James W was age 33 and Elizabeth age 28 when they moved to Webster Co., Missouri. According to one family record, William Jackson Farr, their fifth child was three weeks old at the time, thus arriving in Missouri in 1853, two years before Webster County was formed from Greene and Wright Counties. The family lived on the same Farr farm as John Woods and their father and mother, Samuel and Elizabeth. They had the misfortune of losing their little son, Samuel Galatin Farr, age 2 years and 4 months only two months before James W. died. They were both buried in the Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, near the Farr farm, which they attended from the time they arrived in Webster County.
When James W died, Elizabeth decided she should return to Maryville, so that her family, the Bests, who lived in the 7th Civil District of Blount County, could help her with her children. When she made the journey to Missouri, she had five small children. When her brother, Jack Best, rode horseback to Missouri to help her return to Tennessee, she had eight children, the last two very small twin baby girls, Cordelia and Cornelia, the later dying at age four in Tennessee.
Elizabeth died on 9th of August 1885, at the age of 60, and was buried at Carpenter's Campground Cemetery, seven miles from Maryville.
James W was age 33 and Elizabeth age 28 when they moved to Webster Co., Missouri. According to one family record, William Jackson Farr, their fifth child was three weeks old at the time, thus arriving in Missouri in 1853, two years before Webster County was formed from Greene and Wright Counties. The family lived on the same Farr farm as John Woods and their father and mother, Samuel and Elizabeth. They had the misfortune of losing their little son, Samuel Galatin Farr, age 2 years and 4 months only two months before James W. died. They were both buried in the Pleasant Hill Methodist Church Cemetery, near the Farr farm, which they attended from the time they arrived in Webster County.
When James W died, Elizabeth decided she should return to Maryville, so that her family, the Bests, who lived in the 7th Civil District of Blount County, could help her with her children. When she made the journey to Missouri, she had five small children. When her brother, Jack Best, rode horseback to Missouri to help her return to Tennessee, she had eight children, the last two very small twin baby girls, Cordelia and Cornelia, the later dying at age four in Tennessee.
Elizabeth died on 9th of August 1885, at the age of 60, and was buried at Carpenter's Campground Cemetery, seven miles from Maryville.
Family Members
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Frances Elizabeth Farr Thompson
1844–1878
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Rev John Harrison Farr
1846–1905
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Mary Jane Farr Taylor
1848–1946
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James Henderson Farr
1850–1926
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William Jackson Farr
1853–1929
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Martha Naomi Farr Thompson
1855–1935
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Samuel Galatin Farr
1857–1859
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Cornelia C. Farr
1859–1863
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Cordelia Aglentine Farr Baumgardner
1859–1934
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