Elizabeth O. Farr

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From: William F farrardna@yahoo.com
Date: 12/2/2015 10:27:18 AM
To: lumoto@aol.com
Subject: A correction to your family tree

You might want to correct the family tree you have posted here:

http://sherrysharp.com/genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F23466&tree=Roots the woman that married Robert Melton was not Mary Farrar.

Her birth name was Farr, not Farrar. A descendant of the Melton family seeking to obtain an Ancient Planters certificate created a genealogical crime, by conflating Mary Farr (Pharr) with Mary Farrar (wishful thinking at best). The only thing the two names have in common are an F and two R's, the same problem occurs with the Ferris and Farris.

Frustrating to some because they have no documentation on Mary Farr, There are also those who claim that Elizabeth O Farr who married another Melton was also a Farrar.

To start with Mary and Elizabeth Farr were born in Kent County, and all the children of Thomas Farrar and Katherine Perrin were born on the 2,000 acre patent filed by the father of Thomas Farrar, a peninsula on the James River, in Then Chesterfield County, today's Chesterfield County, that peninsula was turned into an Island after the civil war by the Corps of engineers when a cut was made to straighten it.

None of the Family of Col William Farrar II, father of Thomas Farrar and his brother William III ever lived in Kent County.

This crime is further proved by the fact that Mary Farrar married Joseph Watkins and the couple had a daughter Mary Isabelle Watkins b 1732 and married Henry Willis. This is two years after Mary Farr married Robert Melton.

Another internet poster tried to get around that by asserting that Mary Farrar had a bastard by Robert Melton. A ridiculous claim, as she was still married to Joseph Watkins

Regards

William Farrar Farrar
DNA Project Administrator
http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/farrar

Elizabeth married William James Melton, III about 1720 in New Kent Co, or Hanover Co, Virginia. William (son of Richard Melton, II and Mary (..) Melton) was born on 11 Dec 1698 in New Kent Co, Virginia; died between 1751 and 1755 in Hanover Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Silas Melton, Sr. was born in 1725 in Surry Co, Virginia; died on 17 May 1783 in Charlotteville, Albemarle Co, Virginia.
2. Joel Melton was born in 1728 in Surry Co, Virginia; died in 1782 in Hanover Co, Virginia.
3. William Samuel Melton was born on 23 Nov 1729 in Goochland Co, VIrginia; died on 11 Feb 1772 in Albermarle Co, Virginia.