Highland County OhArchives Biographies.....Fairley, James 1780 - 1860
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Source: The County of Highland 1902
Author: Rev. J. W. Klise

James Fairley, one of the notable pioneers of Highland county, was a native of
Scotland, who came to Ohio from Rockbridge county, Va., in 1815, and settled on
a farm afterward owned by the Pattons, in Paint township. He built a distillery
on his farm on Fall creek in 1818, and was engaged in that industry, common in
that time, for some years. His death occurred in 1860. By his marriage to Nancy
Lackey, he had eleven children: William, Jane, Nancy Y., Addison, Samuel M.,
Mary A., James Y., Amanda, Christina and David A. Samuel M. Fairley was born
December 8, 1816, and married Sophia, daughter of Enoch and Sally Overman. She
was the granddaughter of Zebulon Overman, a native of Green Brier county, Va.,
who came from the Shenandoah valley to Paint township, with his children, in
1805. The family has always been very prominent in the Friends society of
Highland county. By this marriage Samuel M. Fairley had eight children:
Caroline, wife of Amosiah Baldwin; James W., deceased; Levi B.; Mary L., wife of
James Hughey; Enoch O.; Nancy, wife of F. M. Johnson; Elizabeth, and a son who
died in infancy. Enoch Overman Fairley, son of Samuel M. and Sophia Fairley, was
born in Highland county, October 26, 1852, and married in early manhood Mary
Hindman, born December 9, 1859, daughter of William and Lucinda (Clark) Hindman.
She is one of the children (the others being David C, Mary C., and Carrie Ellen)
of William Hindman, born in Brooke county, W. Va., April 30, 1814, and died at
New Petersburg, October 2, 1895, and his wife, Lucinda Clark, born April 3,
1831, in Highland county, and died at New Petersburg November 9, 1887. Enoch O.
Fairley is a prosperous farmer of Paint township, residing about half a mile
north of New Petersburg, where his home has been since childhood. He is a
popular and estimable citizen, maintains a membership in Emerald lodge, No. 211,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at New Petersburg, and is active and
enterprising in his social and business relations. He and his wife have three
children: Marie, born August 14, 1878, formerly a teacher in the public schools
and now the wife of James E. Haines of Fayette county; Lula, born May 10, 1881,
and Herbert, born March 18, 1884.

Additional Comments:
James is my direct ancestor through his son William.

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