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- [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.
- [S2] Fausett/McKee Family History, Robert Bruce Dunbar, Jr., 14 (Reliability: 3), 27 Nov 2012.
John was born 10 December 1817 in Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, the sixth child of Samuel Fausett (5-16) and Elizabeth Durham. On 10 March 1842 he married Elizabeth Esperan Andrews in Orange County. Elizabeth was born in 1823 in Orange County. They had six children: Nancy (7-76), born in 1843; Henry Marshall (7-77), born 13 July 1847; Fletcher (7-78), born in 1850; Franklin (7-79), born in 1854; Augaretta (7-80), born in 1855; and John (7-81), born in 1858. John died 2 August 1870.
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