Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1894 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

J. C. KAKIB. Ou Sunday, Dec., 31st, 1893, the. remains of James C. Faris, an old and former resident of Jasper county, were interred in the Independence cemetery in Gillam township. ... He was born in Fleming County, Ky., Nov., 26th 1819, and was the fourth child of a family of eight sons and three daughters. His father John Faris, moved to Rush county Ind., in 1827, where he resided about two years, and from there moved to Indianapolis, then a small town of not over 2,000 inhabitants, where they engaged in brick making, manufacturing some of the brick used in building the first State House erected in that city. They lived at and near Indianapolis about ten years when the family came to north western Indiana and settled in or near Parish’s Grove. From Parish’s Grove the family moved to Beaver Prairie, some 15 miles west of Rensselaer, where the father of James died in 1844. His wife died in Gillam tp., in 1866. After his father’s death James took the family and moved to Rensselaer, in 1845, or 6, where they bought a small farm' where he kept the family until they were all grown up. About 1850 the deceased attended the law school department at the State University at Bloomington,. Ind., but did not follow the profession to any great extent. At the age of sixteen he embraced religion and joined the M. E. church, and was admitted as an exhorter, and soon after as a preacher in full connection, and was engaged in the work as a traveling minister for two or three years; but his health failing him he quit the traveling work and returned to the farm at Rensselaer, where he was best known as a local minister.

In 1855 he moved to Francesville, Pulaski county, and engaged in the mercantile business. While in Francesville he Jost his second wife, who was a sister of the Hon. G. H. Brown, now of Rensselaer, and by whom he_ had one son who lives in Terre Haute, and is engaged in the legal profession. He married his third wife while still at Francesville, and by whom he also has one son who also resides at Terre Haute, and was assistant postmaster during the Harrison administration. From Francesville the deceased moved to Medaryville, where he lived from 1860 until about 1882. From Medaryville he moved to Mexico, Miama county, Ind., from thence to Terre Haute, where he died at IjUo’clock Dec. 28th, 1893, after a short illness. He was 74 years, 1 mwth and 2 days old, and leaves five brothers and one sister. The remains were conveyed in a special car of the Vandalia Line to Medaryville, accompanied by his two sons and their wives and families with Drs. Green and Dale, two old ministerial friends of the deceased, who, assisted by Rev. Wiley, of the Medaryville Circuit, officiated at the funeral services at Independence Chapel, after which the remains were laid away to rest near the graves of his father and mother. B. R. F.