This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCFARLAND, BYLER, GLOVER, WARDEN Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/955.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I found this paragraph in "A History of Cooper County, Missouri' first published in 1876. Maybe there are some clues that will help. "Wm. MCFARLAND, the first Sheriff of Cooper county, was born in Buncome county, North Carolina, in the year 1778. He emigrated to St. Genevieve, now St. Francis county, Missouri, in 1811, and from thence to Cooper county, and on the 16th day of October, 1816, he settled on the north side of the Petite Saline Creek, where Joseph BYLER now resides. He had two neighbors living on the south side of the creek whose names were John GLOVER and WARDEN. He had no other neighbors nearer than the immediate neighborhood of Boonville. He as in 1818 or 1819 a member of the Territorial Legislature from the southern district of Howard county, which included that part of the county lying south of the Missouri river. He was a farmer, a man of great energy, an affectionate husband and father and a good neighbor. He died in the year 1834."