Name: _1 McFarland,Hill,Meredith,Wie

Updated: 07-01-2020 20:07:83.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. John F. T. Harper: Birth: 1850 in Tennessee. Death: BEF 1860 in Illinois

  2. Mary Jane Harper: Birth: 26 FEB 1852 in Knights Prairie township , Hamilton Co., Illinois. Death: 31 OCT 1935 in Dallas, Texas (at home of Lola)

  3. Jasper Harper: Birth: ABT 1855 in Illinois. Death: 1938 in Nacona, Montague Co., Texas

  4. Winfield Scott Harper: Birth: 21 MAR 1857. Death: 26 FEB 1880

  5. Robert Harper: Birth: FEB 1860 in Hamilton Co., Illinois. Death: 1888 in Fannin Co., Texas

  6. Eldorado Harper: Birth: 15 Oct 1862 in Ellis Co., Texas. Death: 25 Dec 1935 in Fannin Co., Texas

  7. Washington Allen Harper: Birth: 11 FEB 1866 in Fannin Co., Texas. Death: 1 JAN 1941 in Austin, Texas


Sources
1. Title:   1860 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1860; Census Place: Township 5 Range 5 E, Hamilton, Illinois; Roll: M653_183; Page: 97; Image: 97; Family History Library Film: 803183
Source:   S-2135069018
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1
2. Title:   Confederate Soldiers - TX at Fold3
Page:   Page 2 - Confederate Soldiers - TX
Source:   S-1050485076
3. Title:   Confederate Soldiers - TX at Fold3
Page:   Page 3 - Confederate Soldiers - TX
Source:   S-1050485076

Notes
a. Note:   1 and 315632.
  Have not been able to pin down what unit he served in during the Civil war, but it is likely that it was Baird's Regiment, that seems to have been formed in Ellis County, Texas, where George and family had moved to after 1860. The Harpers met the Meredith family in Waxahachie and Joseph B. Meredith sold a small table to George and Elizabeth that had belonged to Elijah and Lee Ann Meredith, who had decided to move back to Tennessee. Joseph B. Meredith also served in Baird's Regiment. During the war, Elizabeth Harper, her children, and her in-laws, George Sr. and Susannah, moved to Fannin County. Archives records for a G.W. Harper who was a private in Co. E, 4 Reg't Arizona Brigade, say that on Sept. 5, 1864 near Brownsville, he deserted in face of enemy. There are no other records showing enlistment dates, or places, or details of age, etc. that would allow confirmation of this G.W. Harper being ours. I have checked all the other possible G.W. Harpers and none of the others fit.
 On April 23, 1863, George and George W. Harper of Ellis Co. purchased from Gordon T. Cloyd and wife of Ellis Co. 116 and 1/2 acres from the W. Standifer headright for $1200.00. (Book N, p. 775 in Fannin County Deed Records. That is a rather amazing price, but were the dollars Confederate dollars? That could explain the inflated price. The location is about 2 miles to the west of what became James Franklin and Mary Jane Harper McFarland's home place on 2990, just south of 1550
 George committed suicide the year after he returned from the war if we follow the chronology written by Mary Jane Harper McFarland who said that her brother was 8 months old at the time of his death. This would put his death at Oct. 1866. Court documents show him alive at the time his father's estate is probated, yet his wife Elizabeth is buying out Susan's inheritance in Dec. 1866, so George Jr. must have killed himself shortly after his father's death, although this timetable conflicts with what Lola wrote in 1966.
Note:   George seems to have purchased land in Illinois at the same time that his father did, on March 25, 1851. It also was for 40 acres at $1.25. an acre for a total of $50.00. There are two IDs, one 31563

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