Elizabeth married John Cattle Benson on 3 Sep 1907 in Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA. John was born on 6 Oct 1882 in Parowan, Iron, Utah, USA; died on 24 Nov 1957 in Provo, Utah, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Menzies Macfarlane was born in 1833 in Stirling Scotland. His father died when he was thirteen. When he was sixteen he moved with his mother, brother and sister to Glasgow, and in 1852 came with his family to Utah. He moved to Cedar City in 1853. In both the Sessions Settlement and in Cedar City he taught school. Where he gained the education to, in turn, be an educator is not known. He married Ann Chatterley December 30, 1854, and they had ten children, the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth dying as young children. As the tenth, William, had only one child and no grandchildren, those of us descended from Ann are from the other four children Isaac, Charlotte Ann (Annie), Annabella (Bella), or John Morton. I won't say much about John M's wives, but that would be a good topic for another reunion-the wives of John and Daniel Macfarlane and the Husband of Ann.
John M. married Agnes Eliza (Tillie) Heyborne on October 9, 1866. They had nine children, eight of whom lived to adulthood, and six of whom had offspring. Those of us descended from Tillie, are from Sarah Ann, Agnes Eliza (Aggie), Catherine Heyborne (Caddie), Jennie Belle, Menzies John (Bud), or Erastus Heyborne.
In 1868, John M. took his wives to St. George, and later, in 1879 married Elizabeth Jane (Lizzie) Adams. They had seven children, five of whom reached adulthood and four of whom had offspring, Emma Adams (Em), Samuel Alexander (Alec), Elizabeth Adams (Bess), and Hubert Adams.
John M. was a farmer, teacher, surveyor, attorney, and judge. He led the local choir in Cedar City and later in St. George. He was a prominent early settler in Cedar City and in St. George. If his crops hadn't failed the year he tried to set up shop in Toquerville, he might have been a prominent member of that community. He was the first postmaster of Toquerville, and the first postmaster south of Cedar City. He surveyed many sites around southern Utah and Eastern Nevada. He was a defense attorney in the trial of John D. Lee. He was a County Prosecuting Attorney and District Attorney. In 1879 he was elected as probate judge, which was a county judge in the Territory of Utah. He served there until 1883, when he resigned due to the fact that he couldn't carry out his duties because he was in hiding often from federal marshals looking for polygamists. He left with his third wife Lizzie for Mexico to avoid arrest, and lived an interesting life in Mexico for several years. His second wife Tillie, and some of her children joined him in Mexico in 1891. In 1892 he returned alone to St. George to get some medical attention, and died there, June 4, from heart failure as a complication of diabetes. He is best known for composing two hymns that are still sung in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He wrote both words and music to "Far, Far Way on Judea's Plains", and he composed the music to "Dearest Children", lyrics written by his associate Charles L. Walker.
We have a lot to be proud of in John Menzies Macfarlane. As Wayland put it, "He had ambition, intelligence and grace, and to quote Uncle Henry Mathis, 'He was the most talented man I ever knew.' Or as Ann, his wife, put it, '
E was the Cock O' the Walk,
E was a Crackerjack.'"
[ http://macfarlane-sinclair.org/index.php?page=5 ]

John married Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Adams on 30 Jan 1879 in Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA. Elizabeth was born on 8 Feb 1858 in Nephi, Juab, Utah, USA; died on 10 Mar 1948 in Provo, Utah, Utah, USA; was buried on 13 Mar 1948 in Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Jane
• Name: Elizabeth Jane Adams

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Although no surname is given for her as all her children have Adams as given names it is to be assumed that this was her family name.

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• Alt. Birth: 1808

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John Macfarlane Coachman 1811 - 1846
The douce locality of Stirling's Old Town Cemetery seems an unlikely spot in which to find a connection with the infamous Butch Cassidy, but connection there is, albeit somewhat tenuous.
In 1825, the custodian in Doune Castle was Daniel Sinclair. He brought up his family in the village, where one of his daughters married Robert Gillies. When in 1840 the first missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the Mormons) arrived in Scotland, one of them, Robert Menzies, found himself in Doune. Such was Menzies' enthusiasm and persuasiveness that the entire Sinclair family (including the young Mrs Gillies) was converted to the new faith. A second Sinclair daughter married John Macfarlane; he died in Stirling and his widow emigrated with her children to the United States of America, home of Mormonism. Ten years later the Gillies family, including their 12-year-old daughter, also left for America and in due course this daughter became the wife of Maximillian Parker. Their son Robert Leroy Parker was born in Utah in 1866; he changed his name to Butch Cassidy and became renowned as a horse thief, cattle rustler, and bank robber. The date of his death is unknown.
Descendants of Butch Cassidy's great- uncle, John Macfarlane, erected this stone.
[http://www.oldtowncemetery.co.uk/history/macfarlane.html]

John married Annabella Sinclair on 9 Jun 1833 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. Annabella was born on 2 Apr 1812 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland; was christened on 12 Apr 1812 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland; died on 10 Feb 1888 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA; was buried in Feb 1888 in Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Annabella was born in 1813 in Killin, the second child of Daniel Sinclair and Ann Campbell. Some of her early life was spent in Killin, and some in Doune, in the shadow of Doune Castle. Wayland Macfarlane shows in his book Yours Sincerely, John M. Macfarlane a picture of Doune Castle, which Wayland reports hung on the wall of Annabella Sinclair until the day she died. Annabella and her sisters may have worked in the cotton mill that is still standing up the road from Doune, but is now a distillery. More likely, Annabella worked at Stirling Castle. I have heard the story that she was a chambermaid for the duchess or baroness or whatever aristocrat held sway there, but that I put in the category of second hand information. If anyone has any knowledge about her life in Stirling before she married John Macfarlane, I would like to hear it. She married John Macfarlane, a postillion at the castle in 1833. The 1841 census shows her living with her husband and three children on King Street. King Street is the main street leading up the hill to Stirling Castle.
After her husband died in 1846, no doubt she was in severe financial straights. She moved to Glasgow in 1850 and lived near two of her sisters there. She probably survived by doing nurse midwifery. She was a faithful member of the LDS church. As evidence of this, she was able to leave for America with the first Perpetual Emigration Fund group to travel from Great Britain to America, and only those who were active participants in the church were favored with this opportunity. The group crossed the Atlantic under the leadership of Isaac Chauncey Haight. Annabella would have come with her sister Janet, but one of Janet's children was deathly ill, so Janet stayed home to care for him, and Annabella took Janet's other two children with her. They left Liverpool on the ship Ellen Marie, and landed in New Orleans, then traveled up the Mississippi by River Boat to St. Louis, and up the Missouri River to Kansas City, where they were outfitted for the trek across the plains. Isaac Haight returned to England to pick up another group, and Abraham O. Smoot took over the leadership of the company for the rest of the journey. Annabella and her family arrived in the Salt Lake valley in September 1852. Annabella and her family joined Annabella's mother and sister Ann in the Sessions settlement.
In 1853 Isaac Haight returned from his assignment in England, and was called by Brigham Young to take charge of the Iron Works in Cedar City. Before he left for Cedar City he married his third and fourth wives, the fourth being Annabella Sinclair Macfarlane. So Annabella is part of the early history of Cedar City. She was a Counselor in the Presidency of the Cedar City Relief Society. The Cedar City Relief Society minutes show her participation, bearing her testimony, and contributing to life in this frontier outpost. As one of Isaac Haight's other wives died, leaving an infant daughter, Annabella took over her care, and raised her as one of her own. This child was was Emmeline Haight. Apparently Emmeline and her husband Joseph Coslett adopted a daughter who moved to California, as that is where Emmeline died.
What was life like for Annabella after Isaac Haight left Cedar City under the cloud of the unfortunate Mountain Meadows incident? Annabella died in 1888 at age 74, almost 75, a year and a half after the death of her husband Isaac Haight.
[ http://macfarlane-sinclair.org/index.php?page=4 ]

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John married Katharine Fraser on 26 Jan 1793 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland. Katharine was born on 18 Dec 1766 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland; was christened on 18 Dec 1766 in Killin, Perthshire, Scotland; died in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Katherine Frazer

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(Research):Whole line of MacFarlanes imported to Clan current by connection through this Fraser daughter.