James
Repps
(Reps)
Faubion
Born in Cocke County, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Son of John Faubion
and Elizabeth (Stephens) Faubion
Brother of
Jeremiah M. Faubion [half]
Husband of
Celinda Ann (Babcock) Faubion
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Mary Jane (Potts) Faubion
— married
18 Jun 1884 [location unknown]
Died
at age 73
in Williamson County, Texas
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Dec 2015
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Biography
Born near Bridgeport, Cocke County, Tennessee on July 15, 1839. Married Celinda Ann Babcock on September 27, 1858. They had three sons: Charles Repps, John Thomas, and James L. Faubion. Celinda died on March 19, 1882.
James Repps then married Mary Jane Potts on June 18, 1884 and they had nine children: Eula Belle, Bessie Lee, Walter David, Lilburn, Arthur, Robert Huel, Mary Catherine, Clark, and Nona.
Reps was 14 years old when his father brought the family to the Bagdad prairies of Williamson County, Texas. He purchased his first land in Williamson County in October 1859. He enlisted in the Confederate States Army in Dallas on March 26, 1862 and reenlisted for the duration in Ellis County on June 9, 1862. Reps served in Company A, Morgan's Regiment of the Texas Cavalry. He took part in the battles of Arkansas Post, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, and participted in Bank's expedition and in Marmaduke's raid at Cape Girardeau.
Reps was a farmer, freighter, and a stock raiser; a Democrat, A Master Mason serving several times as Worshipful Master. He was Senior Deacon of his lodge, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
In 1896, he traded his homeplace near Old Bagdad to a nephew for land in Coleman County with the intention of moving his family there. Instead, due to the imminent birth of another child, be bought the homestead and rock house of Charles Babcock, six miles west of Leander in Travis County, Texas on the headwaters of Cross Creek. In the fall of 1896, the family moved to this house where Reps lived out his life. After Reps died in 1912, Mary Jane and the younger children, Mary, Clark, and Fifi, moved to Leander where Mary Jane bought a home, leaving sons, Lilburn and Bob to look after the homeplace and continue ranching.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Reps by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Reps:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Reps by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Reps:
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~0.78%
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