Chilton County AlArchives Biographies.....Farley, John G. January 25 1835 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 15, 2004, 7:24 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) JOHN G. FARLEY, capitalist, of Verbena, was born near Hayneville, Ala., January 25, 1835, and was educated at the schools of Lowndes county. Leaving school at the age of sixteen he worked two and a half years at blacksmithing at Hayneville, Ala., and then entered the office of the Watchman in Hayneville, remaining six months, and then went to Benton, Ala., where he and I. A. Pruitt edited the Young American for a year; he then sold his interest and commenced clerking for Greenwood & Co., at Benton, Ala., and remained six years, and then in the spring of 1862 entered the Confederate service, enlisting in company A, Forty-fourth infantry, and served as a private six months, and was detailed as secretary to Gen. E. M. Law, and acted as such until the spring of 1864; and acted in the same capacity to Law's successor, Gen. W. F. Perry, until the close of the war. He then went to merchandizing at Benton, Ala., and carried on business until January, 1883, when he retired, but remained at Benton until March, 1885, and then moved to Verbena, Ala., and has since 1885 traded in real estate in Birmingham and Montgomery. Mr. Farley was married, first, in June, 1861, to Jodie M. Goff, by whom he had five children, all now deceased. He married for his second wife, October, 1877. Annie C. Dulany, by whom he had six children, of whom three survive, as follows: Viola C., John G. and Annie D. Mr. Farley is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 643 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb