My Genealogy Hound

McFARLAND, WM. M., farmer; Sec. 16; P. O. La Prairie; was born in Greene county, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1814; came to this county, Oct. 8, 1832; has 210 acres of land, valued at $8,000; married Eliza McFarland. She was born in same county, Feb. 3, 1814 (twin brothers’ children); was mother of four children, three living: Rebecca Jane (now Mrs. L. L. Strickler); Martha L. (now Mrs. Forsyth); Amy H. (now Mrs. Suter); George G. (died March 2, 1852); has held the office of Town Clerk and Road Commissioner. His father came from Tennessee, left there when he was four years old, and came to Harrison county, Ky., lived there about seventeen years; thence to Greene county, Ohio, lived there twenty years, and thence to Adams county. His grandfather was in the Revolutionary War and served seven years, and his father was in the War of 1812, was under Gen. Harrison. When they came here, located on a place two and a half miles northeast of Camp Point — lived there in a log cabin, 16x20, puncheon floor. Remembers well the night after moved in, came a big snow storm, — wind blew snow through their shanty, so his father had to put up a wagon sheet to keep the snow off the children. Mr. McFarland came here among the first, and well can be called one of its pioneers; has a fine home and is one of the stirring farmers of the township.