John and Martha Washington Glover McDonald
John McDonald -- Feb. 15, 1837 - Jan. 19, 1926 was the son of James Porter McDonald and
Susan Edleman Martha Washington Glover McDonald -- Dec. 25, 1839 - Dec. 3, 1911 daughter
of Robert J. Glover & Fanny Cooke. They are buried in the McDonald cemetery - Mule Lane.
Mule Lane
The Children of John McDonald and Martha Glover are:
LEONA C. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1865, Smith Co., Tennessee; m. G. D. SADDLER,
December 22, 1888, Smith Co., Tennessee.
ADA LOUISE MCDONALD, b. September 03, 1866, Smith Co., Tennessee;
d. October 17, 1958, Los Angeles County, California.
GEORGE A. MCDONALD, b. April 1868, Smith Co., Tennessee; m. ANNIE F.
APPLE, January 14, 1900, Smith Co., Tennessee; b. January 1876, Tennessee.
FANNIE MCDONALD, b. Bet. 1869 - 1873, Smith Co., Tennessee; d. Bef.
1887, Smith Co., Tennessee.
SION B. MCDONALD, b. Abt. 1874, Smith Co., Tennessee; d. Bet. 1905 - 1918,
Smith Co., Tennessee.
LASSIE MCDONALD, b. July 10, 1875, Smith Co., Tennessee; d. August 23, 1969,
Los Angeles, California.
CALVIN PERRY MCDONALD, b. December 08, 1880, Chestnut Mound, Smith Co.,
Tennessee; d. August 07, 1969, Rutherford Co., Tennessee.
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A quote from my grandfather Dennis McDonald 9/2/1999
"Well, he was recruiting for the Civil War and this guy said he [would] kill the first man come up,
and when he left there, he just shot at him and just cut that finger off and then he always had that
stub there. And he could make a fox on the wall [a shadow] -- that made his ears."
The Goodspeed Histories of Sumner, Smith, Macon, Trousdale, Counties of Tennessee
John McDonald, a respected and well known farmer of the Eighth District of Smith County, was born in
1837, in Jackson (now Smith) County, Tenn. He is a son of James P. and Susan (Edleman) McDonald.
The father, who is still living, is of Scotch-Irish extraction, born in 1809, in Jackson County, Tenn. He
is a farmer by occupation; has been twice married; the last wife was Mrs. Evaline Bolton. The mother
of our subject was of Dutch descent, born in North Carolina in 1807, and died in 1875, leaving five
children. John McDonald received but a limited education in the common schools of his native county.
He remained beneath the paternal roof until about twenty-seven years of age. In 1864 he married Martha
Washington, daughter of Robert and Fanny Glover, who was born in 1839, at the place where their marriage
occurred. This union resulted in the birth of seven children: Leona C., wife of G. D. Saddler; Ada, George A.,
Sion B., Lassie and Calvin P.; the fourth born, Fannie, deceased. Soon after marriage Mr. McDonald settled
on a portion of the homestead, and since that time purchased the interests of the brothers and sisters, now
owning the entire farm, which consists of 240 acres. He enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1862, in the
Twenty-eighth Tennessee, Capt. Trousdale's company. By the discharge of a gun in the hands of a careless
party Mr. McDonald had his right forefinger shot off while on his way to enter the army. He was delayed
by the accident until the following year, when he was elected second lieutenant of Capt. McDonald's
company, in which capacity he served till the fall of 1863, when he was sent home as a recruiting officer.
He was cut off from the Southern Army by the Federal troops, whose headquarters were at McMinnville.
He was not again able to join the Confederates. He became a loyal citizen in the latter part of the same year.
He was a Whig previous to the war, casting his first presidential vote in 1860; he is now a Democrat. He is
an honest, industrious and enterprising man. By his own efforts he has become possessed of the old homestead,
which is in a good state of cultivation and improvement. He and the eldest two sons are members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and George is only waiting for an opportunity to join.Mrs. McDonald
is connected with the Methodist Church.