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- Mary Helen Haines notes:
Information from e-mail exchange 2014 from Doug Jenkins at atty2637@bellsouth.net:
Also - The there is a deed in Tazewell Co., Virginia where in 1817, Isabella Crawford of Tennessee (no husband or Tennessee County mentioned in deed) deeded her interest as heir of William McFarland, deceased, to James McFarland of Russell Co., Virginia.
Then in Greene Co., TN there is a Will of Isabella Crawford in 1843 naming her heirs. In 1794, she is mentioned in the Will of Robert Crawford as his wife in Greene Co., TN. And in 1795 there is a series of court records in Greene Co., TN where Isabella Crawford had an illigitimate child with William Chapman. Then William Chapman was given custody of the child THEN, based on the testimony of Alexander McFarland and wife, the child was treated inhumanely by Chapman and given back to Isabella! So they had a pretty good round over that child apparently.
Another exchange:
I found a lawsuit today filed in 1848 in Greene Co., TN between the heirs of Robert and Isabella (McFarland) Crawford. Their daughter Mary married Alexander McFarland and the lawsuit alleges in 1848 that Mary had been dead several years, but Alexander McFarland was "probably alive and in Alabama." It also states that they had several children but only names Robert McFarland and Erasmus McFarland.
I don't know that it matters, except that it helps sort out the Duncan McFarland line. I suspect that we will find that Alexander McFarland who married Mary Crawford in Greene Co., TN in 1802 were cousins and he a grandson of Duncan. And we know that Mary was Duncan's great-daughter though son William McFarland who d. 1791 in Wythe Co., VA. At this point, I would not venture a guess as to who this particular Alexander McFarland's father was, but I suspect he (Alexander) was born ca. 1780 with an 1802 marriage date. He was gone from Greene Co., TN by 1809, but it is hard to say when he actually moved to Alabama. The information in the 1848 lawsuit came from Col. William M. Crawford, daughter of Robert Crawford and Isabella (McFarland) Crawford. He says his sister Mary Crawford McFarland is dead, but that Alexander McFarland is still alive "probably in Alabama." He also states that his sister Rebecca Crawford Guinn was deceased; his brother Alexander Crawford died in 1819 and never married; his sister Lydia Crawford married Nimrod C. Willett and was widowed and then married Jotham Brown and lives in Missouri; and his sister Margaret Crawford Hall lives in Alabama.
(mhh: In 1850 in Lamar Co. TX, living with Robert and Washington Mc Farlane is NIcholas S. Hall, 16, born Alabama, and Lucy P. .....unreadable last name 9 Ala.)
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Abt 1757 - Aft 1843 (> 87 years)
