San Francisco-Alameda County CA Archives Obituaries.....Farley, Eliza Minerva (Smith) January 5, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Steve Harrison raleighwood@juno.com February 19, 2008, 5:19 am San Francisco Call, January 6, 1904 "Death of Mrs. Eliza M. Farley. Mrs. Eliza M. Farley died in Oakland yesterday at the residence of her son, Newton S. Farley, after an illness of about two months of blood poisoning in the foot. Mrs. Farley was born in Ohio, February 14, 1822, and removed to Southwestern (now Berrein [sic] County) Michigan when a child, where her father, Major Timothy S. Smith, was made Deputy Governor by Lewis Cass, then Governor of the Terriotory of Michigan. She married Ebenezer Farley in 1840 and in 1854 the family came across the plains by ox teams and settled near Alvarado, Alameda County, where they resided until a few years after the demise of Mr. Farley in 1879. Mrs. Farley since the loss of her husband had resided at Gilroy, Monterey, Los Gatos and Oakland. She was the mother of the late Eben C. Farley of Los Gatos, James H. Farley of Hanford, Newton S. Farley of Oakland, Mrs. Eli Emlay of Gilroy, Mrs. Mary E. Fowler of Los Gatos and Mrs. Emma F. Baker (deceased)." END Additional Comments: San Francisco Call. January 6, 1904 [Wednesday]. Page 7, column 3. Eliza Minerva Smith was the daughter of Timothy Seymour and Susan Caroline (Crippen) Smith. She married Ebenezer Farley in Berrien County, Michigan on December 31, 1840. File at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/sanfrancisco/obits/f/farley3571gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb