CHILDREN:

Archibald, 17 Dec 1832

James, 25 Oct 1835

William, Jr., 14 May 1838

Mary Ann (Petterson), 22 Oct 1841

Robert McEwan, 19 Sep 1844

Janet, 8 Sep 1846

BIRTHDATE: 11 April 1804

Kilmany, Fifeshire, Scotland

DEATH: 10 January 1886

West Weber, Utah.

PARENTS: James McCormick

Janet Mitchell

PIONEER: Richard Ballantyne Co.

25 Sep 1855

SPOUSE: William McFarland

MARRIAGE: 9 Jan 1832

Dysart, Fifeshire, Scotland

DEATH SP: 27 Jan 1890

West Weber, Utah

Margaret McCormick was born on a farm called New Cairnie, Kilmany parish, Fifeshire, Scotland. Her father, James McCormick, was of Irish descent and her mother, Janet Mitchell, descended from some of the oldest families in Fifeshire.

Margaret, also called Maggie, was married on January 9, 1832, at Hawkleymuir, Dysart parish, Fifeshire, to William McFarland, a widower nine years her senior. She raised his eight-year-old son and fourteen-year-old step- daughter along with her own children. Her husband's mother, Mary Blair, also made her home with the family. They lived in the hamlet of Boreland in a stone cottage on the estate of tlle Earl of Rosslyn, where her husband was employed as a coal miner.

The McFarlands were among the first in the area to join the LDS Church, being converted by George D. Watt, the first convert baptized in England. Margaret's baptism took place in the North Sea on the 24th of June 1842. She taught her children Christian principles and supported her husband as he served as Presiding Elder of the Pathhead Branch of the Church until they were able to leave Scotland and join the Saints in Utah.

Margaret, her husband, six children, and a daughter-in-law, sailed from Liverpool on January 17,1855, on the ship Charles Buck. They crossed the plains in the Richard Ballantyne Company, arriving in Salt Lake City on September 25th of the same year. They first settled in American Fork where they had old friends from Scotland, moving to Weber County in the spring of 1859. Her husband and sons took up a large tract of land in what is now West Weber on the low lands south of the Weber River. Living conditions were very primitive and difficult for the first few years there. One of her greatest sorrows was the death of her youngest child, daughter Janet, that first winter in West Weber, due to exposure in a frigid unfinished cabin.

Margaret was a fine mother and homemaker. One of the grandsons said she was "the sweetest, cleanest smelling woman I ever knew. She went Quietly along, doing what she intended to, a natural born peacemaker." She passed away at her home in West Weber on 10 Jan 1886 at age eighty-one. She and her husband are buried in the Ogden City Cemetery.