MACFARLANE HERITAGE TRAIL PROJECT
ANCESTOR INFORMATION
ANCESTOR: James Madison McFarland
(tintype at age 16)
DATE OF BIRTH: 29 December 1867 PLACE: Long Bottom, Russell County, Ky.
EMIGRATION (1st known ancestor): Robert McFarland 1680-1750
PARENTS’ NAMES: Benjamin McFarland (1833-1904) born and died in Rowena, Russell County, Ky., and Jane Vaughan (his first cousin) 1836-1914 died in Russell County, Ky. Both are grandchildren of Benjamin McFarland b. 1767.
MACFARLANE HERITAGE TRAIL PROJECT
ANCESTOR INFORMATION
ANCESTOR: Benjamin McFarland
DATE OF BIRTH: 21 January 1833 Rowena, Russell, Ky.
EMIGRATION (1st known ancestor): Robert McFarland 1680-1750
PARENTS’ NAMES: James Madison McFarland (1808-1887) and Minerva Long (1811-1872)
SPOUSE: Jane Vaughan (or Vaughn) daughter of John and Elizabeth McFarland Vaughan. Benjamin’s father, James Madison McFarland, and Jane’s mother, Elizabeth McFarland Vaughan, were brother and sister.
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