Greene-Orange County IN Archives Biographies.....Faucett, A. J. 1816 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   A. J. FAUCETT was born in Orange County, N. C, October 31, 1816, and when
eighteen years old removed with his parents, George and Elizabeth (Killion)
Faucett, to Orange County, Ind., where the parents continued to reside until
their respective deaths. Family tradition hath it that the name came originally
from England, but at the battle of the Boyne they became residents of Ireland,
whence William Fausett (who spelled the family name with an "s"), grandfather of
A. J., emigrated to North Carolina during the eighteenth century. Being strongly
opposed to slavery, led to the removal of the family of George Faucett to
Indiana. A. J. Faucett received but little educational or other advantages, and
his youthful days were passed on a farm. November 1, 1838, he married Almira D.
Fellows, a daughter of Col. Levi Fellows, who settled in Greene County in 1819.
In 1839, he and wife removed to the farm on which Mr. Faucett now resides, and
building a small frame house, began clearing and farming. When rebellion was
threatening to overthrow our country in 1861, he assisted raising Company E,
Fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he became a private, and with
which he remained until being honorably discharged at Goldsboro, N. C, in April,
1865. He was a participant in some of the hardest campaigns and most hotly
contested battles of the rebellion, among the latter being New Madrid, Island
No. 10, Corinth, Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, Savannah, Columbia and Bentonville,
besides numerous minor skirmishes and engagements. He was commissioned First
Lieutenant of Company E on the 6th of September, 1863, and owing to the
Captain's resignation the fall of 1864, he commanded the company until the close
of the war. Since then, Mr. Faucett has been engaged in farming and milling in
Greene County. To his marriage was born this family: George W. (was a volunteer
of Company D, Fourteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry; was wounded at the
Wilderness, and died of this wound at Fredericksburg, Va.), Levi J., Theodore,
Austin D., Mary J., Caroline E., Celestia, Hattie and Schuyler. Of the above,
all are dead except Levi J. and Celestia. The mother died October 7, 1869. Mr.
Faucett is a Master Mason, a Republican, and is the owner of 308 acres of good
land in Richland Township.

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Richland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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