Otoway Alfred, Sr. ("Alfred") Farmer

ID Number: T01524
Biographical Data
Basic Identification
Gender: male Ethnicity: Immigration: no Attributed Race: white Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: 1847/00/00 Birthplace: Lynchburg (or Amherst County?), Virginia Mother: Charlotte Farmer Father: Benjamin A. Farmer, Sr. 1st Spouse: Nannie Farmer 2nd Spouse: Mary Elizabeth Garvin Farmer
Age Details
Age: 45 Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): contractor (1892); carpenter; manager at leaf tobacco factory (1880) Last Church: Military Service: none Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia Last Address: 500 Pearl Street
Death
Death Date: 1892/11/20 Death Note: none Place of Death: home Cause of Death: Bright's disease
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1892/11/21 Funeral Home: Diuguid Diuguid ID Number: D0965903 Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes Section: 211.E Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker Grave Marker Erector(s): Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker
Notes
"an aged and well known citizen"
Obituary and Biographical Detials

1890 LCD:
He was co-owner of Farmer Bros., a “general repairing” business on the corner of Grace and Twelfth

N.B. His second wife Mary Elizabeth Garvin Farmer died in 1937 and was buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard in Monroe, Virginia (see Diuguid)

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