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Benjamin 'Porter' McFarlin

Male Abt 1826 - Abt 1888  (62 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Benjamin 'Porter' McFarlin was born about 1826 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA; died about 1888.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1860, Division 7, Ellis, Texas
    • Residence: 1880, Precinct 7, Ellis, Texas, USA

    Benjamin married Erixene 'Caroline' McKnight on 12 Aug 1847 in Cannon Co., Tennessee, USA. Erixene was born on 22 Jan 1828 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA; died on 14 Nov 1902 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Eliza Elizabeth McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 2 Oct 1848 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA; died on 29 Aug 1932 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA.
    2. 3. Mosana Erixene McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Sep 1850 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA; died on 26 Mar 1928.
    3. 4. Sarah McKnight McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1853 in Texas, USA; died on 30 Jul 1922.
    4. 5. Edward Page McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Jan 1855 in Texas, USA; died in 1928.
    5. 6. Roxana Augusta McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 26 Jan 1857 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 21 Dec 1940 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA.
    6. 7. James Laughlin McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Apr 1860 in Seymour, Baylor, Texas, USA; died on 3 Nov 1941 in Dalhart, Dallas, Texas, USA.
    7. 8. Benjamin Porter McFarlin  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Sep 1862 in Tennessee, USA; died on 5 Aug 1939 in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA.
    8. 9. Robert Martin McFarlin  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Jul 1866 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 11 Aug 1942 in Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, USA; was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Eliza Elizabeth McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 2 Oct 1848 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, USA; died on 29 Aug 1932 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alt. Birth: 1 Oct 1848, Tennessee, USA

    Eliza married Prior Lee Gammon on 30 Sep 1879 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA. Prior was born on 22 Mar 1834 in Knox Co., Tennessee, USA; died on 10 Jul 1897 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Mosana Erixene McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 24 Sep 1850 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee, USA; died on 26 Mar 1928.

    Mosana married Benjamin Clayton Lancaster on 20 Mar 1870 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA. Benjamin was born about 1846 in Tennessee, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 4.  Sarah McKnight McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born about 1853 in Texas, USA; died on 30 Jul 1922.

    Sarah married John Robert Allen in 1872 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA. John was born on 13 May 1844; died on 22 Apr 1918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 5.  Edward Page McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 17 Jan 1855 in Texas, USA; died in 1928.

    Family/Spouse: dau. Nunn. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Family/Spouse: Dora Nichols. Dora was born on 29 Mar 1858; died on 9 Jun 1879; was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. son McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1879; died on 9 Jun 1879 in Infancy; was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA.

  5. 6.  Roxana Augusta McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 26 Jan 1857 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 21 Dec 1940 in Waxahachie, Ellis, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Roxanna Erixena McFarlin [MacFarlane]

    Roxana married Phillip Alex Chapman on 20 Apr 1876. Phillip was born in Oct 1847 in Montana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. James Allen Chapman  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Apr 1881 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died in 1966 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

  6. 7.  James Laughlin McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 29 Apr 1860 in Seymour, Baylor, Texas, USA; died on 3 Nov 1941 in Dalhart, Dallas, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alt. Birth: 29 Apr 1860, Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA

    James married Elvira Melinda Schoolfield on 13 Jun 1882 in Channing, Hartley, Texas, USA. Elvira was born on 28 Oct 1860 in Tennessee, USA; died on 14 Oct 1933 in Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA; was buried on 15 Oct 1933 in Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 12. Benjamin Porter McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 26 Feb 1886 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 3 Jan 1952 in Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA.

  7. 8.  Benjamin Porter McFarlin Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 24 Sep 1862 in Tennessee, USA; died on 5 Aug 1939 in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA; was buried in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1910, Holdenville Ward 1, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA

    Benjamin married Sadie Barton on 6 Oct 1886 in Ellis, Texas, USA. Sadie was born in 1862 in Tennessee, USA; was buried in Holdenville, Hughes, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 9.  Robert Martin McFarlin Descendancy chart to this point (1.Benjamin1) was born on 27 Jul 1866 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 11 Aug 1942 in Kansas City, Clay, Missouri, USA; was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alt. Birth: 21 Jul 1866, Texas, USA

    Notes:

    Robert M. McFarlin (July 27, 1866 ? August 11, 1942) was an American oilman, cattle rancher, philanthropist, and businessman who is best known for amassing a fortune by drilling for oil near Glenpool, Oklahoma with his nephew and son-in-law, James A. Chapman. He was among the early pioneer oilmen who established the state of Oklahoma as a center of the oil industry in the early part of the 20th Century.
    Robert McFarlin was born July 27, 1866 to Porter and Caroline McFarlin in Ovilla, Texas (near Waxahachie). He married Ida Barnard in 1886. They moved to the town of Norman, then in Oklahoma Territory, in 1890, where they worked as cattle farmers and operated a feed store, During this time, their only son was born and died. They then moved to a farm in Indian Territory near the town of Holdenville in 1895.

    McFarlin and Chapman had first partnered in 1903, to create the Holdenville Oil and Gas Company, which owned 10 acres (4.0 ha) in the middle of the Glenn Pool oil field. In 1912, after the discovery of the even larger Cushing Oil Field, the two founded the McMan Oil Company, which they sold to the Magnolia Petroleum Company in 1916 for $39 million dollars. In 1918, McFarlin built an office building at 5th and Main in Tulsa, thereafter known as the McFarlin Building. The building still serves as a general office building. Also in 1918, McFarlin and Chapman organized the McMan Oil and Gas Company, which they sold to the Dixie Oil Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of Indiana, for $20 million in 1922.
    In 1910, McFarlin, Harry Sinclair and some others organized the Exchange National Bank of Tulsa, which later became the National Bank of Tulsa, and is now the Bank of Oklahoma (BOK).
    McFarlin's philanthropy centered on churches and higher education. The most significant projects funded by the McFarlin family included:
    McFarlin College was the proposed name of a college, to be located in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was initially proposed that the new institution of higher education be a Methodist-affiliated college. It ceased to exist as an entity when it merged with Henry Kendall College in 1920 to form the University of Tulsa. In 1929, he contributed $450,000 to build the McFarlin Library of the University of Tulsa, which is still in use.
    In 1924, the Methodist Church South in Norman called on Robert McFarlin during a fund raising drive to build a new church building. Remembering the support given by the church when their infant son had died in Norman, the McFarlins made a generous contribution toward the new building. In addition, they established an endowment to support maintenance of the church. The contribution was valued at $600,000 in 1924. McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church, located in Norman, Oklahoma stands in honor of his contributions to the United Methodist Church.
    In 1925, the McFarlin family donated $600,000 to build the McFarlin Auditorium on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas.

    He was married to Ida May Barnard (February 12, 1868 - November 18, 1938). Ida died of a cerebral hemorrhage in a San Antonio hospital, and was buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Norman, Oklahoma. Robert died August 11, 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, and was also buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Norman. They had two daughters and one son. Their son, Robert Boger, was born in 1891 died of typhoid fever at the age of one month and 19 days. His nephew and partner, Chapman, had married their daughter, Leta Mae, in 1908. Both Robert and Ida McFarlin were inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935.
    The McFarlin house at 1610 S. Carson Ave. in Tulsa, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on December 25, 1979, under National Register Criteria C, and its NRIS number is 79002030.
    [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._McFarlin#Personal_and_family]

    Robert married Ida Mae Bernard on 24 Mar 1886. Ida was born on 12 Feb 1868 in Gainesville, Cooke, Texas, USA; died on 18 Nov 1938; was buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Norman, Cleveland, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Leta May McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 Oct 1889 in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA; died in Mar 1974 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
    2. 14. Robert Boger McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born in Jun 1892; died on 28 Jul 1892 in 1 Mth 19Days.
    3. 15. Pauline Carolina McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1897 in Oklahoma, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 10.  son McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (5.Edward2, 1.Benjamin1) was born about 1879; died on 9 Jun 1879 in Infancy; was buried in Shiloh Cemetery, Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA.

  2. 11.  James Allen Chapman Descendancy chart to this point (6.Roxana2, 1.Benjamin1) was born on 3 Apr 1881 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died in 1966 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    James married Leta May McFarlin [MacFarlane] on 15 Jan 1908. Leta (daughter of Robert Martin McFarlin and Ida Mae Bernard) was born on 8 Oct 1889 in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA; died in Mar 1974 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. son Chapman  Descendancy chart to this point

  3. 12.  Benjamin Porter McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (7.James2, 1.Benjamin1) was born on 26 Feb 1886 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died on 3 Jan 1952 in Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA.

    Benjamin married Ola Dye on 2 Apr 1910 in Dumas, Moore, Texas, USA. Ola was born on 3 Oct 1891 in Kearney, Buffalo, Nebraska, USA; died on 2 Jan 1980 in Pender, Thurston, Nebraska, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 17. Earl Leroy McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Dec 1910; died on 30 Apr 1985.
    2. 18. Vernon Lee McFarlin [MacFarlane]  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Dec 1912 in Texas, USA; died on 20 May 1994 in Havasu City, Mohave, Arizona, USA.

  4. 13.  Leta May McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (9.Robert2, 1.Benjamin1) was born on 8 Oct 1889 in Vernon, Wilbarger, Texas, USA; died in Mar 1974 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

    Leta married James Allen Chapman on 15 Jan 1908. James (son of Phillip Alex Chapman and Roxana Augusta McFarlin [MacFarlane]) was born on 3 Apr 1881 in Ovilla, Ellis, Texas, USA; died in 1966 in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 16. son Chapman  Descendancy chart to this point

  5. 14.  Robert Boger McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (9.Robert2, 1.Benjamin1) was born in Jun 1892; died on 28 Jul 1892 in 1 Mth 19Days.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alt. Birth: 1890


  6. 15.  Pauline Carolina McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (9.Robert2, 1.Benjamin1) was born about 1897 in Oklahoma, USA.

    Pauline married Fred P. Walter before 1920. Fred was born about 1887 in Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 19. dau. Walter  Descendancy chart to this point


Generation: 4

  1. 16.  son Chapman Descendancy chart to this point (11.James3, 6.Roxana2, 1.Benjamin1)

  2. 17.  Earl Leroy McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (12.Benjamin3, 7.James2, 1.Benjamin1) was born on 19 Dec 1910; died on 30 Apr 1985.

    Family/Spouse: Luella Fay Kays. Luella was born on 7 Jan 1909; died on 27 Dec 1994. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 18.  Vernon Lee McFarlin [MacFarlane] Descendancy chart to this point (12.Benjamin3, 7.James2, 1.Benjamin1) was born on 12 Dec 1912 in Texas, USA; died on 20 May 1994 in Havasu City, Mohave, Arizona, USA.

  4. 19.  dau. Walter Descendancy chart to this point (15.Pauline3, 9.Robert2, 1.Benjamin1)


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