Biographical Sketch of C. L. Farnsworth, Johnson County, Missouri,
Rose Hill township

>From "History of Johnson County, Missouri," by Ewing Cockrell,
Historical Publishing Company, Topeka, Cleveland, 1918.
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C. L. Farnsworth, a member of a prominent and honored pioneer family of
Johnson county, Missouri, is a prosperous and progressive farmer and
stockman of Rose Hill township.  He was born in Johnson county in 1872, 
son of C. L. and Nancy C. (George) Farnsworth.  The father, Christopher
L. Farnsworth, was a native of Greene county, Tennessee.  He came to
Missouri in 1854 and settled on a farm in Rose Hill township, Johnson
county.  There was a train of emigrants from Tennessee, came at that 
time.  Mr. Farnsworth went to Cass county, after two years in Johnson
county, to remain temporarily while homesteading a tract of land there.
He was in Cass county until Order Number 11 was issued, when he return-
ed to Johnson county to spend the remainder of his life on his farm,
engaged in raising Poland China hogs, Shorthorn cattle, and Cotswold
sheep, buying large numbers of each and feeding them for the market. He
became very well to do and the owner of many hundred acres of land.
Nancy C. (George) Farnsworth was born in 1831 in Greene county, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Farnsworth were the parents of ten children:
R. A., Blairstown, Missouri; Mrs. Louisa J. Fowler, Enid, Oklahoma; Mrs.
Helen Hall, Longton, Kansas; Mrs. Laura M. Parkhurst, Kinsley, Kansas;
Mrs. Lucy A. Parkhurst, Hollywood, California; Reason W., deceased; 
Albert A., Marble Hill, Missouri; Mrs. Ida F. Duck, Quick City, Miss-
ouri; Edna E., Blairstown, Missouri; and Cyrus L., the subject of this
review.  March 7, 1909, the father died.  Mrs. Farnsworth lived to a 
good, old age, her death occurring in August, 1917.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Farnsworth were held in the highest respect in Johnson county, where
they had so long and faithfully labored.  Cyrus L. Farnsworth attended
school at Lincoln Hall, where Cyrus Anderson was in charge as a teach-
er.  He recalls Reverend Toms, a pioneer preacher of the United Breth-
ren church, whom he often heard preach in the days of his boyhood.
There was open prairie then and the roads were at times impassable, so
that it was no easy task to attend church or school or for the teacher
and preacher to be at his post.  When he attained maturity, Mr. Farns-
worth farmed rented land and worked on his father's place until 1900,
when he purchased a small farm of 50 acres of land, on which he resided
one year.  He bought the P. G. Sanders place in 1901, a farm embracing
160 acres of fine farm land and moved there in the same year.  Since
then, Mr. Farnsworth has added to his acreage and is now the owner of
387 acres of land in Johnson county, a well improved, abundantly water-
ed, and conveniently located farm, on which he is raising high grade
cattle, Cotswold sheep, and Poland China hogs.  He has at present 109
head of splendid grade sheep.  He is an enthusiastic advocate of crop
rotation.  He has remodeled the residence recently and now has a beau-
tiful country home, surrounded by fine, old maples and a well kept blue
grass lawn.  The farm is well supplied with all sorts of farm buildings,
all ow which Mr. Farnsworth keeps in excellent repair.  In 1898, C. L.
Farnsworth was united in marriage with Cynthia L. Downing, daughter of
Hiram Downing, of Urich, Missouri.  To this union have been born three
children: Bonnie L., Jesse J. and Lillian C., all at home with their
parents.  Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth are highly regarded members of the
Christian church, of which he has been an elder for several years.  Mr.
Farnsworth is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.
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NOTE:  This family is related to the Kelly line which I am researching, 
Nancy C. (George)'s parents were Michael George and Nancy Kelly from
Greene county, Tenn.  If you have any Kelly information, please contact
me.  Thank you....Penny Harrell (Incog3678@aol.com)

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