Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-12

!, rarr, of Salt Lake city, l5s.a'nu anu
% 49, ni,lars OF the Mormon
of ", ona vigorous in Ills
!, 'p' ,.st - wear. is the father OF so
!sss. '.n''s grandchildren and great
+, rsn' .Do, and when recently
Ial n.r' -ss q family gathering in "Alcl4
- w. ,sers Aaron and WinsloW' took
!, plvs ,'ith their respective families
u v" GREAT assemblage. A To-
:. w. aid it was by Farr and away
W ovt notable domestic toregatheF-
wv modern times, i3r in all there
= * nersons. including Lofln
: two surviving WV es'
NJ Farr's thirty nine children,
. oro iying-eighteen sons and
~ daughters. All are strong,
INV and vigorous. They are pros
- farmers. merchants, lawyers
,octors The girls have married
IVORY station. and all have large
.aios Every profession and trade
.onrpsented by Mr.. Fairs descend
Mr.. Fairs brothers, Aaron ana
nsow are eightyfve and seventy
RS old respectively
Although Mr.. Farr is now an octo-
narian, he moves, looks, acts and
Re like a man twenty yeats young
ue attends to his varied busl-
&C interests, takes long journeys and
Ike four or five miles any time the
sre seizes him. Elijah Farr. the
INCEST son of the family, respond
readily when questioned regarding
father and the family. He said;
INV father, with his first VIE
nose maiden name was Nancy B.
base. came out with the first COM
Inv of pioneers to Utah in 1S47 and
Rttled in Weber Valley, laying the
bundatlon of Ogden City, a town
ktuated at the confluence of Ogden
hid Weber rivers In 1850 he was
bpointed ~ President Brigham Young
/ president Of the Weber State OF
lion, which was organized in that year.
He married his second wife, Sarah
lilies, July 26. 1851. The third mar
iage was contracted February rs,
S52, with Olive Ann Jones. Two
lbsequent marriages were contracted
| 1854 and 1857, with Mary Bingham
nd Nickoline Erickson, respectively,
eir succeeding contract being based
Jon the consent OF all parties con-
'rned, mutual consent being the
sis of the plural marriage system.
In the inception of these matrl-
Onlal arrangements, three of the
yes occupied separate apartments in
same establishment, living under
same roof as separate families,
the most cordial and
llcable relations with each other. 1t
" be imagined that this primitive
lygamous household exhibited none
the evidences that mark the com
'dlous and luxurious dwellings OF
ater day.
In 1888 separate houses were pro
led the wives in most polygamist
niles and thenceforth each OF the
'es occupied separate homes. SO
rooted was their belief in
divinity and sanctity of the insti
ION OF plural marriage, conceived to
mseparably associated with their
fnal salvation in the endless dis
lsatlon hereafter, that envy and
lousy found no abiding places in
If minds.
Inc women lived in an atmosphere
sunshine and contentment, bearing
rearing strong, vigorous and
l'hy families of children, most of
III are still living, endowed with
pilceiess legacy of sound and ro-
constitutions. All the children,
yoaA&eAt OF whom is thirty-three
- q age, have been given a COM
-@GhoQl education, together with
sAsloQs training in the fundamen-
principles of the gospel.
Nearly all cf the boys have done
work, preaching the Cos
'9 tHe Mormon people understand
various nations and tom
oI the earth, following the an
It example set by Paul and the