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- It looks as if Fred T. McFarland was actually born October 10, 1883. At least that is what is recorded in the St. Louis, Missouri birth registry. It says he was born to Milton P. McFarland from Missouri, and mother was Lotta from New York. At the time of birth, they were living at 1317 N. 15th St. in St. Louis.
This WW I record seems to be Fred's.
Roster of the Men and Women who served in the Army or Naval Service (including the Marine Corps) of the United States or its Allies from the State of North Dakota in the World War, 1917-1918 Volume 3 Larkee to Rice
Name: Fred Thomas McFarland
Army #: 5,031
Registrant: no, over age
Birth Place: St. Louis, Mo.
Birth Date: 10 Nov 1883
Parent's Origin: of (nationality of parents not given)
Occupation: carpenter
Comment: enlisted in Company F, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Carrington, on July 10, 1917; called into federal service, World War, on July 15, 1917; served in Company F, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (116th Sanitary Train, 162nd Field Hospital), to June 13, 1918; Center Tank Corps No. 311, Army Postoffice No. 714, to Sept. 7, 1918; Company B, 344th Battalion, 304th Brigade Tank Corps, to discharge. Grade: Private 1st Class, July 9, 1918; overseas from Dec. 13, 1917, to Jan. 1, 1919; wounded, severely, Sept. 26, 1918; Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa. on March 12, 1919, as a Private 1st Class, Surgeon's Certificate of Disability, 20%.
This means that he was out of the country and wounded at the time of his wife's death from tuberculosis on Feb. 2. 1919.
It also looks like Fred T. is Fred Thomas McFarland, and he moved to North Dakota in 1917 and then appears in the Carrington, ND census in 1920 married to Alma. If this is the same Fred then he remarried very quickly.
In 1930 he is living in San Francisco in a mission and is widowed he says, and then he died in Los Angeles, May 27, 1945 according to the California Death Index. That death index says that he was born Nov. 10, 1883 in MO. Died May 27, 1945 in Los Angeles and his mother's maiden name was Miller. This matches the record of Milton McFarland, boat captain.
Notes from Neal McFarland's research:
Fred McFarland Timeline-1919
Taken from Fred and Elma's birthdays and newspaper accounts.
September 26, 1918 Fred is wounded in France and is hospitalized.
October 10, 1918 Fred turns 35 years old.
January 1, 1919 Fred returns to US in Newport News, VA. Sends a post card from there to a Mr. Thornhill in Carrington that is received on January 8th. Goes from Newport News to Army Hospital in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
January 21, 1919 Fred arrives in Carrington on furlough from hospital in Ft. Dodge.
February 2, 1919 Maude dies
March 12, 1919 Fred discharged from the Army and hospital.
March 13 or 14, 1919 Fred back in Carrington.
March 25, 1919 Elma turns 18 years old. (Is this when he proposed to Elma?)
Week of May 18/24 Fred retires as police chief (Because of new job as railroad laborer?)
June 16, 1919 Fred and Alma married in Moorhead, MN.
June 17, 1919 Fred (and Elma) back in Carrington.
October 10, 1919 Fred turns 36 years old.
January 14, 1920 1920 Census reports Fred and Elma living in Carrington.
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1883 - 1945 (61 years)
