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Note: This from an email from Martin McKee
During the Civil War, Sarah Louise Farrar met Levi Crawford Whitten and married him hin 1862 in Lousisiana. It was her first marriage and his fourth. They ended up having 10 children togeather. He was a brickmason, but they moved to Jefferson, Texas where he took over running a Confederate Army Commissary while she worked in a Confederate uniform factory. After the war Levi built the new jail and courthouse there in Jefferson. In 1867 he was also elected Sheriff of Marion County. I have a copy of the original handwritten certification As Sheriff by County Judge L.T. Gray. I always imagined that it must of been exciting being a Texas Sheriff in the days after the Civil War. They latter moved to Washington County, Arkansas where he continued to work as a brickmason and a farmer. He died 7 Sept. 1895 in Cincinnati, Washington, Arkansas. He was buried in the Pinecrest Cemetery which was originally the Union Graveyard there. In 1910 Sarah Louise married a former Union soldier named Shelby C Holmes in Washington Co, Arkansas. He passed away in 1926 in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas. In the 1930 census, she is living with her sone John Smith Whitten in Mena, Polk, Arkansas. She passed away 5 Dec 1931 in Cincinnati, Washington, Arkansas. She is buried in the Pinecrest Memorial Cemetery in Mena, Polk, Arkansas next to her son John Smith Whiten. source Martin McKeecelt72 at yahoo dot com
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