Diannah Bowles (Rector) Faubion (abt. 1750 - 1841)

Born about 1750 in Fauquier, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Jacob Faubion — married 1770 in Fauquier, Virginia

Descendants

Died 22 Feb 1841 at about age 91 in Cocke County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Dianah Rector was born in 1750, in Fauquier, Virginia. Her parents were Henry Rector and Ann Robinson.

She married Jacob Faubion, in Fauquier, Virginia.

May 2, 1808, Jacob and Diannah sold land in Faquier County, Virginia which Diannah had inherited from her father, Henry Rector. The land was sold to George Glasscock, husband of Diannah's sister, Hannah.^[1][2]

Dianah Faubion passed away 22 Feb 1841, in Cocke County, Tennessee, and is buried in the Faubion Family Cemetery, Parrottsville, Cocke County, Tennessee.^[3][4][5][6]

Reunion of Moses & Mary Faubion Descendants

On Saturday, July 11, 1896, one hundred and twenty (representing five generations of the descendants of Moses and Mary Faubion, met on the farm now owned by Quire Bonham, north of Heltonville, Ind., near the old "Faubion Cemetery" where they spread a bounteous repast, and after eating, rendered the following program:

Prayer by Elder David Cummings.

A receitation, "We Have Met at Grand-fathers Old Home" -- by Miss Alpha East.

A well prepared history of the family, by Dr. D.J. Faubion, of which the following is a part: Jacob Faubion was born in Germany;emigrated tot he commonwealth of Virginia; served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war, being at Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered. Married Diannah Rector, to which union was born six children in Virginia, namely: Henry, John, Moses, William, Jacob and Spencer. After their removal to Cooke [sic] county, Tennessee, four were born viz: Sarah, Mary, Nancy and Elizabeth.

To the union of John McPike and Obedience Holloway, natives of Ireland, were born, William, Sarah, Mary, John, Charlotte, Obedience, James, Jesse and Jane. The first two seeing light in the "old country," the third -- Mary -- in Virginia, and the remaining in Tennessee.

Moses, the third child of Jacob and Dinah Faubion, was born February 27th, 1778, in Virginia. Fifteen children, all born in Tennessee, blest this union: Charlotte, Jacob, William, Henry, Obedience, John, Dinah, Jesse, Margaret, Enoch, Edom, Noah, Malinda and Elizabeth.

The father having sold his possessions in the above named State for $5,000, with his wife and thirteen children, came to Lawrence county, Indiana, in 1831, settling upon this farm, making the trip in one four-horse and one six-horse wagon. The wife died January, 1836, and the husband November,. 1847. They with William, Henry, Obedience, Dinah, Mary, Enoch and Malinda (my mother) rest in yonder burial place; Jacob and Edna sleep in the dust of Tennessee; Charlotte in the Holland family burial place in this county; John in Kansas; Jesse in Shelby county, Mo.; Noah in Illinois, while Margaret, wife of John Holland, and Elizabeth, wife of David Cummings, survive.

This farm remained in the family until 1866. Doubtless the progeny of the Faubion-McPike families are scattered throughout the United States.

On motion an organization was perfected as follows: President, Dr. James Faubion; Vice-President, J.H. Faubion; Secretary, Dr. H.A. Cummings; Cor. Secretary, Miss Rebecca Faubion; Committee on Arrangements, Mrs. Mary Reed, Geo. M. Cummings, Lucien Payne.

Adjourned to meet Saturday, before the fourth Lord's Day in May, 1897. James Faubion, Pres. A. H. Cummings, Sec. ^[7]

Research Notes

Find A Grave

• Diannah Rector^[3]
  • Birth: Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
  • Death: Feb. 22, 1841,Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
  • Parents:
    • Henry Rector (1715 - 1799)
    • Anne Nancy Robinson Rector (____ - 1803)
  • Children:
    • William Faubion (1783 - 1839)*
  • Spouse:
    • Jacob Faubion (____ - 1827)
  • Burial:
    • Faubion Family Cemetery, Parrottsville, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
  • Created by: Carolyn Whitaker
  • Record added: Oct 31, 2010 
  • Find A Grave Memorial# 60936087

Parents

• Daughter of Henry Rector of Rectortown, Fauquier Co. VA and Anne Robinson
• NOTE; IT HAS BEEN PROVEN THAT DIANNAH'S MOTHER WAS ANN NANCY ROBINSON AND NOT SPENCER AS HAS BEEN ERRONEOUSLY RECORDED FOR YEARS.

Fabion and Allied Families

These are old erroneous statements as to Ann's surname being Spencer, when it is infact ROBINSON

"Dianah Rector's history is well set out in The Germanna Record, No. 4 and 5, which takes her Rector/Richter and Fischbach family lines back to Tyl van Fispe in the Nassau-Siegen area of the German Palatinate in the fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Her mother is believed to be Ann "Nancy" Spencer because, as was the custom of the period to give a son the maiden name of the mother, Henry and Ann Rector named a son "Spencer" and the name was carried down for a number of generations. The Germanna Record No. 4, page 13, paragraph (7), contains the indication that Ann, wife of Henry Rector, might be the sister or daughter of James Spencer of Prince William County, Virginia."^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Fauquier County, Virginia Deed Book 17, page 246
2. ↑ http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/v/e/r/Steven-C-Verden/GENE2-0001.html
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60936087/diannah-faubion
4. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBDS-PWP
5. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/12320223/person/272104524766/facts
6. ↑ https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Dianah_Rector_%281%29
7. ↑ Article from The Bedford Mail, Friday, July 17, 1896, page 5, column 1: Family Re-union

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60936087/diannah-faubion: accessed 12 September 2022), memorial page for Diannah Rector Faubion (1750–22 Feb 1841), Find a Grave Memorial ID 60936087, citing Faubion Family Cemetery, Parrottsville, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by civilwarbuff (contributor 47049540)