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Name: Thomas Myers Fariss
Sex: M
Birth: 28 SEP 1854 in Near Giddings, TX.
Death: 09 NOV 1938 in Lake Victor, Burnet, Texas, USA
Burial: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Lake Victor, Texas..
Person Id: I358
Tree Id: 617002

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Parents

Father:

William Holmes Fariss: Birth: 10 APR 1834 in Mardisville, Talladega Co AL.. Death: 29 NOV 1894 in Giddings TX.

Mother:

Amelia Scott Jones: Birth: 11 OCT 1833 in Caledonia, Washington Co MO. (Joplin). Death: 19 FEB 1920 in Giddings TX.

Family
Marriage:

Married: Elizabeth J. "Betty" Dodds on 25 OCT 1876 at Lee Co., TX. Probably in Giddings..
Elizabeth J. "Betty" Dodds: Birth: 29 AUG 1854 in Alabama. Headstone says Betty J. Fariss.. Death: 14 MAR 1889 in Lake Victor, TX. His first wife.

Children:

Adna May Fariss: Birth: 27 FEB 1878.
William Alexander Buck Fariss: Birth: 22 AUG 1881 in Giddings, TX. 1881 from 2 sources, 1880 from 3 sources.. Death: 25 JUL 1970 in Probably nursing home, Burnet, TX.
Mary Amelia Meade Fariss: Birth: 20 NOV 1882 in Robetha, Bob say Nov. 20, 1882. Could it be 1886?. Death: MAR 1963 in She lived & died in Valley Mills, Texas.
Martha Ella Ella Fariss: Birth: 14 MAR 1885 in Or is it March 27, 1885.. Death: AFT 1951 in Lived in Burnet.
Carl Jones Curly Fariss: Birth: 20 NOV 1887 in Lived in Grandview and Welch communities.. Death: 01 MAR 1966 in Farmer.

Family
Marriage:

Married: Sarah Jane "Sally Molly Nannie Fariss" Mobley on 15 NOV 1891.
Sarah Jane "Sally Molly Nannie Fariss" Mobley: Birth: 16 JUN 1872 in His second wife. Tombstone says both "Sarah Jane. Death: 29 SEP 1962 in Fariss" and " Nannie Fariss".

Children:

Earl Edward Fariss: Birth: 28 MAR 1894 in Her first husband. Born July 1894 in 1900. Death: 20 JAN 1940 in Census. Apparently lived in Burnet.
Ira Milton B. Fariss: Birth: 17 JUL 1896 in Lived in Dallas..
Mabel Carmine Fariss: Birth: 02 NOV 1899 in Long ago: 1400 N. Waters. Death: in Burnet, Texas 78611
Margaret Lucille Fariss: Birth: 28 SEP 1902 in Long ago: 808 N. Water, Burnet 78611. Death: AUG 1995

Notes

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Note: 1854 - 1938
Married in Giddings, November 15, 1891. The Aunt Lyde notebook fromLucille Shilling to Milton G. Fariss seems to say (blurred) November 10,1891.
In the 1880 Census, Thomas and Betty are married, and are living inLee County in the household of William Holmes Fariss, with their2-year-old daughter Adna May. Although Thomas is 25, Theodore is 23,and Ira is 20, all nine children of William and Amelia are living athome.
Thomas and Betty later lived at Lake Victor, near Burnet, Texas.
"Burnet County History Vol. I" Clayton Library 976.463 D287 page249:
T. M. Fariss subscribed to 10 shares at Par $100 each when the FirstState Bank of Burnet was chartered October 5, 1908. This $1000 was oneof the higher figures among the men who founded the bank. He was thusalso elected a Director for the first year.
The girls in Oklahoma said that he died of a facial cancer, but hisDeath Certificate lists cerebral hemorrhage, cardiac failure, andhypertension.
He is buried at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Burnet, Texas. Robetha (Mrs.Ted) Fariss has visited this grave. He is buried between his twowives.
"Pleasant Valley," apparently a different cemetery, is located twomiles east of Marble Falls. No Fariss is listed in this cemetery book.

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