Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 52-57.  Hickman Co.  [Portrait,
page 53]

JEFFERSON AUGUSTUS FARABOUGH, M.D.

     Jefferson Augustus Farabough, M.C., of Clinton, Kentucky, was
born in Weakley county, Tennessee, October 25, 1847, son of Thomas R.
and Sallie (Ward) Farabough.  The Farabough family, as far back as
their history is traced, were residents of North Carolina, and Thomas
R. Farabough was born in Granville, that state.  When he was a lad of
twelve years his father, James Farabough, removed to Henry county,
Tennessee, and there settled and passed the rest of his life, and died
in 1861 at the age of seventy years.  He was the father of the
following named children:  William, Thomas R., Martha Jane, and Sula,
all now deceased except Thomas R.
     Thomas R. Farabough was reared on his father's farm, and has all
his life been engaged in agricultural pursuits.  After his marriage,
which event occurred in Henry county, Tennessee, he moved to Weakley
county, that state, where he has continued his residence up to the
present time, having reached the advanced age of eighty years.  During
the Civil war he was a soldier in the Confederate army, served about
two years, and at the end of that time was discharged on account of
failing health.  He has long affiliated, politically, with the
Democratic party and, religiously, with the Methodist Episcopal
church, south, of which church his wife also was a consistent member.
She died in 1890, at the age of sixty-five years.  The names of their
children are as follows:  Jefferson A.; Ballard S., of Hickman county,
Kentucky; Bettie, wife of F.M. Roberts, of Henry county, Tennessee;
Elnora, deceased wife of W.W. Pirtle; Udora, deceased, was the first
wife of W.W. Pirtle; Emma, who died in infancy; Wylie W., an attorney
of Paris, Tennessee; Belle, wife of James Chambers, of Obion county,
Tennessee; Sallie, wife of J.H. Shelton, an attorney of Clinton,
Kentucky; and James, of Weakley county, Tennessee.
     Jefferson A. Farabough, the eldest of the family above named, was
reared on his father's farm and received his early education in the
country schools near his father's home.  In 1870, at the age of
twenty-three, he was united in marriage to Miss Lydia Boaz, of Fulton
county, Kentucky, who died that same year, leaving an infant daughter,
Sallie, who is now the wife of Richard Jackson, of Humboldt,
Tennessee.  In 1873 Dr. Farabough married Miss Mattie Sanders, of
Montgomery county, Tennessee.  She bore him two children, Hettie, wife
of J.W. Wood, of Clinton, Kentucky; and John B. a farmer of Fulton
county, Kentucky.  The mother of these children died in 1875, and in
1878 our subject wedded Miss Fannie B. Rawls, by whom he has six
living children, viz.:  Walter, Earl, Thomas, Addie, Irene and
Luradine.  One child died, aged three and a half years.
     When Dr. Farabough began life on his own account it was as a
farmer, and after the death of his first wife he turned his attention
to the study of medicine, studying and practicing first in the office
of Dr. Albert Johnson, of Weakley, Tennessee, and later entering the
Eclectic School of Medicine at St. Louis, where he graduated in 1876.
The year following his graduation in St. Louis he was engaged in
practice at Dukedom, Tennessee.  The next year he spent in Arkansas,
and, returning to Kentucky, located at Pryorsburg, where he practiced
six years, after which he purchased a farm in the eastern part of
Hickman county.  On this farm he lived for a period of sixteen years,
dividing his time between the cultivation of his farm and the practice
of his profession.  In the winter of 1892 Dr. Farabough took a
post-graduate course in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati,
Ohio, thus further preparing himself in the line of his profession.
Subsequently, in the fall of 1900, he moved to Clinton, where he has
since resided.
     While Dr. Farabough has farmed and practiced medicine, he has
also preached, and his life in more ways than one has been a blessing
to those with whom he has been associated.  He embraced Christianity
in the fall of 1865.  In the fall of 1888 he was licensed to preach in
the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and in the winter of 1890 was
ordained a local deacon in the annual conference of the Memphis
Conference.
     Dr. Farabough is identified with various organizations, social
and professional, among them being the Masonic order, the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Hickman County Medical Society, Kentucky State
Medical Association, Kentucky Eclectic Medical Association and
National Eclectic Medical Association.
     All his life Dr. Farabough has been a Democrat, and since
becoming a resident of Clinton he has been a member of the city
council, and is now chairman of the town board of health.  He has ever
espoused the cause of temperance, and is therefore and always has been
much in sympathy with prohibition movements.

Farabough Ward Roberts Pirtle Chambers Shelton Boaz Jackson Sanders
Wood Rawls Johnson
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Weakley-TN Granville-NC Henry-TN Obion-TN Fulton-KY Gibson-TN
Montgomery-TN Fulton-KY St._Louis-MO AR Graves-KY Hamilton-OH

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