Euphemia Farrar Lindley was born in 1822 in Ohio. She married Ira J. Lindley in 1843 in Indiana. They had six children together in ten years. Her husband Ira died in 1863 during the Civil War of malaria fever. She remarried in 1866 to Capt. Joseph B. Sockwell. Capt Sockwell passed away a few years after they married leaving her a widow again. She traveled west with her sons, Ira Malin Lindley, William Hall Lindley, and his wife, Susie B. (Moore) Lindley, along with her daughter Sallie and Sallie's husband, Julius Nicholas Muret in 1883. They homesteaded in the Ashland, Kansas, area. Her son-in-law Julius was shot and killed in a dispute over a Homestead in 1885. Her son Ira was also shot in the arm and survived during the same shooting. She moved in with her daughter Sallie and her two children to help her raise the children after their father's death. She remained active in church and community life until she died on December 8, 1904 at the home of her daughter, Sallie Muret, in Winfield, Kansas, having lived a long life of 79 years. She is buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas.