Sonoma County CA Archives Biographies.....Farmer, William 1800 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Farmer, William. This worthy old settler was born in Anderson county, East
Tennessee, on September 1, 1800. Went from Anderson to-Knox county in 1807. He
resided in these counties till 1818, when he, with his parents, moved to Marion
county in the same State, where the subject of this sketch lived until 1826,
when he went to Meigs county, East Tennessee, where he made it his permanent
home till 1837; then emigrated to Cass county, Missouri. From this place, on May
12, 1857, he came to California, crossing the plains, accompanied by his family,
and arrived in Sonoma county, on October 10th of that year, and at once settled
in this township on his present farm, where he has since made a permanent
residence. He married Miss Nancy Hudson on March 13, 1823, in Marion county,
Tennessee. She was a native of Bledsoe county in that State, and born August 15,
1804. She died at her home in Sonoma county on March 27, 1867. Mrs. Mary Wilson,
born January 5,1824; Mrs. Rebecca Wilson, born November 21, 1825; John H., born
January 28, 1828; E. T., born August 1, 1832; C. C, born March 4, 1837; William
H., born April 19, 1840; J. A., born February 3, 1844, and Malinda, born June
29, 1850, are the names and births of their living children. They have lost two
sons and one daughter.

Additional Comments:
Santa Rosa Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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