If you note the comparison to George Dean they are both Company D fellows transferred from Co K. McFarland enlisting in St. Louis 3 days prior to Dean. Discharge locations are different as well.

You may already have this info re death, he died in City Hospital and buried Pottersfield Cemetery St. Louis Mo, Burial certificate and death register images available, email if you need them jrussell @ clas.net At death he was listed as a laborer age 48 which is 10 years off his enlistement index card. He apparently was single at time of death and listed as having lived in St. Louis 20 years.

1880 census lists him as age 34 single boarding with an Ellen Washington B Female age 37 widowed. 1017 Gratiot Street St Louis MO. Occupation is listed as a steamboat man, born in Missouri Parents are also listed as being born in Missouri. He is marked as being able to read and write. The death record above also lists his nativity as being Missouri.

1870 Mo Census has a H/O Mcfarland inmate of the St Louis Work House, "breaking rock", age 26 black and single born in Missouri, i've no proof this is your guy just that the demographics seem to fit.

IF and big IF I grant you, he was a slave in 1860 owned by a McFarland in the State of Missouri with access to get to St. Louis my best bet he is one the slaves owned by a Reubin McFarland of Booneville, Cooper County Missouri....lots of conjecture with that one!

John R.