Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-08
A GOLDEN WEDDING.
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he could join his company and 60 up the
run in orderly MI But he luugeo
him wroDe, for no sooner bad he as
mounted than the stranger dlsmounteo
too. The stranger ven on into the taV-
erD, expecting GtOTgs TO come ia ana
treat. But no sooner was he In the door
than George mounted again, turned
the corner and took up theI run as last
as he could 90. This not beng
the road the stranger wished to 60
he did not follow him any fartner.
As soon as George got around the turn go
he could not be seeD, he stepped and
waited for his company. They came
struggling along one or two at q time, TILL
all were togetter again. From there on
bone George was satisfisd TO be ODD lei,
low, or, at least, he was satisfied to he ITO
of his late company. Of that wedding
company now, there are but the principals,
John aud Rebeces FaIiS and Mary Yates
(uoW Mary RIlstop), livirg. All the others
have gone to their rewards.
The fifty years during which our par
ents have lived together, sharing eaco
others Joys and sOrrows, carry Us bacK
past the age of most Of Us, and past the
recollection of q great many more. SO, 1t
has been thought prudent, before the cor
Meeting link between the present genera
ton and the dim past is removed, to coq-
pile, as far as possible, q history OF the
family or families from which we have
sprung. To do this, we have to depend
largely on the memories of our parents, or
the old folks who are yet spared to rs.
The family records, ard the grave stones
are often, sadly silent or the hand of tine
has obliterated tie lettering and dates on
the stones 30 they are DO longer leglble.
WIN Fsris, grandfather OF him whose
golden wedding we are now celebrating,
was supposed to be of Scotch-lrish descent,
bern in Ireland about 1870; married DorO-
thy Johnson not far from 1850; came TO
Berkeley county, Va, about 1854, or be-
fore the Revolutionary War. They had
five children, David, John, Adam, Mary
and William. David was a soldier in the
Revolutionar War, and died or YVES killed
in that war. John married ard raised a
LARGE family of children. We canpot give
all their nsmts at this time. Adam mar
ried and raised two girls, ore OF whom,
Dorothy, married Rev. David Hervey; the
other, Mary, was the wife of Josiah Brown.
| Mary married Thomas Yates, and was the
mother of the large Yates family who,
fifty years ego, were so numerous IN this
country. William, with whom we have
orr heritsgs, was born in Berkeley county,
Virginia, on May 22d, 1772. His faith er
came to OHIO county over one hundred
wears ago, and settled on the farm on which
It is now our privilege to meet, and which
for that length of time has been in
the Faris name. He married Susannah
Curtis, in 1896. under q pear tree in Jas.
Curtis yard. They raised nine children,
six girls, and three boys, as follows,
Dorothy, Elizabeth, Nancy, James, Mary,
Susan, Rachael, William and John. John
was born on the I'd Of February, 1912.
"Wm. Faris, the father of this family,
was asoldier IN tie war of 1872, q Lieu
tenant in his company. He and Richard
Carson hsd gone together, and there was Il
mutual agreement between them, that in
case either CT them should not come back,
the other, if spared, would look after the
welfare of the widow and children. Rlch-
ard Carson never came back, but was
buried in what is now Delaware, Ohio,
Shortly after VIM. Faris came home, Susan
dab, his wife and the mother of his large
family cf Ch ldren died from a cold, set
ting on her lungs, that she had probably
taken from exposure while be was away.
William, remembering bis premise 10 the
dead soldier and friend, and feeling the
need of a mother for his own family, and.
az we suppose, thinking he could look
after the interests of the widow and child
rem bstter if they were under his
supervision, married the widow, and she
having seven children. added to his nine.
made sixteen children in the fanily, and OF
this union there was only n Toy, Adam,
who lived to mans estate aud then died
while ct school at Winchester, Va.
OF William Faiis' children, Dorothy
married James CASTOR and rais'd
twelve children. Elizabeth married Rob
ert Stewart aud d'ed before moving from
home. Nancy married Charles Blsyney
and raisei eleven children. janis mar
ried Ellen Atkinson and raised eight chill
dren. Mary married Samuel Faris, her
cousin, and raised five children. Susan
married George Atkinson and raised Elne
children. Rachael married George Whit
ham and raised eight children. William
was never married.
OF John aud Rebscca FaIis' union there
were nine children born. Seven grew TO
mans estate and elk are still living, and
with these are seventeen grand children.
Sussnnsh Cortis, the wife of William
Fsris, was the daughter Of James Curtis,
who was of Irish ~paTeutsge. Her mother,
Eliza COughenbury, WIS OF German oe'
scent, or, in other words, she was a Dutca
woman.
sussnuah was the oldest Of q family Of
ten children, seven girls and three boys
These, with the exception Of S1sanrah,
who died from the AZORES AID exposure
lived to an average age of over eighty
years, and all raised large fsm'lfs. Oll
mother, RebeCcI Cunningham, was boTI
; on the 9th of August, 1914, and was n q
a family of twelve children, as follows
James. Hsnnab, Hugh, Absgail, Sarah
/. Samuel, John, Israel George, Rebecca
1 Julia and Ages. Her father, John Gun
ninghsm, was almost n giant in stature
q being nearly s K and one half feet higl
his children, with few exceptions, wer,
over elk feet tall. He also came of
large family Of children, of whom the FOL
lowing are remembered: James, Hugh
Robert, John, Nancy, Sarah, Rosie an,
Mary. His father and mother, Hugh AM
Agnes, are supposed to be Of Irish descent
ard came to this country about the middl
Ct the last century.
Her mother, Hannah Robinson, wss
daughter of James and Hannah Robinson
one Of Irish and the other of German Ct
scent. Ia their family were five children
Sarah, lydia, Hannah, Abrsm aud james
She died in May, 1859, in the rcon we al
now occupying, aged eighty-four.
"Jobn snd Hannah Cunningham, whe
they came wet of the mountains, settle
+ on q farm on McMahan's creek, in wins
8 is now Belmont county, Ohio, near whel
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