Dr. Benjamin M. McFarland

Dr. Benjamin M. McFarland

Male 1769 - 1860  (~ 90 years)

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  • Name Benjamin M. McFarland 
    Title Dr. 
    Born Oct 1769  Bedford County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 11 Apr 1860  Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Lick Creek Cemetry, Beech Grove, Marion.County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Find-A-Grave: "Benjamin McFarland, b. Unkn. d. 11 Apr 1860

      'Husband of Mary'

      Cemetery notes and/or description: Lick Creek Cemetery (a.k.a. Blackwell Cemetery) was just south of the city of Indianapolis in Beech Grove, Marion County, Indiana, on Main St and Churchman Ave. It is now the Sarah T. Bolton Park.

      The cemetery had fallen into disuse and then in a bad condition, with most of the stones being either broken wood or slate stones and had become overgrown. The cemetery had also been vandalized many times.

      At the time of the sale, the headstones were removed, the bodies re-interned to an unknown location, and the area was turned into a park in hopes of 'cleaning up the image of the area.' A monument was added to the park with a list of names compiled by both the manual transcription efforts of a unknown person and information supplied to the Beech Grove Historical Society."
    Notes 
    • Sulgrove, B. R., History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana; Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1884, 785 pgs., "Perry Township" by Dr. William H. Wishard, pp. 575-594.

      "Dr. Benjamin McFarland and family moved from Campbell County, KY, in 1826, and settled on Lick Creek, half a mile east of the Shelby Pike. He was the first settler in the township who practiced the healing art. He made himself very useful to the early settlers as a physician. He built the first saw-mill on Lick Creek, and soon after added a grist-mill, so as to furnish his neighbors both bread and lumber.

      He had two sons, Samuel and William, both living in the neighborhood, enterprising and respectable citizens. He had two daughters: Jane E. (who married John McCollum) and Eliza (who married Thomas N. Thomas). Benjamin McFarland died at the house of his son, Samuel McFarland, in the year 1860, in the ninetieth year of his age, his wife having died some years previous.

      The McFarland family has a marked individuality. They have always been in the advance from a moral and educational standpoint."

    • U.S. Census Perry, Marion County, IN 1850: "Benjamine McFarland, age 80 b. Abt. 1770 Virginia, not employed, wife Mary E., age 80 b. Abt. 1770 Virginia," in the household of his son: "William McFarland, age 36 b. Abt. 1814 Kentucky, farmer, wife Martha A., age 21 b. Abt. 1829 Kentucky; five children b. Indiana: Cary A. 10, Mary E. 8, Angelina 6, John F. 4, Artemaca 2."
    Person ID I13835  Complete
    Last Modified 9 Apr 2018 

    Father Robert Mcfarland,   b. 7 Apr 1730, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt. 1798, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Martha Unknown,   b. Abt. 1734, Orange County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6055  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Martha Stinson,   b. Abt. 1770, Tennessee County, North Carolina Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef. 1800  (Age ~ 29 years) 
    Married Abt 1794  Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Martha McFarland,   b. Abt. 1795, Tennessee Territory, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Benjamin McFarland,   b. Abt. 1798, Tennessee, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F6054  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Mary Ratcliffe,   b. 6 Jul 1773, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1855, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married 20 Feb 1800  Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Kentucky Marriages, 1783-1965: "Benjamin McFarland & Mary Ratliff, m. 20 Feb 1800 Woodford County."
    Notes 
    • B.R. Sulgrove, "History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana" (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1884), 579:

      ". . . The permanent settlers of the years 1825 and 1826 are given in the order of their arrival [in Perry Township, Marion County, IN] as is known: . . .Benjamin McFarland, the first man who practiced medicine that settled in the township, and his two sons, Samuel and William, and soon after him his son-in-law, John McCollum, near Lick Creek, east side of the township . . ."
    Children 
    +1. Jane Evans McFarland,   b. 5 Jan 1801, Campbell County, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1870, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    +2. Thomas McFarland,   b. 23 Mar 1803, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Feb 1850, Perry, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 46 years)
     3. Isabel McFarland,   b. 2 Mar 1805, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Samuel McFarland,   b. Abt. 1809, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Jul 1890, Johnson County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years)
    +5. Eliza McFarland,   b. 17 Jan 1811, Kentucky, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Jul 1895, Perry, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years)
     6. William McFarland,   b. Abt 1813, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Robert McFarland,   b. Abt 1816, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 9 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F6016  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBorn - Oct 1769 - Bedford County, Virginia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Abt 1794 - Tennessee Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 20 Feb 1800 - Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 11 Apr 1860 - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Lick Creek Cemetry, Beech Grove, Marion.County, Indiana, U.S.A. Link to Google Earth
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