Charlevoix County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....McFarland, Peter And Mary E. 
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Cemetery:           Brookside Cemetery
Name:               Peter And Mary E. McFarland

Date Of Photograph: July 9, 2009
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McFarland
Mary E.          Peter
1871-1955        1858-1934




OBITUARY
Mrs. Mary McFarland
Lifelong Resident, 
Passes In Ferndale

Mrs. Mary McFarland, 84, lifelong resident of this community, died unexpectedly
late Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gerald Lowing, in Ferndale where
she had gone two weeks ago to spend the winter.

Funeral services will be held at the Pontius Chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday with the
Rev. W. N. Carr officiating. Burial will be in Brookside cemetery.

The former Mary Smith was born in Marion township Nov. 10, 1870, the daughter of
 Thomas and Phoebe Smith. She was married to Peter McFarland in 1886. He
preceded her in death in 1935.

In March, 1943, Mrs. McFarland made a trip to New York to appear on Gabriel
Heater's program, '"We the People", to tell the story of the Battle of Pine
River fought here on July 13,. 1852 between the Mormons of I Beaver Island and
the local fishermen as told to her by her uncle Stephen Smith, who as a child
had witnessed the historic battle.

She was a member of the Baptist church.


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