Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Farmer, John T. 1815 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN T. FARMER was born in Giles County, Tenn., July 7, 1815, and came with
his parents to Lauderdale County in 1819. His father, Thomas Farmer, died here
in 1804, at the age of seventy-two years.

  The subject of this sketch was partly educated at the Florence common schools:
moved to Pulaski, Tenn., in January, 1837, engaged in the boot and shoe
business, and remained there four years. From there he returned to Lauderdale
County, and in 1852 to Florence, where he had charge of the bridge spanning the
Tennessee River. The bridge blew down in March, 1854, and Mr. Farmer kept a
ferry for a very few months. In January, 1885, he purchased the livery business
of McKee & Co., and has since conducted it in a successful manner.

  Away back in 1836, Mr. Farmer joined Colonel Ackland's Mounted Volunteers, who
were employed against the Creek Indians in Alabama until the treaty of peace was
signed. In 1864 he entered the Confederate service as a member of Captain
Bonner's Company, Hardy's Battalion, served to the close of the war, and was
paroled at Talladega, Ala., after which he returned to Florence and resumed
livery business.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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