FARRAR.
John Farrar lived in the southwest part of the county, and
died in 1769. His children were Perrin, Catharine Jopling,
Sarah Spencer, William, Peter, Thomas, Elizabeth and Richard.
Perrin, William, Peter and Richard were all owners of
land on Green and Ivy Creeks, branches of the lower Rockfish.
Perrin died about 1793, leaving eight children who removed
to Amherst.
Richard married Susan Shelton, of Louisa, and died in
1807. He was a ruling elder in the Cove Church. His
children were Joseph, Landon, John S., Lucinda, the wife of
Samuel L. Wharton, Elizabeth, the wife of George Wharton,
both of whom emigrated to Davidson County, Tennessee, and
Sophia, the wife of Dr. Samuel Leake, and mother of Hon.
Shelton F. Leake. John S. was appointed Colonel of the
Forty-Seventh Regiment in 1815. He died in 1832, and left
nine children, Richard L., Matthew G., Elizabeth, Martha,
Marcellus, Sarah, the wife of Alexander K. Yancey, Sophia,
the wife of George W. Piper, Lavinia and Susan.
