Dr. Johnathan Coggswell Farley
Rio Doce Colony, neighbor of Dr. John W. Keyes
Dr. Johnathan Cogswell Farley III
1837–1892
Birth 22 MAY 1837 • Alabama
Death 4 JUN 1892 • Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Married: 1 Jan 1863 • Cross Keys, Macon, Alabama, USA
Son of Dr Jonathan Cogswell Farley II
Emily T Blakey
1839–1900
Birth APR 1839 • Macon Co.unty, Alabama, USA
Death 1900
Daughter of Dr. Boling Anthony Blakey and Mary Elizabeth Taliaferro
Children:
1.
Gillian Farley
1867–1958
Birth 7 SEP 1867 • Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Death 12 NOV 1958 • Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Married: 1904 • Sherman, Grayson, Texas, USA
Divorced: Before 1911
Daniel Edward Parker
1872–1927
Birth 14 OCT 1872 • Hiwasse, Benton, Arkansas, USA
Death 3 JULY 1927 • Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA
Son of William Elijah Parker and Arminda Elizabeth Higginbottom
The Amarillo Globe. Amarillo, Texas Thursday, November 13th, 1958, page 16.
Mrs. Parker, 91, Rites Friday,
Funeral services for Mrs. Gillian Farley Parker, 91, early day teacher in Amarillo and other panhandle communities, will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in Blackburn - Shaw Memorial Chapel. Dr. Newton J. Robison, pastor of the First Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery. Mrs. Parker died Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. in Thurman's Convalescent Home here.
She was born September 7, 1867, in Brazil, where her parents had gone following the Civil War. The family moved to Texas several years later, living first in Vernon and then coming to Amarillo in 1887. Later, the family moved to a farm about 14 miles north of the present site of Hereford in Deaf Smith County. Mrs. Parker, a graduate of Sam Houston State Teachers College, continued the teaching career she had begun in the Amarillo schools. She taught at Old La Plata and in other schools in the Hereford area before her marriage to Ed Parker in January 1904. The couple moved to Sherman County, where they lived until 1909.
For a number of years thereafter, Mrs. Parker taught in the, Hereford schools. In her later years she lived in Arizona, California and Texas. For the past two years, she had made her home with a daughter, Mrs. J. E Dyer, who lives near Vega. Survivors include two other daughters; Mrs. Lucien Jones, 715 North Taylor, Amarillo, and Mrs. Eunice Sprott of San Diego, California;
a sister, Mrs. Lucian Parks of Laverne, California; four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Emily T. Blakey
Children:
1.
Lois Emily Parker
1905–1984
Birth SEPT. 1905 • Sherman, Grayson, Texas, USA
Death OCT. 15, 1984 • Texas, USA
2.
Eunice Elizabeth Parker
1906–2004
Birth 18 OCT 1906 • Texhoma, Sherman, Texas, USA
Death 26 JAN 2004 • Encinitas, San Diego, California, USA
3.
Lucian Farley Parker
1910–1985
Birth 13 MAY 1910 • Hereford West, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death 1 OCT 1985 • San Diego, San Diego, California, USA
2.
Algernon Sidney Farley
1870–1946
Birth 1 JUL 1870 • Brazil
Death 17 FEB 1946 • Riverside County, California, USA
Amarillo Globe. Times. Amarillo, Texas, Friday, March 1, 1946, page 2.
Sidney Farley, Pioneer of Amarillo, Dies in California.
Sidney Farley, 75 years old, who lived in Amarillo from 1890 to 1909, died recently In Indio, California, home of Mrs. Lucian Parks, a sister, according to a letter received today from Mrs. Parks by Mrs. Jeff MaGee, 2120, Tyler. Burial was in Redlands, California.
3.
James Bridgeman Farley
1871–1937
Birth 15 OCT 1871 • Brazil
Death 13 SEP 1937 • El Cajon, San Diego, California, USA
Married: 12 Sep 1912
Zemula "Zemmie" Clark
1881–1955
Birth 10 NOV 1881 • Thorp Spring, Hood, Texas, USA
Death 31 MAY 1955 • National City, San Diego, California, USA
Daughter of Addison Clark and Sarah Lucy McQuigg
4.
Lucien F Farley
1875–
Birth JUL 1875 • Texas
Death Unknown
Married:
Mr. Parks
Rio Doce
Founded by Colonel Charles Gunter, the Confederado settlement promised early success, but malaria, serious drought and lack of government-promised steamship service weakened the community. Some professionals in the colony migrated to Rio de Janeiro. Others moved to other settlements or assimilated into surrounding Brazilian life. Gunter died at the settlement in 1873.
KEYES
JOHNSON
DR DUNN
YANCEY
STORRS
DAVIS
FARLEY
MILLER
COGBURN
CARR
LINHARES
Snr. RAPHAEL
Col. C. G. Gunter's RIO DOCE Colony
Approximate Homesites
of some of the colonists
Gunter & McIntyre resided in Linhares but farmed on lake "plantations"
Letter to the Editor - Montgomery Advertiser By Dr. John W Keyes noting the location of his neighbors on the lake. Dr. Farley and son (Syd) are listed.
Excerpt from the Julia Keyes Diary:
Oct 31 1867
Some of our friends are so far from us we see very little of each other, but we hear they are all doing well and are happy. Dr. Farley has a more desirable situation than any of the emigrants. He bought a good house near Senhor Raphael. This house - in which he was very comfortable, was burned down a few weeks since. The palmetto catching fire from the stove pipe which passed through the roof. Mrs. Farley was cooking dinner and had irons on the stove. Senhor Raphael took them to his house while they are building a new one, the Brazilians work faster there than they do here. I know - for we hear that everything their looks as if people were living. Senhor Raphael has several houses. St. Amelia on the Lake is one of them and from all accounts, he has all the comforts of life around him and takes pleasure in assisting his American neighbors.