Victoria unexpectedly survived an attempted murder at 2am on 1 Mar 1903, then living in Clayton Co in the Mt Zion Church community. As reported in the Atlanta Constitution, issue of 1 Mar 1903... "Enraged because his wife would not give him a sum of money which he had turned over to her and with a brain inflamed from liquor, William Ellis Farmer, former deputy sheriff of Clayton Co, shot Mrs Farmer through the right lung, fired another bullet into the head of Captain James I Christian, his aged father-in-law, and then killed himself by putting a ball through his heart." She was struck in the back, the bullet passing straight through her body, as she ran from the house and fell on the front porch. Her son, Charles, lived about 200 yards away and upon hearing the commotion, ran to the house and carried his mother to her bed.
She, her widowed mother, and her unmarried children later moved to Atlanta where Victoria lived out the remainder of her life. She was living at 640 Holderness St when she died of unknown causes.
She was the mother of 9 children, all living to adulthood. They were Charles Newton, James Lee, Lillian Maud, John D Stewart, Lela May, William Ward, Julia V, Hannah and Ruby Farmer.
She, her widowed mother, and her unmarried children later moved to Atlanta where Victoria lived out the remainder of her life. She was living at 640 Holderness St when she died of unknown causes.
She was the mother of 9 children, all living to adulthood. They were Charles Newton, James Lee, Lillian Maud, John D Stewart, Lela May, William Ward, Julia V, Hannah and Ruby Farmer.
Victoria unexpectedly survived an attempted murder at 2am on 1 Mar 1903, then living in Clayton Co in the Mt Zion Church community. As reported in the Atlanta Constitution, issue of 1 Mar 1903... "Enraged because his wife would not give him a sum of money which he had turned over to her and with a brain inflamed from liquor, William Ellis Farmer, former deputy sheriff of Clayton Co, shot Mrs Farmer through the right lung, fired another bullet into the head of Captain James I Christian, his aged father-in-law, and then killed himself by putting a ball through his heart." She was struck in the back, the bullet passing straight through her body, as she ran from the house and fell on the front porch. Her son, Charles, lived about 200 yards away and upon hearing the commotion, ran to the house and carried his mother to her bed.
She, her widowed mother, and her unmarried children later moved to Atlanta where Victoria lived out the remainder of her life. She was living at 640 Holderness St when she died of unknown causes.
She was the mother of 9 children, all living to adulthood. They were Charles Newton, James Lee, Lillian Maud, John D Stewart, Lela May, William Ward, Julia V, Hannah and Ruby Farmer.
She, her widowed mother, and her unmarried children later moved to Atlanta where Victoria lived out the remainder of her life. She was living at 640 Holderness St when she died of unknown causes.
She was the mother of 9 children, all living to adulthood. They were Charles Newton, James Lee, Lillian Maud, John D Stewart, Lela May, William Ward, Julia V, Hannah and Ruby Farmer.
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