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LTC Robert McFarland II

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LTC Robert McFarland II

Birth
Orange County, North Carolina, USA
Death
5 Feb 1837 (aged 77)
Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Springvale, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.20026, Longitude: -83.2029
Memorial ID
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Husband of Margaret Jenny McNutt and Mary Neal Cox
Sheriff
Lt. Col. of local militia

Please check this link for Robert's ancestry and biography.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/bios/mcfarland_cemetary.htm

County Clerk lists DOD as 10 February 1837. (Suggestion submitted by John Sweeney, Member # 48243422.)"Buried in this grave yard is Col. Robert McFarland, the only known officer of the Revolutionary War buried in Hamblen County, and for whom the Robert McFarland Chapter Sons of the American Revolution is named. His grave is unmarked except by a marker from a local funeral home which has recently been placed; descendants of his living in Morristown knowing the location of his grave. Copied by Margaret H. Richardson, October 31, 1936" WPA project, tombstone records, Hamblen County.
Husband of Margaret Jenny McNutt and Mary Neal Cox
Sheriff
Lt. Col. of local militia

Please check this link for Robert's ancestry and biography.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/world/bios/mcfarland_cemetary.htm

County Clerk lists DOD as 10 February 1837. (Suggestion submitted by John Sweeney, Member # 48243422.)"Buried in this grave yard is Col. Robert McFarland, the only known officer of the Revolutionary War buried in Hamblen County, and for whom the Robert McFarland Chapter Sons of the American Revolution is named. His grave is unmarked except by a marker from a local funeral home which has recently been placed; descendants of his living in Morristown knowing the location of his grave. Copied by Margaret H. Richardson, October 31, 1936" WPA project, tombstone records, Hamblen County.

Inscription

LIEUT COL
COL CAMPBELL'S CO VA REGT
REV WAR
MAR 15, 1759
FEB 5, 1837



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