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Note: !BELIEVED TO HAVE HAD 2 SONS & 2 DAU. BY GEORGE JEFFRIES. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/v/e/r/Steven-C-Verden/GENE2-0023.html#CHILD62 (That Aletha's father was James Grant has not yet been fully proven but the census records of 1840 & 1850 suggest that it is so. With them, we can reconstruct the probable James & Lydia Grant family with the following children: Richard, Aletha, William, James - all born in Tennessee - Rachel, and John - both born in Missouri. Apparently, James Sr. died before 1843. Lydia was still living in Platte City, Missouri with sons James and John, and granddaughter Sarah Faubion, in 1860.) William, James and Aletha Faubion's first child, was born in 1842. Three more children were born to them on the Platte County, Missouri Farm that James purchased on September 1, 1843. Aletha's mother, Lydia Grant, and James Faubion purchased an adjoining parcel of land containing 30 acres on October 17, 1843. The 1850 Platte County census shows the family living on a farm near Lydia Grant's and also near that of Aletha's brother, Richard Grant. James Faubion's occupation is listed as farmer though he was also a Methodist Preacher. In March of 1851, James and his brother, Isaiah, purchased 13-1/2 acres just east of the town of Parkville in Platte County, Missouri and about a mile north of the Missouri River. James and Letha sold their 80 acres that was a little further northeast to Isaiah, and bought 40 acres next to the 13-1/2 acres already acquired. Then in July James became quite ill. From the doctor bills submitted to the estate, it is assumed he suffered from malaria, a not common ailment for that time and locality. He died August 8, 1851. At the time of James' death in 1851, he and Letha had three sons and one daughter. A questionnaire filled out by Nathaniel G. Faubion (son of James & Aletha) states that he had four brothers and three sisters; therefore, Letha must have had two sons and two daughters by her second husband, George Jeffers. On January 2, 1854 George Jeffers bought James Faubion's farm at public auction held at the Platte County Court House. Proceeds of the sale were paid to Letha in June by John F. Broadhurst, administrator of the estate. Sometime before 1860 George, Letha, and children moved to Barton County, Missouri. The family was residing in Newton Township when the 1860 census was taken shortly after Aletha Jane (Grant) Faubion Jeffers' death on May 28, 1860. After their mother's death, Letha's children stayed with relatives and neighbors. William N. B. Faubion hired on as a farm hand at a local Newton Township farm; Sarah Faubion went to live with her grandmother, Lydia Grant, in Platte City, Platte County, Missouri; John Wesley Faubion lived for awhile in the Clay County, Missouri home of his Aunt & Uncle, Sylvania & William Faubion; little Susan R. Jeffers, born about 1856 and George & Letha's only surviving child, was cared for by John and Catharine Faubion, a young couple living near George in Newton Township. Nathaniel Green Faubion was "taken in" by his Uncle George Washington K. Faubion who lived in Newton township with his wife Cenith. They had no children of their own, and Aunt Cenith was "harsh with him" so "Little Green ran away to another Uncle's house where his brother John was living." By 1865 both Nathaniel Faubion and his brother, John Wesley Faubion, were living in Jefferson County, Kansas helping out on the Oskaloosa township farm of Mrs. Margaret Faubion (daughter of Spencer Broadhurst Faubion). Her husband, John (son of Moses), had died two years earlier, in 1863.
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