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Robert E. Farley (1816–1908)

The Morrisites’ bugler at the surrender of Kington Fort, who later moved to Nebraska and joined the RLDS Church.

On the roll
Farley, Robert E., in the 1861–62 roll of membership printed in 1886
Born
January 1816, England (Family Tree)
Died
1908, Nebraska (Family Tree)
June 1862
Taken at Kington Fort: printed as “R. E. Farley” in the Deseret News list of June 25, 1862, held to $1,500 bail for the March 1863 term
Later path
Joined the RLDS Church. Baptized into the RLDS Church in 1870 by James Caffall, after moving from Utah to Omaha (1864) and Wisner, Nebraska (1867) (Black, Early Members of the Reorganized Church, vol. 2, s.v. "Farley, Robert E.," citing Saints' Herald obituary, 1908).
Family Tree
FamilySearch KWJK-LL7, Robert Esam Farley (1816–1908). Wilford Woodruff's journal (1861) lists Robert Farley among sixteen South Weber followers of Joseph Morris, and the Woodruff Papers identify him with this Family Tree record. Born in Kent, England; emigrated 1854; in Nebraska by 1870; died at Wisner, Nebraska, in 1908. Identified by editor (Wilford Woodruff Papers; FamilySearch).
Connected names on the roll
Parson, John; Farley, Mary Ann; Farley, Eliza; Farley, Mary

What the sources say

Called by name to settle his affairs and move to South Weber with John Parson (Revelation No. 46, Weber, February 12, 1861; Spirit Prevails, pp. 60–61). In the Utah War call-up of 1857 he and Parson served as privates in the same platoon of a Weber District militia company mustered at Ogden, he from October 20 and Parson from November 9 (Utah Territorial Militia Records, series 2210, Utah State Archives), and in July 1860 they were next-door neighbors near Ogden, both tanners (1860 U.S. census, Weber County, p. 155). The Morrisites' bugler: he kept sounding the bugle under fire as the fort surrendered on June 15, 1862 (Spirit Prevails, p. 7; Anderson, p. 137). He moved from Utah to Omaha in 1864 and to Wisner, Nebraska, in 1867, and joined the RLDS Church in 1870 (Black, Early Members of the Reorganized Church, vol. 2); a descendant's family tradition of a Farley who moved to Nebraska and joined the RLDS Church fits him (see note 9 on the roll). On February 11, 1861, he was among the South Weber followers of Morris cut off from the LDS Church on the motion of the apostle John Taylor, seconded by Wilford Woodruff (Woodruff, journal, February 11, 1861, as “Robert Farley”).

Sources

  1. Anderson, C. LeRoy. Joseph Morris and the Saga of the Morrisites (Revisited). Logan: Utah State University Press, 2010. Pages cited: 137.
  2. Morris, Joseph. The Spirit Prevails. San Francisco: George S. Dove and Company, 1886. Internet Archive. Pages cited: 7, 60–61.
  3. Black, Susan Easton, comp. Early Members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 6 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1993. FamilySearch catalog
  4. Utah Territorial Militia Records, series 2210. Utah State Archives. See Documents.
  5. 1860 U.S. census, Weber County, Utah Territory.
  6. Woodruff, Wilford. Journal. Wilford Woodruff Papers
  7. Deseret News, June 25, 1862, p. 412.
  8. FamilySearch Family Tree, KWJK-LL7. Consulted November 3, 2026.

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Rogers, Eric Paul, ed. “Robert E. Farley (1816–1908).” Morrisite.org. https://morrisite.org/person/robert-e-farley.html. Updated November 3, 2026.

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