- CHARLES HENRY FAIRES
Weimar Mercury, 29 Feb 1924, page 6
TEXAS PIONEER DIES.
Flatonia, Tex., Feb. 23. ? In the death of Charles Henry Faires, Flatonia, and Fayette county have lost another pioneer citizen. Next to the youngest of eight children and the last to pass to his reward, he was born at Plum Grove, near LaGrange, Texas, September 28, 1847, and passed away after several weeks' illness, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. C. McVea at Houston, Feb 20, 1924.
He was the son of William A. and Ada McClure Faires, who came to Texas from Tennessee as colonists under Stephen F. Austin in 1832. The old pioneer home in which he first saw the light is still standing at Plum Grove.
Mr. Faires has been intimately associated with the development of the Flatonia community, having, with his brothers built the first ranch house on the original William A. Faires survey on which the tow of Flatonia now stands, and began the raising of horses and cattle at an early day.
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