History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 794.
[Nicholas County]  [Upper Blue Licks Precinct]

G. C. FARIS, farmer, P. O. Moorefield; is a native of Madison County,
Ky., where he was born Oct. 12, 1827.  His ancestors were of Scotch-Irish
descent, emigrating to Virginia very early in the history of that State.
In 1780 his grandfather, Michael Faris, came to Kentucky and settled on
the waters of Silver Creek in Madison County, where he engaged in farming,
dying at an early age.  Michael Faris, Jr., the father of our subject,
was born in Madison County in 1789; was a soldier of the war of 1812, was
in the battle of Dudley's Defeat; had two brothers in same war, Isaac
and Dudley, the latter captain of a company.  In 1815 Michael Faris
married Lucy, daughter of John Hendron, of Madison.  His death occurred
at the age of sixty-eight.  G. C. Faris was raised in Madison County upon
his father's farm, beginning his medical education in his brother's
office.  In 1848 he moved to Bath County, and there on the 16th of May
of that year he married Nancy L., daughter of Dewey B. and Lydia (Jones)
Boyd, who died childless.  In 1851 he moved to Nicholas County, attended
two courses of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical Institute in 1852-55;
practiced medicine for one year, and then went to farming, which he
followed to the present time.  On the 20th of May, 1868, he married
Elizabeth J., daughter of Wm. B. and Elizabeth P. (Whisner) Hopkins, of
Nicholas County.  In 1855 he was elected on the American ticket to
represent Nicholas County in the Legislature, and served one term.  Mr.
Faris has been a member of the Masonic Order since coming of age, and
for twenty-five years has been a member of R.A. Chapter at Carlisle.
Politically he is a warm supporter of the Democratic party.

Faris Boyd Jones Whisner Hopkins Hendron
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Madison-KY Bath-KY OH VA

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