Harvey A. McFARLIN (~1810-185x) +
Mariah ???? (~1811-188x)

Martha “Tennessee” (16 Jul 1832-10 Feb 1922) — m. Nicholas Norris, Jr. on 15 Dec 1853; m. Major H. Sanders about 1864

William Thomas (~1836-????) — m. Lucinda Catherine Hatfield on 9 Jan 1856

John H. (~1840-????)

Mary N. (~1844-????) — prob. m. James A. McClurg on 15 Aug 1866

James Harvey (~1845-~1898) — m. Janie Floyd in 186x; prob. m. Sarah Stark on 6 Nov 1872; m. Martha B. about 1879; m. Mattie Ray about 1883

Meranda O. (~1847-????) — m. Wiley Burrow in 187x

Harvey was born in North Carolina. I don’t know when he came to Tennessee or who his parents were, but circumstantial evidence suggests he was a member of the extensive McFarland clan from Rutherford County in southwestern North Carolina.

Mariah was born in Tennessee to parents from North Carolina. The 1850 census said she came from Alabama, but later ones said Tennessee.

They married about 1831 in Tennessee. The 1840 census showed what was almost certainly them in Gibson County, which is in western Tennessee north of Jackson. Harvey and wife were in their twenties, with three children: a girl and boy age 5-9, and a boy under 5. That would be Martha, William, and John.

They moved west to Lawrence County, Arkansas in the early 1840s, after John’s birth but before Mary’s. The 1830 census of that county had showed a James McFarlin, in his 50s, with a wife in her 40s and no children with them. Maybe these were Harvey’s parents? Or an uncle?

The 1850 census for Lebanon Township, Lawrence County listed Harvey (40) and Mariah (40) McFarlin with children Martha T. (18), Thomas (15), John H. (10), “Mag” N. (6), James H. (5), and Moranda O. (3). Lebanon Township is northeast of Poughkeepsie, in what’s now Sharp County.

In 1857, Harvey bought 200 acres of land in Morgan Township, north-northeast of Poughkeepsie and due west of Lebanon Township. He died sometime between then and 1860. The 1860 census found Mariah (49) living in Morgan Township. She still had at home children Mary (16), James (13), and Maranda (11), plus 13-year-old William McFarlin from Tennessee. Who was this other William? A nephew? Mariah’s son William Thomas McFarlin was married and living next door.

The 1870 census of Lebanon Township showed Mariah back in Lebanon Township, with daughter Maranda (21) still at home, and son James (25) living nearby.

By the 1880 census, Mariah had moved with Meranda and Meranda’s husband Wiley Burrow to Prairie Township in Marion County, a good 100 miles further west. Son James moved there too. So did at least three members of the McFarland clan of Rutherford County, North Carolina: two married daughters and one grandson of John McFarland (3 Dec 1775-16 Dec 1845) and Mary “Polly” Deviney (26 Mar 1784-8 May 1851).

Mariah probably died in Marion County sometime in the 1880s, but there’s no record. I don’t know where either she or Harvey is buried.

Children

Martha “Tennessee” McFarlin (1832-1922)

Martha has her own entry in the family tree.

William Thomas McFarlin (~1836-????)

William, who at least sometimes went by his middle name, married Lucinda Catherine Hatfield (~1837-????) from South Carolina in 1856. They had one child I know of:

James C. (~1855-????)

The 1860 census listed them, ages 25 and 21, in Morgan Township next door to William’s mother and siblings with their son James, age 5. I don’t know what happened to them after that.

John H. (~1840-????)

Can’t find John after 1850. The 1860 census showed a 20-year-old John McFarlin from Tennessee living at a farm and boarding house in Paducah, Kentucky, but there’s not enough information to say whether it was him.

Mary N. (~1844-????)

Mary was probably the Mary A. McFarling (22) who married James A. McClurg (27) in Lawrence County on 15 Aug 1866. The 1870 census showed a James A. McClurg (30), house carpenter from Tennessee, staying with the Moore family in Strawberry, Lawrence County. Given the age, location, and uncommon name, it’s very likely the same man, but it doesn’t tell us what became of Mary. Odds are that she died in the late 1860s.

James Harvey McFarlin (~1845-~1898)

James married Jane “Janie” Floyd (~1850-187x) from Arkansas in the mid-1860s. The 1870 census showed them in Lebanon Township with son William (age 1). I don’t know why it didn’t list son Ike. A James H. McFarland of the right age married Sarah Stark in Independence County (directly south of Sharp County) on 6 Nov 1872, probably our man, suggesting that Janie died within a couple years of the 1870 census. If so, some of this set of children were Sarah’s:

Isaac “Ike” (14 Oct 1866-4 Apr 1948) — m. Ellen Hooper on 28 Jun 1903

William Bartholomew (1 Oct 1870-7 Nov 1928) — m. ????; m. A. L. Morgan on 25 Mar 1900; m. Addie Timms on 11 Sep 1906; m. Mary Burrow on 8 Sep 1918

John B. (~1872-????)

George Riley (6 Apr 1873-27 Nov 1907) — m. Julia Medlock on 4 Feb 1894

Martha E. (~1876-????)

James, like his mother and sister, moved to Marion County, Arkansas in the 1870s. Possibly this was something to do with his wife dying, whether Janie or Sarah, because the 1880 census showed him in Marion County with a new wife supposedly born in Illinois, Martha B. (16), and the four younger children named above. George (7) was listed as born in Missouri. Ike (12) was living with the family of James Basil Glenn in Marion County. It has been suggested that the Glenns were Martha B.’s family, in which case James Basil was her brother – but he was from Arkansas, not Illinois.

In any case, Martha B. didn’t last long, because James married again about 1883 to Matilda “Mattie” Ray (1868-189x) from Pierce City, Missouri. The children of that marriage:

Thomas Harvey (24 Sep 1884-Oct 1968) — m. Cora Medlock on 24 Sep 1905; m. Jenny Mae Drakeford on 13 Oct 1919

Sidney Albert (28 Dec 1887-1 Apr 1960) — m. Beatrice Jarrett on 22 Jan 1911

Easter E. (6 Mar 1889-24 Apr 1924) — m. James William Richie on 20 May 1911

Gus (15 Aug 1891-23 Mar 1978) — m. Beatrice Ball on 5 Apr 1916

Berry (12 Dec 1892-2 Dec 1979) — m. Alma Thurman on 31 Dec 1913; m. Alphia Etta Simms on 3 Sep 1919; m. Latene Brandon on 1 Jan 1935

Iona (~1895-????) — m. Erwin Jones

Lula (16 May 1896-5 Jun 1981) — m. Edward Lynch Kirby on 24 Jan 1920; m. Garvin Webster Mink in 194x

Tince “Tint” (Jan 1899-????) — m. Joseph H. “Joe” Richie on 2 May 1915; poss. m. E. H. Jones

One source has James dying about 1896, but it appears he was having children until 1899. In 1900 his younger children were boarded with various relatives, including older half-siblings, indicating that he and Mattie were gone by then.

Meranda O. McFarlin (~1847-????)

Meranda married Wiley Burrow (~1828-????) from Tennessee somewhere in the 1870s. The 1880 census found them living out west in Prairie Township, Marion County, Arkansas with Meranda’s mother and two children. A third child was born in 1882, and a 1939 Social Security record named a fourth, James, for whom there’s no other trace:

James Jeffrey (8 Nov 1874-after Feb 1939)

Mariah A. (~1877-????)

Wiley H. (~1879-????)

John Wesley (5 Dec 1882-29 Nov 1947) — m. Cordelia “Delia” Kackley Riley about 1918

Apart from son John, I can find nothing about them past 1882, in part because there’s so little information about Wiley. There’s only the 1880 census to go by, and it could be mistaken. Ancestry.com claims Wiley died in 1890. He was not the Wiley Green Burrow who appeared in the 1850 census for Lincoln, Tennessee; that man settled in Missouri. A familysearch.org member claimed him as the son of John (b. ~1801) & Rebecca (b. ~1804) Burrow from North Carolina who in 1850 were living in Bentonville, Arkansas, which is plausible, but didn’t provide a source.

The most likely candidate in earlier censuses for Meranda’s husband is a Wiley Burrow who appeared in the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Vineyard Township, Washington County, Arkansas. He claimed to have been born in Tennessee between 1822 and 1825, had a wife named Rebecca from North Carolina and daughters Ann and Mary born in Arkansas, and I can’t find him or his family after 1860. The 1860 census called him “Wesley”, but that was clearly a mistake – there was a Wesley Burrow born about 1827 in Tennessee also living in Vineyard Township in 1860, 1870, and 1880, and his name, age, location, and Tennessee origins suggest he was Wiley’s brother. (His wife was Minerva Delany, married 1852.) There are records of a Wiley A. Burrow who enlisted as a private in the Arkansas 8th Infantry, Co. F on 23 Sep 1861 at Pocahontas, Randolph County, and was dropped for prolonged absence on 31 Aug 1863, but I don’t know whether that was him either.

Grandchildren

John Wesley Burrow (1882-1947)

Meranda’s son John, born in Yellville, Marion County, married Cordelia “Delia” Kackley Riley (22 Jul 1897-21 Aug 1975), Arkansas-born widow of Herbert Riley Sr., in 1918. She had a son, Herbert “Hub” Riley Jr. (2 Feb 1914-29 Mar 1993), by her first marriage. John’s and Delia’s children:

Woodrow Franklin (13 Apr 1919-13 May 1996)

Lee Jay (1923-19 Jul 1945)

Otis Edward (21 Oct 1925-20 Mar 1993) — m. Joy Silvey

Alfred Kackley (10 Mar 1928-23 Aug 1993) — m. Ethel Faye Shaver on 8 Nov 1947

Johnnie (1 Mar 1931-7 Mar 1998) — m. William Douglas Gordon; m. ??? Smith

Katie Marlene (16 Jan 1934-8 Sep 1984) — m. Paul J. Moore

James Oliver “Bob” (9 Sep 1937-28 Apr 2007) — m. Joyce L. ??? on 26 Mar 1954

In Sep 1918, John registered for the draft in England, Lonoke County, Arkansas. By 1920 he was living in Bolivar, Jefferson County with wife Lelah (sic), stepson Herbert, and son Woodrow. This census incorrectly said he was from Missouri. By 1930 he was in Poinsett, Little River County with wife Delia and sons Woodrow (11), Leo (7), Otis (4), and Alfred (almost 2). The 1940 census seems to have missed the family, except for son Woodrow, who was out on his own in White County.

John died in 1947 and is buried in Fredonia Cemetery, Judsonia, White County, Arkansas. In 1951, Delia married widower Roy V. Garnett (13 Sep 1895-1 Aug 1969). She died in 1975, and is buried with Roy in Providence Cemetery, Judsonia.

One of their sons, Lee, died fighting in the Philippines near the end of WWII and is buried in Manila. Woodrow and Katie moved to California, and Otis to Oklahoma. The other children settled in Arkansas.

Links

Tracing the Burrows

Unverified

Possibly Harvey’s Family