CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  W. J. McFARLAND - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson - Page 173

W. J. McFARLAND.

William Jasper McFarland, son of Robert T. McFarland, was born in Macon 
county, Ala., August 22, 1839, and re­moved with his fathers family to 
Texas in 1850, locating near Starrville, in  Smith county.  Here he was 
educated and grew to manhood.  He enlisted in the Confed­erate army in 
a cavalry company commanded by Capt. John C. Robertson, but when his 
regiment was dismounted he was transferred to Co. D, Fifteenth Texas 
Infantry, and was with the Trans-Mississippi army in the campaigns that
made Walker's division famous. When this army surrendered he returned 
home, engaged in farming and became a suc­cessful planter. He was 
honored by his people with the office of county commissioner for 
several terms and he made a good official, being a man of fine 
intelligence and familiar with the needs of the people whom he had 
the honor to represent. He was married twice. His first wife was a 
daughter of Col. Shinnie Black, a leading citizen and planter. She 
died several years ago. His second marriage was to Miss Adams, 
daughter of W. W. Adams, of the Pleasant Retreat community.   She,  
too, is dead.  Mr. McFarland died at Dallas, Texas, in April, 1907, 
where he had gone to have a surgical operation performed, and from 
which he never recovered. He was buried at Pleasant Retreat, Smith 
county, where he had lived for many years.