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MCFERRIN John Baird
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    Father : MCFERRIN John Baird (1806 - 1895) (Age in the birth of the child : 30 years old)
    Mother : ROGERS Martha Ann (1801 - 1876) (Age in the birth of the child : 35 years old)
    Siblings :
       MCFERRIN Martha Ann Roseannah (1839 - 1919 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA)
    Birth :
          Date : 7 MAY 1836
          Place : Crossroads, Walker County, Alabama, USA
    Death :
          Date : 16 FEB 1923 (86 years old)
          Place : Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA
    Burial :
          Place : Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA
          Address : McFerrin Cemetery
    Note :
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At the age of 24 John B. Mcferrin Jr. joined the 36th Regiment, Company D of Alabama Volunteers on May 13, 1862, at Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and served through June 16, 1865. He was Corporal Commander of General Clayton's Division and participated in the Battle of Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Nashville and Antietam.
At the close of the war he returned to his home in Alabama and engaged in farming and teaching school. In 1866-69 with his father, John B. Sr., and Brother-in-law George Blackston, removed to Harrisburg, Arkansas, in Poinsett County, making the trip by ox team. He remained there a year or so then removed to what is now Boone County, camping at a spring where Harrison now stands. They resided at Bellefonte, Capps and Batavia, until around 1875. They then homesteaded 160 acres at Compton, Arkansas.
John B. Jr. was a staunch Democrat. He held office of justice of the peace and served on the school board.
    Given name : John Baird
          Surname : McFerrin
          Text after the name : II
    Family Information :
          with MCCREA Clementine Tabitha (1841 - 1922) :
                Marriage :
                      Date : 4 JUN 1857 (21 years old)
                      Place : Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA
                children :
                   MCFERRIN Cordelia Angeline (1859 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA - 1926)
                   MCFERRIN Martha Ophelia (1860 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA - Alabama, USA)
                   MCFERRIN Lulacy Hester (1862 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA - 1931)
                   MCFERRIN Jerret Lucurgus (1866 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, USA - 1956 Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, USA)
                   MCFERRIN Jershia Alice (1869 Arkansas, USA - 1904)
                   MCFERRIN John Orestus (1872 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA - 1945 Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA)
                   MCFERRIN Benjamin Eugene (1874 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA - 1955 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA)
                   MCFERRIN Josephus Henry (1876 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA - 1969)
                   MCFERRIN Ardenia Belinda (1878 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA)
                   MCFERRIN Martin (1881 Compton, Newton County, Arkansas, USA - 1953)

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