Genealogy Report: Descendants of Jacob Faubion
Descendants of Jacob Faubion
31.OBEDIENCE5 FAUBION (MOSES4, JACOB3, JACOB2, HANS JOSEPH1)643 was born February 21, 1806 in Cocke County, Tennessee643, and died January 15, 1848 in Lawrence County, Indiana644,645.She married SAMUEL FOWLER645 December 25, 1823 in Cocke County, Tennessee646, son of THOMAS FOWLER and MARY.He was born April 17, 1804 in Monroe County,Tennessee646, and died September 7, 1890 in Lawrence County, Indiana646.
Notes for OBEDIENCE FAUBION:
More About OBEDIENCE FAUBION:
Event 1: buried: Bonham-Faubion Cemetery, Lawrence County, Indiana646
Notes for SAMUEL FOWLER:
The following by Patt Seitas; (source Ray, Worth S., Tennessee Cousins, A History of Tennessee People, Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore (1960), page 363).;
Samuel Fowler was the Grandson of Thomas Fowler (1727-1836) who was born in 1727 in Virginia. His parents were Thomas (1770-1840) and Mary Fowler of Parrotsville, Tennessee. In the Federal Census, Samuel Fowler was listed in Lawrence County, Indiana, page 71 as 20-29 years old with a wife of the same age, a son 6-10 years and two daughters under five years.
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The following information come from Faubion and Allied Families, page 221:
Samuel married second in Brown County, Indiana, June 26, 1851, Mary Murphy, she was born August 24, 1809; died March 10, 1871, and is buried in Gilgal Cemetery, in Lawrence County, Indiana. Samuel and Mary had no children.
Little research has been done by present researchers on this family. Samuel and Obedience were among those Tennessee immigrants who settled in Lawrence County before the 1830 Indiana census was taken (page 71/140). The 1840 Lawrence County Census shows they had seven children; the Settlement of Estate Documents for Moses Faubion lists seven children of his deceased daughter as heirs.
The 1850 Census for Indiana shows that Samuel had moved to Johnson Township, Brown County, with his two daughters: Elizabeth age 17, and Sarah age 5. Washington, his eldest son, had married and, with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Rachael, lived in Polk Township, Monroe County, Indiana. Son Jacob, age 15, was living in Owen Township, Jackson County, Indiana, with the Noah Faubion family. Although we do not have census readings, the other children, without doubt, are living with other relatives. By 1860 Washington t. Fowler and his family have returned to Pleasant Run Township in Lawrence County; and it would appear that Samuel and Mary also returned to Pleasant Run Township as Mary is buried there in Gilgal Cemetery, and Samuel is buried in the Faubion Cemetery.
Sources of information: (page 222)
Notes below, Data based in part on research by Mrs. Kathleen Lewis, a genealogist, Bedford, Indiana:
Notes: Samuel and Obedience (Faubion) Fowler
Faubion Cemetery, Pleasant Run Township, Lawrence County, Indiana
Record pages from Moses Faubion Family Bible (H.P. & Judy Mitchell)
Worth S. Ray, Tennessee Cousins, A History of Tennessee People, (1950, repro. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company Inc.).
Brown County, Indiana Marriage Records, complied & published by Hoosier Genealogical Society (Mrs. Kathleen Lewis)
Collected data of Ann Faubion Armstrong
Lawrence County, Indiana Probate Court Records: Box 13, File 4: Order Book C, page 485 - Moses Faubion
Philip H. & Judy Mitchell, R.R. 18, Box 318, Bedford, Indiana 47421
More About SAMUEL FOWLER:
Comment 4: Samuel and Mary had no children646
Event 1: buried: Bonham-Faubion Cemetery, Lawrence County, Indiana646
More About SAMUEL FOWLER and OBEDIENCE FAUBION:
Marriage: December 25, 1823, Cocke County, Tennessee646
Children of OBEDIENCE FAUBION and SAMUEL FOWLER are:
137. | i. | WASHINGTON T.6 FOWLER, b. Abt. 1824, Tennessee; d. Unknown. | |
ii. | ELIZABETH J. FOWLER646, b. Abt. 1833, Indiana646; d. Unknown; m. HENRY CLARK646, July 18, 1870646; b. Abt. 1833; d. Unknown. |
More About HENRY CLARK and ELIZABETH FOWLER: Marriage: July 18, 1870646 |
iii. | MOSES F. FOWLER646, b. Abt. 1834; d. Unknown; m. EMMAROY DOUGLAS646, November 11, 1855, Lawrence County, Indiana647; b. Abt. 1834; d. Unknown. |
More About MOSES FOWLER and EMMAROY DOUGLAS: Marriage: November 11, 1855, Lawrence County, Indiana647 |
iv. | JACOB FOWLER648, b. Abt. 1835, Indiana648; d. Unknown; m. SARAH JANE PAYNE648, August 28, 1856, Lawrence County, Indiana649; b. Abt. 1835; d. Unknown. |
More About JACOB FOWLER and SARAH PAYNE: Marriage: August 28, 1856, Lawrence County, Indiana649 |
v. | THOMAS FOWLER650, b. Abt. 1838; d. Unknown. | ||
vi. | SILAS FOWLER650, b. Abt. 1840, Indiana650; d. Unknown; m. MARY C. ANDERSON650, February 19, 1865, Lawrence County, Indiana651; b. Abt. 1840; d. Unknown. |
More About SILAS FOWLER and MARY ANDERSON: Marriage: February 19, 1865, Lawrence County, Indiana651 |
vii. | SARAH E. FOWLER652, b. Abt. 1845, Indiana653; d. Unknown. |
32.JOHN5 FAUBION (MOSES4, JACOB3, JACOB2, HANS JOSEPH1)654 was born February 19, 1808 in Cocke County, Tennessee655,656, and died Abt. 1863 in Plum Grove, Jefferson County, Kansas656.He married (1) SARAH ANN657 February 28, 1830 in Prob. Indiana658,659.She was born September 25, 1801 in Virginia660, and died June 5, 1840 in Clay County, Missouri661.He married (2) MARGARET ANN FAUBION662,663,664 April 3, 1842 in Clay County, Missouri665,666, daughter of SPENCER FAUBION and FRANCES HOLLAND.She was born October 23, 1815 in Cocke County, Tennessee667,668, and died November 25, 1869 in Grasshopper Falls, Jefferson County, Kansas669,670.
Notes for JOHN FAUBION:
The following information was received from Patt Seitas:
John grew up in Cocke County, Tennessee where his grandfather, father and uncles ran a mill and a blacksmith shop.
When he was in his late teens, John's father moved the family from Tennessee to Lawrence County, Indiana, arriving in Lawrence County in 1827, John became a farmer like his father and brothers.
On February 28, 1830, John married his first wife, Sarah Ann _____? who had been born in Virginia on September 25, 1801. They had three children. (source: family bible record.)
In 1834, John's brother, Henry who had been a teacher, died. On February 12 1836, John was appointed guardian of Henry's three "infant heirs." In February 1841, another guardian was appointed for the three children in place of John Faubion who had left the State of Indiana. Source:( Faubion and Allied Families by Mary Laverne Faubion.)
On October 17, 1839, John and Sarah Faubion sold land they owned jointly with John's brother Jesse Faubion, apparently in preparation for moving to Missouri. Source:( Lawrence County, Indiana, Deed Book H, page 58.) Sometime during the Fall of 1839 or Spring of 1840, John and his family moved to Clay County, Missouri where John had relatives. He settled on a farm next to a cousin, Jacob Broadhurst and next to William Rickman. William Rickman may have migrated with the Faubion Family. Both men were of a similar age and their families had both lived in Lawrence County, Indiana before migrating to Clay County, Missouri. It is possible the families knew each other from Tennessee since William Rickman's family was from western North Carolina, not far from Cocke County, Tennessee and it appears some of William Rickman's children might have been born in Tennessee. Probably all the Faubion families who came to Clay County, Missouri had settled there by 1836.
Sara Ann died on June 5, 1840 leaving John with three small children living in Clay County, Missouri. Source:( 1840 Federal Census, Clay County, Missouri, unnumbered page shows John Faubion, William Rickman and others.)
About two years later, on April 3, 1842, John married his cousin, Margaret Faubion, the widow of Henry Broadhurst (who was probably also a cousin). Source: (Clay County Marriage Book B, page 13; Carter, Mrs. J. R., Early Missouri marriage to and including 1840, page 34. Margaret Ann Faubion had been born October 23 1815 in Tennessee and moved to Clay County, Missouri with her family in 1836.
John and Margaret had several children all of whom died young. "M. J. Faubion" who was born about 1848 and apparently died before 1865, the child does not appear in the 1865 Kansas State census. Source:( 1850 Federal Census, Clay County, Missouri (page 621) lists John "Forbion", farmer born Tennessee, real estate worth $800; Margaret (32 years, born Tennessee); Noah (16 years , born Tennessee); Mary (14 years born Tennessee); M. J. (2 years, born Missouri), Clay County Missouri Census Records of 1850 transcribed by Nadine Hodges, 705 West 38th St., Kansas City, Missouri 64111.
John's grandson, Louis, reported John "went to California as a Forty-niner" but this is unconfirmed. Source: The 1850 Federal Census for El Dorado County, California lists a John Faubion, age 22, birthplace Tennessee as a miner. "Note; the 20 year dicrepancy in age." Note; this story that a member of the family went "early" to California and to the Gold Rush was also repeated by John's great-great grandson, Harry E. Reed to his grandchildren as well as appearing in Faubion and Allied Families.
Shortly after Kansas opened for settlement, John and his family moved to Jefferson County, Kansas along with his daughter Mary and his son Noah, his daughter Eliza with her husband and two small daughters and with several other families from Clay County, Missouri. They were among the first settlers of the area, settling in Plum Grove, Kansas not far from Oskaloosa in 1854 0r 1855. Source: 1859 Kansas State voter lists, Osklaloosa Township, Jefferson County, Kansas, lists John Faubion with a settlement date of September 1858 with three adults in the family. He is listed just before Spencer Faubion.
"Their crops were already in the ground (in Clay County, Missouri) when word finally came from Washington that the Douglas bill (permitting settlement in Kansas) had passed both houses of congress and had been signed by the President (in May 1854).... As soon as the corn was in the crib, a small party of fathers and their elder sons set out for the new Promised land. The first day on the road saw them safely across the river at West. The next night they encamped at the head of the north fork of Slough Creek, called Honey Creek nowadays, about twenty-two miles west of Fort Leavenworth. They had followed the new Military road to the crossing of Stranger Creek at Easton and so on to the prairie ridge, known to them afterward as the divide, west of Scatter creek. At Bill Smith point (of timber) they had turned off to the west to follow down stream half amile or so, going into camp a few rods from the present Plum Grove schoolhouse. It was bitter cold that night, clear as a bell overhead, stars shining but no moon. (They) built a big fire under a bank at the edge of the creek while (William Meredith and (James Rickman) got supper, (the) boys gathered a big bed of dry leaves, spread (their) blankets and fixed the wagon sheet over (them) like a tent." Source: They had apparently selected the location at some earlier time since the men and boys went directly to the site. (Meredith, William John, "The Plum Grove Colony in Jefferson County, Kansas Historical Quarterly, November 1938, also reprinted in July, August and September 1969 " Notes from (Kansas State) Historical Society." Meredith is the Source for quoted information relating to Plum Grove, Kansas and for personal description of John Faubion.)
The following morning each man went to mark his building site and drive a claim stake, "each within shouting distance of his neighbor, just across the branch, or twixt here and the crossing...... It is probable that they meant to get beyond the first wave of immigration of the summer before and away from the disturbances about the river towns..... It is known that they intended to form a colony of friends and carry over the river with them as much of the spiritof the old neighborhood as they could, and the head of Slough creek answered to their requirements."
At the end of ten days, they had six or eight rough log cabins with roofs on and stone chimneys, all within a mile of camp. The men then returned home, leaving three or four teenage boys (ages 16-18) "to finish the chinking and daubing, the door hanging, and floor laying of split log puncheons". The boys " closed the spaces between the logs with blocks of wood and clay; they laid and adzed puncheon floors and hung on wooden hinges stout battened doors. They heaped frozen earth well above the bottom log all around each hut to shut out the draught (draft) underfoot, they built pole bunks in the corners next to the fireplace and filled them with dry oak leaves under blankets and thick 'comforts' their mothers had quilted, sleeping two or three in a bed to keep warm at night; they hunted and trapped for fresh meat between times; ate prodigiousy, 'whooped and hollered from cabin to cabin like wild Injins, and kept a smoke in every chimney.' As soon as the snow had melted and the ground firm enough for travel (in early March1855) the families arrived in ox wagons with livestock.
At the land sales of 1856, John Faubion and other Plum Grove settlers paid for their lands. They received their patents from the government in December 1858.
Source: (Jefferson County, Kansas Grantor Index: December 2,1858 from John Faubion to James H. Rickman, a warranty deed for NE 1/4 of Section number 22 in Township number 9 of Range number 19 DTL, (Volume B, page 177.) 1859-"Kansas," editor Ronald Vern Jackson, Accelerated Indexing Systems International, Inc., page 118, (found at Los Angeles Public Library) lists the following Faubions in Oskaloosa township, Jefferson County, Kansas in 1859: Hezekiah, page 4; Jacob, page 4; John, jr. page 3; Noah, page 3; Spencer, page 3.
John, "a man of quite piety," was "noted for his tireless industry and his tremendous physical strength. It was said of him that he carried six bushels of wheat in a tow bedtick, laid upon him by three companions, up a flight of stairs at the mill. He had survived the bite of a rattlesnake, without the usual remedy of liquor, which he had foresworn, using only a poultice of Blue Ash sprouts."
He was the first of the Plum Grove pioneers to die. He died in 1863, probably in July. Source: (Letters of Administration were issued on August 1, 1863 to Nelson Chapman.) (Adminstrator's Notice appearing in the Oskaloosa Independent, Saturday, August 8, 1863.)
He was buried in the Plum Grove Cemetery. Source: (Burial in Plum Grove Cemetery from Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County, Kansas)...(book in D.A.R. Library, Washington, D. C.)
The notice for the publis sale of John Faubion's estate was scheduled for 10:00 a.m. on September 23, 1863. The advertisement for the sale noted the following personal property: " 3 Mares, 1 yearling Colt, 1 pony, 5 Cows and other Cattle, 27 head of Hogs, 24 sheep, Corn on the field, 2 Stacks Hungarian Hay, 1 Parlor Stove, 1 Clock, 1 Bureau, 1 Safe, 1 sett (sic) of Match Planes (?), 1 do (ditto) of Bench Planes, Chisels, Augers, Aaws, 1Rifle, 1 Shot Gun, 1 two horse Wagon, 1 old Buggy, Harness, Saddle, Shovels, Forks, Hoes, Plows, Sythes, etc." Source: "Administrator's Sale" in the Oskaloosa Independent, Saturday, October 3, 1863.
After John died, his widow remained on the farm for awhile.
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The following comes from Faubion and Allied Families, page 223:
John was a farmer, as was his father and brothers. We do not know if he first married in Indiana, but we believe he accompanied his parents in the migration to Indiana. th 1860 Census shows his eldest son, Noah, born in Indiana in 1834, and on February 12, 1836 he was appointed guardian of the three "infant heirs" of his brother Henry. In February 1841 another guardian was named "in place of John Faubion who has left the State of Indiana." John had, in fact, left the state either in the Fall of 1839 or Spring of 1840. He and his wife Sarah Ann sold land, jointly owned with his brother Jesse and wife, October 17, 1839 (Deed Book H, page 58). Sometime between this date and June 1840, Sarah Ann died and John with his three small children is living in Clay County, Missouri. Here he married his cousin Margaret in 1842.
When the Kansas Territory opened for settlement in 1854, he was among the first to cross the river seeking new land. His grandson Louis wrote that his grandfather "went to California as a Forty-niner" but we have no evidence. from the Meredith articles we learn that"John was a man of quiet piety, noted for his tireless industry and tremendous physical strength. He had survived the bite of a rattlesnake using only a poltice of Blue Ash sprouts. . .He was the first of the (Plum Grove) pioneer men to go. He died in 1863."
We know nothing of Sarah Ann other than that she was the mother of three children who grew to adulthood.
sources for information on John andFamily:
Plum Grove Cemetery, Jefferson County, Kansas - tombstone readings
Record pages from Moses Faubion family Bible
Lawrence County, Indiana Probate Court, Box 5, File 11
Lawrence County, Indiana Deed Book H, page 58, dated October 17, 1839
U.S. Census, 1840 Clay County, Missouri, page 12
1870 Kansas Mortality Schedule
Ibid
U.S. Census, 1850 Clay County, Missouri, page 621, D# 157
U.S. Census, 1860 Jefferson County, Kansas, page 919
William Henry Meredith, "The Old Plum Grove Colony in Jefferson County"
Portrait & Biographical Record of Oklahoma, (Chicago: Chapman Pub. Co., 1901) page 480- 481
1865 Kansas State Census, Jefferson County; 1880 Johnson County, Kansas page 107A D#177
William John Meredith letters of early 1900s to Glen E. Meredith.
More About JOHN FAUBION:
Event 1: BuriedPlum Grove Cemetery, Jefferson County, Kansas671
Fact 6: occupation: farmer671
More About JOHN FAUBION and SARAH ANN:
Marriage: February 28, 1830, Prob. Indiana672,673
Notes for MARGARET ANN FAUBION:
Conflicting information about her childrens birth dates: They are listed from 1832 thru 1848 for her children with John Faubion. She was married to Henry Broadhurst during 1837. So Something is wrong. She was born in 1818, most likely Henry was first marrage and Faubion children were born after 1837. Also all but one of Faubion children is said to be born in Tennessee. If her first marriage took place in Missouri and her last child was born in Missouri, how could her other children be born in Tennessee?
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The following information provided by Patt Seitas:
Margaret moved from Tennessee where she was born to Clay County, Missouri in 1836 with her parents. She first married Henry Broadhurst. She and Henry apparently had no children. He died before 1842. Source: Clay County Marriage Book A, page 180;Carter, Mrs. J.R., Early Missouri marriages to and including 1840, page 34.
Margaret used some of her own money to buy property in Jefferson county, Kansas where she and her second husband lived. After his death, she petitioned to have this property removed from the inventory of her deceased husband's estate. Source: (Notice appearing in the Oskaloosa independent, December 5, 1863). She stated in a notice published in the local newspaper that she owned the property in her own right and had contributed towards the improvements and that her husband had promised to put title in her name but had neglected to do so. This property consisted of 40 acres lying in the northeast quarter of section 22 in township 9 of range 19 of the Delaware Trust Lands in Kansas. A description in rods and meters is given.
After her second husband John Faubion died in 1863, Margaret Faubion remained on the farm for awhile. In 1864, John Wesley Faubion (age 17) and Nathaniel Green Faubion(age 16), orphaned sons of Margaret's cousin, James W. Faubion, were living in her household at Crook's Ford post office. The heirs later rented out the " Old John Faubion homeplace."The 1870 Kansas Mortality Schedule lists the death of "Margaret Faubion of Grasshopper Falls", as November 25, 1869, living with her brother Jacob Faubion and his family.
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From Faubion and Allied Families, page 223:
Margaret Ann had come from Tennessee to Clay County, Missouri, with her parents in 1836. There on March 16, 1837 (Book A, page 180), she had first married Henry Broadhurst, a son of John and Mary Unecy (Turner) Broadhurst, also believed to be a cousin (see Broadhurst section). We find no record of Broadhurst children. After John died Margaret remained on the farm for a time. In 1865 John Wesley (age 17) and Nathaniel Green (age 16), two orphan sons of her cousin James W. (Jacob's son) Faubion, are living in her household at Crook's Ford postoffice. The Meredith articles say that Margaret died here and that John Wesley "bought out" the heirs and later rented out the "old John Faubion homeplace." The 1870 Kansas Mortality Schedule lists the death of "Margaret Faubion of Grasshopper Falls" living with her brother Jacob Faubion and Family.
More About MARGARET ANN FAUBION:
Fact 6: occupation: housewife
More About JOHN FAUBION and MARGARET FAUBION:
Marriage: April 3, 1842, Clay County, Missouri674,675
Children of JOHN FAUBION and SARAH ANN are:
138. | i. | ELIZA JANE6 FAUBION, b. May 23, 1831, near New Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana; d. June 7, 1910, Plum Grove, Jefferson County, Kansas. | |
139. | ii. | NOAH FAUBION, b. August 10, 1833, Indiana; d. Abt. 1871, Kansas City, Jackson County, Kansas. | |
140. | iii. | MARY FAUBION, b. August 2, 1836, Indiana; d. June 1870, Plum Grove, Jefferson County, Kansas. |
Children of JOHN FAUBION and MARGARET FAUBION are:
iv. | LEONARD6 FAUBION676,677, b. June 22, 1843678; d. August 1, 1844679. | ||
v. | MALINDA JANE FAUBION680, b. April 9, 1849, Clay County, Missouri681; d. June 19, 1856, Jefferson County, Kansas682. |
More About MALINDA JANE FAUBION: Fact 4: Malinda Jane and N. J. maybe the same person but they have different birth dates |
vi. | N. J. FAUBION683, b. February 25, 1850, Missouri684; d. April 12, 1852, Indiana684. |
More About N. J. FAUBION: Comment 1: chose to list as female/have no clue? |
vii. | MARGARET ANN FAUBION685, b. December 22, 1854685; d. June 4, 1857685. | ||
viii. | JACOB SPENCER FAUBION685, b. June 22, 1855685; d. July 5, 1855685. |