Lauren Alonzo FARR [Parents] [scrapbook] ^{1, 2, 3} was born ^{4, 5} on 2 Jan 1855 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died ^{6, 7, 8} on 5 Feb 1940 in Bellevue, Huron, Ohio, United States. Lauren married ⁹ Melanie WEISSE ² on 23 Dec 1907 in Summit, Ohio, United States.

Lauren resided ¹⁰ in 1860 in Eaton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ¹¹ in 1910 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Other marriages:

DRUSENDAHL, Hermina

THE CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM
Saturday, June 17, 1939. Pg. 2

Recalls Days On Farm
Over Three Quarters
Of A Century Ago

Days when life in Lorain County moved at a much slower pace than today are recalled by Lauren A. Farr 84, latest addition to The Chronicle Telegram's list of elderly fathers who will be honored by their children Sunday.

Farr was born January 2 1853, and was only seven years old when his father died. Ieaving his wife and five children. The boy attended the country school until he was 12 years old.

At the age of 10 he could follow a plow all day and could do alrnost anything with a team on a farm. When he was 16 he hired out to work on the farm of his brother, Lowell Farr, at Wakeman for 20 dollars a month. Part of his work was in connection with hauling milk to a cheese factory. He did not get home until about 11 P.M. and then was cafled at 3:3O A.M. to bring up the cows. He milked 10 cows night and morning and cared for 20 horses.

He continued at this work for seven months and then was hired by a Carlisle man to pack apples. husk corn and help with the milking. Later he worked with his brother Ephraim cutting wood for Mr. Fullen near LaPonte.

Farr then went to work on his mothers farm on Oberlin Road. He recalls a New Year's dance given by his brother when he was 19, to which he took a load of people on a sleigh. They did not leave until 5 A.M. and he returned home at 8 A.M. He was ill the next day, and Dr. Paxrey was called. The doctor diagnosed his trouble as "lung fever". and the patient was improving when the doctor became ill and died within a few days.

With no doctor for the next five days, the young man's condition became worse, and Dr. Reefy was called. He found that the patient had pneumonia. His face was paralyzed so that he could not close his eyes or move his lips. The left side later returned to normal but the right side never fully came back.

Farr was married March 21, 1877. to Miss Hermena Drusinda and they had five children. of whom only two are now living. They are H. L. Farr. of Bellevue, and Mrs. Ruby Rayner of North Olmsted. The other children, were Edna. Earl and Hulda.

Farr and his bride lived on his mother's farm and made many improvements. He had a milk route in Elyria for four years and then sold his route and began shipping miik to Cleveland.

His mother's parents had come from New York state in prairie schooners when his mother was five rears old, arriving in Eiyria in 1817. There was only one house in Elyria at the time, the home of Heman Ely. The Farrs came from Vermont five years later. Farrs mother died in 1900 and his wife died in 1904. He was married in 1907 to Miss Melanie Wire and they had one son, H. G. Farr, of Columbia Township; where Farr is now living.

Melanie WEISSE ¹ was born ^{1, 2} on 8 Nov 1882 in Stotsernheim, Germany. Melanie married ³ Lauren Alonzo FARR ^{1, 4, 5} on 23 Dec 1907 in Summit, Ohio, United States.

Melanie was also known ⁵ as Malona. She resided ⁶ in 1910 in Carlisle, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Hershie Lauren FARR [Parents] [scrapbook] was born ^{1, 2} on 11 Aug 1883 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died ³ on 11 Apr 1969 in Bellevue, Huron, Ohio, United States. Hershie married ⁴ Ruth E. STULTZ on 25 Nov 1914 in Huron, Ohio, United States.

Hershie resided ⁵ in 1900 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁶ in 1940 in Lyme Township, Huron, Ohio, United States.

Ruth E. STULTZ was born ^{1, 2} on 23 Dec 1884 in Lyme Township, Huron, Ohio, United States. She died ^{1, 2} on 8 Sep 1928 in Mescal, Cochise, Arizona, United States. She was buried in 1928 in Strongs Ridge, Huron, Ohio, United States. Ruth married ³ Hershie Lauren FARR on 25 Nov 1914 in Huron, Ohio, United States.

Ruth resided ⁴ in 1900 in Lyme Township, Huron, Ohio, United States.

Walter J. RAYNER was born in 1876. Walter married ^{1, 2} Ruby E. FARR on 21 Jun 1911 in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.

Walter resided ³ in 1920 in North Olmsted, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.

Ruby E. FARR [Parents] was born ^{1, 2, 3} on 23 Jul 1892 in Lorain, Ohio, United States. She died ^{2, 3} on 2 Dec 1942 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. She was buried ^{2, 3} in North Olmsted, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. Ruby married ^{4, 5} Walter J. RAYNER on 21 Jun 1911 in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.

Ruby resided ⁶ in 1920 in North Olmsted, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.

Ernest Joseph DUNFORD was born ^{1, 2, 3, 4} on 11 Jul 1881 in Westlake, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. He died ^{1, 2, 5} on 9 Sep 1947 in Berea, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. He was buried ² in Columbia Center, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Ernest married Edna Loretta FARR in 1905.

Edna Loretta FARR [Parents] ¹ was born ^{1, 2, 3} on 27 Nov 1878 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She died ² on 4 Apr 1912 in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States. She was buried ² on 6 Apr 1912 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Edna married Ernest Joseph DUNFORD in 1905.

Edna resided ⁴ in 1900 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Earl S. FARR [Parents] was born ¹ in 1882 in Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died before 1920. Earl married Louise in 1902 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Earl resided ² in 1910 in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Louise was born ¹ in 1882 in Lorain, Ohio, United States. Louise married Earl S. FARR in 1902 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Louise resided ² in 1910 in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She resided ³ in 1920 in San Antonio Ward 4, Bexar, Texas, United States.

Ephriam FARR [Parents] ¹ was born on 13 Oct 1846 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died on 20 Aug 1914 in Montrose Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States. Ephriam married ² Adelia DUMAS on 9 Jan 1871 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

He resided ⁴ in 1860 in Eaton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁵ in 1870 in Ohio, United States. He resided ⁶ in 1880 in Vienna Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States. He resided ⁷ in 1900 in Montrose Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States. He resided ⁸ in 1910 in Montrose Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States.

Adelia DUMAS was born about 1848 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She died ¹ on 31 Jan 1911 in Montrose Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States. Adelia married ² Ephriam FARR ³ on 9 Jan 1871 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Adelia resided ⁴ in 1850 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She resided ⁵ in 1880 in Vienna Township, Genesee, Michigan, United States. She resided ⁶ in 1910 in Montrose, Genesee, Michigan, United States.

Lowell Lovell FARR Jr. [Parents] [scrapbook] ^{1, 2, 3} was born ^{4, 5, 6} on 23 May 1843 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died ^{5, 6} on 11 Feb 1922 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States from of heart trouble. He was buried ^{5, 6} on 13 Feb 1922 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Lute married Sarah Jane SQUIRES ^{1, 2} on 2 Sep 1862 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Lute resided ⁷ in 1860 in Eaton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁸ in 1880 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁹ in 1900 in Pittsfield Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Elyria Evening Telegram
February 22, 1917

Today and Yesterday They had a great time over in Carlisle last Sunday. It was the centennial of the Holford-Farr families corning to the Western Reserve. You may be sure the old fellows who could remember “way back in ‘43 when the town pump froze” got busy with their tongues and told the awfullest whoppers—but, on the other hand—in that assemblage were silver haired women, who were belles when Grant was shelling Vicksburg.

The Farr family does not envy the llowards, the Montagues or the Van Alai1s. For Thomas Farr--almost a May flowerer—settled at Stow, Mass., in 1638, and Lowel Farr, eight generations !ater, left Chesterfield, Mass,, and came to Elyria in 1820. And the Farrs haven’t got rnuch on the Holfords, for C. B. Holford, another near May flowerer, left Ovid, N. Y. and after a rough trip, settled in Carlisle, February 14, 1817. Alter many moons, Lowell Farr married Phoebc Holford, and today there are 120 descendants, 70 of whom made the rafters ring last Sunday. They are all staunch Americans, and though blood is thicker than water, these old folks whose memories go back to the Civil War and beyond, are preserving a neutrality creditable to a Holland diplomat. The more Farrs and Holfords this country has the longer will she last.

Feb. 1922, The Chronical Telegram
LOWELL L. FARR, PIONEER, DIES
The death of Lowell Lovell Farr, 79, took place last night at the home of his son, William Farr, Stop 98, Oberlin Road, from an attack of heart trouble. The deceased has been ill for some time.  He had lived in this county all his life, and was the son of pioneer parents who came to this county in 1817.  Mr. Farr is survived by is sons William and George, a sister, Mrs. Theodore Squire, and a brother, L.A. Farr. A daughter, Mrs. Cora Turner died last week.  Funeral services will be held at the home Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

Residence: Pittsfield Twp Lorain County OH

Sarah Jane SQUIRES ^{1, 2} was born ^{1, 3} on 11 Nov 1843 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She died ³ on 3 Feb 1919 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Sarah married Lowell Lovell FARR Jr. "Lute" ^{1, 2, 4} on 2 Sep 1862 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Sarah resided ⁵ in 1860 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She resided ⁶ in 1880 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She resided ⁷ in 1900 in Pittsfield Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Card of Thanks

"We desire to thank our neighbors, friends, and relatives for their kindness and sympathy shown during the illness and death of our beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Lowell Farr. Also for the beautiful floral offerings and to the Rev. Danderpyle for his consoling words, and to the singers for the beautiful hymns rendered.

Mr. Lowell Farr, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Farr, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Farr, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Turner"

-The Eyria Evening Telegram; Feburary 8, 1919.

William Bird FARR [Parents] was born ¹ on 6 Aug 1858 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He died ^{1, 2} on 22 Feb 1919 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He was buried ¹ in 1919 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. William married ³ Mary Ellen TOMPKINS on 12 Mar 1882 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

William resided ⁴ in 1860 in Eaton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁵ in 1870 in Carlisle Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided in 1900 in ED 64 Amhurst Township (excl. North Amhurst village), Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided in 1910 in Amherst, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Mary Ellen TOMPKINS was born in May 1863 in Ohio, United States. Mary married ¹ William Bird FARR on 12 Mar 1882 in Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Mary resided ² in 1900 in ED 64 Amhurst Township (excl. North Amhurst village), Lorain, Ohio, United States. She resided ³ in 1910 in Amherst, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Chester TURNER ¹ was born ¹ in 1865 in Ohio, United States. Chester married Cora Violeta FARR ^{1, 2, 3, 4} about 1885 in Ohio, United States.

Chester resided ¹ in 1900 in Russia Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Cora Violeta FARR [Parents] ^{1, 2, 3, 4} was born ^{5, 6, 7} in 1863 in Ohio, United States. She died ^{4, 7, 8} on 2 Feb 1922 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. She was buried ⁷ on 4 Feb 1922 in Elyria, Lorain, Ohio, United States. Cora married Chester TURNER ¹ about 1885 in Ohio, United States.

Cora resided ² in 1870 in Spencer, Medina, Ohio, United States. She resided ^{1, 3} in 1900 in Russia Township, Lorain, Ohio, United States.

Source: Death Certificate #10122 State of Ohio.

Halford Grabner FARR [Parents] ¹ was born ^{2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7} on 10 Dec 1909 in Ohio, United States. He died ^{3, 4, 5, 6} on 4 Nov 1993 in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States. He was buried ⁴ in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States. Halford married Lola.

Halford resided ⁸ in 1910 in Carlisle, Lorain, Ohio, United States. He resided ⁹ in 1940 in Justice Precinct 1, Lee, Texas, United States.

The Chronicle Telegram November 24, 1937

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Penfound entertained at dinner Thursday evening, L. A. Farr, Mr. and Mrs. Halford Farr and daughter Wilma Mae, and Mr. and Mrs. Byrle Snyder and children, Carlyn, Jack and Dale.

Lola was born in 1909 in Texas, United States. Lola married Halford Grabner FARR.

Lola resided ¹ in 1940 in Justice Precinct 1, Lee, Texas, United States.