John Menzies Macfarlane

1833 - 1892  (58 years)

• Name	John Menzies Macfarlane  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	11 Oct 1833	Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Jun 1892	Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Burial	5 Jun 1892	Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA   [1, 2, 4]
  Person ID	I14548	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	John Macfarlane,   b. Between 1809 and 1810, Killin, Perthshire, Scotland d. 8 Oct 1846, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 37 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Annabella Sinclair,   b. 2 Apr 1812, Killin, Perthshire, Scotland d. 10 Feb 1888, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	9 Jun 1833	Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland   [2, 5]
  Family ID	F476	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Jane "Lizzie" Adams,   b. 8 Feb 1858, Nephi, Juab, Utah, USA d. 10 Mar 1948, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA (Age 90 years)
  Marriage	30 Jan 1879	Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Emma Adams Macfarlane,   b. 20 Nov 1879, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 15 Jan 1932, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA (Age 52 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Donald Adams Macfarlane,   b. 3 Aug 1881, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 27 Dec 1883, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 2 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Samuel Alexander Macfarlane,   b. 17 Jan 1883, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 21 Jan 1972, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA (Age 89 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Elizabeth Adams "Bess" Macfarlane,   b. 6 Oct 1884, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 13 Jan 1978, Provo, Utah, Utah, USA (Age 93 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Janet Adams Macfarlane,   b. 11 May 1887, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 9 May 1967, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. John Adams "Juan" Macfarlane,   b. 3 Feb 1889, Colonia Juárez, Guerrero, Mexico d. 8 Nov 1896, Young (Age 7 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Hubert Adams Macfarlane,   b. 20 Jan 1891, Colonia Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico d. 12 May 1960, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F438	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Ann Chatterley,   b. 3 Mar 1837, Salford, Lancashire, England d. 10 Jul 1926, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	30 Dec 1854	Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Isaac Chauncey Macfarlane,   b. 3 Nov 1855, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 23 May 1921, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Charlotte Ann Macfarlane,   b. 10 Apr 1858, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 9 Mar 1917, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Annabella Macfarlane,   b. 14 Aug 1860, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 13 Nov 1928, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 68 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Morton Macfarlane,   b. 22 Nov 1862, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 3 May 1938, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Joseph Chatterley Macfarlane,   b. 28 Feb 1865, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 8 Nov 1865, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Ellen Elizabeth Macfarlane,   b. 8 Oct 1866, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 28 Jul 1867, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Kate Macfarlane,   b. 3 Nov 1868, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 19 Mar 1869, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. Daniel Sinclair Macfarlane,   b. 26 Jun 1871, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 25 Jul 1873, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 2 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Duncan Macfarlane,   b. 27 Nov 1874, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 29 Aug 1876, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. William Chatterley Macfarlane,   b. 27 Oct 1877, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 22 Apr 1957, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Agnes Eliza Heyborne,   b. 16 Feb 1846, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia d. 15 Feb 1932, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1866	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Sarah Ann Macfarlane,   b. 21 Jul 1867, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA d. 12 May 1942, Price, Carbon, Utah, U.S.A (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Agnes Eliza (Aggie) Macfarlane,   b. 9 Dec 1869, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 9 Jan 1935, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Robert Urie Macfarlane,   b. 26 Sep 1872, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 19 Apr 1948, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Catherine Heyborne (Caddie) Macfarlane,   b. 18 Feb 1875, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 12 Feb 1904, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Archibald Macfarlane,   b. 6 Aug 1877, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 18 Aug 1878, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Jennie Belle Macfarlane,   b. 16 Apr 1879, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 25 Jun 1943, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA (Age 64 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   7. Ann Tutie Macfarlane,   b. 28 Nov 1881, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 19 Jan 1945, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA (Age 63 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   8. John Menzies Macfarlane,   b. 29 Nov 1881, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 24 Mar 1939, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   9. Erastus Heyborne Macfarlane,   b. 17 Apr 1887, Saint George, Washington, Utah, USA d. 13 Aug 1954, Cedar City, Iron, Utah, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F444	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  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 ]

  
  

• Sources

  [S66] Ancestry.com, (Name: Name: Name: Name: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/;;;;), PaulSMacfarlane tree. [S68] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index, Submission Search: 1532640-1222101095652. [S101] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index, Ancestral File. [S2050] EM. [S68] Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, International Genealogical Index, Submission Search: 2005860-0925104131024.