ANDREW J.
MCFARLAND
Andrew
J. McFarland, farmer, who was born in Madison County, Mo., in 1837, is a
son of Arthur and Louisa (Morrow) McFarland, and grandson of John
McFarland, a native of Virginia, who immigrated to Christian County,
Ky., in 1795, and was of Scotch-Irish descent.
He left his Native County and State in 1816, and began working at
the Mine La Motte mines, but in connection with this followed farming
until 1832, when he married Miss Louisa Morrow, who was born in the
Territory of Upper Louisiana in 1810.
Her father, Thomas Morrow, who was of Irish descent, was born in
1773, in Canada, and came to Missouri about 1797.
He settled at St. Chares, and while there was married.
In 1803 he moved to Farmington, Mo., and a year later he settled
six miles southwest of St. Michael (now Fredericktown).
He died in 1867, Arthur McFarland settled three miles west of
Fredericktown after his marriage, and was occupied the principal part of
his life in tilling the soil. He died in 1881. Mr.
McFarland and Mr. Morrow were two of the pioneer settlers of Southeast
Missouri, and especially Madison County.
Mrs. Louisa McFarland is yet living and has a remarkably good
memory relating facts with accuracy that occurred when she was a little
girl. She is the mother of
eight children, six now living: Andrew J., James E., Mary Jane, Martha
Ann (wife of Bynum Maze), Eliza E. and Henry B. W.
Andrew J. attained his majority on the farm, and in 1859 married
Miss Sarah F., daughter of John M. Gholson.
Mrs. McFarland was born in the house in which she now resides in
1840, and by her marriage became the mother of two children – William
A. and John G. Mr. McFarland has resided in his native county all his life,
and has never lived over six and one-half miles from Fredericktown.
He has made his home three years where he no resides.
He is a very successful farmer, and now owns 195 acres of land.
He is politically a Democrat, casting his first vote for J. C.
Bell in 1860. He and wife
have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for the past
twenty years. His mother
has also been a member of the same church for forty years.
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