Thomas Durham

• Name	Thomas Durham
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I2856	My Family Tree | McGee-Christensen
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2015

  
  

  Family	Susannah Gates
  Married	Y  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Durham   2. Rebecca Durham
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2015
  Family ID	F1070	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Fausett/McKee Family History, Robert Bruce Dunbar, Jr., 9 (Reliability: 3), 27 Nov 2012. Samuel was born in 1763 in Orange County, North Carolina, the tenth child of Richard Fawcett (4-6) and Elizabeth Brown. On 11 January 1786 he married Elizabeth Durham in Orange County. Elizabeth was bora about 1770, the daughter of Thomas Durham and Susannah Gates. Her younger sister, Rebecca, married Samuel's brother, Richard (5-17). Samuel and Elizabeth had six children. Mary (Polly) (6-14), Thomas Durham (6-15), Susan (6-16), Sarah (6-17), Nancy (6-18) and John Patterson (6-19). Samuel died in May 1847 as confirmed by his will and an obituary in the Hillsborough Recorder. Elizabeth died 11 March 1860. She was living in the home of her son, John P. (6-19) in the 1860 census of Orange County. Her son, Thomas D. (6-15) inventoried her estate 22 May 1860.