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BRIEF SKETCH OF THE FAIR FAMILY

    Peter Fair, Jr., was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His parents moved
to Milledgeville when Peter was a very small boy. He was the son of Peter Fair,
of France, who came to America with LaFayette and fought in the Revolution. His
mother was Susannah Bone of Charleston, South Carolina.

    Peter, when only eighteen years of age, married Miss Elizabeth Reynolds
Smith, who for more than fifty years was bedridden. But this, instead of being a
hindrance, was evidently an incentive to a larger sphere of usefulness, for she
not only proved a blessing and benediction in her own home, but the town in
which she lived in its every activity felt the influence of this remarkably
versatile woman. They both lived to the ripe old age and their lives are closely
interwoven with the growth and development of Milledgeville.

    To this union were born ten children, two of whom died in childhood. They
gave six of their sons for service in the Confederate army, one of whom fell in
the battle of Richmond, where he was buried. Capt, John Bone Fair, son of Peter
and Elizabeth Reynolds Fair, was born in Miledgeville, Georgia, July the ninth,
1838, and died September 14, 1915. He distinguished himelf by valiant service in
the Confederate Army; first, as First Lieutenant of the Baldwin Blues, and
afterwards as Captain of a company which he organized.

    Captain Fair was one of the best informed men ever reared in Milledgeville.
No citizen was ever esteemed more highly for his geniuneness and sincerity than
he. The purest and highest motives actuated him in an earnest endeavor to
advance the interest and welfare of the community. He was married to Miss Mary
Joe Porter, of Putnam county, September the 15, 1869. She survived him seven
years. They were blessed with only one child, Mrs. Carl W. Minor, of Americus,
Georgia.

    Miss Caroline Tomlinson Fair was born in Milledgeville in 1828, and died in
1896. She was familarly and lovingly known to every one as "Miss Carrie." She
gave her life in training the children of Milledgeville, where she taught school
for about fifty years. No one woman ever lived in the city of Milledgeville
whose life counted more in the civic, mental, and spiritual activities of the
city, than did "Miss Carrie."



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Part V

HISTORY of BALDWIN COUNTY GEORGIA

BY MRS. ANNA MARIA GREEN COOK

ILLUSTRATED

ANDERSON. S. C.
Keys-Hearn Printing Co.
-1925—


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