James W. Farley died on Monday, April 13. He was a Platte County attorney, a civil war historian and author of “Forgotten Valor, The First Missouri Cavalry Regiment C.S.A.,” published in 1996, and co-author with his son of “Missouri Rebels Remembered: Si Gordon & John Thrailkill,” published in 2006.
Follow this link for his obituary in the Kansas City Star.