Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1860, Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

From "Mount Delight" by John M. McDowell (her son) 1910

p. 83

JANE COCHRAN McFARLAND, daughter of Captain
John and Eliza McFarland, was born at Mount Delight, July
23, 1813, and died March 20, 1893. She married William H.
McDowell (born Feb. 13, 1813; died March 23, 1900), a young
farmer of Peters Township, at foot of Mount Parnell, where
they lived until the spring of 1856, when owing to the poor
health of Mr. McDowell, they moved to Chambersburg, where
they spent the balance of their lives. When Chambersburg
was burned by the rebels, under General McCausland, July
30th, 1864, they were burned out of house and home and all
their effects.

Mrs. McDowell was a bright, handsome woman, a great
reader, more than ordinarily intelligent, a good conversational-
ist and the light and cheer of her home. As another has well
said : "She had long professed her faith in the Son of God
and had walked worthy of her calling. Intelligent with an
air of quiet dignity and reserve, with much force of character,
true, gracious, rallying by her motherly ways those of her
household; patient, submissive under many a heavy trial, she
had lived long and followed her Lord long. She follows Him
still." Mr. and Mrs. McDowell had nine children, four dying
in early childhood, and a daughter. Miss Elizabeth P., in 1902.
Four survive them, two. John M. and Annie C, living in
Chambersburg, Pa. ; Thomas H., the oldest, in Dayton, Ohio,
and Henry C, in Cambria, Weston County, Wyoming. They
were both members of the Falling Spring Presbyterian
Church. Chambersburg, Pa., for over forty years.

Jane married William H. McDowell in 1837. William was born on 6 Feb 1813 in Franklin Co., Pennsylvania; died on 3 Jan 1900 in Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]