Individual Details

Find A Grave Memorial# 82692023
Buried Sandhill Cemetery, Bartholomew Co, Indiana
Inscription:
In
Memory
Of
Mary McFall
Consort Of
Joseph McFall
Born June 23th 1771.
Departed This Life
May 10th 1837.

The Columbus Democrat, Columbus, Indiana, June 20, 1884 (sub 'Reminiscences'): "If you pass there you will see the tombstone of the noble Mary McFall, mother of our Colonel to the gratitude of our present and future generation. She was one of those old and respected ladies that attended women in their home troubles and with good success. Many grey headed men and women were aided in their first screams by Granny McFall, as she was familiarly called. Mrs. McFall lived a mile and a half southeast of Columbus but was very popular among married ladies in town."

Married Joseph McFall, Oct. 5, 1793, Bourbon County, Kentucky, with consent of her mother, widow Elizabeth Marsh.

Mary was a daughter of William Marsh and his wife Elizabeth. William and his father John purchased 205 acres in Bromfield Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia in 1771 from William and Jane Roberts, which land was located in the Little Fork of the Rappahannock River, 'joining on Battle Run and Cannons'. In 1780 William and Elizabeth sold five acres to William Hughes, and in 1784 the remaining 200 acres to John Minor, before removing to Bourbon County, Kentucky. William died shortly thereafter.

Posted on Ancestry:
I have come across an article from the Bartholomew Democrat, January 28, 1876 page 1 which states that Mary McFall is buried here (Sand Hill Cemetery) but her husband (Joseph) who died shortly after coming to the area, while on a trip to Madison, is buried "near Geneva, not far from Scipio, Jennings County." This matches the story told in the obituary of Jonathan McFall, son of Joseph published in the Columbus Dailey Herald, 5 Jan 1888 Pg. 2.

Birth	23 Jun 1771	Culpeper County, Virginia
Marriage	5 Oct 1793	Bourbon County, Kentucky - Joseph McFall
Death	10 May 1837	Bartholomew County, Indiana
Burial		Sand Hill Cemetery, EverRoad Park, Bartholomew County, Indiana

Spouse	Joseph McFall (1770 - 1821)
Child	William McFall (1795 - 1873)
Child	Susannah McFall (1795 - 1886)
Child	John McFall (1797 - 1884)
Child	Mary McFall (1801 - 1860)
Child	Samuel McFall (1803 - 1883)
Child	Joseph McFall (1806 - 1888)
Child	Jonathan McFall (1810 - )
Child	David McFall (1812 - 1885)
Child	Sarah McFall (1816 - 1901)