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- things to do:
1. Check to see if Dorcas is actual daughter born 8 years after last child. Other children?
2. Newspapers in Mecklenburg County, NC
3. Newspapers in Osage, Pulaski, MO
4. Check out the dates of this appointment?
Robert Faires, in the U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971
Name: Robert Faires
Post Office Location: Onyx, Pulaski, Missouri
Appointment Date: 1 Oct 1820
Volume #: 12B
Volume Year Range: 1832-1844
5. Is this Robert related? There is a Lindsey listed as Chairman of the Court
Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008
Name: Robert Faries
Probate Date: 3 Oct 1853
Probate Place: Carroll, Tennessee, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1853
Inferred Death Place: Tennessee, USA
Item Description: Administrators, Executors and Guardians Bonds, 1852-1882
Timeline for Robert Faires:
1798 Aug 15, Robert born in North Carolina
1816 May 23, Robert married Susannah Orr in Mecklenburg County, NC
1817 Jul 15, daughter, Cynthia born in Mecklenburg County, NC
1819 Jan 27, son, Addison born in Mecklenburg County
1820 Dec 12, daughter, Jane Pricilla born in Mecklenburg County
1823 Jan 18, daughter, Mary Elizabeth born in Mecklenburg County
1825 Jan 19, son, Joseph Morgan born in Mecklenburg County
1827 Feb 5, son, James Pulaski born in North Carolina
1828 daughter, Susannah, born born in North Carolina
1831 Nov 16, moved west to Tennessee
1836 14 Jan,daughter, Dorcas
1836 Dec 4, arrived at Onyx on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River, in Pulaski County, MO
1840 Oct, Robert served as Postmaster in Onyx, Pulaski County, MO
1850 US Census, District 45, Laclede, Missouri as a farmer
1851 Robert appointed the school commissioner
1855 Nov 22, Robert died in Lebanon, Laclede, MO at age 57
1857 May 11, Robert's widow, Susanna, died in Laclede County, MO
The following info came from Charlene Chambers King at the following web site:
Robert Faires and Susannah Orr were both born and raised in North Carolina. They married on May 23, 1816 in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. After Robert and Susannah married, they lived in North Carolina until Nov 16, 1831, the day they started to move west to Tennessee. They landed in Campbellsville, Giles County, Tennessee on Dec 20, 1831. They lived there until Sept. 1, 1836, when they started west. Robert and Susannah joined a wagon train headed to Pulaski County, Missouri. The Gribsbys and Brownlows were also part of that wagon train (Who were all the families in this wagon train?). They arrived at Onyx on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River, in Pulaski County, Missouri, on Dec. 4, 1836. Robert built a mill and store there, which was destroyed by a flood in 1840. This forced them to move to higher ground. This is when many moved to the Drynob area and this is my understanding how Drynob got it name.
About 1839 Robert had a mill on Osage Fork and a store. The first Monday in April 1849, after Laclede Co. was formed, the first election was held resulting in the election of Robert Farris to be one of three Judges for the newly formed Laclede Co., MO. At the first meeting of the County Court Robert Farris was elected to be the presiding judge.
Robert Faires was appointed the school commissioner in 1851.
About some of Robert and Susannah's children:
Mary Elizabeth married Thomas Honssinger in 1846. They raised their family in the Drynob area. They are my great great great grandparents. Cynthia married Terrill Grigsby <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crrking/grisby.htm> in 1838. They moved to Napa Valley Calif. about 1852. Jane Priscilla married William Grigsby Brownlow in 1842. They raised their family in the Drynob area.
Oct 1840 Robert Faires served as Postmaster in Onyx, Pulaski County, Missouri (source: History of Pulaski County, MO, vol 2, found in the Salt Lake City FHL.)
"History of Laclede County, First County Board
The First County Board below was taken from the book History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.
First County Board. -- In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing act [forming of Laclede County], an election was held at the required number of places within the county, on the first Monday in April, 1849, and Robert Faires , William Smith, and Samuel W. Barnes were elected county court justices, John S. Shields sheriff and John L. Herndon clerk of the county court. In further obedience to the act, these officers, after being duly commissioned and qualified, met at the house of L. Murphy, about two miles east of the present site of Lebanon, on the 31st day of May following, and there organized the county court by electing Hon. Robert Faires as its presiding judge."
Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0546461-0546466
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Robert Faires was appointed the school commissioner in 1851.
About some of Robert and Susannah's children:
Mary Elizabeth married Thomas Honssinger in 1846.
Cynthia married Terrill Grigsby in 1838. They moved to Napa Valley Calif. about 1852.
Jane Priscilla married William Grigsby Brownlow in 1842. They raised their family in the Drynob area.
The picture below was taken in August 2001 while standing in section 17 viewing sections 20 & 21. Sections 17, 20 & 21 was once owned by Robert Faires and then later by George R. James. The Osage River is located in the valley where the trees are in a row in the middle of the picture.
The old Phillips Cemetery is located above the Osage River on the grass hill.
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Name: Robert Faires
Issue Date: 1 Jun 1845
Acres: 80
Meridian: 5th PM
State: Missouri
County: Laclede
Township: 34-N
Range: 14-W
Section: 17
Accession Number: MO5250__.303
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Springfield
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 7084
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Name: Robert Faires
Issue Date: 1 Oct 1845
Acres: 40
Meridian: 5th PM
State: Missouri
County: Laclede
Township: 34-N
Range: 14-W
Section: 20
Accession Number: MO5280__.168
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Springfield
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 5111
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Name: Robert Faires
Issue Date: 1 Jul 1852
Acres: 80
Meridian: 5th PM
State: Missouri
County: Laclede
Township: 34-N
Range: 14-W
Section: 17
Accession Number: MO5370__.232
Metes and Bounds: No
Land Office: Springfield
Canceled: No
US Reservations: No
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Number: 11261
1850 United States Federal Census
Name: Robert Faines
Age: 52 farmer property value $1000
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1798
Birth Place: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 45, Laclede, Missouri
Susana age 66 born North Carolina
James P. age 22 born North Carolina
Per Robert Faires' family bible records Joseph Morgan Faires was b. 19 Jan 1825 and departed this life April 20, 1846. He is my 3rd great uncle. - Charlene Chambers Tindall Added: Nov. 11, 2011
North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 http://www.ancestry.com about Robert Faires
Name: Robert Faires
Spouse: Susannah Orr
Marriage Date: 22 May 1816
Marriage County: Mecklenburg
Marriage State: North Carolina
findagrave.com
Robert F. Faires
Birth: 1798, North Carolina, USA
Death: 1855, Missouri, USA
Son of Joseph and Mary Faires.
Family links:
Spouse:
Susannah Orr Faires (1793 - 1857)*
Children:
Mary Elizabeth Faires Honsinger (1823 - 1870)*
Joseph Morgan Faires (1825 - 1846)*
Burial: Phillips Cemetery, Laclede County, Missouri, USA
Phillips Cemetery, located near Drynob on the Mike Bowman Farm, Township 34 Range 14W section 20
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1798 - 1855 (57 years)
