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Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, Volume 5, 2nd edition

THE FARLEIGH FAMILY is extensively and favorably known in central Kentucky. 

William Farleigh, for many years a resident of Meade County, was a son of 

Andrew Farleigh and Letitia Swan, the former of English descent, and the latter 

of French origin. Andrew Farleigh was among the pioneers of Hardin County, 

where William was born in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and there 

attained his majority, and married Elizabeth Enlows, who was born in what is 

now La Rue County, near Hodgensville. They removed to a point called Little 

York, within the present limits of Meade County, in 1824, but the year 

following, on the location of the county seat, they removed to Brandenburg. 

William Farleigh became the first county and circuit courts, and his efficiency 

is duly recognized when it is remembered that he filled the office of circuit 

court clerk until his death, in 1865, covering a period of forty years' 

continuous official service, most of that time performing also the duties of 

county clerk. He was a perfect exemplification of the true gentleman, and his 

familiar, genial face came to be regarded as a requisite about the court house, 

and at his death was missed more than that of any man who has lived in the 

county.  He transmitted to the county a valuable legacy in the persons of his 

sons, two of whom are now honored residents of Brandenburg. Of their eight

children James La Rue Farleigh is the eldest. He was born in Hardin County,

Ky., 1820; received the elements of an English education in the schools of

Brandenburg; spent several years of his life in his father's office as

assistant or deputy clerk, and at the death of his father was appointed to

fill the unexpired term. He has been twice married; first, in 1843, to Miss

Mary E., daughter of John and Martha Murray. His second marriage took place

in 1850, with Jane Murray, daughter of Col. David R. Murray and Eliza

(Huston) Murray. He has one child by his former marriage, Martha E., wife of

Judge J. W. Lewis. The children of his second marriage are David William,

James Andrew and Mary Allen Fairleigh. Mr. Farleigh is a consistent member

of the Methodist Church, and the cashier of the Meade County Deposit Bank.

William Henry Farleigh, next to the eldest, died at Garnettsville, Meade

County, in 1868, leaving a family. Mary C. Farleigh, the third child of

William Farleigh, was born in 1825; reared and educated in Meade County, and

married Judge James Stuart in 1842, and in 1867 removed to Owensboro, Ky.,

where they both reside. Their son, W. A. Stuart, married a daughter of

Senator T. C. McCreary, and recently died, deeply mourned by all who knew

him. The fourth member of the family, Letitia, in 1848 married William W.

Wilson, who died in Meade County in 1854. She is still living, and resides

in the city of Belleville, Ill., with an only child, Singleton Wilson. She

is a useful, devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which she

attached herself in childhood, and was born in 1828. C. C. Farleigh, a

talented lawyer of Brandenburg, was born April 29, 1834, received a fair

English education, and, at the age of fourteen, began writing in the office

of his father, where he continued with slight exception until his father's

death, which occurred in 1865. He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and has

ever since applied  himself to his law practice. In 1853 he married Fannie,

daughter of Stephen Elliot, of Elizazbethtown, Kky., and reared a family of

four sons and two daughters. Thomas Brooks Farleigh resides in Louisville,

and is a lawyer of some prominence; served in the Federal Army during the

late war; went in as a captain, served through the war, and when discharged

was the colonel of the Twenty-sixth Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry.

Robert McClure Farleigh is a physician, and resides at Hopkinsville, Ky.;

served in the Federal Army through the war, first as an assistant, then as

surgeon in the Third Kentucky Cavalry. John Swan Farleigh, the youngest, is

now a widower, without living children, or any regular place of residence.





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