The William Faris that married Agnes Cowan was born in Ireland about 1747 and died in York county SC in 1805 Jack FAris -----Original Message----- From: HogsInFL@aol.com <HogsInFL@aol.com> To: FARRIS-L@rootsweb.com <FARRIS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 1:16 PM Subject: [FARRIS-L] Re: FARRIS-D Digest V99 #62 >Regarding inquiries on William Faries/Farris > >I also have the same information that William married Agnus Cowan. This was >given to me by an Aunt of my husbands, so don't know where she got it. > >A William J. (could be T.) Faris appears in the 1870 South Carolina Census .>He is listed as 63 years of age and birth place of Ireland There is also a >William Faris age 30 with a birth place of S.C. His wife is Amanda 27 with a >child named Eliza J. who is 1. > >There is also listed a Robert M. Faris age 67 (brother of William?) born S.C., >Sara J. 26 keeping house and two children Isaac C. 6 and William S. 5. > >Robert Miller Farris is my husband's line. He had a son named Thomas >Jefferson Farris/Faris who had a son named Robert Thad Farris who was born 10 >April 1861. He is my husband's great grandfather. He lived in Arkansas in >the 1880s married Alice elvira Whitfield and had eleven children. They then >went to Oklahoma around Roff Oklahoma where he passed away in 1940. > > >==== 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 > >