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/437.475.478.1 Message Board Post: Betty, The info I have on Alexander Miller McFarland comes from a family group sheet but it says; Alex Miller McFarland b.04 Mar 1862 , married 27 July 1884 in Gilmer Co., Ga. , died 02Mar 1942 in Jasper, Pickens Co., Ga. I must have assumed that Alex was short for Alexander. Father , Richard Crabtree McFarland: Mother, Mary Walker siblings: James, George Wesley, Thomas R., and William Reilly. Buried Refuge Church Cemetery, Pickens Co., Ga. This information was sent to me by Jean Jennings, I do not know if it is her work or work of Mabel Thornton. Jean could answer that question for you.