1852 Obituary of John Newton Farmer, former resident of Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Pauline Mobley, 1/2005


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1852 Obituary of John Newton Farmer, former resident of Union Parish Louisiana

The New Orleans Christian Advocate
March 6, 1852
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Bro. McTyeire:  "By request, I take my pen to chronicle the life of Bro. John N. Farmer, 
formerly of Union Parish, La., who died in this city on the 2nd instant, aged about 
32 years.  His body sleeps on the Sierra Nevada." 

Nevada City, Calif.    Jan. 16, 1852    J.F. Blythe



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Note:
John Newton Farmer was born about 1820 near Downsville, the son of early Union Parish 
resident Mills Farmer and his wife, Susannah Wood. Mills Farmer was a soldier in the 
Louisiana militia during the War of 1812. He had moved to the Piney Hills of 
southern Union Parish, near Bayou D'Arbonne and the modern village of Downsville, 
about 1812. This makes the elder Farmer the second earliest known permanent white settler 
of what is now Union Parish (John Honeycutt, Sr. was the earliest one). 

John Newton Farmer participated in the early affairs of Union Parish while still a young 
man. In fact, he served as the first police juror for Ward 1 (the region including 
Downsville and southern Union Parish), serving for several years beginning in 1839. 
At that time, he was a mere 19 years old. In 1850, he lived in Calaveras County California, 
where he worked as a miner. 


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