Some Farmer Bios and Notes

Charlie Mann (husband of Frances Sue Farmer) authored HISTORICAL SKETCH OF SHEFFIELD DISTRICT, ROCKDALE COUNTY, GEORGIA.

Nancy Caroline Farmer (b. c. 1836) moved to Jackson Co., Georgia, after marriage to Mr. Hawks.

Mary A. Farmer (b. 1840) was blinded as child but learned to read braille.

Francis D. Cushing was robbed and murdered before 1870 as he was returning home from Conyers after selling his cotton harvest. He and his wife, Sarah  A. E. Farmer Cushing, had two sons, James R. Cushing and Charles D. Cushing.
 
Charles H. Farmer was born about 1844 and died 12 May 1864. He was a Private (September 21, 1861), in Company B, 35th Regiment, Georgia Voluntary Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A. He was killed in battle at Spotsylvania, Virginia. He was never married.
 
Joseph A. Farmer was a physician. He was born about 1858. He earned the M.D. degree and practiced medicine in DeKalb Co., Georgia. He was married three times: (1) to Lizzie Sanders, (2) to a Miss Bell, and (3) to Leola Stewart. He and Leola Stewart Farmer had children.
 
Frances S. St. John was born in South Carolina about 1820. She was the daughter of James St. John, Sr., of South Carolina, who was a pioneer to Newton Co., Georgia. She married William Farmer. She and William Farmer had eight known children. She died 26 May 1858 and may have been buried at Sodom Cemetery, Rockdale Co., Georgia.

William Farmer was born 22 June 1801. He was the son of George Farmer and Nancy Hardin. He and his brother, Robert Hardin Farmer, were pioneers to the Sheffield District of Newton Co., (now Rockdale Co.), Georgia. He was there by 1823 and his brother Robert was there by 1829 (if not before). William Farmer was a farmer by occupation. He married twice: (1) to Frances S. St. John, who bore him eight known children, and (2) to the widow Sarah Boyd. Sarah Boyd had three children by her former husband. William and Sarah Boyd Farmer had one surviving child, Charles George Farmer. William Farmer died 5 August 1872 and may have been buried at Sodom Cemetery, Rockdale Co., Georgia.

William Thomas Farmer lived near "Annistown", Gwinnett Co., Georgia, where he and his wife raised a family.
 

JERRY LEE DAVIS located his home on the old homesite of ISAAC WALTER KEY FARMER, his grandfather.
 

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