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Joseph Clark McFarlane

1 October 1874–22 August 1934

Born 1 October 1874 in Odgen, Weber County, Utah Territory. Son of James McFarlane and Martha Smuin. Set apart as a missionary in British Mission, 10 November 1897. Departed mission, 3 May 1900. Married May Pearl Richards, 18 June 1903; four children. Died 22 August 1934 in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah.[1]


[1] Joseph Clark McFarlane entry, no. 781, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, Book C, 59, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (hereafter CHL); British Mission, Manuscript History and Historical Reports, 1841–1971, 3 May 1900, 2, CHL; Notice, Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star 62, no. 20 (17 May 1900): 314; Utah, Probate Court, Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887–1939, Marriage Licenses, no. 1698–2103, 1903, 18 June 1903, license 1863, DGS 100598241, FamilySearch Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City (hereafter FSL); Utah State Department of Health, Utah Death Certificates, 1904–1951, Death Certificates, 1904, Weber County, 6 Aug. 1904, file no. 264, microfilm 2229072/DGS 4120969, FSL; “Jos. McFarlane and Wife Dead in Rail Crash,” Ogden (UT) Standard-Examiner, 22 Aug. 1934, 1.