Dale County AlArchives Biographies.....William  Faust September 9 1809 - November 10 1898
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OZARK CENTENNIAL SECTION: 1970

  William Faust One Of Ozark's First Land Owners
 Sept. S, 1809-Nov. 10, 1898: 
  William Faust was one of Ozark's earliest pioneers, having moved to the then 
Woodshop in the late 1840's from the south-west Georgia area.   In the early 
1850s he opened one of the first mercantile businesses on the north side of the 
square where the Ozark City Bank building is.
  "Uncle Billy" as he was called was known to be hospitable and genial. During 
his late years he succeeded in acquiring large property interests among which 
were forty acres encompassing the present downtown Ozark beginning with the 
northwest boundary of the present Ozark Post Office and extending one quarter 
mile in each direction. Recorded also was a transaction of sale of property by 
William Faust to Major Carroll on September 29, 1883 for $600 the land owned by 
James C. Dunn. "Uncle Billy", loving to entertain, built the present Mixon 
Hotel and owned it at the time of his death.
  Outliving all but one of his children, he left his large estate to be 
administered by a grandson, Bascom Faust, who later was to become one of 
Ozark's mayors.
  Among his descendants currently living in Ozark are Mrs. Virginia Faust 
Ragsdale, and Robert Lewe Faust.

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