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Uriah H. Farr was born in Morgan County, Indiana, on 23 October 1846.
The son of Daniel C. and Susanna
(Teague) Farr. Daniel was born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, 8 May 1816
and moved with his parents to this State in 1822. He married Susanna
Teague on 29 February 1834. Daniel was the father of three children:
Nathan, Hannah, and Uriah. He died on 14 August 1850.
In July 1862, Uriah enlisted (at age 15
years) in Company D, 70th Indiana Volunteers and served for 3 years. (In
May 1863, he was admitted in sick call to a hospital in Gallitin, TN.) He
fought in several battles including: Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw
Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, the Atlanta Campaign, the March to the Sea,
Savannah, and Bentonville. He was discharged in June 1865.
On 16 March 1866, he married Sarah Blankenship and raised
a family of four children: Anna A, Kate E., Montana E., and Daniel B.
Uriah continued farming until 1874
then he began the study of medicine, attended lectures at the college of
Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis, from which he graduated in 1876.
After practicing at Paragon until 1882, he removed to Martinsville in
Morgan County.
Dr. Farr also took a course of lectures at the
University of Pennsylvania and received the ad
eundem degree.
In 1916, Uriah and Sarah returned to Paragon to
live and in 1918, Sarah passed away.
Dr. Uriah H. Farr passed away on 2 Oct. 1934 and
was buried in a military ceremony in the South Park Cemetery in
Martinsville, Indiana. He was nearly 88 years old and the last Civil War
veteran in Ray Township, Morgan County, Indiana.
He served the communities of Paragon and
Martinsville for 60 years as medical doctor.
From "Counties of Morgan, Monroe, & Brown, Indiana.
Historical and Biographical" by Charles Blanchard, and from local
newspaper articles of the period.
(Uriah Farr was the brother-in-law and Army messmate of
Absalom Ross)
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