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LOCATION: ABOUT 6 AND ONE- HALF MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORRISTOWN ON SPRINGVALE PIKE.
THE FARM FOR MANY YEARS BELONGED TO THE McFARLANDS.
ROBERT McFARLAND MAR 15,1759—FEB 5, 1837
B.F. RICHARDSON MAR 1,1851—AUG 20,1880
THOMAS M. JONES AUG 3,1817—DEC 26,1890
ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY HIS CHILDREN, R. M. JONES AND E.M. SPECK
PENELOPE WEST DIED APR 24,1826 AGE 18Y 11M 5 D
ELIZABETH HILL, W/O ROBERT HILL DIED MAY 9,1833 AGE 54Y 5M 28 D
ROBERT HILL DIED FEB 26,1832 AGE 81Y 4M 1D
ANNE RAMSEY HILL, W/O JOHN W. HILL DIED AUG 22,1834 AGE 20Y 10M 3D
ABRAM WADE MASKALL, S/O WILLIAM & PHEBE MASKALL OCT 23,1824—DEC 14,1841
PHEBE MASKALL, W/O WILLIAM MASKALL OCT 17,1794—OCT 20,1845
WILLIAM MASKALL DEC 21,1790—JUN 23,1869
ALVINZI ALONZO ANDRUSS, S/O HARVEY & MARY ANDRUSS DEC 16,1830—DEC 1,1857
JACOB HOBACK APR 22,1773—OCT 23,1845
JAMES CUNNINGHAM MAR 31,1818—JAN 21,1885
ELIZABETH CUNNINGHAM DIED JUN 26,1860 (1850?) AGE 29Y 4M 2D
W/O JAMES CUNNINGHAM
MARY A. MCFARLAND W/O ROBERT McFARLAND FEB 11,1799—FEB 23,1866
MEMORIAL STONE, BURIED AT WHITE HALL, MADISON CO, KY
LEVINIA M. JONES W/O THOMAS M. JONES DIED APR 17,1850
AGE 24 Y 1 M 2D
D/O ROBERT & MARY McFARLAND
A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF COL. ROBERT McFARLAND
THE SECOND, FOR WHOM THIS CHAPTER IS NAMED
THE ROBERT MCFARLAND CHAPTER, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION, AT THE ANNUAL
MEETING MARCH 25TH, 1918 VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO DESIGNATE MARCH 15TH, WHICH IS THE
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND, AS THE ANNUAL MEETING DATE OF THIS
CHAPTER, IN MEMORY OF THE ONLY OFFICER OF THE REVOLUTION WHOSE REMAINS REST IN
HAMBLEN COUNTY SOIL, HE HAVING BEEN BURIED ON THE OLD PLANTATION NEAR SPRINGVALE, TENNESSEE.
COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND WAS A BOY OF SEVENTEEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND RODE BY HIS FATHER'S SIDE TO THE BATTLE OF KING'S MOUNTAIN.
HE WAS BORN IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY IN VIRGINIA, MARCH 15TH, 1759 AND
DIED FEBRUARY 5TH, 1837. HE MARRIED MARGARET MCNUTT, THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN SOUTH OF THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER. HIS FATHER WAS AN OFFICER
IN THE COLONIAL ARMY AND FATHER AND SON WERE PIONEERS IN THE WATAUGA SETTLEMENT. HE WAS THE FATHER OF COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND THE THIRD, WHO
SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE WAR OF 1812. HIS GRANDSON, COL. ROBERT MCFARLAND THE FOURTH, SERVED WITH THE CONFEDERATE ARMY IN THE CIVIL
WAR AND WAS AFTERWARD JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE AND LIVED IN MORRISTOWN.
SIR JOHN MCFARLAND, OF ARROUQUAH, SCOTLAND, BORN THERE IN 1708 AND WHO CAME TO VIRGINIA IN 1746, WAS THE AMERICAN HEAD OF THIS FAMILY AND THE
GRANDFATHER OF ROBERT MCFARLAND, THE SECOND.
WILLIAM CALLOWAY'S LIST OF LOYAL AMERICANS GIVES HIS NAME AND OATH OF
ALLEGIANCE TO VIRGINIA.
THE OLD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN WHICH SR.
JOHN WAS AN ELDER, IS STANDING TODAY.
THIS HISTORY IS GIVEN AS THE REASON WHY THIS CHAPTER IS NAMED THE
ROBERT MCFARLAND CHAPTER, SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
TAKEN FROM THE MINUTE BOOK OF ROBERT MCFARLAND CHAPTER.
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