52 Ancestors: Week 21, Elizabeth? (Cooke?) McFarland

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks The mother of the apparent McFarland brothers who settled in Bovina, Delaware County, New York in the early 1800s was named Elizabeth Cooke according to a series of notecards documenting the families of Bovina created a century later by David Fletcher Hoy.1 Contemporary documentation of her given and maiden names are lacking, however. She is undoubtedly the "Mrs. McFarland, native of Ireland," who died in Bovina 15 January 1832 at the reported age of 110 years.2 The age is likely an exaggeration as she was more likely born about 1740. Fletcher Davidson, transcriber, "Early Bovina Families & their Descendants", Book 3, entry for James McFarland; transcribed online at Delaware County NY Genealogy and History Site by Ray LaFever. Fletcher Davidson transcribed the notecards of David Fletcher Hoy, originally created starting around 1914, into several notebooks.↩ Getrude A. Barber, compiler, "Delhi Gazette, Published at Delhi, Delaware County, New…