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1769 - 1860 (~ 90 years)
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Name |
Benjamin M. McFarland |
Title |
Dr. |
Born |
Oct 1769 |
Bedford County, Virginia |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
11 Apr 1860 |
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA |
Buried |
Lick Creek Cemetry, Beech Grove, Marion.County, Indiana, U.S.A. |
- 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."
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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."
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Person ID |
I13835 |
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Last Modified |
9 Apr 2018 |
Family 1 |
Martha Stinson, b. Abt. 1770, Tennessee County, North Carolina Colony , d. Bef. 1800 (Age ~ 29 years) |
Married |
Abt 1794 |
Tennessee |
Children |
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Family ID |
F6054 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 2 |
Mary Ratcliffe, b. 6 Jul 1773, Virginia , d. 7 Apr 1855, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age 81 years) |
Married |
20 Feb 1800 |
Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
- Kentucky Marriages, 1783-1965: "Benjamin McFarland & Mary Ratliff, m. 20 Feb 1800 Woodford County."
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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 . . ."
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Children |
+ | 1. Jane Evans McFarland, b. 5 Jan 1801, Campbell County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 14 Jul 1870, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age 69 years) |
+ | 2. Thomas McFarland, b. 23 Mar 1803, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 5 Feb 1850, Perry, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age 46 years) |
| 3. Isabel McFarland, b. 2 Mar 1805, Kentucky, USA |
| 4. Samuel McFarland, b. Abt. 1809, Kentucky, USA , d. 11 Jul 1890, Johnson County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age ~ 81 years) |
+ | 5. Eliza McFarland, b. 17 Jan 1811, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 24 Jul 1895, Perry, Marion County, Indiana, U.S.A. (Age 84 years) |
| 6. William McFarland, b. Abt 1813, Kentucky, USA |
| 7. Robert McFarland, b. Abt 1816, Kentucky, USA |
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Last Modified |
9 Apr 2018 |
Family ID |
F6016 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Born - Oct 1769 - Bedford County, Virginia |
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| Married - Abt 1794 - Tennessee |
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| Married - 20 Feb 1800 - Woodford County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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| Died - 11 Apr 1860 - Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA |
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| Buried - - Lick Creek Cemetry, Beech Grove, Marion.County, Indiana, U.S.A. |
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