Robert Faires
Family
Robert Faires
and Susannah Orr were both born and raised in North Carolina. They
married on May 23, 1816 in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. In 1831
they moved to Campbellsville, Giles Co, Tennessee.
In 1836 Robert and Susannah joined a wagon train to Pulaski County,
Missouri. The Gribsbys and Brownlows were also part of that wagon
train (I would like to know more about this - who were all the families in
this wagon train?). They settled in Onyx, near the banks of the Osage
and Gasconade river, in which 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: