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Descendants of Jacob Faubion

7. WILLIAM⁴ FAUBION (JACOB³, JACOB², HANS JOSEPH¹)^119,¹²⁰ was born January 16, 1783 in Fauquier County, Virginia ¹²¹, and died September 26, 1839 in Cocke County, Tennessee¹²¹. He married ROSANNAH PERTHENIA AYERS^121,¹²² Abt. 1802. She was born Abt. 1785 in South Carolina ¹²³, and died June 3, 1851 in Cocke County, Tennessee ^124,¹²⁵.

Notes for WILLIAM FAUBION:
The Following received from Patt Seitas: William Faubion born January 16, 1783 in Faquier County, Virginia, died September 26, 1839 in Cocke County, Tennessee. He built on a tract of land in Cocke County, Tennessee which was known as the "Dave Susong" place. He was a blacksmith, millwright and made wagons. He enlarged the business and employed several men. (Comes from O'Dell.) He married Rosanna Parthenia Ayers.

The following information from Patt provided by Dyerman, Wilma, "The French Broad", Holt, Rhinehart and Wilson, page 17:

In the early 1800's William built a flatboat rigged with a paddle wheel on the stern. He took along a blind horse to help pull the boat along when the boat was in shallow water or other difficulty. Provisioned with flour, bacon, dried fruit, feathers and farm goods and with some crew members, William made his way down the French Broad River to the Tennessee River, up the Tennessee River to the Ohio River and from there to the Mississippi River and down river to New Orleans. In New Orleans, William and his crew sold the boat as well as the goods and made their way home by land.
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From Faubion and Allied Families, page 269:

William Faubion was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, Januray 16, 1783; died in Cocke County, Tennessee, September 26, 1839, and was buried in the small "burying ground" on his farm. He married in Cocke County, about the year 1802 (he was said to be nineteen), Rosannah Perthenia Ayres who we believe was born in South Carolina. She died in Cocke County, Tennessee, June 3,1851, and is buried alongside William in the family burying ground.

William was a blacksmith, wagon maker and millright as was his father. He was eleven years of age when his parents moved the family across the mountains into the territory now known as East Tennessee. Like his brothers, he grew up in the blacksmith shop learning the ancient ironwork craft from his father. Family legend reveals that he was enterprising, energetic, and ambitious. he was married at the age of nineteen with his father's consent, after being reminded that his services still belonged to his father until he reached the age of majority two years hence.

From Pangle comes the story of his "Unique Wedding" as written by her brother James Henry Faubion, quoted here in part;

About the year eighteen hundred, as well as can be determined now, the United States Government by a treaty with the Cherokee and Choctaw Indians, bought a land reservation which had been set apart to these tribes in Alabama and Georgia, and opened these lands to white settlers at a nominal price, there was a general hegira of the people of the older states east, to what was popularly known as the 'purchase.' Every passing day brought people migrating to the 'purchase' to obtain new homes.

One quiet afternoon in the fall of the year, just as the sun was beginning to make the shadows long, and was sinking behind the blue Smoky range of mountains, and Old Neddies' mountain which is only a short distance from the old Faubion home, was assuming the color of mountains peculiar to them, they were covered with pine and maple trees which at this season were taking on the great variety of colors seen in the beautiful Indian Summer time.

The catbirds were singing their evening songs, the cows were coming home to be milked, the still air was resounding with the music of the hammers and anvil in the roadside blacksmith shop, as all the farmers utensils used in the surrounding country were made in this little shop by the stalwart old blacksmith and son whose particular pride was their skill in fashioning iron and steel into implements for pioneer husbandmen.

After the music of the hammers of these Vulcans of the frontier had ceased for a moment, the younger man (our Grandfather William Faubion) only nineteen years of age, remarked to his father, "a train of movers are in sight coming in on the Warm Springs (North Carolina) raod.". . .

When young William had completed his inspection of the caravan, and returned to his work, his mind was continually occupied with it, for he was particularly attracted to the person of a young woman who was in his estimation the most interesting part of the make-up of the whole cavalcade.

After the shop was closed for the day, and the evening meal was over young William with his thoughts still on the young lady, garbed in a clean homespun shirt, and his Sunday-go-to-meeting pants, hied himself away to the movers camp to get acquainted, especially with the young woman who had so appealed tohis fancy. . . .The next morning at the breakfast table, young William announced to his astonished parents that he was going to be married . . ."This morning, and to Miss Perthenia Ayers. . . . .one of the young ladies down at the movers camp. . . .". . .
This was indeed a case of love at first sight, and a long happy and very prosperous life was given this young couple. . . under the law his services were the property of his parents. . . .As a concession to the young man and to permit him to make a support for himself and young wife, he was permitted by his father to have all he could make in the shop after the days work was over. . .

But the strangest and most pathetic part is, the parents, brothers and sisters of the young woman so peculiarly married, hitched up their teams and went on their way. . .She never saw any of them again, nether did she hear of them again during her long life.

From Faubion and Allied Families,Page 270 & 271

The division of the Estate of William's father, after his death, is unknown, but the legends would indicate that William continued in his father's trade, enlarging the business, and employing a number of men. It has been written that he built the first mill on the French Broad river, known as the Faubion Mill, and also built the first bridge across that river, just above where Bridgeport now stands. Whether or not they were the 'first' may be questioned; the fact that he built them is not.

In an article written for the Newport (Tennessee) Plain Talk by grandson James Henry Faubion, used by Pangle in 1922, Ruth Webb O'Dell in 1950, and by Wilma Dykeman in 1955, it is said William built a flatboat in the early 1800s, rigged it with a paddle wheel on the rear end, took along a blind horse which could serve as a sort of land-locked tug when the boat was in shallow water or other difficulty, loaded the boat with flour, bacon, dried fruit, feathers and other farm goods, and took it down the French Broad to the Tennessee river, up the Tennessee to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi, and down the Mississippi to New Orleans where he and his crew sold the boat as well as the cargo and made their way home by land. Recalling stories heard during his childhood, James Henry also related that William had a country store on the Warm Springs road south of Parrotsville, furnished by goods he purchased in Baltimore, Charleston, and Augusta (Georgia), hauled in from those places in his own wagons.

In 1839 William had been engaged in work for the Government in connection with the removal of the Indians from that section of the country. He was away from home for a period of nine months, and, exposed to the hazards of wilderness life, contracted typhoid fever from which he died after an illness of only a few weeks.

After William's death, Rosannah Perthenia lived with her son Tilghman and his family until her death in 1851.

William died without a Will, and on petition of the heirs in Chancery Court of Jefferson County, Tennessee, Dower was assigned and alotted to Rosannah, the widow, equal to one-third of the real estate, and partition was made among the children and legal heirs-at-law: Moses, Jacob, John, Spencer, Henry and Mathias Faubion; Philip Icenhour, husband of Elizabeth Faubion; and Hamilton Yett, the husband of Sarah Ann Faubion. Real estate in the amount of 3,157 acres on the north side of, and on the waters of the French Broad river, encompassing at least a part of Neddies' mountain, valued at over $18,000, was given into the hands of commissioners appointed by the Court to set aside Dower rights and to make partition of the same among the children and heirs at law. After setting aside the Dower rights, the commissioners apparently divided the property into allotments and those heirs who had not already been "advanced" property by Deed of Conveyance or noncupative Will drew for their portion.

Rosannah's dower of 300 acres with the erections and improvements thereon lay on the waters of the French Broad and on both sides of the public road leading from Newport to the Warm Springs. Phillip Isenhour, husband of Elizabeth, received land with one corner near the top of Neddy's Mountain and one corner on the banks of the French Broad river below what is called Neddy's Fall, down the meandors of the river (about one & three-fourth miles), then back to the beginning. Mathias Faubion also received land lying on the French Broad river below the Faubion Mills, but including a set of mills and cotton gins as well. The other heirs received land equal in value to the river lands with the mills, gins, and other erections.

Source notes for information written above:

Sarah Faubion Pangle, The Faubions, (Texas: 1922). Sarah Pangle and her brother, James Henry Faubion were children of Tilghman A. H. Faubion.

Ruth Webb O'Dell, Over The Misty Blue Hills, A History of Cocke County, Tennessee, (1950), page 92 & page 204. (To be reprinted by Southern Historical Press Easley, South Carolina, in Fall of 1981.

Duay O'Neil and Nan O'Neil, Sacred To The Memory, Cocke County, Tennessee Cemetery Records, 3 Vols. (Stylecraft Printing Company, Newport, Tennessee, (1972) Vol 2, page 25: #147, Faubion Cemetery. Incorrectly listed for William Faubion as b. 6-10-1783; d. 9-25-1839. Rosannah's stone completely sunken.

A personal visit to gravesite, chalking the gravestone for clarity, a snapshot taken for record, proven the above reading to be incorrect. Gravestone reads

"Bornd January the 16th in
The Year of our Lord 1783
Died September 26th In
The Year of our Lord 1839"

Wilma Dykeman, The French Broad, (Knoxville, The University of Tennessee Press 1955, reprint ed., 1973), VI, pages 57-58.

Chancery Court Minutes, Jefferson County, Tennessee, Vol. 1, pages 116-117.

Researchers: T. P. Hughes, Jr., Ann Faubion Armstrong, and Laverne Faubion.
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The following from Faubion and Allied Families, page 420:

William and Perthenia Faubion lived between Bridgeport and Parrotsville, on "the road from Newport to the 'Warm Springs'." Some families show place of birth near Bridgeport; others, near Parottsville. Both are correct.

More About WILLIAM FAUBION:
Cause of Death: Typhiod Fever
Event 1: Buried on his farm in small "burying ground"¹²⁵
Fact 6: occupation: Blacksmith/Wagonmaker/Millwright ¹²⁶

More About ROSANNAH PERTHENIA AYERS:
Event 1: buried on his (husband) farm in small "burying ground"¹²⁷

More About WILLIAM FAUBION and ROSANNAH AYERS:
Marriage: Abt. 1802

Children of WILLIAM FAUBION and ROSANNAH AYERS are:

48.	i.	MOSES⁵ FAUBION, b. Bet. 1803 - 1805, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. Unknown, prob. Jackson County, illinois.
49.	ii.	SPENCER FAUBION, b. Abt. 1805, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. September 11, 1881, near Paris, Lamar County, Texas.
50.	iii.	JACOB FAUBION, b. June 18, 1807, near Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. March 1, 1854, Jackson County, Illinois.
51.	iv.	ELIZABETH FAUBION, b. February 6, 1812, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. Unknown.
52.	v.	JOHN FAUBION, b. February 6, 1812, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. February 11, 1901, Lender, Williamson County, Texas.
53.	vi.	HENRY FAUBION, b. April 16, 1815, Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. March 17, 1892, Hamilton County, Texas.
54.	vii.	MATHIAS WALL FAUBION, b. April 15, 1818, near Parrotsville, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. September 1910, Parrotsville, Cocke County, Tennessee.
55.	viii.	II WILLIAM FAUBION, b. April 1820, Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. July 26, 1902, near Gause, Milam County, Texas.
56.	ix.	SARAH ANN FAUBION, b. February 6, 1823, near Parrotsville, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. December 4, 1877, Burnet County, Texas.
57.	x.	TILGHMAN ALEXANDER HOWARD FAUBION, b. June 17, 1824, near Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. October 8, 1908, Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas.

8. REV./JR. JACOB⁴ FAUBION (JACOB³, JACOB², HANS JOSEPH¹)^128,¹²⁹ was born Abt. 1785 in Fauquier County, Virginia ¹³⁰, and died December 14, 1852 in Linden, Clay County, Missouri ¹³¹. He married PRISCILLA BOYDSTON¹³² Abt. 1804 in Cocke County, Tennessee ¹³³, daughter of WILLIAM BOYDSTON and ELIZABETH CHRISTIAN. She was born Abt. 1784 in Cocke County, Tennessee ^134,¹³⁵, and died July 1853 in Linden, Clay County, Missouri¹³⁵.

Notes for REV./JR. JACOB FAUBION:
The following information comes from Margaret R. Bates Internet Files:

Middle name presumed to be " Cummin" as one of his sons is named Jacob Cummin Faubion Jr.

Jacob Faubion was a Blacksmith as well as a minister. Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, moved to Cocke County, Tennessee, then later to Clay County, Missouri in 1832, where he was a minister in a church built on land donated by his son-in-law, Napoleon B. Thomas, until his death.

Died from a kick of an " old gentle mare" he was trying to bridle. Buried in Faubion Chapel Cemetery. Administration of his estate was granted to john F. Broadhurst (his son-in-law, and a Judge) and Jacob C. Faubion. His Farm is in the North part of Kansas City known as East Linden. (Note: the cemetery is in Gladstone; I have not heard "East Linden" No grave was found for Jacob or Priscilla Boydstun in the mid-1980's at Faubion Cemetery.)

Undated letter from Louise Moss of Cartersville Georgia to "Miss Carr" found in vertical files of Mid-Continent Public Library, North Independence Branch:

"Jacob Faubion, son of Jacob (1) was born 1782 in Virginia married Priscilla Boylston born in 1785 in Tennessee daughter of William and Elizabeth (Christian) Bolyston, Rev. Sol. Jacob's sister, Dinah Rector Faubion married Nathaniel Bolyston, son of William and Elizabeth Bolyston. Another son, (Thomas) of theirs married an Elizabeth Gregg.

"Rev. Jacob Faubion moved to Clay County, Missouri, established a Methodist Chapel called Faubion's Chapel. Was also a blacksmith. (See 1850 census Gallatin Township, #523 Clay County, Missouri.) Children: Isaih Dougherty born 1814; William, John, James, Jacob, Washington and Sylpha."

(She refers to " Pangle's ", " The Faubions " and says the descendants of Jacob Faubion are in records of Clay County. Missouri)

Cocke County, Tennessee Census:
Faubian, Jacob 20001-11011, page 250
(between Diana Faubian and John Faubian)

Jacob Faubion purchased from William Brown and wife Polly, 160 acres of land in Clay County, Missouri June 29, 1833, described as the Northwest Quarter of Section 24, Township 51, Range 33 in Northwestern Land District of Missouri. He paid $600 for the land.

When Jacob Faubion died in 1852, Jacob C. Faubion was appointed to administer his father's estate in lieu of the widow (referred to as Drusilla Faubion in probate records), who declined. Ten of his children were still living at that time, and James W. Faubion was deceased. The Property purchased in 1833 was sold April 24, 1854 to Hyram Fuget for $2,500, which was divided among the heirs.

Two years later, on April 12, 1858, Hiram Fugett sold about 1/2 acre of this land to Joseph Broadhurst, William Faubion, and John Broadhurst Sr., for the purpose of a family burying grand. (burial ground)

Ruth Walton of Salem, Oregon, supplies further information on the land of Jacob Faubion: " To further trace the transfer of the Faubion land, on Nov. 13 1869, Hiram Fugett having moved to California, sold 80 acres of the farm to William B. Faubion, ( the north half of the NW quarter of Section 24, Twp. 51, Range 33). Less than a month later, December 6, 1869, William B. Faubion and his wife, Marion, sold this land -- about 78 acres -- to A. C. Davidson. William B. and Marion Faubion, on May 23 1870, sold one acre to William Faubion, John Broadhurst, A. L. Darby, Levi M. Gillespie, Jacob Broadhurst and Ephriam Broadhurst, all trustees of the Methodists Episcopal Church South. The remaining part of the land, sometimes called 76 acres, sometimes 78 acres, transferred several more times over ensuing years, eventually becoming incorporated into the village of East linden in Clay County, Missouri, where the Methodist Church and the Faubion Cemetery are now located."
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The following comes from "Faubion and Allied Families" copyright 1982, complied and written by Ann Faubion Armstrong, Bernard H. Faubion, D.D.S., T. P. Hughes, Jr., Marybeth Faubion Rule, and Mary Laverne Faubion::

JACOB FAUBION was born in Fauquier County, Virginia around 1785, died in Clay County, Missouri on December 14, 1852 and is buried in Faubion Cemetery.* Married in Cocke County, Tennessee around 1804 to Priscilla Boydston, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Christian) Boydston. * She was born in Cocke County, Tennessee around 1784; died in Clay County, Missouri in July 1853, and is buried in Faubion Cemetery. **

Jacob has been described as being from ". . . Old Newport, of Huguenot descent." While it has been neither proved nor disproved that he was of Huguenot descent Dianah Rector's family was German, and they lived in Fauquier County, Virginia where Jacob was born. He Came to East Tennessee with his family, and lived in Cocke County, near Old Newport and near what is now Parrottsville, Tennessee.

He was a blacksmith, as were his father and at least one brother. Jacob was also a well-known Preacher in the area. It is believed that he regularly participated in church gatherings there.

Jacob and Priscilla had eleven children; apparently none died as infants or children. in 1832 Rev. Jacob moved his entire family (including his son William who was married and had children of his own) to Clay County, Missouri. It is believed that around thirty families came out together - including a number of nephews and other relatives, friends and neighbors. No one has been able to determine why he left Tennessee, but it is certain that he came directly to an area where relatives and friends from Cocke County had already settled. There is no question but that he came seeking better opportunities for himself and his family. ( SEE Section on MIGRATION TO MISSOURI ).

Upon arrival in Clay County, Missouri Jacob became a farmer. He must have had some money because he was able to purchase land that had been claimed by an earlier settler. After looking around for a while, Jacob decided on a piece of land owned by William Brown. The purchase of the NW1/4 of Section 24, Township 51, Range 33, in Clay County, Missouri was concluded on June 29, 1833 ( Clay County Deed Book K, page 437).

Faubion Chapel was organized in 1838. The article on Chapel's 100th Anniversary says that Jacob Faubion served as its Pastor until his death in 1852. From the start, Chapel was a significant part of the local community. People came from all around for Services, although there doesn't seem to have been a building for a number of years. Mrs. Claude Allen, Historian of the Faubion Chapel United Methodist Church, says that Napoleon Bonaparte and Sarah ( Faubion ) Thomas sold a tract of land to the Chapel Trustees for Five Dollars on Jan 30, 1850. ( That parcel is now at 72nd and North Highland in Gladstone, Clay County, Missouri.) L. B. Salmans * says the Chapel was built on the farm which adjoined the Rev. Jacob's. ( The current Church building is on land which belonged to Jacob, but it was purchased in 1870.) Rev. Jacob performed a sizable number of marriages in the area and had the reputation of being the " Marryin' Parsons ". The Clay County Marriage Records reveal that he was a Minister of the Gospel. They also show that he could write.

Faubion Cemetery is located near where the original Chapel stood, and is still available for use. It has always been a family cemetery, and never has been associated with the Church. Charles N. Kimball of Sistersville, West Virginia, a descendant of Dinah Rector*** Faubion and Nathaniel Christian Boydston, determined that Faubion Cemetery is the place where William Boydston ( Priscilla's father) was buried in 1838. It should have been on the corner of Rev. Jacob's farm. It did not become officially a " family burying ground " until William Faubion, John Broadhurst and Joseph Broadhurst bought one - half acre of land from Hiram Fugitt on April 12, 1858 ( Clay County, Missouri Deed Book R, page 235).

While this is about all we know of Jacob, we know even less about Priscilla. We know she was born on the frontier of Tennessee - before there was a State named Tennessee, and we are told that she walked barefooted all the way when the family moved by ox - wagon to Missouri. We know that they reared children who became God - serving, responsible and respected men and women, each contributing to their communities in very special ways. Jacob, the Preacher, set an example of faith, trust, and courage, and he must have been supported by a caring and loyal wife.

Jacob Faubion died from the effects of a kick from a gentle old mare he attempted to bridle in the pasture. * While no stone can be located and no record has been found, it is understood that he was buried in Faubion Cemetery. Priscilla probably went to live with Sarah Thomas and her family until she died about six months after Jacob, in July 1853. She is said to have been buried next to him in Faubion Cemetery.

There was no Will when Jacob died. The Clay County Probate records show that Drusilla ( Druscilla is what it shows! ) refused the right of Administration and John F. Broadhurst ( husband of Zilpha Grey ) and Jacob Cummin Faubion were appointed. There is a list of heirs and some receipts in the file -- but little else. It shows that there was not much money to divide among the heirs so probably the land was sold to settle the estate. ***

The following sources were used in above text:

* Levi B. Salmans, History of the descendants of John Jacob Rector, (1936), pages 250 - 260.

** Gladys Boydstun Domonoske, The Boydstun - Boydston family, (1980
Edition), Pages 102 - 119.

*** Clay County Probate Court Records, Box 23 ( CF 6-38).
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The following was written by Sarah Faubion Pangle, "The Faubion's", page 37, published in 1922:

Descendants of Jacob Faubion, whom we believe is a brother of William, and a son of William Faubion who came from Holland in the latter part of the eighteenth century. The name Faubion is spelled the same, and the names of his children are similar to the family of William, leading us to believe that William who came from Holland is the father of all included in this book. We can trace them all back to Cocke County, Tennessee and William the first back to Pennsylvania where the people from Holland first settled.

Jacob who came from Cocke County, Tennessee to Clay County, Missouri, in an early day, was a farmer, blacksmith and a Methodist Minister. On his farm his congregation erected a church and called it Faubion Chapel, in later years the chapel was found inadequate for the increasing congregation and a new church was built, and it too, is called Faubion Chapel. About the year 1850 Jacob received a kick from an old gentle mare from which he died.
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The following information provided by Patt Seitas:

Jacob Faubion born about 1785 in Faquier County, Virginia. Died December 14, 1852 in Clay County, Missouri. Occupation: preacher, blacksmith. He married Pricilla Boydston, before 1807 in Tennessee. She was born about 1785 in Virginia.

His Family moved from Tennessee to Clay County, Missouri about 1832, leading a group of about thirty families. When they immigrated, they brought all of their children, from John Wesley (age 24) to George Washinton E. (age 2). Their only married son, William, brought his wife, a three year old daughter and a pair of twins born in February. His wife's brother, Nathaniel Boydston and his wife Mary Faubion also came with their children. it is possible Priscilla's younger sister came with her husband John Sharp. Other families included Thomas and Hopewell, and maybe St. John and Wall. They probably traveled by wagon, first to Knoxville, Tennessee, then on the Tennessee, Ohio & Great Lakes Trail to Louisville, then to St. Louis and up the Missouri to Clay County. By the 1820's there was regular steamship service and people took their wagons, animals, families up river by boat. it is said when they migrated from Tennessee to Missouri, Pricilla walked barefooted the entire way.

In the 1850's federal census, Gallatin Township, Clay County, Missouri, family number 523 under the name "Forbion" the family was listed as follows; Jacob (65 blacksmith, $1600 real property, born Virginia); Priscilla (age65, born Tennessee).

Jacob organized the Faubion Methodist Chapel in Clay County, Missouri which was still active in 1995. He was known as the "Marring Parson" because he married so many couples in his community. He eventually moved his family to Jefferson County, Kansas, near Oskaloosa. They were among the pioneering families.

The Oskaloosa Independent reported on Saturday, January 23, 1864: " A young lad named Gragg, nephew of Jacob Faubion (sic), with whom he is residing, while riding along just this side of Slough Creek on the Leavenworth road, was thrown from his horse-or the horse fell upon him-some days since, injuring him considerable, so that he was senseless for many hours. He is about again now. It is thought he and the boy with him were racing their horses at the time of the accident".

Jacob Faubion died from a horse kick.

More About REV./JR. JACOB FAUBION:
Cause of Death: kicked by old mare
Comment 1: purchase land in Clay County, Missouri
Comment 2: nickname "The Marryin` Parsons"¹³⁶
Comment 3: Organized Faubion Chapel in 1838 ¹³⁷
Event 1: Buried/Faubion Cemetery¹³⁷
Fact 6: Blacksmith/Preacher/farmer¹³⁷

More About PRISCILLA BOYDSTON:
Event 1: Buried/Faubion Cemetery¹³⁷

More About JACOB FAUBION and PRISCILLA BOYDSTON:
Marriage: Abt. 1804, Cocke County, Tennessee¹³⁷

Children of JACOB FAUBION and PRISCILLA BOYDSTON are:

58.	i.	JOHN WESLEY⁵ FAUBION, b. Abt. 1806, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. Bet. 1853 - 1854, Platte County, Missouri.
59.	ii.	REV. WILLIAM HENRY FAUBION, b. December 13, 1808, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. February 13, 1895, Johnson County, Kansas.
60.	iii.	SARAH FAUBION, b. October 24, 1812, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. August 30, 1879, Clay County, Missouri.
61.	iv.	ISAIAH DOUGHTRY FAUBION, b. September 4, 1814, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. January 24, 1899, Grant City, Worth County, Missouri.
62.	v.	REV. JAMES WILSON FAUBION, b. July 4, 1816, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. August 8, 1851, Platte County, Missouri.
63.	vi.	DINAH RECTOR FAUBION, b. April 19, 1819, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. January 16, 1861, Circleville, Jackson County, Kansas.
64.	vii.	ZILPHA GREY FAUBION, b. March 18, 1821, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. April 28, 1899, Parkville, Platte County, Missouri.
65.	viii.	MARGARET ANN FAUBION, b. August 11, 1823, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. May 30, 1911, East Lynne, Cass County, Missouri.
66.	ix.	JACOB CUMMIN FAUBION, b. May 27, 1826, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. August 13, 1879, near Milford, Barton County, Missouri.
67.	x.	LINEWRY JANE FAUBION, b. March 16, 1828, Cocke County, Tennessee; d. February 25, 1904, Drexel, Bates County, Missouri.
	xi.	GEORGE WASHINGTON K. FAUBION¹³⁸, b. Abt. 1830, Cocke County, Tennessee¹³⁸; d. Unknown, Platte County, Missouri; m. ASENITH SPENCER¹³⁸, September 24, 1848, Platte County, Missouri ¹³⁹; b. June 1827, Missouri ¹⁴⁰; d. Aft. 1900¹⁴⁰.

Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON K. FAUBION:
From Faubion and Allied Families, page 575:

"Uncle Wash" and Senith/Cenith are shown in the 1850 Census in Clay County. By 1860 they were in Newton Township, Barton County, Missouri - with the value of the property shown as $6,400. Whether it was the Civil War or not, they came back to Clay County, Missouri where Wash bought land on 28 December 1865 (Book B, p. 131) and sold land on 26 September 1867 (Book 28, p. 138). They are not shown in Clay County in the 1870 Census, but they probably were there.

At some point the Spencer children enter the lives of Wash and Senith on a daily basis. On 24 October 1879 Gertie E. Spencer and James L. Donaldson, both of Clay County, were married at the residence of G. W. Faubion, Esq. In 1880 G. W. and Senith/Cenith were in Gallatin Township of Clay County, and living with them were G. W. Spencer and Green Spencer. George Washington Spencer, age 26, a Boarder, is shown as a farmer. Green Spencer, age 17, is shown as a farm hand and hired man. Gertie, G. W., and Green are believed to have been children of Asenith's brother. G. W. K. and Senith had no children of their own.

(Research on the family of Rev. James W. Faubion, brother of G. W.K., reveals Nathaniel Green, a son of James, lived with the couple for a brief time after his Mother died, but "ran away" because "Aunt Cenith" was harsh with him.) ed

It is interesting to note that G. W. K. Spencer sole 40 acres of land on 7 January 1882, and by that time he had a wife, Mattie B.

The Clay County Probate Court has an Estate Packet with a document declaring George W. K. Faubion to be a person of unsound mind, and it names administrator or "Guardians" for the Estate. It is dated 30 August 1885. The administrators took an inventory which showed that he had horses, farm equipment, wagon, etc., but there was no bed or household goods listed. Probably the bed and household goods were considered "dower rights" and belonged to Senith. There was no land mentioned, but there were several debts recorded.

The Missouri State Hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri found a record that he was admitted there, but the date was not recorded. Other records have been destroyed in a fire, and there is nothing else currently available to indicate diagnosis, treatment, or disposition. He probably died in the Institution, but no one knows when he died or where he was buried.

The 1900 Census shows Asenith Faubion living with George Washington Spencer and his family in Barton County, Missouri.

More About GEORGE WASHINGTON K. FAUBION:
Comment 4: no children¹⁴⁰

More About ASENITH SPENCER:
Comment 4: no children¹⁴⁰

More About GEORGE FAUBION and ASENITH SPENCER:
Marriage: September 24, 1848, Platte County, Missouri ¹⁴¹

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