Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887,
Lincoln County. 

JOSEPH E. FARRIS, farmer and miller of Stanford
Precinct in Lincoln County, was born in 1844 and is the son of William and
Elizabeth (Evans) Farris.  His grandparents, William and Susan Ann (Owsley)
Farris, came to Lincoln County, Ky., in an early day and reared a family of
seven children, viz: Henry, Cyrus W., E. B. Farris, James W., John, Susan
(Gilmore) and William Farris.  The last-named was born in Lincoln County,
where he grew to maturity and married Elizabeth Evans.  He conducted a
hotel business for many years in Crab Orchard, after which he removed to
Somerset in Pulaski County, where he died in 1850.  His wife was a daughter
of Josiah and Keziah Evans, and who died soon after the death of her
husband.  They left a family of three sons: Henry Clay, Josiah E. and
Maurice Farris, all of whom are living.  Josiah E. was chiefly reared in
Pulaski County, Ky., returning to Lincoln County in his young manhood, and
has engaged in agricultural pursuits with which he combined the milling
business being
the proprietor of the Buffalo mills, near Stanford.  He married in 1867
Miss Alice, daughter of Robert G. and Susan A. Graham, of Lincoln County.
They have been blessed with three children: Elizabeth, Robert G. and
Maurice J. Farris.