by: Vera West Raleigh
Great Granddaughter
found in Fern Jones Greer files
Angelina Calkin Farley was born on May 4, 1818 in Elizabethtown, Essex County, New York.
The War of 1812 had just been fought and her father, Captain John Calkin fought in it as well as the Civil War. Her Mother was Lucy Kellogg. Angelina received some education and taught school in her district. She was a person of refinement and among her brothers and sisters was regarded as a wise and just arbitrator; her judgment was so clear and her sense of honor so strong that any difference between them were satisfactorily settled.
She had literary gifts and wrote well in prose and in verse.
As the family grew older, a spirit of restlessness prevailed among them. This resulted in their moving west to Iowa. Here Angelina also taught school when her health permitted and it was here that she met her future husband, Winthrop Farley. It was in Iowa that they hear and accepted the Gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Soon after came the desire to gather in Zion. The family estate was divided and Angelina invested her share in equipment for the journey to the mountains. On the 20th day of May 1850 , she married Winthrop Farley and started across the plains. After a long, tedious and uneventful trip they arrived in Ogden, settling in Brown's Fort, together with Asa Farley , a brother of Angelina and Edward Farley and family, parents of Winthrop.
Angelina was of a generous nature and accepted the gospel in all its fullness, never happier than wen called upon to make sacrifice. She divided her clothing, bedding and food with others, sometimes doing without herself. Coarse jokes and levity she would never tolerate.
She taught her children in the art of carding, spinning and weaving and making their own apparel. Thrift and economy was of necessity their watch-word. She was a mother to two small children of her husband's and raised them with and as her own, who say they owe to her teachings and wise discipline, the blessings which they enjoy today.
She never tired of talking and looking at the country through which she had passed on her trip here. She lived in polygamy together with three other wives and large families of children. She was the mother of the following:
Ida Louvisa deceased
Eveline Eudora West, deceased
Mariett Eggleston, deceased
Rosina deceased
Asa living*
Stepmother to:
Mary E. Freeman*
Amelia Boden*
She died on January 21, 1900 after a few days illness at the age of eighty-two.
Vera West Raleigh, great granddaughter Camp I
*There is not a date on this, so any information regarding living status should not be used for Genealogical purposes.
