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Note: August 10, 1862 - March 29, 1932
Tombstone has birthdate August 10. Bob Fariss has August 9. Lyda'sold Bible has August 9. A sheet of paper has August 9. The Aunt Lydanotebook from Lucille Shilling to Milton has August 9.
Tombstone has deathdate March 29. Bob Fariss has March 24.
Augustine Knox Fariss told R.E. Bob Fariss that Uncle Mack went oncattle drives to Kansas. Helen Bess Fariss Foster says that he wenton two drives. Aubrey Fariss reported on July 24, 1993 that Mack wenton three drives. The cowboys enjoyed "a footloose return to home," Gussaid. Mack was very young for this kind of work: the Chisholm Trailcattle drives were only from 1866 to 1876, when the railroads werecompleted. Mack would have been only 14. He must have gone with hisuncle Andrew Thompson Jones.
He chose to move to Houston. He visited in Galveston, where he metthe German family Koch. They had recently immigrated from Germany toAmerica. He and Clara were soon married.
They had a grocery store on Tuam St. in Houston. He was a butcher.
Their big beautiful home was on the corner at 301 Welch St. It wasdivided into small apartments. There were four bedrooms upstairs. Thewidow Clara had a series of nice young men renting there, and she thenran it as a boarding house. She was a very good cook, and also was " afine-looking woman," according to Helen Bess Fariss Foster.
Aubrey Fariss lived with them both before college, and after college.Helen Bess Fariss lived with them at times also. Charlie Steven Wilsonlived here with Aunt Clara from 1936 to 1941.
At one time, Mack and Clara owned property in what is now downtownHouston. They had no children.
After Mack's death, Clara continued to live there until her health gotbad. She then went to live with Emily and Herman Joekel on Bolsover St.She died a short time thereafter. Her Will got changed during thisshort time.
The house at 301 Welch burned down in the 1980's.
Seven are buried on the same Giddings lot:
William Holmes Fariss
Amelia Scott Jones Fariss
William T. Wilson
Lyda Fariss Wilson
Milton S. Merchant
Mary Adelia Fariss Merchant
Infant son of Sam and Ruby Fariss
The only two burials on the adjacent 8-place plot are:
Andrew Mack Fariss
Clara Koch Fariss
The body of the stillborn son of Sam and Ruby Fariss was sent toGiddings, with the intent that the infant be buried on the cemetery lotowned by his grandparents, Fate and Bert Fariss. But by a mistake ofpersons in Giddings, perhaps the preacher or the funeral home, the babywas mistakenly buried on the William Holmes Fariss lot.
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