Finis was originally interred at the Old Walnut Hills Cemetery in the Lane Seminary Section. Son of William Duncan & Louvenia A Holloway Farr, husband of Ethel Rose Riley Farr, married June 5, 1901 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. Died at Lane Seminary in 1929 as a result of myocarditis.
In a newspaper clipping from July 31, 1929 – "CINCINNATI, O., July 31 – (A.P.) Dr. Finis K. Farr, 59, national historian and former worthy grand master of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was buried here today. He dropped dead Monday near Galva, Ill, upon learning the Burlington train on which he was a passenger had struck an automobile and killed three passengers. Dr. Farr was a noted fraternity leader and Bible lecturer, and was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. He was the author of the "Westminster Handbook on Sunday School Lessons." He was a native of Mound, Mo., and is survived by his widow, a daughter and one son."
In a newspaper clipping from July 31, 1929 – "CINCINNATI, O., July 31 – (A.P.) Dr. Finis K. Farr, 59, national historian and former worthy grand master of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was buried here today. He dropped dead Monday near Galva, Ill, upon learning the Burlington train on which he was a passenger had struck an automobile and killed three passengers. Dr. Farr was a noted fraternity leader and Bible lecturer, and was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. He was the author of the "Westminster Handbook on Sunday School Lessons." He was a native of Mound, Mo., and is survived by his widow, a daughter and one son."
Finis was originally interred at the Old Walnut Hills Cemetery in the Lane Seminary Section. Son of William Duncan & Louvenia A Holloway Farr, husband of Ethel Rose Riley Farr, married June 5, 1901 in Cleburne, Johnson County, Texas. Died at Lane Seminary in 1929 as a result of myocarditis.
In a newspaper clipping from July 31, 1929 – "CINCINNATI, O., July 31 – (A.P.) Dr. Finis K. Farr, 59, national historian and former worthy grand master of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was buried here today. He dropped dead Monday near Galva, Ill, upon learning the Burlington train on which he was a passenger had struck an automobile and killed three passengers. Dr. Farr was a noted fraternity leader and Bible lecturer, and was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. He was the author of the "Westminster Handbook on Sunday School Lessons." He was a native of Mound, Mo., and is survived by his widow, a daughter and one son."
In a newspaper clipping from July 31, 1929 – "CINCINNATI, O., July 31 – (A.P.) Dr. Finis K. Farr, 59, national historian and former worthy grand master of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, was buried here today. He dropped dead Monday near Galva, Ill, upon learning the Burlington train on which he was a passenger had struck an automobile and killed three passengers. Dr. Farr was a noted fraternity leader and Bible lecturer, and was a professor at Lane Theological Seminary. He was the author of the "Westminster Handbook on Sunday School Lessons." He was a native of Mound, Mo., and is survived by his widow, a daughter and one son."
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