Marion Minter McFarland

1865 - 1936  (70 years)

• Name	Marion Minter McFarland  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	7 Aug 1865	Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Apr 1936	San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas   [1, 2]
  Burial	Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas   [1, 2]
  Notes	His Texas Death Certificate shows that he was a son of Doctor T J McFarland (born Alabama) and Carrie Jayne (born in Austin, Texas). The informant was his wife, Irma. He was shown as a Stationary Salesman. Obituary, copied from the FindAGrave memorial page created by Jan Wukasch Pelosi, and maintained by Vicki Cooper: Former State Representative Marion Minter McFarland of Brewster County, Texas, after romping around on the open range for fifty-eight years, has been corralled. This amazing man was born in war ravaged Brandon, Mississippi, following the Civil War - he was known to quip, "There's nothing civil about war." His loving and adoring parents were Thomas Jefferson McFarland, a surgical physician in the Confederate Army, and well-educated artist and musician, Caroline Pauline Jayne McFarland. When Marion was three, the McFarlands left Mississippi for Texas and lived in several towns before settling in Indianola. There his father practiced medicine and Marion attended public school, completing his education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. It's believed he was visiting Indianola during the storm of 1886 at which time the town was washed away. His family was certainly there, left and settled in Port Lavaca, Texas. Later Marion founded the Indianola Association - an organization devoted to the memory of the once prosperous seaport town. He was its first president and later elected president for life. After college, Marion moved to Groesbeck, Limestone County Texas to be near his grandmother, Juliet Jayne and her son, Amos. While there, much of the progress of the town in the eighties may be attributed to him. He was editor and publisher of the Limestone, "New Era". He organized a national bank, organized a board of trade, started the first good roads movement in the county "and generally revolutionized things." At the time he left in 1889, he was a city alderman, city secretary, secretary of the board of trade, and husband of Katherine "Kate" Risien whom he married Dec. 10, 1889. In 1890, Marion established the Beeville Picayune newspaper in Beeville, Texas. From that point, Victoria, Texas, was their home and Marion was again a newspaper man having edited The Victoria Daily Times, and where he was elected to the State House of Representatives from Brewster County. For forty-five years he was a traveling salesman for several lithograph and stationery companies in which he owned interest. In 1936, at the age of seventy he died in a San Antonio, Texas, hospital and removed to Austin, where "the funeral home was a veritable bower of beautiful floral arrangements, coming from over the state," a testimonial of respect and esteem to the former representative, business and newspaper man. (Research): Census Listings: 1930 Census Texas, Travis County, Austin City Ward 3-B Enumerated April 3, 1930 ED 227-25 SD 24 Sheet 3A Stamped 279 13th Street 51-61 McFarland, M M Head m W 64 M 32 No Miss Tx Tx Salesman Staitonary and Bank Supplies McFarland, Irma Wf F W 51 m 19 Ark Oh Ark McFarland, Marion Dtr F W 10 S La Miss Ark
  Person ID	I44887	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	22 May 2014

  
  

  Family	Irma Dell McCullough,   b. 19 Feb 1879, Arkansas d. 16 Jul 1965, Austin, Travis County, Texas (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1918  [1]
  Children	1. Marion Moreland "Tad" McFarland,   b. 19 Nov 1919, Louisiana d. 11 Sep 1997, Reston, Fairfax County, Virginia (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F13312	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 7 Aug 1865 - Brandon, Rankin County, Mississippi Death - 6 Apr 1936 - San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas Burial - - Austin Memorial Park Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S873] Find A Grave [database online]; http://www.findagrave.com/, (Thousands of contributors submit new listings, updates, corrections, photographs and virtual flowers every hour to the FIND A GRAVE website. When it comes to administrating, building and maintaining the site, Find A Grave is largely operated by its founder, Jim Tipton.), # 41931195 (Reliability: 3). [S1696] Ancestry.com - Texas Death Certificates, 1903-1982 [database online]. [S564] 1930 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2002., (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1930. T626, 2,667 rolls. Containing records for approximately 123 million Americans, the 1930 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and is the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1930, and contains information about a household?s family members and occupants including: birthplaces, occupations, immigration, citizenship, and military service. The names of those listed in the census are linked to actual images of the 1930 Census.), Texas, Travis County, Austin City Ward 3-B Enumerated April 3, 1930 ED 227-25 SD 24 Sheet 3A Stamped 279 13th Street 51-61 (Reliability: 3).