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Sarah (Danison) McFarland |
Sarah (Danison) McFarland was born in about 1824 at Mt. Perry, Perry County, OH, the daughter of Absalom and Rebecca (Miner) Danison.
At the age of 19, Sarah married 24-year-old Alexander "Young" McFarland (1819-1868). They were wed on Dec. 7, 1843, in Perry County, in a ceremony led by Thomas W. Hand. (His middle initial also has been erroneously written as "Z." and "J." in early documents.)
They together produced a family of five known daughters -- Mary E. Graver (?), Lucy "Anna" Lattimer, Laura Justice Davis Smith, Harriet Jessie Fremont Crooks Bennett and Sarah McFarland.
When the federal census was taken in 1850, the McFarlands were farmers and lived next to Sarah's parents, Rebecca and Absalom, in Madison Township. In the McFarland household at that time were daughters Mary and Lucy.
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Above: the McFarland and Danison farms as marked in an 1859 atlas. Below: Gently rolling landscape of Mt. Perry, Ohio on Danison/McFarland lands, including the cemetery where they rest. |
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When the 1860 census was enumerated, Sarah and Young lived with their daughters Mary, Lucy, Laura, Harriet and Sarah.
Sarah very likely died sometime during the decade of the 1860s. Nothing more about this couple is known. By 1870, her children were living with other families, including teenage daughter Laura with Sarah's married sister Lucy (Danison) Bowman.
Alexander passed away at the age of 50 years and eight days on Nov. 29, 1868. He was laid to rest in the burying ground of the Mt. Perry Methodist church, where his wife's parents later joined him in eternal repose.
~ Daughter Sarah McFarland ~
Daughter Sarah McFarland (1858- ? ) was born in 1858.
Nothing is known about her life. She may not have survived childhood and appears to disappear in the mists of history.
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