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Descendants of Jacob Rhodes

Generation No. 4

11. WILLIAM (BILL) HARRISON⁴ FARRINGTON (MARY ANN³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born October 1866 in Lawrence County, Alabama. He married (1) MARY ANN 1883 in Blount County, Alabama. He married (2) MARY ELIZABETH ROBERTSON 7 January 1886 in Blount County, Alabama. He married (3) LILLIE JONES II Abt. 1915.

Children of WILLIAM FARRINGTON and MARY ANN are:

THOMAS O.⁵ FARRINGTON, b. June 1884, Blount County, Alabama; m. DOLLIE, 1903, Jefferson County, Alabama.

Notes for THOMAS O. FARRINGTON:
Occupation: Railroad foreman, Birmingham, Alabama

	ii.		CHARLIE A. FARRINGTON, b. August 1886.
	iii.		ALTHA FARRINGTON, b. November 1888.
	iv.		ELBERT FARRINGTON, b. July 1891.
	v.		ELLIS FARRINGTON, b. June 1895.

Children of WILLIAM FARRINGTON and MARY ROBERTSON are:

	vi.		LIZZIE⁵ FARRINGTON.
	vii.		JOHN FARRINGTON.
	viii.		NOAH FARRINGTON.
	ix.		HARRISON FARRINGTON.
	x.		JIM FARRINGTON.
	xi.		BERTIE LEE FARRINGTON.
	xii.		DEWEY FARRINGTON.
	xiii.		JESSIE FARRINGTON, b. 8 April 1902¹; d. 13 December 1971, Van Alstyne, Texas²; m. ALMA VINEYARD, 25 January 1930.
	xiv.		ODELL FARRINGTON, b. 5 May 1907³; d. May 1954, Texas⁴.

Children of WILLIAM FARRINGTON and LILLIE JONES are:

	xv.		DOROTHY⁵ FARRINGTON.
	xvi.		GORDON FARRINGTON.
	xvii.		BILLIE FARRINGTON, b. Abt. 1917.
	xviii.		LESTER FARRINGTON, b. 19 May 1920; d. August 1984, Denison, Grayson County, Texas.

12. SAMUEL NEWTON⁴ FARRINGTON (MARY ANN³ RHODES, WILLIAM M.², JACOB¹) was born 25 September 1869 in Sand Mountain Region, Winston County, Alabama, and died 16 July 1945 in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He married MOLLY SUSAN ROBERTS 29 July 1890 in Blount County, Alabama, daughter of WILLIAM ROBERTS and MARY HALL.

Notes for SAMUEL NEWTON FARRINGTON:
Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 - Population taken 21 April 1910 by Ernest M. Hyatt, Blount County, Alabama lists Samuel N. Farrington as head of household at age 40, farming on own farm, which is free from mortgage, born in Alabama, father born in Georgia, mother in Tennessee, married 20 years with wife Mollie S. at age 37, born in Tennessee, father and mother born in Georgia, mother of 6, 5 living. Children are: William H. (17), Violet S. (16), Fletcher N. (7), Samuel F. (4), and Eula V. (9/12).

Married in home of bride's mother.

Listed as "Addison" at one year old on 1870 Township 6 Range 6 Lawrence County, Alabama, census taken 11 August 1870 and living between James and Mary M. Livingston and Aaron Callahan, a miller.

Occupation: Farmer and carpenter

Church affiliation: Methodist

Burial: Crestwood Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama

Notes for MOLLY SUSAN ROBERTS:
Burial in Crestwood Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama

Children of SAMUEL FARRINGTON and MOLLY ROBERTS are:

WILLIAM HARRISON⁵ FARRINGTON, b. 22 June 1892, Winston County, Alabama; d. 9 July 1979, LaFayette, Chambers County, Alabama; m. SARA ELIZABETH NEEL, 19 January 1911, Blount County, Alabama.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON FARRINGTON:
Buried in LaFayette City Cemetery, LaFayette, Alabama

Notes for SARA ELIZABETH NEEL:
Buried LaFayette City Cemetery, LaFayette, Alabama

ii.

LOIS ABIGAIL FARRINGTON, b. 11 December 1896, Winston County, Alabama; d. 27 September 1900, Winston County, Alabama.

Notes for LOIS ABIGAIL FARRINGTON:
Buried in Ashridge Cemetery, Winston County, Alabama

Tombstone inscription:

Addie Davis
Born Feb. 13, 1906
Died Jan. 17, 1907

Sleep and dream
and take thou rest

	iii.		VIOLET SAFRONIA FARRINGTON, b. 22 October 1898, Winston County, Alabama; d. 14 July 1933, Blount County, Alabama; m. LEE SMITH, Sand Mountain Region, Winston County, Alabama.
	iv.		FLETCHER NAPOLEON FARRINGTON, b. 25 May 1902, Holly Pond, Blount County, Alabama; d. 2 April 1968, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama; m. EUNICE GERTRUDE GULLEDGE, 5 February 1926, Altoona, Alabama.

Notes for FLETCHER NAPOLEON FARRINGTON:
Occupation: County Extension Agent

The following is an excerpt from Farrington Tales And I 'm Sitting On Mine, compiled by Kay Farrington Frost:

KUDZU

In the late '30's, Kudzu was brought to Southeast Alabama to help control erosion of the soil. When it first came into Tallapoosa County, Fletcher Farrington Sr. was the County Agent. In 1934, Willie and Fletcher bought what was known as the Schussler Dairy Farm in Chambers County. It consisted of 1,047 acres at $7.50 an acre. This was at the end of the Depression. Close to the end of World War II Arvil had been with the Ordnance Department of the Army. In 1944, he left the Ordnance Department and went back to the farm.

A Prisoner of War camp was set up Opelika, where they housed German Prisoners of War. In 1944 and '45, Arvil and Willie dug kudzu crowns using German prisoner labor. The proceeds from the sale of these crowns paid for that 1,000 acres of land. A one-disc plow was used to just go round and round turning up kudzu. On the root of a kudzu plant there are joints about 6 ot 7 inches apart. They were plowed, picked up and taken to a table where the German prisoners would cut them up into six inch pieces, with each piece containing a joint. Then they would be bundled in 50 or a hundred crown bundles and shipped to different parts of the country.

After prisoner labor was no longer available, Willie moved to Camp Hill and Arvil kept dealing with the kudzu to make the extra money.

	v.		SAMUEL JESSE FARRINGTON, b. 17 March 1905, Blount County, Alabama⁵; d. 24 May 1969, Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Alabama⁶; m. RUTH KATHERINE MILLER, 24 August 1926, Morton's Chapel, Etowah County, Alabama.
	vi.		EULA VELMA FARRINGTON, b. 7 July 1909; m. JAMES THOMAS JOHNSON, 8 August 1930, Etowah County, Alabama.

Notes for JAMES THOMAS JOHNSON:
Reverend C. Morton performed the marriage ceremony.

Buried at Crestwood Cemetery, Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama

Occupation: Postal Clerk

vii.

GRACE LUCILLE FARRINGTON, b. 7 November 1913, Blount County, Alabama; d. 16 June 1991, East Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama; m. RALPH ROBINETTE HAGGARD.

Notes for GRACE LUCILLE FARRINGTON:
Buried in Crestwood Cemetery, East Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama

viii.

ELLIS RAPHORD FARRINGTON, b. 14 May 1917, Blount County, Alabama; m. HARRIET INEZ TAYLOR, 24 April 1938, Howellton Methodist Church.

Notes for ELLIS RAPHORD FARRINGTON:
The following stories are from "Farrington Tales and I'm Sitting On Mine", compiled by Kay Farrington Frost:

Uncle Ellis At His Best

After Ellis Farrington was born, his family only lived in Blount County, Alabama about six more years. Then they moved to Etowah County. (Uncle Ellis' comment was "when I got old enough to know better".) Ellis only attended school in Blount County in first grade. Miss Agnes Murphy was his teacher and she boarded with his family. She carried him to school a little before he was six years old. The school was in the Rock Springs Community. The family lived between Holly Pond and Rock Springs on the Mulberry River.

Very prominent during the summers in this section of Alabama were the singing schools. They also would every once in a while have a music school. They would teach the notes and teach the kids how to sing and at the end of the singing school they would have a big singing and a big night.

They would teach the notes. The one they had out at the Baptist Church was more or less Sacred Harp, where you sang the notes and then sang the words. The one at the Methodist Church at Howellton, they would teach the notes but they didn't sing them like they did at the Sacred Harp singing.

Our first car we had was a '25 Model T Ford. the next car we got was a 1927 Chevrolet Touring car.

Apple Orchard and Uncle Poley's Apple Jack Whiskey

We had a big apple orchard when we lived up on Sand Mountain. We would use what we called our drops to make cider. apple that wouldn't stay on the tree until they got ripe. We would have a thunderstorm or something and have apples to fall. We would pick these apples up and rent a cider mill and we would grind them and press the juice out and make cider. We stored the cider in our basement to make vinegar. We never had to buy vinegar. We always had plenty of vinegar and that vinegar would make "mother" and you could transfer some of that "mother" over to another churn and that "mother" would make more vinegar by adding syrup and water in with it.

We would always carry Uncle Poley some of that cider. We used to put it in a barrel to carry to him and Uncle Poley would make his into Apple Jack. In the fall of the year, when we would carry our cotton to Altoona, we would come back by Uncle Poley's and get our drinking whiskey. Pa would do that, you know, us boys weren't supposed to have any of it. That was the Apple Jack homemade whiskey that Pa would keep under the head of his bed and put a little rock candy in it and use it for cough medicine. The first drink I ever had I think I crawled under the bed and got it out of Pa's jug. We would sell some of the apples when we'd go to town, but most of them went into cider.

We dried apples and made pies.

Laziness Personified as told by Ellis Farrington and Sue Farrington Scherrer:

We were talking about the curb market deal a while ago and how they not only got to where they wanted you to dress the chickens for them, they wanted you to slice the hams, shell the butterbeans and break the string beans. At that time I thought people were getting too lazy to live, now they want to buy their food already cooked.

Sue: "I remember shelling peas to sell and if you did not sell them you came home and canned them".

Ellis: "There was no such thing as freezing it back then, you didn't have anything but an icebox".

I remember one of my old school teachers, Miss Sivley, visited Fletcher and Eunice after they moved to Dadeville, here, she come back home and told them "said, you know, they've got an icebox that's got a big wad of snow up in the top of it". She had never seen a refrigerator before.

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