The McPherson Family
Duncan McPherson. The Wisconsin branch of the family has a story, which says that Duncan came from Scotland at the age of 23 and left a castle behind.
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John Templeton McPherson, son of Duncan McPherson, was born about 1813.
He was married in 1837, to Sabina Holiday Hadley, born about 1818, in North Carolina. The Cane Creek Quaker Meeting of 1837, in Chatham County, North Carolina, noted that John T. had married out of faith and moved to Morgan County, Indiana.
The young couple left North Carolina on horseback, crossed the mountains, and carried in their arms their first-born son, William P., as they rode all the way to Indiana. The 1840 Morgan County, Census listed a John and a Randal McPherson. John paid a poll tax in Gregg Township, in Morgan County, in 1842.
After moving to Jefferson County, Iowa, the records note that John T. was a voter in Penn Township in 1848. He had earlier received a land patent in 1846 for 80 acres in Section 11, and owned 80 more acres in 1848 and sold more land in 1851. John and his family were in Black Hawk Township, on the 1850 Jefferson County, Census, but by 1860 they were farming in Palmyra Township, Warren County, Iowa.
By the time of the 1870 Census, the family had left Warren County, and moved to Fillmore County, Nebraska, where they homesteaded. By this time, their son James W., and Randal�s son, Cyrus, were listed as heads of households. John T. died in Ohio, Fillmore County, on 13 November 1876, and was buried at the Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. James was back in Warren County, Iowa, on the 1880 census. Sabina continued to live in Fillmore County, and was on the 1890 census.
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