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Descendants of Samuel McDonald

Generation No. 2

2. SAMUEL² MCDONALD (SAMUEL¹) was born February 12, 1812 in poss. Jasper Co., Ga., more likely Columbia ¹, and died June 19, 1879 in Randolph Co., Ala.². He married (1) MARY GOODSON January 06, 1833, daughter of JORDAN GOODSON. She died Bef. 1850 in Arkansas. He married (2) SARAH S. HARRIS Bef. 1850, daughter of BRITTEN CAPRIL HARRIS. She was born April 09, 1828, and died June 07, 1919.

Notes for SAMUEL MCDONALD:
Samuel McDonald, Jr. of Fayette Co. participated in the "Gold" Land Lottery of 1832, winning 40 acres in District 3 of "Cherokee" Co. He lived then in Griffin's District in what is now Spaulding Co. and was formally granted the land December 11, 1840. He was drawn for jury duty in Fayette Co. in 1836 (Hist. by C.C. Cary, p. 19). He and his family moved to Arkansas sometime around 1841, roughly following the Trail of Tears by which the southeastern Indians were removed to then Indian Territory. Napoleon Whitten McDonald was born there, and Samuel's wife died on the way back, being buried in the Great Mississippi Swamp south of Memphis. He remarried and owned a farm near Wedowee in the Lamar section. Samuel McDonald is mentioned in "Ripley's Believe it or Not" for composing (and carving?) his own unique epitaph. The marker is in Good Hope Cemetery (Old Shiloh) near Wedowee, Ala, two miles from Graham, on Rt. 48. His name appears in the muster roll of November 17, 1864, of mounted infantry volunteers for Capt. Larkin Breed's company in the Civil War. He was 5'10", blue eyes, dark hair, dark complexion. Family legend says he was a preacher. His death record occurs in the 1880 Randolph County Mortality Schedule; the cause listed was dysentery.

More About SAMUEL MCDONALD:
Cause of Death: Dysentery
Comment 1: Buried in Good Hope Cemetery (Old Shiloh)
Ethnicity/Relig.: Baptist preacher
Fact 1: 1832, Drew lottery in Fayette Co.
Fact 2: 1833, Married Mary Goodson in Fayette Co.
Fact 3: 1840, Received gold land grant while in Fayette, Co.
Fact 4: 1843, Son Newton born in Arkansas
Fact 5: Abt. 1850, Moved as widower back to Randolph Co., Ala.
Occupation: Farmer
Residence: Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama

Children of SAMUEL MCDONALD and MARY GOODSON are:

	i.	MARTHA³ MCDONALD, b. 1834.
	ii.	LUCINDA MCDONALD, b. 1839.
4.	iii.	NEWTON "NAPOLEON" WHITTEN MCDONALD, b. February 13, 1843, Arkansas; d. February 08, 1907, Alabama.

Children of SAMUEL MCDONALD and SARAH HARRIS are:

	iv.		MELINDA ELLEN³ MCDONALD, m. WASHINGTON LOVVORN.
	v.		MADRA D. MCDONALD (TWIN).
	vi.		TENNESSEE MCDONALD, m. CHARLES STEWART.
	vii.		EMILY CALIFORNIA MCDONALD, b. July 06, 1851; d. December 10, 1915; m. JAMES ELBENY COFIELD; b. 1846; d. 1922.
	viii.		BEATRICE L. MCDONALD (TWIN), b. May 01, 1856; d. November 18, 1927; m. MIDGEMON B. TRAYLOR; b. September 22, 1856; d. May 15, 1949.

Notes for MIDGEMON B. TRAYLOR:
Buried with his wife at Harmony Church Cemetery in Newell, Alabama.

3. SEABORN² MCDONALD (SAMUEL¹) was born Abt. 1818, and died Abt. 1862. He married RHODA BLACKSTONE February 07, 1837 in Fayette Co., Georgia, daughter of JOHN BLACKSTONE and MARY CLIETT. She was born Abt. 1820 in Georgia, and died 1871 in Boone Co., Arkansas.

Children of SEABORN MCDONALD and RHODA BLACKSTONE are:

	i.	MARY³ MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1837.
	ii.	JOSIAH MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1840, Carroll Co., Georgia.
	iii.	SAMUEL MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1842, Randolph Co., Alabama.
5.	iv.	BAILEY H. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1843.
	v.	KERNEY MCDONALD, b. Abt. February 10, 1845.
	vi.	MARTHA E. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1846.
	vii.	FRANCIS C. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1848.
	viii.	JOHN THOMAS MCDONALD, b. March 22, 1853.
	ix.	RHODA J. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1855.
	x.	ELIZA MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1857.
	xi.	ARMENIA MCDONALD, b. 1860.
	xii.	IDA MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1862.

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