Marcus Andrew Farley
Church Service

PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH
In many ways our personality of the month is an "ever present help" on Sunday, Rain or shine, sleet or snow, heat or cold, you can find him on hand for Sunday School and Church. You could most likely count on your fingers the number of times he has been absent in the past twelve years. He not only holds a most commendable attendance record for Sunday School, but he knows ho regularly or spasmodically we attend. He is none other than Mr. Marcus Andrew Farley. Mr. Parley was born in Bridgeton, Alabama in the Bold Springs Community near what is now Lake Purdy. Perhaps that is why he is "Purdy Bold" and greets everyone with a smile and a friendly "How do you do?" He joined the Bold Springs Presbyterian Church at the age of thirteen. He was elected as Ruling Elder at the age of eighteen and served on the Board of Elders with his father until the latter's death in 1925. He represented the Leeds Presbytery in the General Assembly,(the highest court in the Presbyterian Church) which was held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1916. He served as Sunday School Superintendent at the Bold Springs Church for several years. In October 1924 he moved to Rosedale, which later became Homewood, He did not sever his church relationship with the Bold Springs Church until after the death of his mother about four years later. Mr. Farley joined the Edgewood Presbyterian Church July 15, 1928 and was elected an elder shortly afterward, and has repeatedly served his Church in its higher courts, such as Presbytery and Synod. He served actively as an Elder until April 1940 when the Rotary System went into effect. He was elected treasurer of the church April 1929 and still holds that office most efficiently. In 1934 he was elected Sunday School Superintendent. In 1938 the Sunday School honored him by sending him as a delegate to the Sunday School Superintendents' Conference at Wooster, Ohio. The Edgewood Presbyterian Church and Sunday School are most fortunate in having this conscientious and faithful man among its leaders and workers.