Ada McFARLAN

  General Notes:

Photo: This now-vintage photo of Ada McFarlan, 1858-1917, was taken at James studio in Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. Ada's wife Sadie outlived him by almost forty years but did not remarry.

From Nancy Boals Heisel


Betty Flournoy, e-mail to DeeAnna:
Ada was killed while at work. Sadie got a small sum from insurance and, with that money, bought and sold houses to maintain herself for the rest of her life. She lived in an apartment in one of the houses she owned at the time of her death. Very independent.


1858 BIRTH of Ada McFarlan ("Ady")

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Muscatine County, Sweetland Township, Sweetland Center ("Ady," age 1, with parents)

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, Washington Township, What Cheer ("Ady," age 11, with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Keokuk County, Washington Township (with parents) ("Jady," age 23, "Farmer")

1885 MARRIAGE of Ada McFarlan and Sadie Fields on December 24 in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa


See "Sadie Fields" for additional information

Ada married Sadie FIELDS, daughter of Henry FIELDS and Elizabeth McCARROLL, on December 24, 1885 in Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa. (Sadie FIELDS was born on December 18, 1861 in Koszta, Iowa County, Iowa, died on June 12, 1956 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa and was buried on June 14, 1956.)