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were even rarer than wagons, and James W. Councill had what was probably the
first in the countt ub tge fifties. Henry Elrod was conscripted after he had
moved in 1857 to the Flat Top Mountain, and taken to Camp Vance, after which
he was transferred to Camp Mast, where he was captured. He died in 1885.
Alex Elrod was captured by Stoneman, but, pretending to have rheumatism, was
allowed to escape.
Farthing Family.--Dudley Farthing was born in Virginia, April 6, 1749. He was
the son of William Farthing and his wife, Mary. Dudley Farthing died in Wake
County February 22, 1826. His wife was Annie, daughter of WM. Watkins and
Phoebe, his wife. She was born July 4, 1747, in Virginia, and died February
13, 1812, in Wake County. Their children were: Phoebe, born November 15,
1778, and she married John Link, February 3, 1803; Mary, born July 3, 1780,
and died March 22, 1826; William, born August 25, 1782, married Polly W.
Hallyburton, February 9, 1804; John, born September 26, 1784, married Lucy
Goss, first, who died April 9, 1827, and then Polly Amos; he died February 29,
1868; Reuben, born September 1, 1787, married __________; died August 14,
1834; Eliza, born February 22, 1790, and died August 3, 1790. The children of
the Rev. William W. Farthing were: Dudley, born November 29, 1804, married
Nancy Mast in 1831; he died July 8, 1895, and she September 22 1882; Patsy,
born December 4, 1805, married Thomas Shearer, an uncle of Robert Shearer;
they moved to Kansas between 1850 and 1855; Nancy was born February 21, 1807,
married Joseph Brown and went to Missouri; Reuben P;, born June 28, 1808,
married Sallie Brown, and died December 20, 1889; John Atkins, born July 21,
1809, married, first, Melissa Curtis, and, second, Keziah Farthing; William
Brown, born December 20, 1810, and married Annie Kindle; Edward F., born April
30, 1812, and died May 3, 1812; Thomas, born May 9, 1813, married Ermine
Hallyburton; Annie Watkins, born September 5, 1814, married Wm. Young
Farthing, father of W. S. Farthing; Harriet, born March 22, 1816, married
James Brown, and died May 16, 1897; Mary Hervey, born February 21, 1818,
married Hiram McBride, died May 26,
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