Thomas Stuart McFarland
Thomas Stuart McFarland (born June 13, 1810 in Lexington , Indiana Territory , † May 1880 in Bleakwood , Texas ) was an American officer , surveyor, farmer and lawyer .
Career
Thomas Stuart McFarland, son of Ann Singer († 1817) and the surveyor William McFarland , was born in Scott County in 1810 . His childhood was overshadowed by the British-American War . The family moved to Louisiana in 1817 . In the same year his mother died in Monroe ( Ouachita Parish ). In 1830 he moved with his father and two siblings who were still alive to Texas, which was then still part of Mexico . The family settled in Ayish Bayou District in May 1830 . On August 2, 1832, he took part with his father in the fighting at Nacogdoches against Colonel José de las Piedras . McFarland was the aide-de-camp of James W. Bullock , the commandant of the Texas forces at the time.
October 3, served until the November 14, 1835 McFarland during the Texan War of Independence in the company of Captain John English, but not participated in the siege of Bexar part. From July 4 to October 4, 1836, he served in the company of Captain William Scurlock . In 1833 he made the plans for today's town of San Augustine . On February 25, 1837, he was named Lieutenant Colonel in the Republic of Texas Militia . In the election for the 6th Congress of the Republic of Texas McFarland was for the Jasper County that and Jefferson County in the Texas Senate voted. He sat there from November 1, 1841 to February 5, 1842 in Austin and from June 27 to July 23, 1842 in Houston . He later served three terms as Chief Justice in San Augustine County . From 1837 to 1838 he and his father carried out surveying work in Belgrade on the west bank of the Sabine River , which was then still part of Jasper County, but is now part of Newton County . McFarland also conducted survey work at Pendleton and Mondelphia , which are on the Red River.
On January 14, 1838, McFarland married Elizabeth Wills Eubank, who at that time lived with her family near Nacogdoches. The couple had 10 children. In March 1838 the family moved to Belgrade. They had a plantation called Cotland, seven miles west of San Augustine, which went bankrupt in 1868 after the end of the Civil War . They later moved inland a few miles from Belgrade and lived in Bleakwood in 1871 . He died there in May 1880 and was then buried in the local McFarland-Wilson Cemetery .
Trivia
From January 1, 1837 to June 10, 1840 he kept a diary, which is now kept in the Ralph Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. The diary was published twice, in 1942 and 1981.
Two Texas Centennial Markers were erected in his honor.
literature
- Survivors of the Texas Revolution. In: The Texas Almanac. 1872, pp. 98-111, here pp. 102-103 .
Web links
- Thomas Stuart McFarland on the tshaonline website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Texas Biographical Dictionary. Volume 2: M - Z. 3rd edition. Somerset Publishers, St. Clair Shores MI 2001, ISBN 0-403-09992-7 , p. 9.
- ^ William McFarland on the website of tshaonline.org
- ↑ José de las Piedras on the website of tshaonline.org
- ↑ James Whitis Bullock on the tshaonline.org website
- ^ Thomas Stuart McFarland in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved October 4, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | McFarland, Thomas Stuart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American officer, land surveyor, farmer, and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lexington , Indiana Territory |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1880 |
| Place of death | Bleakwood , Texas |