MACFARLANE HERITAGE TRAIL PROJECT
ANCESTOR INFORMATION
ANCESTOR: James Madison McFarland.
DATE OF BIRTH: 11 November 1808 Adair County, KY. (This area became Russell County when the county was formed in 1825)
EMIGRATION (1st known ancestor): Robert McFarland 1680-1750
PARENTS’ NAMES: Benjamin McFarland (1767) and Ruth Buchannan Jack
MACFARLANE HERITAGE TRAIL PROJECT
ANCESTOR INFORMATION
ANCESTOR: Benjamin McFarland
BIRTH: 21 December 1767 (Source: date by family member,
EMIGRATION (1st known ancestor): Robert McFarland 1680-1750
PARENTS’ NAMES: John McFarland b. 4 February 1739 in Lancaster, Pa- d. 17 October 1803 in Buncombe, North Carolina. Mother: Mary Kinder b. 1742 Bedford, Bedford, Virginia-d. 1820?
Spouse: Ruth Buchanan Jack m. 15 July 1788 Greene, Tennessee. 1850 US Census list she is born in Pennsylvania around 1766. She died 6 September 1853 in Russell County, from wounds received in a fall. It states on the record that her father’s last name was Jack. She, her son John (1792), grandson John (1815) died the same day 26 July from pneumonia and John (1792)’s wife, Elizabeth died 12 January 1853 from pneumonia.
MACFARLANE HERITAGE TRAIL
ANCESTOR: James Franklin McFarland
abt. 1880
DATE OF BIRTH & PLACE: Aug.9, 1847, Fannin Co., Texas
PARENTS’ NAMES: Andrew Jackson McFarland and Artemissa Pence McFarland
CHILDRENS’ NAMES: Samuel Jackson, Nancy Elizabeth, Florence Cordelia, Mary Arabella, Rutha Tennesee, James Robert, John Allen, Gordon Burnett, Lola Winifred
family portrait from abt. 1904