James Taylor McAfee

James married Anna L. Stanford on 12 May 1897 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana. Anna was born on 17 Oct 1867 in Allen county, Indiana, USA; died on 21 Jan 1958 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Matilda McAfee was born on 16 Nov 1905 in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana; died on 1 Sep 1978 in Beech Grove, Marion, Indiana; was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Plainfield, Hendricks, IN.

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1870 census for Jefferson, Wells, Indiana has William born in Pennsylvania, 1850 for Wooster, Wayne, OH has him born in OH.

1880 census for Lancaster, Wells, Indiana:
William and Mary E. with children: Levi H. Mc Afee age 9, James Mc Afee age 7, Orpha Mc Afee age 12.

Williams parents were both born in Ireland.

Second wife of William MacAfee, was Laura Funk b: in Trumbull County, OH d: February 1918 m: June 12, 1889 in Warsaw, IN. Source: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/a/Daniel-D-Mcafee/ODT3-0001.html

They were living in Bluffton Ward 2, Wells, Indiana in the 1910 census. Census has William J. born in Ohio.

William has a long list of battles he was involved in in the Civil War.

Obituary for William McAfee : W.J. McAfee Died Suddenly in Detroit : Was Victim of Influenza -- Remains will be brought here for Burial. : Friends and relatives of W. J. McAfee, for years a familiar figure in : Bluffton and Wells County, IN, were saddened this morning by the announcement of : his death, which occurred at six o'clock Monday night at the home of his : daughter, Mrs. Bert Tucker, in Detroit, Michigan, at whose home he was visiting. : Death was caused by an attack of influenza.

: William J. McAfee was born in Wayne County, OH, October 3, 1841, a son of : James and Rachel (Dinsmore) McAfee, natives of County Antrim, Ireland. He came : with his parents to Wells County, IN when he was 12 years of age, and lived with : them here until July 12, 1861, when he enlisted in the United States army, being : the first man to enlist in the three years service in Wells County. : During his army experience, he saw much active service and was a : participant in many of the most important battles of the Civil War, namely: : Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge Atlanta, and the march to the Sea. He also participated in the grand review at Washington at the close of the war and : was honorably discharged August 5, 1865. He was wounded twice, in the head at : Mission Ridge and in the foot at Kenesaw Mountain. : At the close of the war, he returned to his home in Wells County and : engaged in farming on the old homestead first and later on a farm which he : bought, in Jefferson township. In 1870 he moved to Osage, Kansas and lived : there three years, when he returned to Wells County and lived on an eighty acre : farm in Lancaster township, later buying 160 acres in Harrison township, and in : March, 1885, he moved to Bluffton, where he was en gaged in business for a number : of years. In the later years of his active life he was a mail carrier on one of : the rural routes out of Bluffton for many years.

: Mr. McAfee was married on September 27, 1867 to Mary E. Taylor, a native of : Trumbull County, OH, who passed away many years ago. He was married a second : time on June 12, 1889 to Mrs. Laura Johnson (Funk) at Warsaw, IN, who also preceded him : to death several years ago.

The following children survive to mourn a kind and : loving father: Harry and Ellsworth McAfee of Fort Wayne, IN, James McAfee of : Indianapolis, IN, Mrs. Bert Tucker of Detroit, MI, and Mrs. John Shoemaker. : There are also two (three?) step children, Mrs. Earl Myers of Portland, Oregon, : Guy Johnson of Fitzgerald, GA, and Mrs. George Goodspeed of Bluffton, IN. One : sister also survives him, Mrs. Mary McAfee of Murray, and one sister and one : brother, Mrs. James Earl and Sam McAfee, preceded him in death. : Mr. and Mrs. McAfee also took into their home two grandchildren, Mrs. : Arthur Lowe, of Farmington, Washington, and Mrs. Clinton Rice of Lawton, : Oklahoma, and raised them from early childhood. : Mr. McAfee was a member of the Presbyterian church of this city and was : also a prominent member of Lew Daily Post G. A. R. He was for a nnumber of : years commander of the post. : The body will be brought to Bluffton, IN from Detroit, MI Thursday morning : and taken to McBride's undertaking parlors. Complete funeral arrangements have : not yet been made, but the services will be conducted by the Rev. D. C. : Truesdale, paster of the Presbyterian church. Internment will be in Fairview.

William married Mary Elizabeth Taylor on 27 Sep 1867 in Wells Co., IN. Mary (daughter of Levi D. Taylor and Keziah Callahan) was born on 4 Jul 1848 in Trumbull County, Ohio; died on 3 May 1924 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary E. is living as the "widow" of William with sons in Fort Wayne in 1896. And as Mary E Baughman, divorced in 1900, with Ellsworth. Her grave marker has her last name as McAfee Egley. She is a landlady on 1715 Calhoun in 1906-07 and 1910, in 1913 also 1713 Calhoun, no mr. Egly on the records. The marriage license is recorded in the Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel on Wed. Nov 5, 1902. 1917 she is on 1933 Spy Run Ave. 1919 she bought lot 49 Charles W. Scherer's add. of East Wayne Heights for 500 dollars. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette and Fort Wayne New and Sentinel has several real estate dealings in her name.

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His early home was near Giant's Causeway in Antrim.
In the USA the family were first living in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and moved to Wells county, Indiana in 1853 as early pioneers in the county. They helped to develop from a swampy wilderness to an agricultural district.

James married Rachel Dinsmore on 21 Aug 1837 in Ballymoney Presbyterian Church. Rachel (daughter of Samuel Dinsmore and Mary Brewster) was born in 1806 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died in 1844 in Wayne Co., OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Leonard Clay Morrison's The Dinsmoor-Dinsmore Family, 1891, says on pages 13-14 that Rachel was born abt 1806 at Ballywattick (old=Bally Wattiche) and was a daughter of Samuel & Mary (Brewster) Dinsmore. She wed James McAfee who was from the Giant's Causeway (just a few miles N of Bushmills, on the sea) of County Antrim.

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1860-census: Austintown, Mahoning, Ohio
1863 draft registration, Wells, Indiana
1870-census: Ossian, Jefferson, Wells, Indiana
Second wife, Elizabeth, married 1885, she was born Nov 1834 in Ohio.

Levi married Keziah Callahan in 1847 in Ohio. Keziah (daughter of William Callahan and Elizabeth Perry) was born on 9 Mar 1822 in Washingtonville, Mahoning, Ohio; died on 26 Jul 1883 in Ossian, Wells, IN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her daughters 1924 death certificate states she was born in Maryland.

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1833 land assessment: Bootown, Ballymoney, Dunluce, Upper Antrim, Ireland

The McAfees were Presbyterians and farmers and said to have descended from Scottish Convenanters.

Arrived in New York 7 Jun 1838, aboard the ship "St. Andrew", age 59, farmer, together with Martha age 56, James age 34, Rachael (Dinsmore) 25, Elija (infant), William age 20, Robert 13, Mathew 14, Martha Jane 14,
Also arriving on the same ship W. McAfee, age 23, John Dinsmore 28, his wife Margaret 31, Samuel 4, Mary (infant) and Mary Dinsmore 76.

Living with them in East Union township in the 1850 census were son William b. 1818, in addition to Martin b. 1828, Margaret b 1830 and Eliza b. 1835. Unknown parents, of them only granddaughter Eliza is mentioned in his will.

In his will he gives the north half of his farm to son William, the south half to Mathew, the latter also got half the share of the fruit that may grow on the south half of the fam untill he has time to plant fruit trees on his part of the farm and they are grown to such size as will produce a reasonable quiantity of apples, except if he should sell his part of the farm in that event the fruit will all belong to William.
Martha Jane 400 dollars. Granddaughter Eliza Mc?, 400 dollars. Grandson Joseph McAfee 400 dollars, son Robert McAfee one thousand dollars. Wife Martha my two horses or horse kind ald all my cattle and she is to have the privilege of living in the house in which we noe recide during her lifetime.

One source has his father as John McDuffee/McAfee born ab. 1730 on the Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. A farmer who migrated to Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland with a friend, William McQuigg, when they both were young men probably in the 1750's from Islay, Co. Argyll, Scotland.
Presbyterian and descendant of Scots Convenanters. Believed to be buried at County Antrim Saint Cuthbert's Church Cemetery, where a Mathew McDuffee is buried which might be his son. In the same cemetery is:

Erected in memory of
MARGARET beloved wife of
JAMES McAFEE, Park.
Who died 12th August 1854
aged 35 years.
Also her husband
JAMES McAFEE,
who died 9th January 1888
aged 87 years.
Also her daughter
MARGARET
who died 3rd Sept 1889
aged 43 years.

--
Clan Macfie is one of the oldest Scottish Clans with a history going back before records were kept. The ancient name for our clan is Macdubhsith. While literally meaning "dark man of peace", sithe is also the term used for supernatural beings that populated the islands and the highlands and the tern dubh or dark also had mystical and supernatural connotations. The ancestral homeland for the Macfies are the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay in the Hebrides, the Western Isles of Scotland.

In 1623, Malcolm, the last Chief of the Clan Macfie, was captured by the infamous Colla Ciotach MacDonald. He was tied to a standing stone, known as Carraig Mhic a' Phi at Balaruminmore, on our ancestral island of Colonsay, and summarily shot. The Clan Macfie was dispossessed of its lands and dispersed as a "broken" Clan.

That is, until 27th May 1981, when the Clan was reactivated and again formally recognised as an "active" Clan by the Lord Lyon. Macfies all over the world celebrate that day as a new 'birthday' for the Clan Macfie.

As there was no hereditary Chief, a Ceann-Cath or Clan Commander was appointed to head the Clan. The current Clan Commander is Alexander "Sandy" C. McPhie who resides in Queensland Australia.

The original name was
"MacDubhsith" meaning
"mac" - son of
"Dubh" - dark or black
"sith" - elf or fairy
It is Gaelic. The Scottish-Gaelic pronunciation is"Mac - Dhoogh- shee".
English it is MacDuffie.
The clan called themselves "Clan MacDuffie" until 1539 when they dropped the Gaelic "dubh" syllable. Mac-Du-ffie became MacFie.
From 1539 on they were known as Clan MacFie.Many still used/spelled their name MacDuffie however. When the Act of Union joing England and Scotland into Great Britain was passed in 1707, the English language was used more often in Scotland. There was no equivalent English sound or letter for the Gaelic sound "bh" in the clan names, so clerks and clergy used the approximations f, v, or ph. The result was many variations of the clan name but no single, correct spelling. Also, spellings were changed in Ireland during times of persecution because the Irish did not like the Scottish coming into Northern Ireland and taking their land they once owned. In addition, spellings varied because during immigration many of the immigration officers misspelled
or forced immigrants to change the spellings of their names. And in some instances, some of the immigrants didn't know how to spell their own last names.
The McAfee, McAffee, MacAfee spellings appear in Northern Ireland (County Antrim,
County Armagh).

Recognized Clan Surnames:

The following names are recognised by the Commander of Clan Macfie, Ceann-Cath A. C. (Sandy) McPhie, as being current acceptable surname spellings for members of the Clan. Variations in the spelling of these names are acceptable. Mac/Mc prefixes are considered to be interchangeable:

ATHEY, ATHIE, CATHEY, CATHIE, COFFEE, COFFEY, DUFFEE, DUFFIE, DUFFEY, DUFFY, FEE, GUFFEY, GUFFIE, HAFFEY, HAFFIE, MacAFEE (and McAfee), MacAFIE, MacCAFFER, MacCAFFREY, MacCAFFIE, MacCATHEY, MacCATHIE, MacCUISH, MacDUFFEE, MacDUFFIE, MacDUFFEY, MacDUFFY, MacDUFFIN, MacFEE, MacFIE, MacGUFFEY, MacGUFFIE, MacGUFFIN, MacHAFFIE, MacHAFFY, MacPHEE, MacPHIE, MacVEE, MacVIE, MAHAFFEY, MEHAFFEY, PHEE, PHIE.

In addition, the Clan Commander recognises the historical links Clan Macfie had with the Macdonald Lords of the Isles, Clan Cameron in Lochaber and a branch of the MacNicol family in Glenorchy. More recently, the close links established with Clan Macfie by the Thorburn family in Sweden and the Brew family in New Zealand are also acknowledged by the Clan Commander.
CLAN MACFIE HISTORY

William married Margaret Martha Taggart in 1802 in Antrim, Ulster. Margaret was born in 1780 in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 6 Oct 1864 in Sugar Creek Twp., Wayne Co, Ohio, USA; was buried in Dalton Presbyterian Cemetary, Dalton, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He was a large, tall, strong-limbed farmer, and lived on a portion of the Dinsmore homestead in Ballywattick, where he died Nov 13, 1829 and is buried in Ballymoney Cemetery. Upon his tombstone in Ballymoney is this inscription: "Here lies the body of the late Samuel Dinsmore, of Ballywattick, who departed this life the 13th of Nov. 1829, aged 68 years; also his son, Robert, who departed this life the 18th of April, 1818, aged 18 ears." He and family were Presbyterians. His widow died in Bloomington, Ind, in 1847. He lived in a comfortable stone house, at the end of it is a fielld surrounded by trees, which make the place attractive and home-like.

Samuel married Mary Brewster in 1783 in Antrim, Ulster. Mary was born in 1762 in Antrim, Ulster; died in 1847 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Daughter of Andrew Brewster of Glenhall, County of Londonderry, Ireland.

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Children:

Mary Ann Taylor Callahan, 1822– 1884

Levi D. Taylor, 1823– 1905

Andrew J Taylor, 1824– 1893

Susannah Taylor Wise, 1826– 1906

Elizabeth Taylor, 1829– 1830

Hiram Taylor, 1830– 1908

Jehu Taylor, 1835– 1836

Alfred P Taylor, 1837– 1899

Caroline Taylor Orr, 1841– 1908

Milo E. Taylor, 1842– 1873

Enoch married Barbara Kekerise on 18 Jun 1821 in Columbiana County, Ohio, USA. Barbara was born in 1801 in PA, USA; died on 7 Jul 1870 in Palmyra, Portage, OH; was buried in Old Brunstetter cemetery, Austintown, Mahoning, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Her will was written on the 23rd of November 1869 in Portage, OH and proven on the 28th of November 1870.

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Callahan, William
Husband of Elizabeth Perry
Son of John Callahan and Eleanor Conner (Scotland 1746-1834 Mahoning)
B – 5 March 1772 Hagerstown, Md.
D – 14 Oct. 1842 Washingtonville, Ohio
War of 1812 – enlisted Aug. 25, 1812 discharged Nov. 30, 1812
Inf. Pvt. Capt. Zimmerman's Co.
Buried Callahan Family Cemetery row 2 grave 18

Children:

1. John born 1798 Brownsville, PA. died 1805 Greenford, Ohio, buried in Callahan Family Cemetery
2. Hannah born 1800 Brownsville, Pa. died age 75 in IL.
3. Elias born Washingtonville, Ohio died 1884 buried in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery. Married Sarah Gorby
4. Rachel born 1807 Washingtonville died 1895 Austin Twp. Mahoning Co. Ohio. Married Joseph Turner
5. Nathan born Sept. 11, 1810 Washingtonville, Ohio died March 5, 1860 Greenford, Ohio. Buried Trinity Lutheran Cemetery married Mary Ann Taylor
6. Elizabeth born 1812 Washingtonville, Ohio died 1885 IL. Married Benjamin Gee d-IL.
7. Matilda born 1813 Washingtonville, Ohio died in IL. Married Mr. Chatman
8. Nancy born 1815 Washingtonville, Ohio married Isaac Brookhart
9. Mariah born 1817 Washingtonville, Ohio died 1859 buried in Old cemetery in Greenford, Ohio, (Greenlawn cemetery) married Benjamin Gee
10. Kissiah born 1820 Washingtonville, Ohio died 1885 in IN. married Levi D. Taylor

1786 census for Antrim township in Franklin, PA has a William Callahan registered.

History of the townships of Mahoning County, formerly belonging to Columbiana dated 1879 mentions William under section XXVIII. In 1804, Elias Adgate and William and James Callahan, all brothers-in-law, left Redstone, PA and set out for the West. At that time noting lass than a section could be entered. Elias Adgate entered section 28, which subsequently was divided, Adgate taking 120 acres of the east part of the south half; James Callahan, the remaining part of the south half; and William Callahan, the north half. Mr. Callahan afterwards divided his land among his children, leaving to Elias 55 acres, to Nancy ho married Isaac Brookhast, 55 acres; Hannah, who remained on the homestead, 59 acres; to Mathilda, who married Chapman, 60 acres; to Elizabeth, ho married Benj. Gee, 59 acres; and to Nathan, 55 acres. Jeremiah Callahan, a brother of William and James came to Green in 1812, and settled near his brother William, on the section north. He had mad a prior visit to Green with his brothers. Jesse Callahan, another brother of William and James came about 1808 and worked with them for a time, and then returned to Pennsylvania. He finally removed permanently to Columbiana County. His son, Thomas, has lived many years at the norhteast corner of section 34.

William married Elizabeth Perry. Elizabeth was born on 14 Apr 1774 in Maryland; died on 21 Jul 1852 in Washingtonville, Mahoning, Ohio; was buried in Callahan family cemetery, Greene twp, Mahoning, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1850 census for Greene, Mahoning has her born in Maryland.