This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1114 Message Board Post: Albuquerque Journal - January 25, 2003 Elsie E. McFarland, 78, a longtime resident of Stanley, NM, passed away Wednesday January 22, 2003. She was born September 13, 1924, to Fred and Bertha (Willard) Matherly in Corroll County, Virginia. She married William Harper McFarland February 26, 1947 in San Angelo, TX. She is survived by her sons, Bill and his wife, Myra of Roswell, NM, Jim and his wife, Sandi of Canyon Lake, TX, Lee McFarland of Phoenix, AZ; her brother, Arnold Matherly of Danville, VA; sisters, Juanita Rakes, Norma Jean Denkins; four grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents. Elsie was a member of the Stanley Union Church in Stanley, NM, she was a Sunday school teacher for the church and a member of the Stanley Homemakers Club. She was a very loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend and teacher. She will be missed by those who knew and loved her. Elsie will lie in state Sunday, January 26, 2003, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Harris! -Hanlon Mortuary in Moriarty. Services will be Monday, January 27, 2003, 10:00 a.m. at the Stanley Union Church in Stanley with Pastor James Thompson officiating. Burial will follow at the Stanley Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Jerry Witte, Don Pope, Joe Russell, Mike Hunter, Grant Mitchell, Phil Wallin and Lonnie Wright. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Stanley Union church building fund. Arrangements were entrusted to the Harris-Hanlon Mortuary in Moriarty, NM.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1113 Message Board Post: In the Histroy of Knox County KY, there is a report of a "long hunter" named McFarland who led a band of settlers into the Knox County area, now Laurel Co, and was there attacked by Indians along the Old Wilderness Road. Research has revealed that this McFarland was James McFarland, but little else is known about him. Does anyone know any more about him, or would anyone like to venture an educated guess? I am personally researching him as the father of Duncan McFarland who later settled in this same area of KY. Nonetheless, I thought this story would be of interest to anyone researching the McFarlands in this area. "As far back into time as my memory runs my grandmother was an old, old woman. She was born on the Old Wilderness Road 99 years ago. The greater part of her life was lived at a time when the country was exceedingly new. The clearings were few and small. Bear, deer and other game were to be had for the hunting. Wolves howled around the little farms at night. She told me that nothing was more apt to cause lonesomeness to creep all over a fellow than the sound of the howl of a hungry wolf prowling around the back fencing in the dead hour of the night. The first I ever heard about McFarland's Defeat was from my grandmother years ago. It took place even before her day and time, but not so long before but that she had heard it discussed by parties well acquainted with the facts -- possibly some who had visited the place the day after and had seen the awful evidence of the massacre. It took place about four miles to the northeast of London, the capital of Laurel County, in a narrow valley not over a mile long and drained by a branch of Big Raccoon Creek, ever since called McFarland's Branch. At this date there is nothing especially significant about the valley. It is peaceful. The steep hills an either side are covered mostly by briars and bushes. Here and there gulleys are cut deep into the red clay down the hillside through fields that 110 have been cleared, tilled and worn out by men who were born and have died of old age since the occurrence that made the spot a place sacred in Kentucky history. Now and then there is a small farm where appear many evidences of honest struggle with a soil not over friendly. In 1775, when Boone made his famous Trace from Cumberland Gap to Boonesborough he cut it down this narrow valley through an unbroken forest as old as the world. For the next twenty years all Kentucky settlers came over the briddle path. The Wilderness Road was not made until 1795. It followed the same general course of the Trace, but in many places it made a near-cut, and in doing so left the Trace to one side for several miles. All emigrants before the building of the Wilderness Road were in more or less danger from the Indians, who, though they did not live within the State, enjoyed it as a hunting ground and did not wish to see it broken up by the settlements of the whites. The Indians who committed the massacre came from Tennessee, probably entering the State through Clear Creek Gap, where the town of Jellico, now is, and following the course that the Louisville and Nashville Railroad now follows north into Laurel County. Striking Laurel County they struck Boone's Trace and ambushed and murdered the emigrants for scalps and for plunder. In the year 1786 a party under the McNitt while encamped near Fariston were surprised in the night and nearly all of them, some 24, were killed. The place is known to the older natives as the Defeated Camps, and today the graves of the murdered emigrants are easily to be found in a wooded portion of the Levi Jackson farm, four miles south of London. At the time, the spring of 1790, there was no living person in Laurel County and probably none in the territory between Cumberland Gap and Fort Estill, in Madison County, except one lone man living in a blockhouse on Hazel's Patch Creek, on the side of the Trace. He was called John Woods, but it was said that his real name was a long German one and that he had adopted the name "Woods" for the conveniences of his friends. Just why Woods lived alone so far from other settlements I am unable to say, but it may be that he was put there by one Ramey, who owned a large body of land in that section under a survey made in 1785. WOOD'S BLOCKHOUSE STOOD ON A POINT OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CREEK, ABOUT 100 YARDS ABOVE WHERE THE WILDERNESS ROAD, BETTER KNOWN BY THE NATIVES AS THE "STATE ROAD", CROSSES THE CREEK NINE MILES NORTH OF LONDON. Afterwards pioneer John Pearl bought a large portion of Ramey's survey and built his home within a stone's throw of the site of the blockhouse occupi! ed by Woods. Still later the place became known as the Landrum farm because it became the home of a Pioneer Methodist circuit rider, W.B. Landrum, a son-in-law of Pearl. The pioneer Pearl was the father of judge Granville Pearl, a widely known jurist of his day. Editor John Pearl, of the "Laurel County Local," is a namesake and a grandson of the Pioneer Pearl. McFarland was a hunter, a woodsman and a man experienced in Indian warfare. He was well acquainted with the winding path made by Boone, and had tasted the dangers of the dark woods on either side. Many descendants of the venturesome and hardy English colonists of Virginia and the Carolinas heard the 111 call of the wild and the west and came to cast their fortunes with the new settlements beyond the Cumberlands in "the land that is good but is hard to settle." For the sake of company and for safety sake they traveled together and engaged a pilot like McFarland to take them through the Wilderness. At this time McFarland was leading a company of 28 besides himself. Excepting those who became footsore by the way and those too young the company traveled on foot. Wagons on the Trace were impossible. What few horses the emigrants had were needed to carry on pack saddles provisions for the trip and a few belongins for furnishing the cabins they expected to build in the cane land. Knowing the dangers of the journey the company had, under the advice of McFarland, arranged a plan of action in case of an attack. At the appearance of the enemy it was agreed that the men should each seek the shelter of a tree and fight the Indians Indian fashion. The women and children were to push forw! ard with the packhorses, leaving the men untrammeled. If the emigrants were victorious they could soon overtake the noncombatants. If the battle went against the whites the women would have some show of escaping by being out of sight. The little company passed where most of McNitt's company had found their graves by the Trace side only four years before. Perhaps some friend or a relative had fallen here, and when McFarland pointed out the spot a shudder, a chill, passed over some of the timid -- a premonition. Six miles beyond they passed down into the little valley. It was late in the afternoon. John Wood's sheltering blockhouse was five miles away. The whoop of the Indians hidden by the trees was followed by a deadly fire. There were stout hearted women in the company. They had severed ties at the old home and willingly undertook the hazardous journey to find a new one. They had agreed to the plan arranged for them and had thought themselves equal to it, but when the test ! came they found the task too great. Their feet refused to carry them forward. Terror struck the company, terror and grim dispair. The women and children clung to their protectors who could neither protect nor save themselves. Without the shelter of a tree the men, women and children were at the mercy of those who never knew mercy. McFarland had no women folks, and he was able to get to a tree. From behind it he shot- the leader of the Indians, who as he fell took off part of McFarland's shot pouch with a last bullet. Late in the night John Woods heard at his gates a call that was different. The howl of a wolf, the hoot of an owl, the scream of a panther, or the screech of a night hawk failed to attract attention from this man of the woods. Such sounds came nightly from the forest. But a call from human lips out in the darkness meant something to the lone man in the wilderness, and instantly put him on the alert. John Woods had not lived so long in the woods alone without learning lessons. Every wild animal was a foe, but could come only as a foe. A man might be a foe appearing as a friend. It was sometime before McFarland could convince Woods who he was and how he came to be there. Then he was admitted, and soon the story of the massacre was told. After a consultation, made short for fear that the Indians had followed and would overwhelm them, Woods and McFarland left the blockhouse and hurried through the darkness over the long 30 miles that lay between them and Captain Whitley's Stati! on near where the town of Crab Orchard, Lincoln County, now is. Next day with assistance from Whitley's they 112 returned to the scene of the massacre. They found the bodies of the entire company and the body of the Chief that McFarland had killed. Upon examination they found that the Chief was a white renegade with a painted face and an Indian dress. It appeared at first that McFarland was the only survivor but a cry attracted them to a spot a little aside, and there they found a second survivor, a puny girl baby, and a third, a faithful dog that had lain huddled against her and kept her from freezing by warmth of his body. The mother and father and all the others sleep by the Trace side where they fell. The child and her protector were taken to Captain Whitley's. What became of the child I never heard. Whether or not my grandmother knew I did not think to inquire until it was too late. Probably the baby lived to womanhood and possibly there are today many that could trace their lineage back to the helpless baby, the only one, of the large company of strong men and women setting out to reach the land beyond the Wilderness. In the early spring of 1790 Bishop Asbury, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, came from Virginia to Lexington, Kentucky, over Boone's path, to hold the first conference in the State. In his account of his uncomfortable trip through the mountains he mentions seeing on his way the graves of 28 emigrants who had been slain by the Indians but a few days before he came along. It could have been none other then the graves of McFarland's company on McFarland's Branch of Big Raccoon Creek in Laurel County. (Signed) Charles Robert Baugh. Copied from "the Lexington Herald", dated January 20, 1907.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Vitale Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1112 Message Board Post: Jack and Joe Vitale (ages 9 & 11) worked on the Fritz farm and on the way back to town stopped at the McFarlands, Jack got sick with measles and stayed while Joe went back home. William & Laura McFarland took care of Jack until he was well. They then took him to the Red Cross, and since Jack had no family that wanted him the McFarlands were told they could keep him, this is when he became a McFarland. The McFarlands had 2 other sons, one named George who married Jean, the second one's name is not known. ANY help with this line would be so greatly appreciated.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mc Farland, Yazel & Duckett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1111 Message Board Post: I am looking for the ancesors of James Mc Farland who died in 1866 in Hamilton County, Iowa. He married Rebecca Yazel in 1856 and one of their son's John, born 1830, married Martha Ann Duckett in 1856.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/675.791.2 Message Board Post: sorry it has taken me sooo long to replay. please e-mail me at wwilken@cox.net as I have quite a family tree on a web site at myfamily which will include your father. I would love more information.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/594.794.800.2 Message Board Post: my e-mail address has changed to wwilken@cox.net. Please contact me and meanwhile I will see if I can find out any information about Horance Mowan.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1110 Message Board Post: The following obit is reprinted from the Jan. 18, 2003 edition of the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle with permission of Cheyenne Newspapers, Inc. Copyright 2002. All rights reserved. Dillon L. McFarland 1962-2003 Lieutenant Colonel Dillon L. McFarland, 40, of Layton, Utah, was Killed on Nov. 13 during a combat training mission when the F-16C Fighting Falcon he was flying crashed on the Utah Test and Training Range. Lt. Col. Dillon L. McFarland was born in Ishpeming, Mich., on March 8, 1962. Dillon graduated from Douglas High School in Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota in 1980 and from the US Air Force Academy in Colordao Springs, Colo., in 1984. He had 3,043 hours in the F-16, with more than 85 combat flying hours. In his civilian job, he flew as a first officer for American Airlines. He is survived by his wife, Sandy; a son, Joshua; and a daughter, Ashley, all of Layton, Utah; his mother, Katherine "Katy" Godbout of Gwinn, Mich., formerly of Cheyenne; a brother, Chris McFarland of Denver, Colo.; sisters, Marie Moden of Berthoud, Colo., Jacque Lynn Godbout of Denver, Colo., and Kelly McFarland of Hopewell, Va. He was preceded in death by his father, Terry McFarland and his grandparents; and his step-father, Bob Godbout. A memorial service was held on Nov. 17 at the 419th Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Funeral services were held at the Hill Air Force Base Chapel on Nov. 20 with interment in the Layton Utah Cemetery. Note: I am of no relation, but my sympathies go out to those of you who are. This is here as a lasting memorial for Mr. McFarland.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Brooks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1109 Message Board Post: Looking for any information concerning the parents of Eliza McFarland, second (or third) wife of John Brooks who came from Paulding County, Georgia around 1853 and first settled in Upshur County, Texas. They eventually traveled to Johnson County, Texas where both died. Eliza was born 4 April 1812 in Tennessee. She died 25 September 1875 in Johnson County, Texas. She had three sons by John Brooks: James Thomas Brooks, Joseph H. Brooks, and William Alexander Brooks. She may also have had 2-3 daughters, but their names are unknown. She may have had a sister or a daughter named "Frances."

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Rule/Ruil, Mullinex, Young, Adkins/Atkinson, Helm, Gibson, Griffith, Wood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Helen, Contact me at slemin46@yahoo.com. I think we had corresponded before, but I can't not find the emails from you or your address. You are the one who has the name of Richard instead of James C. correct? Oh well, lets talk and compare. Susie McFarland Lemin slemin46@yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Harvey, McFarland, Morris, Wilson, Reed and others Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Susie McFarland Lemin. Will you please get in touch with me. I have a huge McFarland file on Richard and his 3 wives and 21 children. It is certified. Betty

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCFARLAND,MCCORMICK, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Do any of these names ring a bell?? JAMES MCFARLAND m: SARAH CATHRINE ARMSTRONG----CHILDREN:--ROSA MOZELLA MCFARLAND m; JOHN JACOB SCHWASINGER--ETTIE MCFARLAND m: JOHN W. WELLS--SARAH E. MCFARLAND m; PERRY BENTLY---CLISTA (CHISTY) MCFARLAND m; WILLIAM A. VALENTINE---MAY MCFARLAND m: CLINTON DORSEY--LUELIA (LULA) MCFARLAND m: PETER D. (MCMULLEN) MULHERIN--WILLIAM N. MCFARLAND m:MARGARET AN IRELAND. THANKS!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098.1.1 Message Board Post: None of my direct line that I am aware of at this time. It is possible as we have not been able to trace a few of Wesley McFarland's sons, such as James Harrison., and Mathew Young. Also some of Wesley's brothers are unfound such as Levi Pritchit, Thomas Pritchit (may have been step-brothers) and Mathew. James C. McFarland had 19 sons and 9 daughters with 3 wives. The fourth wife does not have children listed for her and she may or may not be the same as Rebecca Rule (Ruil) his first wife.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/132.193.433 Message Board Post: how about jackson co. iowa??

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/92.266.279 Message Board Post: I have a william who was born in Iowa died in california. related??

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: mcfarland,armstrong,schwasinger,mccormick Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1098.1 Message Board Post: are your mcfarland's in maquoketa Iowa??

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFARLAND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1108 Message Board Post: I photographed this tombstone in the Moore Cemetery, Arlington, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use the picture for your records. This is one of the 31,202 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/301.383.384.412.489.1 Message Board Post: sorry, not a connection here. happy hunting.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland/Dobbins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/1107 Message Board Post: Am looking for family of Amanda McFarland. I Know she Married William Dobbins 9/2/1865 in Mercer Co., Ill. They had 2 children Jessie Della Dobbins and Daniel David Dobbins. Amanda died somewhere near New Bedford, Missouri around 1870. After she died William re-married and and had 10 more children. The only information I have on Amanda is what I have put here. Would love to find her parents, grandparents etc. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You Joanne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FG0.2ACIB/393.395 Message Board Post: When researching the war in Burma, I communicated by e-mail with a Hugh McFarland, a hump pilot in WWII stationed near the Ledo Road. Same person?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1040.1 Message Board Post: I have a Prudence McFarland who was born in Joliet, IL in Jan of 1859. Any connection? Frank