PUTNAM COUNTY, TN - NEWSPAPERS - John and Mary Jane Farris Anniversary
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Putnam County Herald
Vol. XI
No. 29
Date: July 17, 1913
Page 1

MARRIED 65 YEARS

   Two miles south of this city, in the same residence in which they went
to housekeeping within a few days after their marriage, live John Farris
and his wife, Mary Jane Farris, two of the oldest and most highly
respected people of this county. John Farris is in his 86th year, while
his wife is in her 84th year. They were married sixty-five years ago,
near their present home and both belong to prominent pioneer families of
this county. When they were married the farm on which they live was in
White County, as Putnam county had not then been organized. John Farris
served gallantly throughout the civil war in the Confederacy army, and
is a Confederate pensioner. Both he and his wife are wonderfully
preserved. They live by themselves, and his wife does her own housework
and he attends to his work just as he did twenty years ago. They are a
devoted old couple. One of their sons, J. F. Farris is a merchant of
this city. Hon. Jere Whitson and Judge H. D. Whitson of this city are
nephews of Mrs. Farris.
   If there is another couple in Tennessee who have
been married sixty five years it would be interesting to know of it,
otherwise this old couple will claim the championship.

Contributor by Mitzi P. Freeman <SETraveler@tngenes.net>
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