Elizabeth L. (Affolter) McFarland (aft. 1886)

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MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR FIRST MARRIAGE

From: The Brooklyn Chronicle (Brooklyn, Iowa) Dec. 19, 1907

MARRIED

At Grinnell, Iowa, on Saturday December 14, 1907 Miss Elizabeth Affolter and Mr. Lester Happy. The bride and groom are well known and remarkable young people. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Affolter who live three miles south of Brooklyn, while the groom has learned the printer's trade in the Chronicle office where he worked faithfully for about three and one half years. He recently obtained a position with the Grinnell Register and the newly married couple will live at that place. The Chronicle is pleased to offer congratulations.

OBITUARY

Mrs. Elizabeth L. McFarland, 60, passed away at the McFarland residence at 39 I Street Sunday, following a lingering illness. She was born March 15, 1887 at Brooklyn, Iowa and was married at Eugene on September 11, 1913 to Frank McFarland. She has been a resident here since 1911, coming from Iowa. She operated a maternity home during the greater part of her residence here and was credited with helping to bring over 1,000 babies into the world. She was a member of the Episcopal church.

Surviving are a husband and one son, Millard McFarland, a student at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Alfred Patten, Mrs. Jennie Norris, Mrs. Vern Slagle, all of Brooklyn, Iowa. Mrs Lillie Hall of Guernsey, Iowa; and John Orr of Toppenish, Washington.

Funeral services were held from the Mills mortuary Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. Hugh Peniston officiating. Interment was in the Masonic I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Source: Cottage Grove, Oregon Sentinel 3 July 1947

THIS IS HERE AS A PLACE HOLDER OBITUARY FOR HER HUSBAND

John Franklin McFarland, the descendant of a pioneer Cottage Grove family and a life long resident of the South Lane area, is dead at age 94. But for a man who enjoyed riding flumes and catching live wolves in his younger years, he was perhaps lucky to reach his 10th decade of life.

Born Sept. 14, 1875 on a farm west of Cottage Grove, Frank McFarland helped his father James and his brother Warren open the area's first butcher shop in 1882. Two years later he was in logging on Rat Creek.

Frank McFarland was the son of James and Sophronia Knox McFarland. His grandfather John Ward McFarland, settled on a donation land claim near Silk Creek in 1853.

Recalling the logging camp, Mr. McFarland once said, "Fred Russell owned it and we built flumes to send the logs down to the mill. Riding the flume was considered great sport, although I guess it was kind of dangerous."

Frank McFarland's first wife died in 1947 and he later married Lena Veatch, who survives him. Besides his widow, he is survived by a son, Millard McFarland of Salem, a granddaughter and many other relatives. A son, Rex, preceded him in death in 1942.

During the past two decades the McFarland's were active in the formation of the Cottage Grove Historical Society and in the establishment of the Pioneer Museum.

Obituary for John Franklin and Elizabeth Affolter McFarland's son, Millard

MILLARD MCFARLAND

Funeral services for a former Cottage Grove resident, Millard F. McFarland, 59, were held Feb. 11 in the First Presbyterian Church in Salem. He died Feb. 8.

Mr. McFarland, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank McFarland, early Cottage Grove settlers, was born in Portland and raised in Cottage Grove.

He was a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Salem, a member of International Association of Personnel Employment Security and Vista Lodge, AF & AM, and a University of Oregon graduate. He was a retired chief appeals referee for the State Employment Division.

Survivors include his wife Phyllis of Salem; a daughter, Cathie Lundeen of Beaverton; a step-brother and two step-sisters, Wayne Veatch of Pasadena, Calif., Enid Leedy of Newberg and Mrs. L.C. Clark of Redmond.

Interment was in Fir Grove Cemetery in Cottage Grove with Barrick Mortuary in charge.

Source: Cottage Grove Gen. Society Surname File

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