Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....McFarland, David January 23, 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nv/nvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kathy Grace http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002598 December 19, 2010, 10:32 pm Reno Evening Gazette January 23, 1882 McFarland-At Reno, Nevada, January 23d, 1882, at 6 A.M., David McFarland, aged 49 years and 11 days. Will be buried Thursday, January 25, 1882, at 2 P.M. Funeral services at residence. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend. Another Place Made Vacatn Death of David McFarland, One of Reno’s Oldest Citizens This morning at 5:30, after a hard-fought battle with the grim monster, David McFarland gave up, and death takes him as another victim. David McFarland was of Scotch parentage, a native of Delhi, Delaware county, New York, and 48 years of age. He came to this coast a young man of 21 in 1855. He was engaged in teaming and mining from that time until ’61, when he came to Nevada and located in Washoe City the then metropolis of this State, and engaged in the hotel and saloon business, keeping the old Lake House. Mr. McFarland was quite successful in a business way during the flush times of “old Washoe,” and when the railroad reached Reno Dave was among the first who heard the whistle of the engine, having removed here from Washoe and put up a rough board hotel and saloon on the present Arcade Hotel site, and has been engaged in that business ever since. Reno fires have swept McFarland’s accumulations away several times, but he has managed to “beat the game” and keep in the business ring with his share of public patronage. About a year ago he was taken with the dropsy, and has been a great sufferer ever since, and died leaving his homestead and hotel, with a thrifty business, to his young wife. Dave McFarland, like all the rest of the human family, had his faults, but his good qualities much more than balanced them. The mantle of charity hides the weak side of his nature from the world, but many a poor and needy fellow will hold up the other side of Mac’s character- full of kind deeds and charity- as a picture of noble manhood, worthy of imitation by those who make more pretentious than ever Mac did. On the 17th of September, 1873, Mr. McFarland was married to Miss Mary A. Hollerday. They never have had any children. He was conscious to within a few moments of his death, and seemed to realize that he was about to leave his wife forever- for he looked up into her face and said: “Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” and passed into the valley beyond. The Great Judge will strike the balance, and the red ink will be on McFarlands’ side of the account. In accordance with his expressed wish the funeral will take place from his late residence next Thursday at 2 o’clock. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/washoe/obits/mcfarlan1656gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nvfiles/ File size: 3.1 Kb