Isabella Jerdone Farrar (maiden name: Mitchell) was born on May 5, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On June 14, 1855, she married Bernard Gaines Farrar Jr. at the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia. They had four children: Anne Clark Thruston, born in 1856; Alexander Mitchell, born in 1859; Bernard or “Bertie” Cecil, born in 1864; and Frank Jerdone, born and died in 1865. The family eventually moved to St. Louis, Missouri. After a period of illness, Isabella died of angina pectoris on April 2, 1916, in St. Louis. She is buried in an underground family tomb in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis alongside her husband, who died two months later.
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| Birth date: | 1835-05-05 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth place: | Philadelphia, PA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Death date: | 1916-04-02 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Death place: | St. Louis, MO | ||||||||||||||||||
| Causes of death: | old age, disease: angina pectoris | ||||||||||||||||||
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“Marriage of Bernard Gaines Farrar,” Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970; U.S. Federal Census, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910, accessed on Ancestry.com; Death Certificates for Bernard Gaines Farrar and Isabela Jerdone Farrar, “Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 - 1968,” Missouri Digital Heritage (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/DeathCertificates); “Bernard G. Farrar, Jr. Collection,” LaBudde Special Collections Library (https://library.umkc.edu/archival-collections/farrar#); “Isabella Jerdone “Isabelle” Mitchell Farrar,” Findagrave.com (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111166009/isabella-jerdone-farrar).
