Elijah Farmer
| ID: | I917 |
| Last: | Farmer |
| First: | Elijah |
| Middle: | |
| Birth: | 21 Nov 1802 at Lunenberg Co., Virginia |
| Death: | AFT 1880 at South Carolina |
| Burial: | |
| Sex: | M |
| Notes: | Elijah Farmer, a prominent planter in Anderson Co., South Carolina, is included here to honor his memory and to provide a link to several individuals who were pictured in the Civil War era photo album of Lula Feaster of Fairfield Co., South Carolina. The Farmer connection to the Feaster family likely occured following the marriage of Emma Brown to Nathan Andrew Feaster and subsequent social and mercantile connections among the extended families during the Civil War period. The Lula Feaster album includes a picture of: *"GADIS FARMER", (Gaddis Farmer) son of Elijah and Elizabeth Berry Farmer. Descendant and related surnames include: Farmer, Moseley, Gilmer, Muldrow, Craft, Fouche, McGee, Lyons, Payne, Thompson, Holliman. The Lula Feaster album includes a picture of: *MILTON BROWN, who married Emma Virginia Farmer dau of Elijah and Elizabeth Berry Farmer. Descendant and related surnames include: Anderson, Allen, Gilmer. The Lula Feaster album includes a picture of: *Miss EARL (Earle?) - - she may be Georgia Ann Earle? (Georgiana Earle) who married Nathan O. Farmer son of Elijah and Elizabeth Berry Farmer. Descendant and related surnames include: Farmer, Elrod, Aiken, Teague. The Lula Feaster album includes a picture of: *(unknown given name) Farmer - - a young gentleman with a broad oval face and black hair, very likely a son or close relation of Elijah and Elizabeth Berry Farmer. Lists of family members for this family were generously shared online: Jim Farmer: http://home.earthlink.net/~jorange/farmer.htm Further lists and connections are also available at Rootsweb.com in databases by: Richard Wilson (mearen@yahoo.com), Elizabeth Lahey (bf7756@aol.com), Denise Moon (dmoon@nts-online.net), and Melinda Chappin (cwgrlshrt@yahoo.com). |
| Sources: | 1 |
| Mother: | UNKNOWN |
| Father: | UNKNOWN |
| Marriage 1 | Elizabeth Berry b: 3 Oct 1812 d: 14 Jun 1897 |
| Children: | |
| 1 Emma Virginia Farmer b: 9 Feb 1848 South Carolina | |
| 2 Gaddis W. Farmer b: ABT 1844 Greenville Co., South Carolina | |
| 3 Nathan O. Farmer b: Jan 1841 Greenville Co., South Carolina | |
| Sources: | |
| 1 | Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Greenville Co., South Carolina Publication: M653_1220 Date: 28 Sep 1860 Page: p. 501 Note: Elijah Farmer age 58, prosperous farmer born in Virginia, with wife Elizabeth (nee Berry) and 8 children in HN1691/FN1579 in Sterling Grove Twp. Son Nathan O. Farmer was not listed in this household; however, by 1880 he lived with his wife Georgia A. (Earle) and two children in Fork Twp. of Anderson Co., SC Text: HN1691/FN1579 Name Age Sex Col Occup Values Born Elijah Farmer 58 M w Farmer $3600 $8000 Virginia Elizabeth " 46 F w SC Robert " 18 M w SC Gadice " 16 M w SC Louisa " 14 F w SC Emma " 12 F w SC Paul " 12 M w SC Thadick? " 10 M w SC James " 8 M w SC Elijah " 6 M w SC [Transcriber cmb] |
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