When Rachel Farley was born in 1792, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, her father, Hezekiah Isaiah Farley, was 32 and her mother, Martha Tindle Burton, was 31. She married Henry Roper on 4 October 1810, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Stewart, Tennessee, United States in 1850. She died about 1831, in Caswell, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 39.