The O'Farrell Family of Okoboji and Elsewhere

This is about the William O'Farrell family and descendants, in New York, Iowa, Illinois, Colorado, or wherever they settled.

Michael O'Farrell was an Irish sea captain who was lost at sea. He lived in New York. Nothing is known about him.
Michael was the father of two sons. Michael and his wife died when their boys were young so their boys were "bound out".
John O'Farrell was bound out and went to Ohio. No information of what happened to him.
William was "bound out" to Mrs. Patrick McDonald until adulthood.

LEGEND: Relationship to William: Michael His Father; John His Brother;
Number:Children; -Grandchildren; ~Great Grandchildren; ~~Great Great Grandchildren; ~~~ Great Great Great Grandchildren

William O'Farrell

Married a young widow, Dinah Terbush Skinner. She had one son, Jeremiah Skinner.
Little is known about Jeremiah, except he raised a large family of children.
William and Dinah were the parents of nine children:

1. Francis Asbury O'Farrell

Married Jane Ann Von Benthsen
His second wife was Jane C.
- Children:
- Mary Brigham
- Adaline Leavenworth
- Clementine Sullivan

2. William McCarty O'Farrell

Married Esther Rainey in 1828
-Children:
- Elvira Married John Clark
~Children
~Dennis Clark
~Irving Clark
~Charles Clark

- William Emory O'Farrell
- John R O'Farrell
- Charlotte C O'Farrell
- Sarah Lovilla O'Farrell
- Esther A O'Farrell
- Henrietta O'Farrell
- Chester H. O'Farrell
~ Son Frank O'Farrell
William's Second Wife was Mrs.Clara Fisk

3. Rev. David McDonald O'Farrell

Married Adeline Whitney
-Children:
- Adeline O'Farrell Married Menzo Stebbins
~ Children:
~ David Stebbins
~ Menzo Stebbins Jr
~ Charles Stebbins
- William Morris O'Farrell
~ Children:
~ Frank O'Farrell had one son
~ Fred Morris O'Farrell married and had one son, one daughter
~ William Vance O'Farrell married had one son, ~~Frank
~ Edith O'Farrell Married William Putnam Field

- Noah Parmalee O'Farrell Married Harriet Moon
~ Children:
~ Charles Cortey O'Farrell Married Evalina Mitchell
~~Children:
~~Esther Louise O'Farrell married Carl Gast
~~Raymond O'Farrell Married Lela Hines one son ~~~Melvin O'Farrell
~~Clifford Martin O'Farrell
~~Charles Cortey's second wife was Eva Helena Read

~ Emily May O'Farrell
~ Birt O'Farrell
~ Edwin Fremont O'Farrell
~ Victoria Harriet O'Farrell
~ Leroy O'Farrell
~ Thomas Arch O'Farrell
~ Charles Wesley O'Farrell
~ Garretson O'Farrell

4. John Wesley O'Farrell

Married to Lohancy E. Soper
-Children:

- Marion Alice O'Farrell

Married John W. Holmes.
~ Children:
~ Lulu Eleanor Holmes married to Dr. L.E Mentzer
~ Alice Louise Holmes
~ Henry Charles Holmes
~ Emma Grace Holmes Married to CH Seybert
~ Cecil or C Vanransler Holmes

- Henry V O'Farrell

Died in the Civil War

- George Avery O'Farrell

Married Elva Cook one son, - Henry A.
Married a widow Lou Stubbs, who did not live many years. No Children.
Married Miss Alice Rolland ~ One son: - Rolland who was 3 years old when he died
Married Mildred Reed, a widow.

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- Martin Gay O'Farrell

Married Anna Amanda Fairchild.
~ Children:
~ Olney G. O'Farrell married a widow with one child
~ Vivian A O'Farrell married Will Cortright
~~ Children:
~~ Hazel Cortright
~~ Victor Edward Cortright
~~ Earl Wilburt Cortright
~~ Olive Ida Cortright
~~ Lowell Sylvester Cortright
~~ Dolores Vivian Cortright

~ Millie Mae O'Farrell
~ Bertram Arthur O'Farrell Married Lulu Mae Dollar
~~ Children:
~~ Charles Arthur O'Farrell
~~~ Children:
~~~ JoAnn O'Farrell Anderson
~~~ Joyce Lavonne O'Farrell Gapinski
~~~ Bertram who died at birth.

~~ Ferne Lorene O'Farrell Anderson
~~~Sharon Anderson London
~~~Linda Anderson Sealey

~~ Elva Arlene O'Farrell
~~ Edna Mae O'Farrell
The O'Farrell sisters started O'Farrell Sisters Restaurant in Okoboji.

~ Elmer Madison O'Farrell

- Dorleska Vanlora O'Farrell

Married Ezra Ide
~ Children:
~ Charles Alanzo (Charley) Ide never married
~ Lulu Ide Married a man named Seaman. After his death she married again. She raised a large family.
~ Benny Ide died when a child.

- William (Willie) F. O'Farrell (killed in a sledding accident at age 9)

- Ida Marie O'Farrell

Married Harvey Regional Henderson
~Children:
~ Mary Genevieve Henderson
~ Alice Mae Henderson Glade
~ Zina Wesley Henderson
~ Amy O Henderson married W G Anderson
~ Cornelia Soper Henderson died of infantile paralysis from polio
~ Ruth Elizabeth Henderson Billings

- Elmer Elsworth O'Farrell

Married to Mae Henderson
~Children:
~ John Wesley (John W) O'Farrell named for his grandfather never married
~ Nellie Mary O'Farrell married James Titterington
~ Elmer born Aug 7,1861-August 19,1946
~ Mae born August 2, 1867- Nov 28, 1949

- William (Will) O'Farrell

(named after his brother who died in a sledding accident)
Married Ellen (Ella) Jane Calkings, a member of another pioneer family of Dickinson County.
~ Children:
~ Frankie O'Farrell
~ Edna Marion O'Farrell
~ Emmet Chester (Chet) O'Farrell
~ William Alvin (Alvin) O'Farrell
~ Alice Margaret O'Farrell

5. Elihu Anderson O'Farrell

was disabled and never married.
He lived with family members until his death.

6. Marie O'Farrell

Married Alanson Benham
- Children:
- George Edward Benham
- Mary F. Benham
- John Henry Benham
- Emma Benham

7. Catherine O'Farrell

Married Noah Parmalee (as his second wife)
Noah had 3 children.
They had four children:
- Adelia Dinah Parmalee
- Cornelia Elizabeth Parmalee
- Alice Francis Parmalee
- William Hartwell Parmalee

(Noah's father was Camp Parmalee. Camp's second wife, Mrs. Patrick McDonald
raised William O'Farrell after William's father [Michael] died.)

8. Cornelia O'Farrell

Married Rev. Milo E. Jacobs.
-Children:
- Francis Irving (Frank) Jacobs married Julia Hudson
- Charles H. Jacobs married Helen M. Moon
- Alpharetta M. Jacobs
- Wilbur F. Jacobs married Ida Hudson

9. Henry Terbush O'Farrell

Married Abigail Zobede Loomis
- One Child:
-Althea Zulette O'Farrell Married and divorced Andrew Van Patten
She then married Willis Graham
~ One Child: Ralph Graham
Third husband was Judge James Harlan Reeder

History

Family Pictures

Obituaries

All these Records Contributed by Tammy O'Farrell Ammann, grand-daughter of William Alvin O'Farrell

Some records are from pages of O'Farrell history wrote by unknown author

O'Farrell listings in the Okoboji Cemetery. From Spirit Lake Library

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