Harford County MD Archives Biographies.....William McGAVRAN, February 11, 1768 - October 11, 1853 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/md/mdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Paula Norman Snyder paulas1218@aol.com March 3, 2009, 6:24 pm Author: J.H. Beers & Co. Commemorative Biographical Record Harrison, Ohio J.H. Beers & Co. 1891 pp. 215-216 ...William McGavran, who was born on the same farm in 1768, and whose father, John McGavran, a native of Ireland, and a tailor by trade, settled in the colony of Maryland about the year 1755. He (John) was married to a Baptist lady named Margaret Hill, who bore him four children, named Mollie, Margaret, Mark and William. John McGavran died about 1770, at the age of thirty-three years, and his widow married a Mr. O'Daniel, and later died in Fayette County, Penn. The children were all reared in the Protestant faith. William McGavran received a good education for those early times, and became a teacher in the subscription schools, a vocation he followed several years; he was a fine penman, and the young people from all the region round about came to him to learn the art of chirography. He was also a land owner. On March 17, 1791, he married Miss Ann Thompson, a native of Harford County, Md., and daughter of Thomas Thompson. The young couple resided in Maryland until 1818, and then came to Springfield Township, Jefferson Co., now Lee Township, Carroll Co., Ohio, bought 160 acres of land in the woods, and here Mr. McGavran died in 1853, at the age of eighty-six years and nine months; his widow survived until 1863,when she died at the home of her son, in Columbiana County, Ohio, aged ninety-one years. Eleven children were born to them, as follows: Elizabeth, who married Thomas Magattogan, and afterward Benjamin Toland, and died at ninety-six years of age; Mary, wife of Charles Lucy, died at seventy- five, in Schuyler County, Ill.; Sarah, Mrs. Samuel Hill, died in Morgan County, Ohio; John, died in Columbiana County, Ohio; Martha, Mrs. John Mays, died in Illinois; Margaret, married to George Lucy, brother of Charles, died in Kentucky; Thomas, who married Margaret Brown, died in Colorado; Dilly Ann, died at the age of twenty-two, unmarried; Mark, who married Louisa Daniels, and died at Minneapolis; William H., the subject of this sketch; and Stephen, who died in Harrison County, Ohio. Additional Comments: Descendants of William McGavran 1 William McGavran b: 11 Feb 1768 in Harford County, Maryland d: 11 Oct 1853 in Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio Census: 1800 Harford County, Maryland . +Ann Thompson b: 25 Aug 1772 in Harford County, Maryland m: 17 Mar 1791 in Harford County, Maryland d: 11 Nov 1863 in Columbiana County, Ohio Census: 1850 Lee Twp., Carroll County, Ohio ...... 2 Mark McGavran b: 01 Aug 1809 in Harford County, Maryland d: 25 Oct 1884 in Minneapolis, Ottawa, Kansas Census: 1860 Scioto Township, Pike County, OH .......... +Louisa P. Daniels b: 15 Dec 1820 in Harlem Springs, in then Clinton TWP, Jefferson County, Ohio m: 31 Dec 1840 in Harlem Springs, Lee Township, Carroll County, Ohio d: 27 Jul 1899 in Ottawa, Kansas ...... 2 Elizabeth McGavran b: 09 Apr 1792 in Harford County, Maryland d: 12 Jan 1889 in Ohio .......... +Thomas Magattogan ...... *2nd Husband of Elizabeth McGavran: .......... +Benjamin Toland ...... 2 Mary McGavran b: 08 Apr 1794 in Harford County, Maryland d: 18 Jun 1873 in Schuyler County, Illinois .......... +Benjamin Toland ...... 2 Sarah A. McGavran b: 11 Nov 1795 in Harford County, Maryland d: 15 Jul 1865 in Morgan County, Ohio .......... +Samuel Hill ...... 2 John McGavran b: 12 Mar 1798 in Harford County, Maryland d: 14 Jul 1886 in Columbiana County, Ohio ...... 2 Martha McGavran b: 28 Mar 1800 in Harford County, Maryland d: 01 Jul 1886 in Illinois .......... +John Mays ...... 2 Margaret McGavran b: 01 Apr 1802 in Harford County, Maryland d: 11 Jul 1887 in Kentucky .......... +George Lucy ...... 2 Thomas McGavran b: 04 Jun 1804 in Harford County, Maryland d: 27 Apr 1863 in Colorado .......... +Margaret Brown ...... 2 Dilly Ann McGavran b: 04 Jun 1807 in Harford County, Maryland d: 01 Apr 1827 in Carroll CountyY, Ohio ...... 2 William H. McGavran b: 03 Mar 1812 in Harford County, Maryland d: 21 Mar 1893 in Cadiz, Ohio .......... +Elizabeth Brown ...... 2 Stephen McGavran b: 03 Jun 1814 in Harford County, Maryland d: 27 Oct 1874 in Harrison County, Ohio This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mdfiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/md/harford/bios/mcgavran-w.txt