McFARLAND, Myrtilla “Myrtie” (Bryan)
Date of death: 12 Feb 1897 – Marion County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 26, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 33, page 3 column 4
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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GREENWOOD.
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Mrs. Myrtle [sic] McFarland, north of Southport, was buried here last Tuesday afternoon.
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Link to Myrtilla “Myrtie” (Bryan) McFarland’s grave
Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Samuel McFarland married Myrtilla Bryan on 12 May 1836 in Marion County.
The 1850 US Federal Census for Perry Township, Marion County, Indiana records forty-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer Samuel McFarland, his thirty-three-year-old, Indiana-born wife, Myrella [sic] McFarland, eighteen-year-old Elizabeth McFarland (who can’t be Myrtilla’s daughter), Samuel and Myrtella’s Indiana-born children, twelve-year-old Isabela, 10-year-old Mary R, six-year-old Sarah, five-year-old Angeline, and three-year-old James McFarland, and Myrtilla’s parents, sixty-four-year-old, Kentucky-born Thos. Bryant [sic] and sixty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born Elizabeth (Sanders) Bryant [sic].
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Lois Johnson