Coryell Co. TX - Josial Farrar Family

Submitted by Bobbie Ross  <bwross@htcomp.net>

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                            JOSIAL FARRAR FAMILY
                                      
    The Farrar family has centuries of history in England before coming to
    America. Several generations stayed in Virginia, then began the westward
    movement. First to NC, then to Pontotoc MS where they were neighbors with
    the Ross and Thornton families. Jorial (or Josial) Farrar was a prisoner of
    the North in the Civil War. At the end of the war, after his release he
    returned to Pontotoc and married his neighbor's daughter, Mary Elizabeth
    Thornton. The Farrar and Thornton families came to TX about 1872 with a
    wagon train that included families from Pontotoc, Panola and Lafayette
    counties in MS. Upon reaching TX, the wagon train entered Bell County,
    where some of the families stayed, including the Thornton family who
    settled below Temple in the Wilson Valley, Little River area. Part of the
    Thornton family and part of the Ross family went on to the Indian Territory
    of Oklahoma into the Chickasaw nation. The Farrar family continued on to
    Coryell county where they chose land near Leon Junction. The Farrar family
    was blessed with eight children before Jorial died in a flu epidemic in
    1880. These children were: 1. Henry (1867-1943) married in 1895 to Martha
    A. Green; 2. Mary Elizabeth (1869-1945) married 1st to Dave Ross and 2nd to
    Alonzo Shirley; 3. Francis Marion (1870-1945) never married. He was blinded
    in childhood and broke horses for the public; 4. Margaret Artemisa
    (Mag)(1871-1956) married 1886 to Thomas Duncan Ross. 5. William Washington
    (1873-1936) married Sallie Dutton; 6. Emma Virginia (1876-1925) married
    Anderson Green; 7. Mamie Louella (1878-1880) and 8. Josephine W.
    (1880-1880) the last two dying of the same flu that killed their father.
    This family is buried in Seaton Cemetery in Coryell County. By James Ross,
    great-grandson of Josial Farrar and Mary Elizabeth Thornton Farrar, taken
    from the book "Ross Record" by Bobbie Ross, 1989.

                                      
                    copyrighted by Bobbie Ross Sept.2000