Washington Co., AR - Biographies - Jasper Farmer *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: The Goodspeed Publishing Co Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************** Jasper Farmer is a well-to-do citizen of Washington County, Ark., and was born near where he now resides in February, 1840, being a son of William and Eliza (Putnam) Farmer, who were of English descent. The father was a Tennesseean, born in 1816, and grew to maturity in Indiana, but was married in Fulton County, Ill., in 1836, and soon after removed to Arkansas, dying in Franklin County in 1865. His wife was a daughter of R. Putnam. who served in the Black Hawk War, and who located in Indiana when a boy, and in 1836 came to Arkansas, after a short residence in Illinois. He died in Washington County. Mrs. Farmer became the mother of one daughter and four sons: Jasper, Stacy, Isaac N., J. M. and William R. She is yet living, and resides on the old home farm with her daughter Stacy. Jasper Farmer's early days were divided between attending the common schools and assisting his father on the farm, and he remained under the parental roof until the breaking out of the late war, when he (in 1862) enlisted in the Confederate service, but at the end of four months returned home, where he was married in 1878 to Martha Woolsey, a daughter of W. T. Woolsey, and located on the farm where he now resides. He is a thrifty and progressive tiller of the soil, and his dealings with his fellow men are above reproach.