Faires Family


Faires Family

North Carolina to Tennessee then on to Drynob

 

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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:

bulletMary Elizabeth married Thomas Honssinger in 1846.  They raised their family in the Drynob area.  They are my great great great grandparents.
bulletCynthia married Terrill Grigsby in 1838.  They moved to Napa Valley Calif. about 1852. 
bulletJane Priscilla married William Grigsby Brownlow in 1842.  They raised their family in the Drynob area. 

 

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