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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 Z. McFarland (1819- ? ). They were wed on Dec. 7, 1843, in Perry County, in a ceremony led by Thomas W. Hand.
They had five known daughters -- Mary E. Graver (?), Lucy "Ann" Lattimer, Laura McFarland, Harriet McFarland 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 were daughters Mary E. and Lucy A. McFarland.
When the 1860 census was enumerated, Sarah was living with "Young" McFarland (1820- ? ) with 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's fate has not yet been learned.
~ Daughter Mary E. McFarland ~
Daughter Mary E. McFarland (1847- ? ) has a story that is hazy and possibly lost to history.
It is likely that she married Isaac K. Graver on Oct. 19, 1873, when Mary would have been age 26, but this needs to be confirmed. B.F. Thomas, a minister of the Gospel, who later performed the marriage of Mary's sister Lucy "Ann," led the Graver nuptials in Perry County.
Mary may have died within a few years of marriage, as an "Isaac Graver" (1846- ? ) of Perry County married again, on March 28, 1875, to Rachel M. Bugh (1849- ? ) , daughter of Michael Bugh. Isaac and Rachel are shown together on the federal census of the county in 1880, but no record of Mary has yet been found in that enumeration. These guesses need to be confirmed. Isaac and Rachel are believed to have migrated to Mattoon, Coles County, IL, where they are shown on the 1900 federal census.
~ Daughter Lucy Ann (McFarland) Lattimer ~
Daughter Lucy "Ann" McFarland (1848- ? ) was born in October 1848, most likely in Perry County. She married Robert Turner Latimore (also spelled "Latimer" and "Lattimer") 1851-1941). The ceremony took place on Aug. 31, 1879, in Perry County, when she was age 31, and Robert was 28. B.F. Thomas, a minister of the Gospel, performed the nuptials.
Robert, born on Aug. 14, 1851, was the son of James and Hannah (Henderson) Lattimer of Perry County. He was a farmer.
They had at least five children -- Ella J. Williams, Chauncey (or "Chancie") O. Lattimore, May Lattimer, Harriet "Hattie" Randall and Mary Lattimer.
Ann and Robert lived in Hopewell, Perry County when the federal census was taken in 1880. Later, they made their home in Van Wert, Van Wert County, OH.
By 1900, they had migrated to Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, IN, where Robert and 22-year-old son Chauncey were employed as day laborers. Their home was on Joseph Street. By 1910, Robert had secured a job as a factory laborer in Mishawaka.
During the decade of the 1890s, their eldest daughter Ella married a man named Williams. Sadly, Ella died between 1900-1910, leaving behind a daughter Lula M. Williams. Young Lula went to live with Ann and Robert in Mishawaka, and was in their home in 1910 when the census was enumerated.
Ann died first, during the decade of the 1910s, but her details are not yet known.
Robert spent his final years as a widower in Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH. When the 1920 federal census was made, he resided with his married daughter and son in law, Harriet and Samuel J. Randall, on Foster Street in Youngstown. Later, he moved to 456 Norwood in Youngstown.
He died in Youngstown at the age of 89 on Jan. 8, 1941. His remains were shipped for burial to Mishawaka, IN. The informant on his death certificate was "Mrs. Rowley" of Youngstown.
Daughter Ella J. Lattimore (1875- ? ) married (?) Williams. They had one known daughter, Lula M. Williams, born in 1899. Ella died sometime between 1900 and 1910.
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| Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana, which made 125,000 vehicles annually, and where Chancie Lattimer may have been employed. |
Son Chauncey (or "Chancie") O. Lattimer (1878- ? ) was born in 1878 in Ohio. He married Myrta H. (?) in 1901, likely in Mishawaka. They had at least two sons, Leroy Lattimer and Kenneth Lattimer, born 13 years apart. The 1910 census shows this family living on Ann Street in Mishawaka, where Chauncey was employed as a machinist in a rubber company. By 1920, they migrated to South Bend, St. Joseph County, with Chauncey now continuing his trade as a machinist in a lathe works. They remained in South Bend during the 1920s, and by 1930 Chauncey worked as a machinist in a brake factory, and 28-year-old unmarried son Leroy as a designer in a floral shop.
Daughter May Lattimer (1880- ? ) was born in July 1880.
Daughter Harriet "Hattie" Lattimer (1883-1939) was born on May 20, 1883 in Van Wert County, OH. At the age of 26, she resided in her parents' home in Mishawaka, working as a shoemaker in a rubber company. She married Kentucky native Samuel J. Randall (1889- ? ). They had no children. During the 1910s, they moved to Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH, where Samuel worked as a steel mill machinist, and Hattie's widowed father lived under their roof. By 1930, Samuel had been promoted to mechanical foreman in the mill. Suffering from cancer of the vulva, she died at the age of 56, in North Side Hospital in Youngstown, on Sept. 16, 1939. (On her death certificate, with information provided by "Mrs. C.E. Roley," her husband's name is given as "David J. Randell" and her parents' names as "Robert Laterman and Lucy Ann McFarland.") Her remains were placed at rest in Belmont, OH.
Daughter Mary Lattimer (1887- ? ) was born in May 1887.
~ Daughter Laura O. McFarland ~
Daughter Laura O. McFarland (1854- ? ) lived as a 16-year-old with her married aunt, Lucy Bowman, in Duncans Falls, Muskingum County, OH. When the Bowmans moved to Hartford City, IN, Laura did not go with them, and made other living arrangements.
She may be the same Laura McFarland who was employed with the family of Charles and Esther Winter, in Carroll, Fairfield County, OH, when the federal census was taken in 1880.
It is possible that she married Solomon R. Justice, but this needs to be confirmed.
Her fate is un known.
~ Daughter Harriet McFarland ~
By 1870, 13-year-old daughter Harriet McFarland (1857- ? ) was residing with her Danison grandparents in Mt. Perry.
In later years, Harriet moved to White Cottage, Muskingum County, where her ultimate fate is lost.
~ Daughter Sarah McFarland ~
Daughter Sarah McFarland (1858- ? ) is appears to disappear in the mists of history.
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