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    1. [GA-Roots] Marriage of William J. Farr to Sarah M. Moore 1856 Screven County, GA
    2. Gregory Drexel
    3. Hi Wiley. Well, I finally found the marriage of a Farr to a Moore. >From Screven County Marriage Book "C", 1853 - 1869, page 32. WILLIAM J. FARR applied for marriage license to SARAH M. MOORE on 1 January 1856. The certificate of marrige was recorded by Alexander Kemp, Ordinary, Screven County, GA, 23 April, 1856. Marriage performed by William S. Moore, M. G., date of marriage 1 January 1856. Also, I don't know if I sent this or not, so am reposting. On a trip to the Screven County Court House, Probate Court, I found a loose sheet of paper just stuck in the Screven County, GA Marriage Book "C", 1853-1869, dated 15 July 1868. "Inventory of WILLIAM S. MOORE, Deceased, as shown by WILLIAM J. MOORE, Administrator. As follows: 630 acres, 1 cotton gin, 1 piano and bureau." That was all that was contained on that loose sheet. So that makes the card that I found of Dixon Hollingsworth's make a little more sense. It reads: FARR Book 12, P. 272, Ordinary's Office, Screven County. Date: 6-14-1871 It appearing to the Court that MARY FARR and JOHN FARR, minor children of W. J. FARR, and also WILLIAM MOORE, JOHN MOORE, and JIMMY MOORE, minor children of JAMES R. MOORE, deceased, are heirs and distributees of the Estate of W. S. MOORE, deceased, W. J. MOORE, Administrator, ordered that THOMAS B. MOORE, be appointed Guardian for each and every of the aforesaid minors. On a plat made for the Estate of James Young, Sr., in 1855, it shows that WILLIAM MOORE's property was adjacent to Hezekiah Evans and Charles Evans, and John Cameron and Mary Ann Young Henderson Cameron, widow of Wm. M. Henderson (Sr.), with William Woods's property on the direct other side, then Lee, then Hollingsworth's property. So they all lived right there together. Will send more documented evidence as I can find it. Thank you for all your work on these lines. I am still uncertain as to when Woods Pond became Jarrell Pond. But on a later map, the estate of Mrs. Martha E. Jarrell, I believe, lay north of this property, and did not encompass Jarrell Pond. It will take much more digging, I'm afraid. Thank you again, Carole Farr Drexel gdrexel1@airmail.net

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