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James E. McFarland, BY146078 RoM02

James E. McFarland, BY146078 RoM02

Male 1795 - 1871  (76 years)

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  • Name James E. McFarland  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33] 
    Suffix BY146078 RoM02 
    Birth 20 Jan 1795  Jefferson Co., Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14] 
    Gender Male 
    Possessions Between 1826 and 1836  St. Francois Co., Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location 
    _MILT 1838  Volunteer for Republic of Texas at Fort Decalb under Capt. Isaac Lyday Find all individuals with events at this location  [27] 
    Possessions 1845  Land grant of 1280 acres (two sq. miles) near North Sulphur River, two miles north of present-day Ladonia-Patent #264 Find all individuals with events at this location  [20, 32] 
    Possessions 1847  Fannin County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Tax List: shows James with 1180 acres, his patent. A.J. (Jackson) with 1000 acres from 3 patents, and A. (Albert) with 320 acres. Also on the same page is Samuel McF. with 213 acres, not a part of this family. 
    Residence 1850  Fannin, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Residence 1860  Beat 4, Fannin, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Possessions 1865  Fannin County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Tax records shows James with 685 from his patent. Son Newton with 160 from James' patent and Mary McFarland (J.R.'s widow?) with 160 from James' patent. 
    Religion Baptist Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Religion Baptist 
    Residence 1870  Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    _MILT Between Sep and Nov 1838  [27] 
    Death 18 Oct 1871  Fannin Co. Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial UNKNOWN  McFarland Cemetery 3 miles north of Ladonia, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I30182  MacFarlane
    Last Modified 8 Jun 2024 

    Father John McFarland, Senator BY146078,   b. 28 Feb 1764, Bedford Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Jul 1820, Saline Township, Ste. Genevieve Co., MO. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Bell,   b. 26 Apr 1770, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Sep 1816, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years) 
    Marriage 20 Jul 1786  South of the French Broad River Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 20 Jul 1786  South of the French Broad river, Indian territory Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5712  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane Jackson,   b. 5 Feb 1801, Scott Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1872, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 1 Dec 1816  Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 15, 23] 
    Children 
    +1. Andrew Jackson McFarland, RoM02,   b. 3 Sep 1817, Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Aug 1883, Fannin Co. Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years)
     2. John Ewing McFarland,   b. 4 Jul 1819, Ste. Genevieve Co., Missouri Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1845, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 25 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +3. Sarah Jane McFarland,   b. 3 Apr 1821, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Nov 1903, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +4. Anna McFarland,   b. 29 Mar 1823, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1880, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +5. Albert McFarland,   b. 10 Nov 1824, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1862, during Civil War service in Indian Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +6. Rebecca McFarland,   b. 3 Oct 1826, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1888, Porum, Muskogee Co., Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +7. Jasper McFarland,   b. 10 Aug 1828, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Feb 1888, near Caddo Mills, Hunt Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +8. Cynthia Ann McFarland,   b. 21 Jun 1830, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1867 (Age < 36 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. James R. McFarland,   b. 25 Aug 1832, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1865, The Civil War Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     10. William M. McFarland,   b. 17 May 1834, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1852, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +11. Mary Jane McFarland,   b. 30 May 1836, St Francois Co., MO Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1878, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +12. Newton M. McFarland,   b. 11 Oct 1839, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Sep 1872, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +13. Arthur Rodney McFarland,   b. 14 Aug 1844, Fannin Co., Texas Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1899, Chickasha, Grady Co., Indian Territory (Oklahoma) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F5601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

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    James E. McFarland, BY146078    		James E. McFarland, BY146078

  • Notes 
    • Mary Helen Haines research and notes:

      I just bet that James E. stands for James Ewing.

      Missouri Records:

      Land: Deed Book A: pp. 234-235 Oct. 20, 1826 Elliott Jackson gives to daughter Jane and her husband James McFarland 151 acre tract on the waters of St. Francis River, on northwest corner of James Davis's 400 arpen tract.
      On pp. 442-443. James McFarland purchased 340 acres for $960. on northwest corner of Nathaniel Cook's 800 arpen track from Elliott Jackson.

      On p. 456 James McF.and wife Jane sells to Ambrose Willliams 225 acres for $650. on Aug. 23, 1831.
      On p. 498 James and wife Jane sells to Wm Brewer 170 acres for $500. on Nov. 5. 1832.
      On. Oct. 10, 1836 James and wife Jane sells 340 acres of Davis Survey to Samuel P. Harris for $1050 (Twnship 35, section 24, 25, Range 6 east)

      Not sure where this record is, but Lola McFarland Hill was informed by the St. Francois County Clerk of a record I missed where on Nov. 1, 1832, Elliott Jackson, as attorney for Rucker Jackson of Hempstead Co. Arkansas sold 170 acres to James McFarland. This is probably in Book A as well. The family probably stopped in Arkansas for a short time before moving on in to Texas in 1837.

      Texas:
      Credited as a founder, with Daniel Davis, of the Ladonia community. Daniel Davis was the earliest settler, arriving in 1836, therefore receiving a Class 1 land grant. Because of his early death in Nov. 1837, his family sold his land and moved away. James McFarland purchased much of it that connected to his own land grant, and his grandchild James Franklin McFarland's homestead was on Daniel Davis land.

      Southwestern Historical Quarterly: History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843, p. 297 is discussing the Indian attack on the home of Daniel Davis in Nov. 1837 "Davis, less fortunate, had one arm broken and received a ball through his breast that killed him instantly. During that night a heavy rain had fallen forcing a scouting party of twelve or fourteen men from Lyday's Fort to seek shelter at the Davis house. This proved a fortunate thing for the remainder of the family, for no sooner had the Indians fired upon the two at the gate than they charged the house. They were swarming over the fences when the rangers opened the door. The sight of their unexpectedly large numbers caused the savages to retire in spite of the fact that the scouts were caught unarmed by the sudden attack and did not fire a shot. The rangers moved the dead man and his family from the scene of the tragedy to James McFarland's place three miles to the eastward, and it was there that Andrew Davis, the son, learned of his father's death, at ten o'clock in the morning, as he was returning fom the fort where he had been sent the night before with an old slave to obtain some hogs."

      If this account is accurate, then it might be that Daniel Davis is buried in the McFarland cemetery, and was its first burial.

      See "Our McFarland Family's History and Migrations" for more history about the settlement of Texas. More information on land titles, wills, probates, etc. can be found in the document "Land Issues Concerning James McFarland and his Children" written by Mary Helen Haines. Note: in some places his middle initial is shown as an M. This is a typo deriving from the Mc in McFarland, I believe. It is possible that his middle name is Ewing, since this name appears several times in this family.

      Patent #264 for 1280 acres. 2nd class grant. February 23, 1845. In the original survey James' land includes the North Sulphur River, but in a survey dating from the 1870s it stops short of the river and two plots that include the river are in the names of a Cunningham and a Fulton.

      James makes a few other purchases. In 1847 he buys from Morgan Mullens part of the Rice Smith survey for $9.75. (Book G. p. 368) Then in 1853 he buys land in the Davis Creek area from Allen Tilly. (Book G. p. 442)

      In the 1850 census James and Jane are fam. #217 living with James, 17, Wm, 16, Mary Jane, 14, Newton, 10, and Arthur, 5. James land is valued at $1000. Land is valued at approximately $1.00 an acre. Fam. #216 is Anna McF. Etheridge with husband Howard on land valued at $100. Fam. #218 is Sarah McF. Sebastian with husband Elijah on land valued at $30. Jackson is living with his family #221 on land valued at $1500. Living not too far away is John McFarland, James older brother, fam. #229 living with his wife Mary, daughter Eliza and her husband Francois Deguire. Jasper McFarland is fam. #225 living next to Andrew White, Thomas P. Ratton, and John and Nancy Pence (Artemissa's father and mother). Jasper's land is only worth $89. Cintha A. McF. Tucker is living with husband James C. Tucker, but they have no land. Fam. #176 is Rebecca McF. and husband Hezekiah Blankenship, with no land, living next to Albert, fam. #175 who has land valued at $240.

      Unaccounted for is John Ewing McFarland. On July 7, 1845 James and Jane appear at the Fannin County court to claim a land certificate for 640 acres in the name of their deceased son, John Ewing McFarland. They are issued certificate #152- a 2nd class headright. I assume he is the McFarland son who died in the Indian raid that led to the establishment of the McFarland cemetery. James and Jane hold on to this certificate until February, 1871 when they sell it to O.P. Richardson for $320.00, or .50 cents an acre. The document reads "the land certificate issued by the Board of land Commissioners of Fannin Co. to our deceased legitimate son John Ewing McFarland." (Book T, p. 199). When this land was finally surveyed in 1874, it was located in Hunt County along the Caddo Fork of the Sabine River, near present day Caddo Mills. In 1875 the formal land grants, #636 and #637, were issued by the State of Texas to the Heirs of John Ewing McFarland. (certified copies of both documents)

      James then proceeds to give grants to his daughters and sons-in-law. In 1853 he gives Mary Jane and her husband Wm. R. Terry 130 acres of land from Daniel Davis survey, and Allen Tilley purchase. (Deed Book G, p. 444) He gives Elijah Sebastian, his son-in-law, and his daughter Sarah, a deed of 44 acres, July 28, 1855 (Book L, p. 84.) Hezekiah Blankenship dies in 1852, leaving Rebecca a widow and Jackson McFarland is the executor of his estate (Box 3, Case #114).

      In the 1860 census, James and Jane are fam. #598 living with Newton and Arthur R. on land valued at $4000, with personal property valued at $2000. Fam. #598 is L. Cunningham, married to Mary Jane McF. Cunningham, who has already buried 2 husbands. They are living on land valued at $300, personal property at $600. Fam. #599 is Elijah Sebastian and Sarah McF. with land valued at $400 and personal property at $200. The Moses Cunningham and John Hulsey families have moved in and bought big chunks of land near by. Jackson is Fam. #586 on land valued at $3000, with personal property of $2000.

      James and Jane sell 200 acres of their headright to son Newton McFarland for $100 on May 23, 1870. Deed Book T, p. 275

      Starting in May, 1870, filed for record Oct. 27, 1871, In Deed Book U, pp. 50, 51, 52
      All three documents are the conveyance of land titles to Anna Ethridge, Sarah Sebastian and Arthur McFarland. It seems that James and Jane McFarland wanted to disperse most of their land to their children while they were still alive, knowing that they would not be living much longer.
      Sarah is given 156 acres, Anna is given 160 acres, Sarah gives to Arthur 44 acres that she had been given previously in 1855 (part of Rice Smith survey).

      Location must have been in Missouri, judging from the birth locations of his brother John's children. The trip from North Carolina must have taken place in 1814 and arrived by 1815. There is no record of this marriage in the Ste. Genevieve, nor the later St. Francois county records.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1039] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc;;;;;), Year: 1930; Census Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 0038; FHL microfilm: 2342049.

    2. [S1040] Ancestry.com, 1940 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), Year: 1940; Census Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Roll: m-t0627-04174; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 255-56.

    3. [S1049] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;).

    4. [S1051] Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;).

    5. [S1053] Ancestry.com, 1920 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Oklahoma City Ward 1, Oklahoma, Oklahoma; Roll: T625_1473; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 125; Image: 596.
      Birth date: abt 1895
      Birth place: Texas
      Residence date: 1920
      Residence place: Oklahoma City Ward 1, Oklahoma, Oklahoma

    6. [S1055] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), Year: 1850; Census Place: Fannin, Texas; Roll: M432_910; Page: 161A; Image: 319.

    7. [S1056] Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), Year: 1860; Census Place: Beat 4, Fannin, Texas; Roll: M653_1293; Page: 219; Family History Library Film: 805293.

    8. [S1057] Ancestry.com, 1870 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), Year: 1870; Census Place: Precinct 4, Fannin, Texas; Roll: M593_1584; Page: 264B; Image: 350041; Family History Library Film: 553083.

    9. [S1080] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Dallas, Dallas, Tex.

    10. [S1152] Ancestry.com, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.;;;;;).

    11. [S1668] McFarland Family Bible.

    12. [S1668] McFarland Family Bible.
      provides the date, not the place

    13. [S1693] 1850 Census, Fannin Co.Texas, other districts, Image 39/86, fam. 217.
      living next to E. Sebastian and Howard Etheridge

    14. [S1694] McFarland Family Bible.

    15. [S1694] McFarland Family Bible.
      provides the date, not the place

    16. [S1695] 1850 Census, Fannin Co.Texas, other districts, Image 39/86, fam. 217.
      living next to E. Sebastian and Howard Etheridge

    17. [S1697] 1860 Federal Census, Fannin Co., Texas, p. 89, Beat 4.
      Land valued at $4000. Personal property at $2000. Newton and Arthur still at home.

    18. [S1720] ed. Patricia Newhouse, Enlistees in War Between the States 1861-1864.

    19. [S1782] Certificate of Marriage, # 41444.
      filed in Dallas, County, Vol. 25, p. 420, Aug. 20, 1980

    20. [S1787] Texas General Land Office Records.
      Cert. #65. Feb. 23, 1845, File 63, Pat. 264, Vol. I, Fan. 2nd.

    21. [S1793] Certificate of Death, # 4184.

    22. [S1797] Certificate of Birth, # 52713.
      filed in Dallas, Texas Vol. 63, page 369, on May 23, 1957

    23. [S1798] Cout of Common Pleas Ste. Genevieve Court House, p. 515.
      May 28, 1816, Elliot Jackson present and living in this county along with James McFarland.

    24. [S1799] 1870 Federal Census, Fannin Co., Texas, p. 265, fam. 99.
      James, 75, farmer, land valued 2000, personal property 800, born TN, can read/write, Jane 68, KY, can read/write. Living with daughter Sarah Sebastian 50 MO., her children Franklin 17, Jefferson 9, Elmirey 6, all born in Texas.

    25. [S1800] 1920 Federal Census Fannin Co., Texas, Dist. 50, Ladonia, Sheet 10 B.
      Living on Mill Street. Fam. #135. Hill, Joe M., own house, 31, born TN. father TN, mother Texas, working as a claim agent. wife Lola, 24, born Texas, father Texas, mother Illinois, Elizabeth Jane, daughter 5 months, Texas.

    26. [S1801] Deed Book J, Fannin County Deed Records, p. 127.
      A sale of land between John McFarland and his son-in-law Francis P. Deguire refers to a piece of property that had been deeded from James E. McFarland

    27. [S1802] Texas State Archives.

    28. [S1803] Newspapers.com - Austin American-Statesman - 15 May 1916 - Page 8, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Austin American-Statesman;;;;;), 15 May 1916.

    29. [S1804] 1830 Federal Census, St. Francois Co., Missouri, LIberty Twn, p. 415, Image 1.
      living near to Sebastian family, Jacob McFarland family

    30. [S1805] ed. Gifford White, The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: The Pemberton Press, Austin, 1966;;;;;), p. 33.

    31. [S1806] 1830 Federal Census, St. Francois Co., Missouri, LIberty Twn, p. 415, Image 1.
      living near to Sebastian family, Jacob McFarland family

    32. [S1807] Tom Scott, Fannin County: The Early Years 1836-1840, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: Fannin County Genealogical Quarterly, 1982;;;;;), p. 23.

    33. [S1808] ed. Gifford White, The 1840 Census of the Republic of Texas, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: The Pemberton Press, Austin, 1966;;;;;), p. 33.


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