Sandi has given me her permission to forward this bio to the list. Hope it helps someone. Susan Hurt -----Original Message----- From: Sandi Gorin <sgorin@glasgow-ky.com> To: KYBIOGRAPHIES@rootsweb.com <KYBIOGRAPHIES@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 6:33 AM Subject: BIOS #3221 THRU 3225 - FARRIS, CLOSE, WATKINS, BALE, ARNOLD >3221 LINCOLN CO - FARRIS, JOSEPH E - Farris Evans Graham Owsley Gilmore >#3221: Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., >1887, Lincoln County. JOSEPH E. FARRIS, farmer and miller of Stanford >Precinct in Lincoln County, was born in 1844 and is the son of William and >Elizabeth (Evans) Farris. His grandparents, William and Susan Ann (Owsley) >Farris, came to Lincoln County, Ky., in an early day and reared a family of >seven children, viz: Henry, Cyrus W., E. B. Farris, James W., John, Susan >(Gilmore) and William Farris. The last-named was born in Lincoln County, >where he grew to maturity and married Elizabeth Evans. He conducted a >hotel business for many years in Crab Orchard, after which he removed to >Somerset in Pulaski County, where he died in 1850. His wife was a daughter >of Josiah and Keziah Evans, and who died soon after the death of her >husband. They left a family of three sons: Henry Clay, Josiah E. and >Maurice Farris, all of whom are living. Josiah E. was chiefly reared in >Pulaski County, Ky., returning to Lincoln County in his young manhood, and >has engaged in agricultural pursuits with which he combined the milling >business being the proprietor of the Buffalo mills, near Stanford. He married in >1867 Miss Alice, daughter of Robert G. and Susan A. Graham, of Lincoln County. >They have been blessed with three children: Elizabeth, Robert G. and Maurice J. Farris. > Gorin Genealogical Publishing: > http://members.delphi.com/gorin1/index.html > >TIPS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Tips >KYBIOS: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/Bios >ARCHIVES: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >