Biography of T. J. Farmer - Pulaski Co. VA


T.J. FARMER - son of George and Mary (MCDANIEL) FARMER, who were natives of
Pulaski county, was born in this county in 1844. In 1866 he married Martha
E. FULWIDER, who was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, in 1846. Abraham
and Maria A. (CONNERY) FULWIDER, her parents, made their home in Pulaski in
the year of her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. FARMER are the parents of: Minnie L.,
born November 2, 1866; Etta M., March 12, 1869; Jerry L, October 11, 1876;
Mary D., September 12, 1880; William R., April 19, 1882. On the 9th day of
September, 1861, in Newbern, T.J. FARMER enrolled his name among the
defenders of the sovereignty of Virginia within her own borders, as a member
of Company F., Fifty-Fourth Virginia Infantry. The regiment to which he was
attached was sent to Christiansburg, Montgomery county, thence to
Wytheville, Wythe county, then over the line into Kentucky, where they
shared in some heavy skirmishing, then back into Eastern Virginia, where
they were engaged in a hard fight near Suffolk. Back again by way of
Wytheville to Kentucky, the command shared in the campaign of the West for
some time, taking part in a number of heavy engagements. In 1864 they were
serving in Georgia, and at the battle of Peach Tree Creek, near Atlanta,
July 20, 1864. T.J. FARMER was made prisoner. He was sent with other
prisoners to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, and held there eleven months,
or until the close of the war. He has now under good cultivation a farm in
Newbern district, and his postoffice address is Dublin, Pulaski county,
Virginia.


Submitted by Janet Randell

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