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Note: NotesHis wife Piety pays the Civil War Tax as a "sol femme" with the children, but we've never been able to find out what happened to Henry, Jr. He was a "wild child" growing up in Perry County and wefound several transgressions, worst of which was stealing a slave girl, bonding out, then disappearing from Alabama.
Here is what Louis Taunton says of Henry Lansford Farrar Jr, (his ancestor). http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LAUNION/2005-07/1122337336
South and
West. Let me know who you want checked and will be glad to do so. A
gentleman, Thomas Brittain, of Tucson, AZ, has the death date of "my Henry
Farrar, Jr" as 1851. Of course there are 100 tales about what happened to
him after the 1850 Union Parish, LA census. The Brittain gentleman is kin
on Henry, Jr.'s wife's side (she was Piety (awful name) Brittain. He had
lots of theories and is checking to see if he can find why he put Henry,
Jr.'s death as 1851. If so, I will put a tomb for he and Piety in the
cemetery up at Lockhart near Spearsville, as I know the general area that
she was buried in. Louis
and this: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/LAUNION/1999- 11/0943924303
I cannot prove the death of Henry, Jr. His wife, Piety, and children were
all in Union Parish/Union County for the rest of their days. Stories range
from the following: When Henry Sr. died his second wife, Obedience KELLY
FARRAR and child, Milly FARRAR, supposedly inherited a good bit of land in
Perry County, AL. (Milly FARRAR died young and is buried in Perry County,
AL). Reportedly, Henry Jr. received a letter from someone in Perry County
about how the Sheriff of the County and the stepmother, Obedience, were
going through everything of Henry, Sr's. So he said that "SOB - I'll kill
him", packed, saddled up, rode off and was never heard from again! Story
#2 says that he took a liking to a young lady (name unknown) in Union
Parish, LA and they ran away to Texas or beyond together. Story #3 says
that he was killed while cutting a tree that fell on him.
ANY information on Henry, Jr. would be appreciated. I am familiar with
most of the Farrars in Union Parish through marriage, census, and cemetery
records, but, of course, they do not know me. So any family stories that
anyone can pass on would be appreciated. Louis Taunton
By the way, the G W Farrar that he mentions is G. Y. W. Farrar, son of George Young Farrar, who died intestate and insolvent in 1835/36. Henry Sr, along with George's sons Samuel and Richard, and Henry Sr's son Stephen were mentioned in legal documents as to the disposition of his estate and debts.
John Saunders Farrar that was with Henry Jr. as those two entered an objection in Court to the expenses that Phillip B. Railford, Administrator, charged (He got $611.18 of the $3857.42) The exceptionswere entered, signed and sealed in open court, which would mean that Henry Jr. and John Saunders Farrar were in Perry CO, AL on Dec. 15, 1854. [Obedience Farrar received a total of $717.29; Milley'sestate received $367.29; Robert Francis and Judy Lamm received $367.29, but John Saunders, Henry and Winston only got $264.60 each, and the 4 children of Stephen dec'd received $141.82]
Piety Farrar paid the U.S. direct tax levied in 1865 at the end of the Civil War as Head of Household. In 1862 she patented 144.81 acres as a widow, so it seems that Henry Jr. passed/disappeared sometime between 1854 and 1862. This remains a mystery!!
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