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JONATHAN T. FARELL.

    Jonathan T. Farell was born in Forsyth County, Ga., Feb. 4, 1829. His father
was one of the pioneer settlers of North Georgia and rendered service in the war
of 1812.

    When a very young man, Jonathan Farell began the study of Pharmacy at
Charleston, S. C., later, en-route to Rome, Ga., to establish a drug store, he
visited his brother, Dr. William Farell, a Physician at the State Sanitarium.
Here he met Miss Martha Moore, daugther of William Boiling Moore, first steward
of the Sanitarium. In 1857, they were married at Midway, Dr. Samuel K. Talmadge,
of Oglethorpe College, performing the ceremony.

    At the beginning of the Civil War, Mr. Farell was assigned to the Apothecary
department and located at Staunton, Va., where he served about two years. In
1865, his drug business being practically ruined by the war, he accepted a
position at the State Sanitarium, where he remained for forty three years,
serving that Institution faithfully till he resigned on account of approaching
old age. At his resignation from this Institution a local paper commented on his
service as follows:

    "Mr. J. T. Farell, who has served the State of Georgia forty three years at
the Sanitarium as a Supervisor, has resigned. No man ever made a better or more
honorable record than has Mr. Farell, and no man ever had more implicit
confidence imposed in him by those officially above and under him. He has grown
old in the service of the State and in all the long tenure of office there has
never been even a complaint. The comfort and care of these unfortunates under
him, was regarded as a Christian duty and he felt a strong responsibility
resting upon him at all times. He leaves the Institution with a record of
faithfulness that has never been surpassed by anyone."

    At times, Mr. Farell wrote for the papers, his articles setting forth
subjects of the day with that rare judgment and optimism for which he was
sought. In him were asembled those high qualities, intellectual and moral, which
constitute excellence as a man, a Christian, and a philosopher.

    After leaving the Sanitarium, Mr. Farell engaged in the mercantile business,
in Midway, for about nine years. He died at the age of eighty four years,
respected and loved by all who knew him. He remained active and able to attend
to his business, personally, until a few months previous to his death.

    Mrs. Martha Moore Farell survived him by two years, dying at the age of
eighty-two. Mrs. Farell was a sister of the late Jerry N. Moore, editor of the
"Union Recorder," and Mrs. Jerry Fowler and Mrs. Emma Lane and a half sister, of
the late Walter and Richard Vaughn. Mrs. Farell's father, William Boiling Moore
was one of the first officials of the State Sanitarium, being the first Steward
and Supervisor. He received the first patient, commited to this Institution, and
Mrs. Farell remembered when there were only nine patients in the Sanitarium.

    Mr. and Mrs. Farell are survived by seven children, one having died in
infancy and one, Chas. W. Farell, having died in his fortieth year, also a large
number of grand children.

    The living children are Mrs. C. E. Bazemore of Milledgeville, Mrs. L. A.
Chapman, of Dublin, Ga., Mrs. B. H. Green, of Maysville, Ga., J. M. Farell, of
Atlanta, Ga., Ernest Farell of Eufaula, Ala., and Thomas T. and Arthur Farell,
of Midway, Ga.



Additional Comments:
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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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