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Gideon Farris
b.Est 1742 Washington County, Virginia
d.16 Dec 1818 Lodi, Washington County, Virginia
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m. Abt 1766
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[edit] Record of Gideon Farris in Washington County, VA
[edit] Information on Gideon FarrisThe Farris (Faires, Faries, Ferris) family was among the first pioneer settlers of Washington and Russell counties of South-western Virginia when it was a wilderness frontier. William, Robert and Gideon Farris settled on the South Fork of the Holston River near the present town of Damascus in S.E. Washington County Virginia in 1768. William died in 1777 and Gideon administered his estate. Gideon (b. ca. 1740-1745) like his father, William, was a farmer and frontier Indian fighter. Gideon served with Col. William Christian in 1776 on a campaign against the Cherokees in East Tennessee who had been attacking frontier settlements at the instigation of the British. Gideon Farris died about 1818 leaving his widow Sarah (McSpadden) and ten children; Robert, Samuel, William, Gideon (Jr), Mrs. Moses (Elizabeth) Hickenbottom, Thomas, Mrs. Rev Nickolas (Sarah) Speak/e/s, Mable, Mary Callum and Jane McCully. Robert, Mable and Gideon (Jr) owned land in Claiborne countyTennessee in the 1820's and 1830's but later went to Lee county Virginia where brother, William and sister, Mrs. Rev. Nickolas (Sarah) Speak/e/s lived. William later moved to Carter (later Johnson) county Tennessee where his sister, Mrs. Moses (Elizabeth) Hickenbottom lived. Source: http://members.tripod.com/~just4day/sharon4.html
Married abt. 1760/65 in Virginia to Gideon Faires (son of William Faires and Deborah). Born abt. 1748 in Washington County, Virginia. Died 16 Dec 1818 in Lodi, Washington County, Virginia.
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