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Faris Family Reunion 1919
(link goes away from this site)

Faris Family of WVA & Ohio

Armagh Yeomanry
1798-1831
(links goes away from this site, mentions the Faris name and others)

Ellsworth Kansas
Wyatt Earp
Interesting article about a trial in 1877 which is when Arthur Irwin Faris, son Francis Faris etc were living at the time. (link goes away from this site)

Ellsworth Kansas History
(link goes away from this site and gives a picture of life in the late 1800s.)

"Fort Harker"
Ellsworth County Kansas
1866/1872

In March, 1917 the Frank Faris famiy arrived in Canada, to the village of Glenella, from Arkansas, USA.  It was quite a shock to see snow, and we were not dressed for Manitoba spring weather.

Dad hired a team and buggy from the livery barn.  We started out for the Bellhampton District to the home of Hugh Robertson, the friends we were to stay with until Dad located land of his own.  The trip was an ordeal over roads far from good.  My two brothers Lindon and Erskine had to walk.  The buggy wouldn't hold us all.

They weren't used to seeing ditches along the road; and upon exploring how deep it was, fell into snow and water ending up two very wet young fellows.

Dad settled for a quarter section on what we called the ridge.  He built a house, and we got moved in.  By then Mr. and Mrs. Jim Fisher, an English couple, and Rock Savage (the Poet) had filed on homesteads.  We were delighted to have close neighbors.

My brother Erskine had a desire to learn the violin.  He was sitting on a pile of lumber one evening, no doubt chased out of the house to do his practising.  He heard a noise close by, upon looking around saw a bear that had either come to listen or satisfy his curiosity as to what all the racket was about.

Mother took ill while on the homestead.  She passed away in 1921 and is laid to rest in the Glenella cemetery.

Minerva, my sister, was a teacher.  She taught Lake Mary School.  I went to school there, we took up residence in a small house once owned by Jim Evans.  Minerva married Bob Robertson of the Glenella District.

We moved back to the States about 1924.  Minerva passed away in 1942 and is buried in Redding, California.  Bob is deceased and is buried there as well.  Dad died in 1943 and is buried in Redding.

Erskine died in 1929 and Lindon in 1965 buried in California.

I, Lily, the youngest of the family live in Lyons, Oregon USA.