Edward Franklin Dawn and his 2nd wife, Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope Dawn, the parents of Rosalind Virginia Dawn, migrated to Knox Co., TN from Virginia between 1847 and 1850 determined by the fact that their son, Samuel M. Dawn, was their last child born in VA, about 1847, and their first child born in TN was Joannah Dawn in Aug 1850, four months prior to the December 1850 US Census.

The 06 Dec 1850 US Census of Subdivision 15, Knox Co., TN enumerated the household of 44 Y/O Edward J. Dunn (sic), an enumeration error. His correct name was Edward Franklin Dawn, a farmer born in VA. Edward had married his deceased first wife, Alias (Alice) Connally, on 05 Dec 1831 at Campbell Co., VA and she died there before 1840. Also living in Edward's 1850 household was his 38 Y/O 2nd wife, Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope Dawn, born in VA. Her deceased first husband was Willis B. Hope whom she married on 28 Jul 1828 at Lynchburg, VA. Their children were: James Willis Hope, born Abt. 1829 and John Hope, born about 1832. Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope married secondly Edward Franklin Dawn on 21 May 1840 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Also living in their 1850 Knox Co., Tennessee household was a mixture of children from Edward's two marriages: 17 Y/O Mary J. Dawn, born in VA; 13 Y/O Martha A. Dawn, born in VA; 11 Y/O Ann E. Dawn, born in VA; 9 Y/O Edward Franklin Dawn, Jr., born in VA; 7 Y/O William H. Dawn, born in VA; 5 Y/O Ferdinand F. Dawn, born in VA; 4 Y/O Emma C. Dawn, born in VA; 3 Y/O Samuel M. Dawn, born in VA, and 4 months old Johanna Dawn, born in TN.

An aside, the 1850 US Census of Richmond (Independent City) Virginia enumerated the household of 67 Y/O Joseph Venable Hardwicke, a retired tailor born in VA, and his 60 Y/O wife, Nancy Ann (Johnson) Hardwicke, born in VA. Also living in the household were their 22 Y/O son, George Willis Hardwick, a printer, and their 21 Y/O grandson, James Willis Hope, a tailor born in VA, who had apprenticed with his grandfather. James Willis Hope was the oldest son of Willis B. Hope and his wife, Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope, the 2nd wife of Edward Franklin Dawn. The 1850 US Census of Nashville, Davidson Co., TN enumerated the unmarried 19 Y/O John Hope, born in VA. He was the youngest son of Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope Dawn by her deceased first husband, Willis B. Hope and was the brother of James Willis Hope, the tailor, mentioned above.

The 1860 US Census of District 9, Bradley Co., TN enumerated the household of 28 Y/O John Hope, mis-enumerated as "John Hopper", a farmer born in VA, and his 22 Y/O wife, Mary Hope. Also living in the household were their two daughters: 4 Y/O Martha E. Hope and 1 Y/O Margaret Hope, indicating John and Mary Hope were probably married about 1855 in TN. Other residents of the household were John Hope's remarried mother, 48 Y/O Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope Dawn, and her second husband, 56 Y/O Edward Franklin Dawn (The Dawn name in the census was also mis-enumerated as "Dows"). The Dawn children living in John Hope's household were still a mixture from Edward Franklin Dawn's two marriages: 23 Y/O Martha A. Dawn (Note: Martha A. Dawn was probably a daughter from Edward Franklin Dawn's first wife, Alis Connally Dawn); 20 Y/O Ann E. Dawn; 17 Y/O William H. Dawn; 16 Y/O Ferdinand Finney Dawn; 13 Y/O Emma C. Dawn; 12 Y/O Samuel M. Dawn; 9 Y/O Ivard Dawn; 7 Y/O George V. Dawn; 6 Y/O Charles H. Dawn; 4 Y/O Rosalind Virginia S. Dawn and 2 Y/O Lariston B. Dawn.

Edward Franklin Dawn was listed on a Bradley Co., TN tax record in 1862 and by 05 Jul 1867, he had moved with his family to Whitfield Co., GA as he was registered there as a qualified voter post Civil War.

The 1870 US Census of Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA enumerated the household of 66 Y/O Edward Franklin Dawn and his 58 Y/O wife, Mary Elizabeth (Hardwick) Hope Dawn. Also living in the household were their children: 22 Y/O Samuel M. Dawn; 20 Y/O Johanna Dawn; 16 Y/O Charles H. Dawn; 14 Y/O Rosalind Virginia Dawn and 12 Y/O Lariston B. Dawn born in TN.

Although Rosalind V. Dawn was born in Georgetown, Bradley Co., Tennessee, the settlement of Dawnville, GA just across the Georgia border is named after her family. A 10 Dec 1975 article in the Citizen-News, Dalton, GA newspaper indicates that the old settlement of Dawnville, located in the northwestern corner of Georgia, was named for the Dawn Family. It is located northeast of Dalton, GA between Caohulla Creek and the Conasauga River on the wagon road used for commerce and travel connecting Dalton and the mountains to the north.

Rosalind Virginia Dawn married Charles Thomas Farrar on 03 Jul 1873 during his employment at a sawmill owned by his first cousin, William Baker Farrar, in Whitfield Co., GA.

The 17 Jun 1880 US Census of Graysville, Catoosa Co., GA enumerated the household of 26 Y/O Charles Thomas Farrar, a sawyer in a local saw mill who was born in Evergreen, VA, and his 23 Y/O wife, Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar, born in TN. Also living in the household as a "boarder" was 45 year old William Baker Farrar, " local lumber dealer". He was Charles' first cousin from Evergreen, VA and the owner of the lumber saw mill where Charles was employed. Also living in the household were their children: 6 Y/O Maye Hardwick Farrar born in Dawnville, Whitfield Co., GA; 2 Y/O Thomas Bennett Farrar (b. 29 Oct 1877 Cleveland, Bradley Co., TN [Reference: Farrar Family Bible] - d. 19 Apr 1888 Woodlawn, Jefferson Co., AL [Reference: Farrar Family Bible]) and 10 months old William Charles Farrar, my grandfather.

Interestingly, the 07 Jun 1880 US Census of Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA also enumerated the household of the permanent home of lumber dealer and sawmill owner, 44 Y/O William Baker Farrar. (Obviously, when William Baker Farrar was working at his sawmill in Graysville which at the time was probably a 25-30 mile trip from Dalton, he boarded with his cousin, Charles Thomas Farrar.) Also living in William Baker Farrar's Dalton 1880 home were his 38 Y/O second wife, Mollie Agnes (Fleshman) Farrar and their children: 14 Y/O William Rosser Farrar (by his first wife, Louisa Rosser (Dawson) Farrar; 12 Y/O Nannie S. Farrar; 11 Y/O Ezekiel Buford Farrar; 8 Y/O James Kirkpatrick Farrar; 6 Y/O Henry Baker Farrar and 2 Y/O Floyd Felton Farrar.

Between 04 Jun 1881, the birth date of their son, Ogden Shelby Farrar, in Dalton, Whitfield Co., GA, and 16 Jan 1884, the birth date of their son, Stephen Baker Farrar, in Cedartown, Polk Co., GA, Charles Thomas Farrar and his family began to migrate further southward with stops in Cedartown, Polk Co., GA where as noted above their son, Stephen Baker Farrar, was born on 16 Jan 1884. Their next stop was Tallapoosa, Haralson Co., GA where sadly their 1 Y/O son, Stephen Baker Farrar, died on 30 Jun 1885 and where their daughter, Jimmie Oden Farrar, was born on 05 Nov 1885. Charles and his family continued their migration and arrived in Woodlawn, Jefferson Co., AL (later to become part of Birmingham) about 1888 as their son, Thomas Bennett Farrar died there on 19 Apr 1888 and their son, Sam Cross Farrar, was born there on 15 May 1888. (NOTE: All birth and death dates confirmed by the Farrar Family Bible). Charles Thomas Farrar's first recorded employment in the Birmingham area was at the Sloss Furnace repair shop in 1888 (The Sloss Furnace is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama that operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971). By 1889, Charles went into the familiar business of lumber dealing and was the foreman of Hughes Lumber Yard in Birmingham but gravitated to the more lucrative job of working for the railroads. In 1890 he was a "locomotive fireman" for the "Georgia Pacific Railroad" By 1896 he was a "locomotive engineer" for the renamed "Southern Railway" and continued to work for the railroads most of his remaining life.

The 1896 Birmingham City Directory records William Charles Farrar, a Southern Railroad engineer, and his wife, Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar, living in Avondale at the address, “2d ave A’dale” (Avondale). Avondale, at the time, was the site of a very large cotton mill and its accompanying company owned community and store. Avondale was located closely to the Sloss Furnace repair shop where Rosalind's husband worked in 1888.

I have not been able to locate the Charles Thomas Farrar family in 1900 US Census.

The 1900 Birmingham City Directory recorded Chas T. Farrar as an “engineer Southern Railroad” and his residence was listed as “2d ave A’dale” (Avondale). He had remained a “railroad engineer” but “Southern Railroad” was operating “Georgia Pacific Railroad" after 1894.

The 1910 US Census of Birmingham, AL enumerated the household of 59 Y/O Charles Thomas Farrar, a railroad engineer born in VA, and his 53 Y/O wife, Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar, born in Tennessee. Also living in their household were their children: 20 Y/O Dawn Franklin Farrar, a pressman (printing); 16 Y/O Sybley John Farrar; 14 Y/O Enoree Yvonne Farrar and 12 Y/O Edward Larston Farrar.

Rosalind lived in Birmingham, AL from 1885 until 1933 and like many urban women of her era she was a housewife with a large family.

The 1920 US Census of Birmingham, AL enumerated the household of 69 Y/O retired Charles Thomas Farrar. Inexplicably, his 63 Y/O wife, Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar, is not enumerated in the 1920 household. Their children living in the household were: 30 Y/O Dawn Franklin Farrar, a printer; 21 Y/O Edward Larston Farrar; 27 Y/O Sybley John Farrar, a railroad pipefitter; 25 Y/O Willie (Schwend) Farrar, wife of Sybley John Farrar and 5 Y/O Elizabeth Farrar, daughter of Sybley and Willie Farrar.

The 1930 US Census of Birmingham, AL enumerated the household of 79 Y/O retired railroad engineer, Charles Thomas Farrar, and his 72 Y/O wife, Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar. Also living in the household were their two sons: 40 Y/O Dawn Franklin Farrar, an automobile salesman; and 37 Y/O Sybley John Farrar, a pipefitter for a Steel and Iron Company and Sybley's 36 Y/O wife, Willie (Schwend) Farrar, and their two children: 15 Y/O Elizabeth Farrar and 8 Y/O Virginia Farrar.

Rosalind Virginia (Dawn) Farrar died on 14 Feb 1933, four days before her beloved husband's death.

Besides the children listed below, there is one mentioned in the Farrar Family Bible whose Cedartown, GA grave site cannot be located: Stephen B. Farrar, b. 16 Jan 1884 Cedartown, GA., d. 30 Jun 1885 Cedartown, GA. I searched for it in 1988 to no avail.

Obit:
FARRAR--Mrs. Rosalind V. Farrar, 76, died at her home, 1008 McMillan Avenue, Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday at the residence. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Luquire in charge. Surviving are her husband, Charles T. Farrar; six sons, Dr. W. C. Farrar, MD; Dr. ED L. Farrar, DDS; S. C. and D. F. Farrar, Birmingham, and S. J. Farrar, of North Carolina; three daughters, Mrs. Maye F. Gresham and Mrs. L. S. Tucker, Birmingham, and Mrs. A. C. Jackson, Jasper; 21 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Active pallbearers will be her six sons. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Women's Bible Class of the West End Methodist Church.

Rosalind Virginia Dawn Farrar was the 4th cousin 1 time removed of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) through her mother, Mary Elizabeth Hardwick Dawn. (See Find A Grave Memorials Mark Twain and Mark Twain.

Sources:
1) Farrar Family Bible
2) Birmingham, Jefferson Co., Alabama, City Directories 1888-1933

Bio by Gresham Farrar.