John McFall and Rebecca Gaddis had been married only 3 years when Rebecca died, leaving a 1 year old son, and a 1 month old, Mary Jane, known as Molly. John remarried a few years later, and Scott County, Indiana census records show he lived with his wife, son James and daughter Margaret. According the the census, he and his parents had been born in Canada.
An obit from Clay City, Illinois cites Molly as the adoped daughter of Isaac and Malinda Miller Patterson. That is odd because in the l850 and 1860 census (when she was 7 and 17), Molly was living with Mary Miller. I've wondered if Mary Miller was Molly's grandma, and if perhaps Malinda Miller Patterson was her aunt. The Pattersons moved from Scott County, Indiana to Illinois in l862.
During the Civil War (1861 - 1865), Morgan's Raiders of the south went through Scott County, Indiana. Jed was in the Union army from 1862 to 1865. He and Molly were married during the war in November 1864 when she was 20. They had only three children and the youngest died in childhood. After the war, Jed had a chair factory in Scott County.
Jed and Molly had lived together nearlty 50 years when he died in 1912, Molly died of tuberculosis a year later when she was 69, the year my dad was born. I've never seen a photo of Molly.
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