This category is about the life of Jacob Farr, first Farr in Wilkes County, Georgia, after the American Revolution.
Today we drove over to Opelika, Alabama, to survey the cemetery at Mt. Olivet Primitive Baptist Church to visit the grave of my Third Great Grandaunt, Mary Farr (Jinks Chafin). Mary was born May 17, 1812, the tenth child of John and Jollery “Polly” (Brooks) Farr in Warren or Columbia County, Georgia. It is unclear…
Some of the best resources I have in my library are those published by Daniel M. Crumpton of Warren County, Georgia. Any serious genealogist with ties to Warren County should own these books or have access to them through libraries. I searched in these books for information on my wife’s family and stumbled across information…
The first Farr that I can document as our ancestor is Jacob Farr (sometimes spelled Pharr). Jacob Farr appears in Wilkes County, Georgia, in 1784, immediately after the American Revolution, and he was granted acreage in Washington and Wilkes Counties. On his Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grant located in the Georgia Archives, the Land Grant…