Watauga County NcArchives Obituaries.....Farthing, Roby February 1, 1932 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bunny Horton phinhorton@bellsouth.net March 11, 2007, 6:23 pm Watauga Democrat Roby Farthing Died at Blountville, Tennessee Roby Farthing, 53 years old, former resident of Watauga County, died at his home in Blountville, Tenn., on Monday morning, February 1st, after having been seriously ill since a stroke of paralysis during last July. Funeral services were conducted from Blountville Baptist Church, and interment was in that city. Several relatives and friends fro Watauga County attended the rites. Mr. Farthing was reared in the Beaver Dam section of Watauga, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wiley H. Farthing. He moved to Tennessee about twenty-five years ago, and at the time he was stricken was engaged in photography at Pulaski, Va. He was well and favorably known thoughtout (sic) this county, where his many friends learned of his death with sorrow. Surviving are one brother and three sisters: Albert of Bristol; Mesdames Nine Truelove of Johnson City, Clay McBride, Limestone, Tenn. and Miss Jennie Farthing of Blountville. He was never married. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/watauga/obits/f/farthing499gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb