Born in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of Francis Holmes
and Elizabeth (Branford) Smith
Sister of
Ann (Holmes) Simmons
Wife of
Thomas Farr Jr.
— married
23 Nov 1760 in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth (Farr) Cripps
Died after
after age 52
in Charleston, South Carolina, United States [uncertain]
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Biography
Elizabeth, born 14 July 1744, was the daughter of Francis Holmes and Elizabeth Branford of Charles Town, Province of South Carolina.[1]
She married Thomas Farr on 23 November 1760.[2]They had children William Branford Farr, John Emperor Farr, Elizabeth Farr (m. John Splatt Cripps), and Mary Farr (m. __Capers).
In 1774 she and her husband inherited Hickory Hill Plantation on the Ashley River from her mother, where they made their home.[3]
Elizabeth survived her husband and was living in October 1796, when she is mentioned in the Will of her brother Thomas Branford Smith.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Salley, A. S.. ed. Register of St. Philip's Parish Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758 (1904), p. 93 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067450395&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021
- ↑ Salley, A. S. Marriage Notices In the South-Carolina Gazette And Its Successors. (1732-1801). (1902) p. 21 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101073810010&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
- ↑ Smith, Henry A. M. “The Ashley River: Its Seats and Settlements (Continued).” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 20, no. 2 (1919): 84-5. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27569483
- ↑ "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-N4Z6-J?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-NWG%3A210905601%2C211871901 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1807-1818, Vol. 032 > image 86 of 500; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia.Will of Thomas Branford Smith
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