One thing you could do is contact the cemetery of where they are buried & ask for a copy of their burial records. Then contact the funeral home & do the same. And then by this time you will have where they died at (if you don't know already) & get their death certificates. Alli Debihula@aol.com wrote: > Hi, My name is Debi Smallwood Brimmer and my Farris line is through my mother > and my brickwall is on William O. Farris. I have found tons of info about the > Rings...next to nothing about William O. > > William O. (Oat, Otis, Oade?) Farris, b. 1872 (Saltville, VA), d. 1953 > +Mary Ella (Ellen?) Ring > children were: Bob, Harry, Charlie, Dolyn, Lolyn, Anna (married William > Carroll), Flora, Gaye, Ida and my grandfather, Willie Russell Farris > Willie Russell b. 1-17-1905 , d. 1980 > + Lydia Margaret Keene > children: Edward Paul, Albert, Ida, Ella Lou, Ralph, Otis, and Yvonne > Christine (my mother) > > William O. and Mary Ella are buried in the Ring Family Cemetary, Russell > County, VA. I don't know whether William was born in Russell, Smyth or > Washington County. > > Family rumours say that William's parents were not married but had the same > last name. His mother is supposed to have died around 1930 and his father is > rumoured to have gone to Texas. > > I just know that one of you wonderful Farris searchers has this brickwall just > ready for me to knock down! Thanks, Debi > > ==== FARRIS Mailing List ==== > You may search the Farris-L archives on the Rootsweb web site at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > In the surname field, type in Farris