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/1015 Message Board Post: All right cousins, I have exhausted all my knowledge looking for the following data, including going through all the McFarland board postings. My grandfather was Lewis Harrison McFarland who settled in Oklahoma, whose father was Jesse Buffington McFarland Jr, who also settled in Oklahoma, who father was Jesse Buffington McFarland Sr. And then my line falls into a black hole. Jesse Jr served in the Civil War from Illinois along with his brother, William Marion. I can find nothing through any Illinois connection. It appears William moved to Missouri after the war and married an Emma. She applied for a widow's pension in 1883. I got tons on all of them BUT where did Jesse Sr come from???? I am beginning to believe in the cabbage patch theory of birth!!! Help!