... I John McDonald of Popler Ridge, Ross county, and state of Ohio, in this my Bible Record a brief account of my ancestors: which is all the knowledge I have of them. ...
... My brother James was a steady industrious man - In 1808 he went a captain into the regular army: during the war which took place in 1812, he was promoted, to Major, to Leiut Col. and Col. So nobly had he performed his military duties, that at the close of the war he was retained on the peace establishment as a Col. He married and had [blank] He died in 1827 in[?] town in the [?] at the age 47, leaving a hansom fortune for his children. ...