... 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. ...
... In the year 1774 my father and mother were married. My father died at the age of seventy eight years, and was buried on fruit hill. My father was a very active, but little man, of a violent and hasty temper, impetuous of in all his persuits; but in his friendships he was kind and as true as the needle in the hole ...
