Showing posts with label Farmer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farmer. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Tombstone Tuesday - Mary C. Franks





Mary C. Franks
wife of
J.J. Franks
Nov. 11, 1856
Sept. 10, 1911
Darling we miss thee
FRANKS

Buried Pinckneyville Cemetery, near Salem, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 8 November 2017.

According to her death certificate,[1] Mary Cathrine Franks was born in Crittenden County, Kentucky and was the daughter of Stephen A. Farmer and Rebecca Allison, both of whom were born in Tennessee.

Miss Mary C. Farmer married Jesse J. Franks 17 February 1875 Crittenden County. W.T. Moore performed the wedding ceremony, which occurred at the home of S.A. Farmer. Witnesses were W.R. Farmer, Hugh McMaster and R.S. Clark.[2] 




[1] Kentucky Death Certificate #23896, Mary Cathrine Franks, Ancestry.com, accessed 13 November 2017.
[2] Brenda Joyce Jerome. Crittenden County, Kentucky Marriage Records Vol. II  1866-1886, (Evansville, IN: Evansville Bindery, 1991) 71.

Published 30 January 2018, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog, http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Tombstone Tuesday - James D. Farmer


Father
James D. Farmer
1862 - 1921

Buried Smithland Cemetery, Livingston County, Kentucky. Tombstone photographed 13 August 2014.

According to Kentucky Death Certificate #10798 (1921), James D. Farmer was born 5 March 1862 Kentucky and died 15 May 1921 Livingston County. His parents are identified as Caleb Farmer and Mary E. Wild, both born in Tennessee. 

James D. Farmer married Martha Avery 18 December 1891 in Hardin County, Illinois. They appear together on the 1900 Caldwell County, Kentucky census and the 1910 and 1920 Livingston County census records.

Published 2 December 2014, Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog,  http://wkygenealogy.blogspot.com/