A recent column trace the arrival in Harlan of the earliest generations of the Farley family. An inquiry has been received asking for information on George T. Farley and his family.

As stated in the previous column, William and Elizabeth Thompson Farley had a son Thomas. By his first wife, Thomas is believed to have had a son also named Thomas. This younger Thomas was born about 1816 here in Kentucky.

About 1836, Thomas married a young woman named Deborah from Tennessee. Deborah had a little daughter at the time, Catherine who married Samuel Howard. Catherine went by the maiden name of Banks, but information on Deborah also suggests the possibility that Deborah was a Madden.

William Farley, the oldest of Thomas and Deborah's 10 children, was born about 1837. In 1857, he married Amos Johnson's daughter Tennessee. After Tennessee's death, William married her sister Minerva in 1876 and in his old age married yet a third of the Johnson sisters, this time, in 1911, to Rosa.

William's brother John K. Farley was born about 1838. In 1858, he married Sarah Clem. His sister Martha Jane was next in line. She was born about 1841 and married Giles French, the well known mountain lawyer.

Jeremiah Farley was born about 1843. In 1868, he married Emily, daughter of Abind Lansdown. They later divorced and she married his cousin John C. Farley.

Nancy and Mary Farley were born in the mid 1840's and their sister Eliza Louisa was born about 1852. Two more girls followed. Arminta born about 1854 and Minerva born Sep. 10, 1857.

The George T. Farley inquired about was the seventh of the children of Thomas and Deborah. He was born about 1849 in Harlan County.

In 1869, at the age of 20, he married Nancy, daughter of Andrew and Happy Howard Hensley. Nancy was born about 1846 and appears to have died late in the 1870's as George T. is listed in the 1880 census of Harlan County as a widow.

George T. and Nancy had three children; Minty, born about 1871; French `Bud' born about 1872; and Mary J. born about 1877,

In 1882, George T. married again, this time to Temperance `Tempy' Lankford, daughter of William and Mary Lyttle Lankford. Tempy, born about 1865, was some fifteen years younger than George.

George T. and his second wife has 11 children; Nannie, born May 1884, married in 1899 to Cleveland Carmical; Debby, born December 1885, married D. M. Carmical; George, born February 1887, married Sarah J. Jarris in 1911; Bradley, born June 1889, married Cassie Jones in 1913; Betsann, born May 1891, married in 1910 to Hiram J. Helton; Armelie, known as `Bob', born February 1894, married Ed. Ball; Napolean `Pole', born March 1897, married Sally Cornett in 1920; John, born February 1900, married Mellie Branson; Walter married Edna Johnson; and Nora who married J.C. `Hi' Hensley.