennessee in 1796, and for ten years he lived at different
places in that State and in Kentucky. In October, 1806, he, in company with
Martin Hitt and Joseph Diltz, made an excursion on horseback to Champaign
County, Ohio, where he located in the following year. When he arrived in this
county, his goods were unloaded in the woods beside an oak log, and, after
paying his teamster, he had 50 cents in money to start with. He rented farms
at different places in teh county till 1811, when he purchased 80 acres of land
in Sec. 14 of Concord Township, which he cleared and improved. He was Township
Clerk from 1819 to 1831; was Assesssor for a number of years, and was also a
local minister in the M.E. Church for upward of fifty years. He was the
founder of Concord Chapel. His marriage with Deborah Gray was celebrated Dec
27, 1804. She died Oct 12, 1814, the mother of five children, two of whom are
living-- William H., living east of Urbana, and Elizabeth, now Mrs. Nichols of
Illinois. On Dec 3, 1814, he married Elizabeth Kenton, a grand-neice of Gen.
Simon Kenton, by whom he had three children, viz., Deborah, now Mrs. Kenton,
residing in Kansas; Frances, now Mrs. Conroy, of Shelby Co, Ohio and Rebecca
Gibbs, of St. Paris. Elizabeth McFarland departed this life Jan 8, 1821. On
the 23d of August of the same year he was united in marriage with Eunice
Dorsey, a native of Maryland, born Feb 3, 1797. By this union they had eleven
children. Eight are still living--Sarah J. Huston, of DeGraff, Ohio; John M.
of this township, Robert W. of the Ohio State University at Columbus, Cynthia
A. Gibbs of St. Paris, Ohio, Thomas S., James R. of Goshen, New York, Mary C.
Pence of this township, and Benjamin S., living in Kansas. Prov R. W.
McFarland is a a natural born mathematician, and is a thorough scholor. Robert
McFarland departed this life dec 28, 1863; his wife survived till Sep 17,
1869. The subject of this sketch was born Jul 14, 1832. He was raised a
farmer's boy, and received a common-school education. His chief occupation has
been tilling the soil. He now owns the old home farm and 16 acres besides,
making 96 acres in all. He has been public auctioneer for nineteen years,
couselor for eighteen years,and has been Secretary of the Champaign and Logan
County Pioneer Association for the last six years. Has been a newspaper
contributor for twenty-eight years, and is President of the Editors and
Reporters Association of this county. He has also been very successful as a
detective. In 1856 Sep 30 he married Ursula H. Evans, of Kentucky, born Dec
23, 1829. She died Dec 14, 1864, the mother of one child -- Evans White, who
met his death Apr 20, 1871 by a horse falling on him. Thomas S. McFarland and
Catherine Evans were married March 20, 1866. She is also a native of Virginia,
a sister of Ursula H., born Oct 13, 1834. The fruits of this marriage are four
children--Hattie B., Rebecca J., Sallie DeVoe adn Thomas D.C.
Page 489 Robert McFarland was taken to Tennessee early in life, but
subsequently settled on Indian Creek, near Cynthiance, Kentucky.
BIOGRAPHY: "History of Champaign County, Ohio" by Evan P. Middleton 1917
LDS Microfilm # 0934881. Page 201 Robert McFarland, the father of Thomas Sims
McFarland, was a native of Rockbridge County, VA, and was taken by his parents
when still a child to Tennessee and shortly afterwards to Kentucky. In 1807
Robert came to Champaign County to make a permanent location. ...a prospecting
trip with Martin Hitt and Joseph Diltz. The impelling reason for McFarlands
leaving Kentucky was his intense hatred of slavery. In Oct 1807 the McFarland
family arrived in the county and stopped for a short time in the Northern part
of the present Union Township. ...They quickly made a cabin. In this cabin,
William McFarland and his family and Joseph Gray, his father-in-law, lived from
October until the following spring. They then moved to Salem Township on a
tract about half way between Urbana and West Liberty. Still later the two
families located about 2 and 1/2 miles SE of Westville in the Mad River
Township. Robert McFarland bought the farm of Henry Bacome. In the winter
1811/1812, Robert McFarland built a cabin on his newly acquired farm and in
April 1812 moved into his new home.
Page 1105 Thomas Sims McFarland, one of the most prominent local
historians, was born in Concord Township July 14, 1832 and died March 19, 1914.
Son of Robert McFarland. T.S. McFarland was one of 19 children.
LINKS: A Jesse Buffinton McFarland, born 1797 of Champaign County, Ohio
married Elizabeth Yazel, born 1817 in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky.
RESEARCHER-EMAIL: (1998) Pam Gow Email pgow@snowcrest.net. Champaign
County, Ohio Queeries on internet. Researchng James McFarland who married
Rebecca Yazel. Had 2 sons, John and David, who later moved to Hamilton County,
Iowa.
RESEARCHER-EMAIL: (1998) Pam Sprouse Email pspro@greenapple.com. Champaign
County Ohio Queeries on internet. McFarland Family.
LINKS: Must have had son Jesse McFarland 1840 Census Urbana Township,
Champaign County page 381.
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Facts about this person:
Burial
Harbor Graveyard, Urbana, Champaign, Ohio
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Medium: Other
Date of Import: Feb 21, 1999
- Mary Helen Haines question: Some trees have that his children by his first wife were born in Harrison Co. KY, yet, the history below says he was in Ohio by 1807. He is not in the 1810 census in KY.
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