• "Obituary: Benjamin McFarland, 1878".

• Category: Original

The following photocopy was taken from The Camp Point Journal and was provided by Nick Hyslop on September 22, 2009. He received it from Mary McCormick the same day.

• Text: Died
      At the residence of D. G. McFarland, on the 6th inst., of comsumption, D. B. McFarland.
      He was born in Green Co. Ohio, April 6th, 1825, and emigrated with his parents to Adams county, Ill, in the Fall of 1832, where he resided until the Fall of 1869 when he removed to Chariton Co., Mo., where he remained for six years. ... Two years after he with his family returned to Illinois.