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This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Sharon Williamson ==================================================================== A History of Watauga County, North Carolina John Preston Arthur Sketches of Prominent Families NOTE: These family histories are from the last 75 pages of A History of Watauga County, North Carolina, with sketches of prominent families by John Preston Arthur, Copyright 1915 John Preston Arthur. Page 299 Jordan Councill's Grandchildren.--Jesse's children were: 1. Sallie, who married Jesse Ray and lived on Old Fields Creek; 2. Nancy, who married Thomas Green and lived at the mouth of Meat Camp; 3. Elizabeth, who married Albert P. Wilson and lived on Cove Creek after the Civil War, when he sold the place to Hiram McBride, of Tennessee, and came to Boone, where his wife died. He now lives near Three Forks Baptist Church. 4. Lousia, who married D. B. Ferguson, of Meat Camp, and died when he was in the Civil War. Ferguson still lives in Catawba. 5. John, who died unmarried while in the Confererate army, as did also Jordan. Jordan Councill's children were James W., who married Mollie Cooke, of Sumter, S. C. These were the parents of J. D. Councilll, of Boone. Dr. William B. Councill, who married Miss Alice M. Bostwick, of Sumter, S. C.; George R. C. Councill, who married a miss Carter, of Yadkin Valley; Elizabeth A., who married Col. George N. Folk at Easter Chapel on upper Watauga River, Rev. Henry H. Prout officating. Benjamin Councill's children were, by his first marriage: Jacob M., who married Sallie Lewis, daughter of Jacob, who lived at the head of Hog Elk and was killed by Stoneman's men, March 28, 1865, at aged thirty-five years. Their children were: Mary, who married George W. Blair; Benjamin J., who married Blanche Hagaman, and Mattie, who married John Hardin, of Boone; Joseph C., who married in Texas, where he died; Sallie, who married Eben Smith, son of Jehiel; Elizabeth, who married Holland Hodges, both of whom are living at Hodges Gap, two miles west of Boone. By his second marriage Benjamin Councill had Jordan, who married Polly Horton; Benjamin, who married, first, a Miss Adams, and, second, a Miss Bradley; James, who married Sallie Horton, and Polly, who married James W. Horton, of Cove Creek. James W. Councill's children were; 1. Alice, who married Samuel Lenoir and still lives in Sumter, S. C., though her husband is now dead; 2. George W. (Bud), who died unmarried in Sumter, S. C.; 3. J. Dudley, who married Emma, daughter of Joshua Winkler, and lives in Boone; 4. Richard L., who married Cora Bryan and died in Boone in October, 1895; 5. Page 300 Sallie, who married Dr. L. C. Reeves, who died at Blowing Rock about 1899. She still lives there with two children. 6. Elizabeth, who married John Williams and lives near Three Forks Baptist Church; 7. John H., who died unmarried; 8. Walter, who died before reaching manhood. Dr. Wm. Bowers Councill's children were: 1. Jefferson B., a physician, who lives in Salisbury; 2. Judge W. B., who married Elizabeth Coffey, daughter of T. J. Coffey and wife; 3. Margaret, who married Stephen Boyden, of Salisbury. She is dead, leaving four children. 4. Emma, who married Jame, son of Henry Taylor, of Valle Crucis. His is dead, but she still lives at Hickory and Blowing Rock. 5. Isaac Lenori, who is unmarried and lives t Waynesville; 6. Jennie, who was the first wife of Finley Coffey of Manning, S. C. Jesse Councill's daughters were: Sarah, who married Jesse Ray; Nancy, who married Thomas Greene; Elizabeth, who married Albert P. Wilson; Louisa, who married kBurnett D. Ferguson. His two sons never married. They were John and Jordan, and both died in the Confederate army. Benjamin Councill's first wife was a Miss Mast. Their children were: Jacob, who married Sarah Lewis, of Hog Elk; Joseph, who married a lady in Texas; Sarh, who married kEben Smith and moved to Texas, where both died; Elizabeth, who married Holland Hodges and are still living a few miles west of Boone. Benjamin Councill's second marriage was to Tempe Shull, an aunt of Joseph Shull. Their children were: Jordan, who married Polly Horton and died in Lee's army in Virginia; Benjamin, who married a Miss Bradley, daughter of Dniel Bradley, of Brushy Fork, where he died, nd James P., who married Sarah Horton, daughter of Jack Horton, and lived at Vilas; sold out to Finley Holsclaw and moved to Limestone, Tenn., and Polly, only daughter, who married James W. Horton and lived at the old homestead on Cove Creek. Jordan Councill, Jr.--Was born at the Buck Horn Tree place, Boone, and married Sallie Bower, a sister of George Bower, of Ashe County. His son, James W., married Mary Cocke, of Sumter, S. C.; another son, Dr. William Bower Councill, married Alice Bostwick, of sumter, S. C.; George Page 301 Russeau married Annie Carter, of Caldwell County; Elizabeth, who married George N. Folk, noted lawyer, who lived at Boone where Dr. J. W. Jones now resides, but moved to Asheville shortly before the Civil War, where he entered into a copartnership with one of the Woodfins, but returned to Boone he made a speech to his men from the front of the store which stood on the site of the present residence of W. L. Bryan, and where Wallace, Elias and Rintils were merchandising. J. W. Councill was the first lieutenant. J. W. Todd, afterwards the distinguished attorney of Jefferson, was the first sergeant. Critcher Family.--Nathaniel R. Critcher was born in Grandville County, North Carolina, September 6, 1803, and married Cynthia A. Clarke, who was born in Orange County, North Carolina, August 9, 1804. They, with her mother and David and Daniel Clarke and Elisha Holder, moved to what is now Watauga in 1840, Nathaniel settling where Abe J. Edmisten now lives, Holder on Howard's Creek and Clark brothers at the mouth of Roan Creek, now Butler, Tenn. Nathaniel's children were: Builford A., Sarah j., William J., Nancy C., John C., Thomas A., all of whom are dead except Sarah J. Hodges, John C. Having been killed near Richmond, Va., in the Civil War. Guilford A. Was born in Orange County, North Carolina, December 29, 1852. In 1858 they settled where Charles L. Cook now lives, and where they both died. Thomas L. Critcher, the oldest living son of Guilford A., was born October 20, 1857. He married Nannie J. Wilson, daughter of Isaac, and she died December 20, 1910. He is a merchant, justice of the peace and civil engineer. He owns part of 640 acres granted to William Miller in May, 1887, and deeded to Nathan Horton May 20, 1898, the deed having been witnessed by Shadrach Brown and Hodges Councill. It is in Cook's Gap of the Blue Ridge in which Thomas, Bethuel and Jonathan Buck, William Miller, Nathan Horton, Robert Greene, the Coffeys, Hayes and Shearers have Page 302 been settlers, or through which they have passed on their way further West, following in the footsteps of the famous Daniel Boone. James and Alfred Brown, Henry Blair, Nathan Satterwhite, Samuel Brown, Adam Cook, have at various times owned an interest in this land, which could not be bought now for $10,000.00. It is through this gap that the Grandon Railroad is to pass on its way to Boone. Davis Family.--James Davis was first of this family, and he was born in England and emigrated to America. His son, James, married Nancy Fullbright. He was born and reared in Lincoln County, till Catawba was established, five miles northeast of Newton. James the second moved close to Miller's farm on Meat Camp in 1844 when William S. Davis was thirteen years of age. W. S. Married Sarah Blackburn November 30, 1854. The object James had in coming was to run the linseed oil mills for John Moretz. James Davis had four sons, Isaac and David, bth of whom died young; Smith, who moved to Texas, and James, father of William S. H. A. Davis was born in Catawba County July 17, 1840, but in December, 1845, moved to Watauga County with his parents, James Davis and his wife, who was born Nancy Fullbright, their parents having come to North Carolina from Pennsylvania. H. A. Davis was married January 23, 1868, to Mary A. Hodges, daughter of Wm. R. Hodges and Nancy Triplett Hodges, who were born in Watauga and Wilkes counties, respectively. May 17, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company D, 1st North Carolina cavalry, and was captured by the 16th Pennsylvania cavalry June 9, 1863; exchanged June 30, 1863; was wounded September 22, 1863, near Jackshop, Va. His wife, Mary A., born January 1, 1850, died December 5, 1875. James Davis, father of H. A., died August 30, 1859. Nancy Fullbright Davis, mother of H.A., died March 5, 1895. James Davis' parents were James Davis nd Delphia Mahaffa. Nancy Fullbright Davis' were Wm. Fullbright and Nancy Plonk. Nancy Triplett Hodges died in May, 1912. Wm. R. Hodges' parents were Jesse Hodges, who was murdered in 1864 by Thomas Roberts, of Johnson County, Tennessee; Polly Clawson died in 1863. Page 303 Dugger Family.--In 1793 or 1794 Benjamin Dugger came to Watauga County from YadkinElk, where a creek and mountin still bear his name. He entered land on Brushy Fork, near the present Holtsclaw settlement. His children were Selah, who married Laus Goodin; Daniel Dugger; Cora Ann, who married Samuel Burns; Susannah, who married John Whittington; Mary, who married John Calihan; David and William Dugger. David Dugger bought out the other heirs. The deed is dated November 1, 1815, and calls for two tracts on Brushy Fork. There were three Dugger brothers who came from Scotland to Yadkin Elk, having settled for a time near Petersburg, Va., Benjamin, Daniel and Julius. Ben stopped on Brushy Fork, Daniel went to Kentucky and Julius settled in what was then Carter County, Tennessee, near Fish Spring, where some of his descendants still live. It was from the Julius Dugger family that the Dugger forge and the beginnings of Cranberry forge started. David married Margaret Ernest and thsir children are: Henry, who married a Green; Polly, who married David Howell; Elizabeth, who married Jehiel Smith, and William, who married Unice Munday. William's children were: Henry, who never married; Franklin, who married Martha Presnell; David, who married Mary Munday; Elizabeth, who never married; John, killed in Civil War; William Eben., married Nannie Wilkerson; Margaret and Mary Jane, not married. The Eggers Family.--Landrine Eggers came from London to the eastern part of this State first and then to Ashe County. He was born in 1747 and died March 17, 1883. He was married, first, to a lady whose name has been forgotten, and, second, to Joanna Green, whose family lived near Three Forks Church and were members of that body. Children of first marriage have been forgotten, but those of the second are: Hugh, the date of whose birth and the name of whose wife are not now known, and one daughter, Lydia, who was born December 14, 1791, and married James Swift, who died January 8, 1858, leaving the following children: Franklin, born August 11, 1816; Elias, born February 5, 1818; Morgan, born October 23, 1819; James, born December 3, 1821; Martha, born January 1, 1824; Margaret, born August 26, 1826; Elizabeth, born June 20, 1828; Page 304 Wilburn, born October 7, 1831; Mary, born March 16, 1833; Rebecca, born April 15, 1835. Hugh's children were: Landrine, born September 10, 1805; Malinda, born February 11, 1802; Washington, born August 21, 1808; Nancy, born April 15, 1836; Jehiel S., born October 20, 1834; Martha C., born September 27, 1837, and the following, the dates of whose births are unknown: Cleveland, Abner and Joel. Landrine the second married Ellen McBride, daughter os Wm., of Rowan County, born August 5, 1800; died December 5, 1872. The children of Landrine the second were: Brazilla, born June 10, 1825, married Sarah Isaacs; Ransom, born January 5, 1827, married Rachel Isaacs; Hugh and Sarah, twins, born December 26, 1828, of whom Hugh married Alva Kilby, and Sarah, John Isaacs; Landrine the third, born November 18, 1830; Anna born July 21, 1832, married Franklin Reese; Richard, born February 1, 1834, married Elizabeth Reese; John, born December 2, 1835, married Martha Stout; Ellen, born January 16, 1839, married Maston Davis. Landrine the third married kSeptember 7, 1854, first, Sarah Ward, daughter of James Ward, of Watauga River, who was born November 26, 1834, died July 6, 1867. The children of the first marriage were: Sarah Ellen, born May 17, 1862, married Solomon Grogan. Landrine the third's second wife was Mary Potter. They were married March 8, 1868, she having been born March 15, 1831. Their children were: John L., born July 21, 1870, married, first, Alice Greer; second, Daisy Adams, and, third, the widow Woodring; Omer C, born August 14, 1873, died of diphtheria November, 1887; Luther D., born December 26, 1876, married Emma Jones, daughter of Rev. E. F. Jones, and lives at Post Falls, Idaho; Barton R., born August 17, 1878, died of diphtheria November, 1887; Carroll and Jehiel, twins, born May 30, 1881, died November 9, 1887, and were buried in same grave. ======================================================= NOTE: SOME KNOWN ERRORS IN THIS BOOK CONCERNING LANDRINE EGGERS - Thanks to Cindy Lowe ======================================================= With the widespread availability of the John Preston Arthur book, I would like to post here the some of the errors it contains regarding Landrine Eggers. For example: >From A History Of Watauga County, North Carolina by John Preston Arthur "The Eggers Family. Landrine Eggers came from London to the eastern part of this State first and then to Ashe County." Note: We know from the application for pension papers, filed by Landrine Eggers in the Ashe County Court on 10 November 1832 that this is incorrect. The papers state "He was born in New Jersey near the valley of Freehold and when he was age nine years old his father removed to the Highlands of New York in the neighborhood of Goshen." "He was born in 1747 and died March 17, 1833." Note: These dates are not correct. From the pension papers: "Now sitting Landrine Eggers of the county of Ashe in the state of North Carolina, resident being age seventy five years, the eleventh day of last March.." The statement was sworn to on the 10th day of November 1832, making his date of birth 11 March 1757. Also sworn to, on the same day, by Jesse Coffey and Bedent Baird: "We Jesse Coffey, a clergyman residing in the county of Ashe, and Bedent Baird of the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the applicant, Landrine Eggers who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be aged seventy five years.." Additionally, Landrine appears in the 1800 Census of Ashe Co. N.C. as male age 26-45, which concurs with his date of birth of 1757 and age of 43. Had Mr. Arthur been correct, Landrine would have been 53 and appeared as a male age 45+. Note: Declaration of Hugh Eggers, son of Landrine Eggers, signed in the presence of Benjamin Councill, Justice of the Peace, Watauga County, North Carolina 30 November 1852: "…my father, Landrine Eggers, dead on the 24th day of July 1837." Hugh’s declaration was followed by a statement, sworn under oath, of Gordon Councill’s in which he says, "Also I can further say that the statement made in the foregoing declaration by Hugh Eggers as to the date and time of the death of Landrine Eggers…..is according to the declaration set forth…". Additionally, Landrine appeared in person before Bedent Baird, Justice of the Peace, Ashe County North Carolina on the 16th day of February 1835 to correct an omission he had made in his original declaration, two years after Mr. Arthur said he died. "He was married, first, to a lady whose name has been forgotten.." Note: From the declaration of Gordon Councill in the Watauga County, North Carolina court on the 30th day of November 1852: "…and that I am well aware that Johanna Eggers which survived after him was his lawful wife and his only wife he ever had…" Mr. Arthur, like the DAR, may have confused Landrine with his brother William. William L. Eggers was christened at the Old Tennant Church in Freehold New Jersey on the 06th of May 1750, seven years before Landrine was born. A marriage may have taken place between that William, or another, and Elizabeth Slott at the Goshen Presbyterian Church on 25 August 1785. Thank you for this forum. Cindy Lowe lowe@frontiernet.net============================================ ============================================ Edmisten Family.--Wm. Wallace Dixon Edmisten was born on Mulberry Creek, Caldwell County, August 29, 1850. He was the son of James Edmisten and Mary Shull, a daughter of Phillip Shull, and they were married September 25, 1848. Their children were W. W. D. and Nancy Carolina, the latter of whom Page 305 married Frank Read. James Edmisten's father was William and his wife was Nancy Garner. William's father was also named William, and his wife was the widow of _________ Blair, born Sudderth, a sister of Abraham Sudderth. Her husband, _________ Blair, was killed at King's Mountain while fighting on the id of the British, and William Edmisten married her after the Revolution. She was then a young widow, but William had fought at King's Mountain, too, where two of his bothers, who were said to have been officers, were killed, but he and they had fought on the American side. These brothers were from Virginia. Elrod Family.--The first of this family came from France to Pennsylvania and thence to Davie County, North Carolina. From this State they have spread out to Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and South Dakota, Henry C. Elrod having been governor of the latter State a few years since. Conrad Elrod was the father of William, and died near the present Reformed Church, on the Blue Ridge. He was buried in a hollowed out chestnut log. William married Elizabeth Lowrance, and their children were: Chaney, who married Robert Greene, father of Judge L. L. Greene; Malinda, who married Asa Triplett; Henry, who married Sarah Brookshire; Alexander, who married Polly Sherer; Mary, who married Thomas Cook; Ann, who married Lot Greene; Hardin, who married Temperance Bradshaw; Rachel, who never married, and John, who married Elizabeth Brookshire. Henry Elrod moved to the Watts Farthing place when two years old, traveling over a trail, and having the household articles carried on pack horses for want of a road. He had two children, William and Louisa. William married Chaney Brookshire and Louisa married T. M. Cannon. William remembers that when he was eight years old, on September 27, 1856, there was a snow storm in Watauga County. He also remembers when a wagon was a rare sight in this section. He remembers when the buckhorn which had been nailed on the old oak tree when it was entirely covered by the bark. He saw this when he came to the old Musters before the Civil War. Top buggies Page 306 were even rarer than wagons, and James W. Councill had what was probably the first in the countt ub tge fifties. Henry Elrod was conscripted after he had moved in 1857 to the Flat Top Mountain, and taken to Camp Vance, after which he was transferred to Camp Mast, where he was captured. He died in 1885. Alex Elrod was captured by Stoneman, but, pretending to have rheumatism, was allowed to escape. Farthing Family.--Dudley Farthing was born in Virginia, April 6, 1749. He was the son of William Farthing and his wife, Mary. Dudley Farthing died in Wake County February 22, 1826. His wife was Annie, daughter of WM. Watkins and Phoebe, his wife. She was born July 4, 1747, in Virginia, and died February 13, 1812, in Wake County. Their children were: Phoebe, born November 15, 1778, and she married John Link, February 3, 1803; Mary, born July 3, 1780, and died March 22, 1826; William, born August 25, 1782, married Polly W. Hallyburton, February 9, 1804; John, born September 26, 1784, married Lucy Goss, first, who died April 9, 1827, and then Polly Amos; he died February 29, 1868; Reuben, born September 1, 1787, married __________; died August 14, 1834; Eliza, born February 22, 1790, and died August 3, 1790. The children of the Rev. William W. Farthing were: Dudley, born November 29, 1804, married Nancy Mast in 1831; he died July 8, 1895, and she September 22 1882; Patsy, born December 4, 1805, married Thomas Shearer, an uncle of Robert Shearer; they moved to Kansas between 1850 and 1855; Nancy was born February 21, 1807, married Joseph Brown and went to Missouri; Reuben P;, born June 28, 1808, married Sallie Brown, and died December 20, 1889; John Atkins, born July 21, 1809, married, first, Melissa Curtis, and, second, Keziah Farthing; William Brown, born December 20, 1810, and married Annie Kindle; Edward F., born April 30, 1812, and died May 3, 1812; Thomas, born May 9, 1813, married Ermine Hallyburton; Annie Watkins, born September 5, 1814, married Wm. Young Farthing, father of W. S. Farthing; Harriet, born March 22, 1816, married James Brown, and died May 16, 1897; Mary Hervey, born February 21, 1818, married Hiram McBride, died May 26, Page 307 1869; Abner Clopton, born October 6, 1819, and married Mary Narcissus Farthing; Paul, born April 17, 1821, married Rachel Farthing; he died in a Federal prison at Camp Chase in 1865; Stephen, born January 3, 1823, Married Margaret Adams, and died January 25, 1882. Dudley Farthing's wife was Nancy, daughter of John Mast and Susan Harman, and she was born May 18, 1809. Their children were: William Judson, born February 6, 1832, and went to Texas in 1859, where he died unmarried September 10, 1865; Susan, born July 12, 1833, and is yet alive; James Martin, born July 25, 1835 and was killed December 13, 1862, in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va.; Mary White, born January 9, 1837, married Newton Moore in 1860 and died May 11, 1914, in Virginia; Thomas Jefferson, born August 13, 1838 never married, died of pneumonia at Lynchburg May 21, 1862; John Young, born May 17, 1840, married Polly Farthing; Henry Harrison, born October 7, 1841, Married Sarah Catharine Baker November 29, 1872; Martha B., born August 24, 1843, died in infancy; Joseph, born August 9, 1844, died in infancy; Lewis Williams, born November 6, 1845, married Nancy McBride, daughter of Hiram; Sarah Carolina born January 31, 1849, married Warren Greene, first, and then Anderson Cable; Wiley Hill, born March 23, 1850, married rachel Louisa Farthing, sister of W. S. Farthing, and lives near Blountville, Tenn.; Nancy Emeline, born January 6, 1852, and never married. John Farthing wa a brother of Rev. William Watkins Farthing and a son of Dudley the first. He was born in Durham, then in Orange County, July 29, 1812, and in the fall of 1826 came with his brother, W. W., to Beaver Dams, but he lost his wife there and also his brother, W. W. John's first wife was Miss Lucy Goss, and he returned to Durham and married Polly Amos and came back to Watauga in 1831 and settled where Zionville now is, where he owned most of the land; The children byy his first wife were: William Young, who married Ann W. Farthing; Dudley, who married Sarah Wilson; Sherman, who was killed by a tree near Zionville just before 1840, thus preventing his expected marriage; Nancy, who married Wm. Ferrall; Rachel W., who married Paul Farthing, a Page 308 son of Wm. F. Farthing, a son of Wm. W. Farthing; Keziah, who married John A. Farthing, who lived where W. S. Farthing now lives; Lucy White, who never married; Anne, who married Caswell King in Wake County, was an infant when her mother died in Watauga, and was taken back by her father, John Farthing, and reared by Keziah Cozart in Wake County. In her old age she came agin to Watauga, where she died. The children by the second marriage were: Reuben, who married Ellen Wilson, first, and then a Miss Harman; Elijah, who married Amanda Oliver; John, who died when nineteen years of age; Sallie, who married John Adams. John Farthing's father was Dudley Farthing, who died in Wake, his wife having been Annie Watkins, whom he married February 2, 1778. The first Dudley Farthing had, beside William Watkins and John, the following children: Reuben, who married a Miss Hargus, his descendants still living in and near Durham.> The Farthings came originally from Wales to Pittsylvania County, Virginia, from which they went to Person County, North Carolina, where Annie Watkins was reared. The Rev. William Watkins Farthing was a minister and traveled some for the old Missionary Society of North Carolina, which antedated the kBaptist State Convention, and he was traveling and preaching when he first got acquainted with Watauga County. His sons, Reuben, John A;, Abner C. And Stephen J., wher ministers, the two youngest having been ordained under authority of Bethel and the two elder under tht of Cove Creek churches. Rev. J. Harrison Farthing, son of Abner C., is a minister, as are also Calvin S., son of Thomas; Robert Milton, a son of Calvin S., and he preaches in Tennessee, and Rev. L. Whitfield also preaches. Dudley Farthing was a son of Rev. W. W. Farthing; married Nancy Mast, a daughter of John Mast, who lived where Finley Mast now lives. He had been a member of the Ashe County court prior to the establishment of Watauga County, having been appointed in 1832 to fill out the term of Abram Page 309 Vanderpool, and from that time till the Constitution was changed in 1868 he was chairman of the Watauga Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. He presided with great dignity and administered his office with sound judgement and ability. No superior court judge who ever came to Watauga County presided over his court with more jestness, impartiality or legal learning than Dudley Farthing. He was elected county comissioner after 1868 and became chairman of the board. According to the recollection of his son, Col. Henry H. Farthing, there was reason to suspect that $1,000.00 of the county funds was missing, and Judge Farthing declared that at the next meeting that matter would be investigated. The court house was burned before that meeting and with all the records except Deed Book F. He was born November 4, 1804, and died July 8, 1895. He was just twenty-two years old when he moved with his father to Watauga county. It is said that when corn was scaarce he would not sell it for money, saying that a man with money could get it anywhere, but a man who had no money could get it only where he was known and his needs obvious. ;He lost little if anything by thus crediting his neighbors in distress. Dudley Farthing lived where Mrs. Susan Farthing lives now, in a frame house built about 1850, three-quarters of a mile southwest from Bethel Church. He and his wife are buried there, Stephen Farthing having inherited the W. W. Farthing home place and objected to additional interments in graveyard above the old home place. There is a graveyard which W. S. Farthing and others have jused for burial of their relatives east from the old Farthing graveyard. Rev. L. Whitfield Farthing was a son of Reuben Pickett and grandson of W. W. Farthing. R. P. Farthing married Sarah Brown, a sister of Thomas Brown, below Three Forks in 1831. Their children were: Thomas Brown, who was born in 1833 and married Celia Greene; William Watkins, who was killed at Brandy Station, Va., in the Civil War; James Hervey, who was born about 1836 and married Lucretia Farthing, but moved West, where they died; L. W., who was born April 18, 1838, and married Nancy Farthing in October, 1866; Joseph