NOBLE COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Silas Farley (1887)

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Transcribed by Deb Murray.

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Silas Farley, a well-known old resident, was born in Greene County, Pa., in
1814, and came to Ohio with his parents when ten months old. In 1833 he
married Elizabeth Rhodes, by whom he had seven children: James S., who died at
the age of three years; Susannah (Rodecker), George W., Mary M. (first married
to a Calland and secon dto Heiddleston), Charles W., Joseph H. and Henry W.
Mr. Farley followed farming for several years, but for twenty years has been
engaged in butchering in Summerfield. For fifteen years he has also dealt in
live stock and farmed also. The family are members of the Methodist Episcopal
church. Mr. Farley has been a licensed local preacher in the church for forty
years and has preached far and near. He preached in Olive, before Caldwell and
projected. He is a Republican and an earnest one. Three of his sons - George,
Charles Wesley and Joseph - were in the late war, Wesly serving three years.

History of Noble County, Ohio Published by 
L.H. Watkins & Co. of Chicago 1887
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