This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farr, Birdsley, Ely Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/pdV.2ACEB/687 Message Board Post: I am looking for info on my gggrandfather, Freeman Farr, who was born in Vermont in 1818, and died in Parker, South Dakota in 1903. He was a Civil War survivor. I would like to find out who his parents were, so if anyone has a Freeman Farr in any history, please let me know. He was married to Caroline Birdsley - also of Vermont, I believe. They had a daughter, Emma Elizabeth Farr, who went to school in Fond du Lac, was a typesetter at the Fond du Lac Commonwealth newspaper during the Civil War, and who married a man named Edgar Ely.