Lincoln County WY Archives Biographies.....Fairchild, Joel E. 
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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

JOEL E. FAIRCHILD.

   The gentleman to a brief review of whose career these lines are devoted is
one of the recent comers to Wyoming, having been a resident of the city of
Kemmerer since 1899. He is a scion of one of the old Colonial families of North
Carolina, but traces his paternal ancestry back to Massachusetts, where the
Fairchilds had settled in a very early age as emigrants from Scotland. Mr.
Abigah Fairchild, the paternal grandfather, was born in Massachusetts, but when
quite young went to North Carolina, where he married, reared a family and passed
the remainder of his life, being a blacksmith and following that calling for
many years in Wilkes county, where he also devoted some attention to
agricultural pursuits. He was a lad of thirteen when the colonies declared their
independence, and throughout the seven years War of the Revolution he served as
a soldier in a North Carolina regiment, taking part in a number of battles and
bearing himself bravely until the Briton was driven forever from American
shores. He had a son by the name of Abigah, whose birth occurred in the county
of Wilkes on July 4, 1804. Abigah Fairchild, Jr., was married in his native
state to Miss Catherine Vannay, a daughter of Jesse W. and Mary (Kelly) Vannay,
both parents descendants of old and well-known families of Wilkes county. Mr.
Fairchild became a well-to-do farmer and lived to the ripe old age of
eighty-six. As a staunch Democrat he took a lively interest in public and
political affairs and is remembered as a man of wide intelligence, good common
sense and sound judgment. He always manifested a pardonable pride in his home
and family and dying left to his descendants a name and reputation above the
shadow of anything dishonorable. Mrs. Fairchild died at the age of forty-nine
years and by the side of her devoted husband she sleeps beneath the quiet
shadows of the New Hope churchyard near their old home.


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PROGRESSIVE MEN OF THE STATE OF WYOMING

ILLUSTRATED

A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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