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John II McDonald was born 29 Jul 1778 in Botetourt County, Virginia. He moved to Tennessee with his father and siblings about 1785 after the death of his mother. (One letter says he was born in Washington County, Tennessee, but this is in conflict with earlier information that his mother died in Virginia - and in the 1850 census he lists his own birthplace as Virginia.) Reports from Ohio suggested land was even more fertile there than in the Tennessee River Valley, and about 1805 John II helped his aged father to sell the farm and move to Ohio.
John had a total of four wives who bore him seventeen children. All his children by his first wife were born in Tennessee, the rest were born in Madison county, Ohio and were educated in the old log school house which John II had provided land for. It is interesting to note that when John II married his last wife, Mariah Boyd, he was only a couple of months shy of his 50th birthday, while she was 20 years old. However, he went on to have another eleven children by Mariah, fathering his last child at the age of seventy two!
Like his father, John II McDonald died at the age of 74 and was laid to rest in the McDonald Cemetery, Upper Glade, Deer Creek. His headstone reads:
John McDONALD
d. Jan. 17, 1853
74y 5m 19d
