This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McFarland, Chester, Mead Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FG0.2ACIB/1024 Message Board Post: Eli McFarland Married Lena L Chester on 03/02/1878 in IL, Lena had seven children. In Vermilion County Census Records for 1900, Ellie, born 1881, Aron born 1887, Orilla born 1889, Odessa born 1892, Andrew born 1998, 2 children do not show up in Census I do not know who they are? Eli is a farmer and rents a home on a farm, I believe from his brother maybe, Sylvester, married to Allie McFarland, they have a son Albert McFarland, these families farmed land in Vermilion County IL, in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Both men Eli and Sylvester were born in Indiana, both do not know where their mother was born, but there father whom I do not know yet was born in Penn. Eli's full name is Elijah. Anyone connect to this family? Sylvester's wife's maiden name is Mead.