I, Mary Eliza Etherington McFarland was born July 19, 1862 at West Weber, Weber County, Utah. I am the daughter of Thomas Etherington and Sarah Wheeler Etherington. The first of my fathers family to be come a member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was John Etherington, who was a church warden in the church of England before he joined the LDS church. My Father Thomas Etherington came to Utah September, 1855 with his father John Etherington when he was a boy of 17 years. He was then a member of the church of L:atter-Day Saints and held the Aaronic Priesthood. They remained faithful and true to their death. My mothers father, John Wheeler embraced the same gospel about 1840 through the teachings of Joesph Fielding one of the first missionaries of England.

My parents first settled in Slaterville, Weber County, Utah in the spring of 1862. The water in the Weber River overflowed it's banks and covered my Fathers farm and it was necessary for them to move over the river into the West Weber Ward where a temporary home was built and I was born the following July 19, 1862. After the high water my parents moved back to Slaterville and remained there for about 5 years returning again to West Weber where they lived the rest of their lives.

I was baptized July 7, 1870 by my father Thomas Etherington and confirmed by William Barton. My father being a farmer and a stock raiser, an active man in both church and commercial circles, and my mother a quiet even tempered woman. I was obliged to leave my mother with housework and do considerable work outside. I was the third child of a family of 12 children nine girls and 3 boys. I was taught the virtue of economy and how to utilize ways and means of making a living. I was educated in the public schools and attended the Sabbath Schools and meetings. I was married to James Rankin McFarland April 13 1882 in the endowment house at Salt Lake City by Daniel H. Wells. I have labored as teacher in the Relief Society 24th of June 1909 acting until June 1911. I was then chosen as counselor to Harriet Hadley and worked in that position until April 1927 making 17 years of service in the relief society.

I have a family of 9 children. 8 living the second one Sarah Jane died at the age of 14 years. I am comfortably situated in the West Weber Ward and my time is taken up in caring for my family and assisting in Relief Society.

The temporary home of herd house as it was called was just across the street from the Thomas Charlton home. It belonged to John Etherington, Thomas Etherington and my Uncle George Stanger. The first summer after being married I went with my husband in the mountains to red rock just west of Monte Cristo. We took our herd of cows and we milked them and I made butter and delivered it to W. H. Wrights and Sons mercantile store in Ogden, Utah once a week. When we came from the canyon in the fall we moved to the present sight and built a 3 bedrooms and have remained here all my life. In my later years I have made a lot of quilts and have given many of them to my children and grandchildren.