This collection contains correspondence; legal papers; cotton statements; photographs; and genealogical material of Daniel S. Farrar, Jr., and his family. In addition, there are a photocopy of the diary of Daniel S. Farrar, Sr.; a funeral notice of Addie Farrar, wife of Daniel S. Farrar, Jr.; and records documenting the military service of Daniel S. Farrar, Jr., during the Sapanish-American War. A roster of Company G, Third Regiment, Mississippi National Guard, Gloster, is included. There is a United Confederate Veterans alternate's certificate of Daniel S. Farrar, Jr. Minutes, programs, newsclippings, and a booklet of the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers are also contained in the collection.

Cite as: Z/1433.000: Farrar (Daniel S., Jr.) and Family Collection.

Daniel Farrar (1786-1845) was born in Adams County, Mississippi. He was the son of Alexander and Jane Davis Farrar. Daniel Farrar married Eliza King (1791-1864) on February 3, 1814. She was the daughter of Caleb F. King (1743-1820) and Mary Swayze King (1750-1816). The Farrars had eight children: Alexander K. (1814-1878), Thornton H. (1816-1836), Mary Jane (b. 1821), Caleb Franklin (1824-1904), Ann Eliza (b. 1827), Sarah Sophronia (b. 1830), and Daniel Smith (b. 1836). Daniel Smith Farrar was born in Adams County on January 23, 1836. He enlisted in Company C, Fourth Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, and served with the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. Farrar later transferred to a cavalry regiment and served with General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Mississippi and Tennessee, later attaining the rank of captain. He married Alice V. Phipps on October 10, 1865. After her death, he married Adaline Campbell (b. 1854) of Fayette, Jefferson County, Mississippi, on January 8, 1873. She was the daughter of R. W. Campbell (b. 1858) and Nannie Burch Campbell. Daniel and Adaline Campbell Farrar had four sons: Daniel Smith, Jr. (b. 1873), Robert C. (b. 1875), Caleb F. (b. 1877), and Ralph North (1878-1939). Adaline Campbell Farrar died on September 10, 1908. Daniel S. Farrar was a Jefferson County resident who lived with his sons during his last years. He died at the age of seventy-nine in Rosedale, Bolivar County, Mississippi. Daniel Smith Farrar, Jr., was born in Kingston, Adams County, on October 26, 1873. At the age of eighteen, he became first lieutenant of Company B, First Regiment, Mississippi National Guard, during the Spanish-American War. After contracting pneumonia, Farrar received a medical discharge and returned to Mississippi in December of 1898. He married Mary Sue Aydelotte of Columbia, Tennessee, on June 27, 1909. She was the daughter of W. C. and Sarah Polk Cherry Aydelotte. The Farrars had one daughter: Sarah Polk (b. 1909).

Mary Sue Aydelotte Farrar died in 1933, and Farrar married his second wife, Sallie Muir Stripling, on October 25, 1938. The Farrars resided on a plantation near St. Joseph, Louisiana, in 1952, and they later moved to Shaw, Bolivar County, Mississippi. Farrar was president of the Descendants of the Jersey Settlers, which was first organized as the King-Swayze-Farrar-Eaton Family Association in 1940. He was a member of the Shaw Methodist Church. Farrar died at the age of ninety-one.