Farley, Lucinda (1826-1914)

FARLEY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/14/2016 at 02:03:21

The Advocate-Tribune newspaper, Indianola, Iowa, Thursday, March 22, 1888, p.2

PALMYRA
Mrs. Lucinda Farley, who is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. S. W. Morris, is one of the oldest settlers of Warren county. She was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, Dec. 1826, and was 61 years old last December. Her maiden name was Hedrick. At the age of 19, in 1845, she was married to Thomas Farley. The following spring they came to Warren county and settled near Palmyra, where they lived until the years 1877, when they went to Monona county, Iowa. In 1879 she lost her husband. Since that time she has lived with her children in Monona county. In 1846 her first child was born – Matt Farley, who now lives in Carlisle. He was the first white male child born in the county. She has ten children living and two dead. Six of them live in Monona county, three in Warren and one in Missouri. Iowa was at that time a territory, a blank leaf in the book of states, but she has since gone through the press and where the wild beast and untutored savage then roamed we have herds of domestic animals, fine farms, churches and schools. All honor to the early pioneers who toiled and labored to make this great change. Mrs. Farley has good health and bids fair to live many years to enjoy Iowa’s prosperity.