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Descendants of William Delong Faus By LD Pierce Copyright 1999-2007 all rights reserved Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM DELONG3 FAUS (HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1832 in Columbia Co Penn, and died 1861. He married MARY TERWILLEGER 1854 in ASHLAND Ohio. She was born Abt. 1820 in Ashland Ohio Flatrock, and died 1897 in Rapid City SD.
Children of WILLIAM FAUS and MARY TERWILLEGER are:
Generation No. 2
2. GEORGE WEICKER4 FAUS (WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born February 05, 1859 in Ashland Ohio Flatrock, and died December 23, 1943 in Spearman TX Hansford County. He married SARA DAVIS 1880 in Cleveland Ohio Flatrock, daughter of HENRY DAVIS and HARRIET ROLAND. She was born 1863 in Ashland Ohio Flatrock Ohio, and died August 08, 1905 in Ochiltree TX (M.Euphrasia says died in ChildressTX). Notes for GEORGE WEICKER FAUS: George Faus date of birth could be 1857 he was barrel maker 13 years old web went to work for Henry Davis making barrels in Henry Davis brewery and made his own barrels lived in Indian reservations SD 1879 to1898 he trading post at battle of Wounded Knee from there he moved to Range Ok in 1898 Had mail routes for US Govt. 1905 and drove mail routes till 1942 turned them over to Sam Faus in 1942 his wife was homemaker with 11 children Large difference in child' s birth date because he went to SD then returned and to Cleveland and took her to SD and left the oldest in Cleveland with grandparents until 15 or 16 years old then he went to SD also Effie Samuel Harry Francis born in SD the following is excerpted from History of Hansford County Volume one published in 1975 page 345. written by Julia and Rube Faus using information they provided George Faus. " Genealogy: Henry Faus I, 1780 from Germany Married Elizabeth Kepler Henry Faus II, 1809-1884 married Mary Delong, 1810-1890 William Delong Faus, 1832-1861. Columbia Co Penn., Married Mary Terwilliger 18?-1897, Ashland Ohio George Faus 1859-1943, Flatrock Ohio, married Sara Davis,1863-1897, Ashland Ohio George Weicker Faus was born in Flatrock Ohio, Feb. 5 1859 To William Delong Faus and Mary Terwilliger. He had one sister Florence. they father died when George was two years old. the mother and child and the children went to relatives named Weicker. When George Faus was 21 he joined the National Guard and was in Washington DC when President Garfield was assassinated. He stood guard at the Presidents Funeral services. Sarah Davis and George Faus were married in 1880. In 1883 George went to South Dakota. He traded with the Indians, raised horses, and did some freighting. In 1885 or 1886 with his wife, one son, mother and sister, they settled at Runaway Springs, South Dakota. His sister married a man named Hale and they had a hotel. George Faus told many hair-raising tales of the Indians and South Dakota. He was present during the "Battle of Wounded Knee," and he and another man helped bury the Indians. They were all buried in one common grave. His mother, sister, and her husband, all died in South Dakota and are buried in Rapid City South Dakota. The Indians went on a rampage and as soon as George found out he hurried home to his family. they packed right then and left in the middle of the night. They smaller children in the back of the wagon saw the home on fire before they were ten miles from home. After a short stay in Rapid City, the Faus family headed for Arkansas with a string of horses. Sarah, having asthma, needed drier climate. In the later part of March 1898, the Faus family moved again. This time they headed for "No Man's Land" In Oklahoma Territory. There they were caught between two rivers in Oklahoma. For three weeks they camped in the fork of the river waiting for the water to go down. Three months later, they reached Range, Oklahoma where they settled. At Range, George raised horses, did some freighting, and had a mail contract. His mail contract called for him to pick up mail from the railroad, first Dodge City, then Liberal Kansas. He took a sack mail to Guymon, Hansford, Zulu, Ochiltree, and Mullock. He had dugouts in Hansford and Ochiltree. His boys carried the mail to different towns, stayed all night in the dugouts, picked up the outgoing mail, and returned home. George Faus kept a mail route for 45 years. George Faus was in the vicinity of Gage, Ok, and found a man almost starved and treated very badly where he stayed. He brought the man home with him. This man was "Uncle" Jim Kelly, who lived with the family for many years, most people remembered him as a mail carrier, as he carried the mail for George Faus. While At Range a dam was built by a partner and a neighbor Mitchell. The dam is still at Range.. The Palo Duro Creek washed our around the damn. He also planted cottonwood trees all along his irrigation ditches. In 1905 he moved his family to Ochiltree. Sarah died there, and was buried in Ochiltree Cemetery. In 1920 the family moved to Hansford. There he put in Star Meat Market NE Davis street.. During this time he remarried, the marriage did not work out, so it was dissolved. On July 4th 1916, Joe Davis Mach, and Henry Waldrop, and George Faus, together, sponsored the Cattleman's Stampede. They hired a brass band, and an airplane, the first airplane to ever appear in Amarillo for an air show. They Cattleman's Stampede was a great success. They only trouble was someone got off with the money!! George lost all his investment. About 1921, When Hansford was moving, George Faus moved a building from Texhoma, Oklahoma, and opened another Star Meat Market. he lost a lot of cattle one winter and he paid off his debts from the store receipts. His daughter, Ella, later put in a bakery in the same building. His son Ruben now has a shoe and boot shop in the same building. In 1929, the Faus family moved to Colorado with several other families. They settled around Springfield. They didn't stay long in that dry country. Back in Spearman George worked in several meat markets and still had his mail contracts. Dec 24 1943, at the age of 84, he died and was buried next to his wife at Ochiltree. He lost two sons in death, Francis 1916, and Harry 1919. At the time of his death his living children were: William Davis 1883, Effie Grace 1887, Samuel Norman 1889, Ella Oneida 1893, Dewey Delaney 1898, Amanda May 1902, Rube Roland 1904. He had 31 grandchildren, 66 great-grandchildren. His great-great-great grandchildren would number at least 100 and more on the way
Obituary of George Weicker Faus: Spearman Reporter George Weicker Faus, resident of Hansford County for 33 years died late Thursday night, Dec. 23 1943 at his residence in Spearman TX. He was 84 years old 10 months and 18 days old. Funeral Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday At Union Church. Services were conducted by Rev Sydney Reese, pastor, and assisted by Ralph A Durman of Perryton. The Union Church Choir gave music. Burial was at Ochiltree Cemetery. Pallbearers were Fred Linn, Judge A.F. Barkley, Sheriff H.L. Wilbanks, J.S. Caldwell, Finis Maize, and P.M. Maize. Carver Funeral Chapel of Borger had charge of arrangements. George Faus was born Feb. 5 1859 in Flatrock, Ohio, and was married to Miss Sarah Davis, who preceded him in death Aug. 8 1905 and was buried at Ochiltree Cemetery. Eleven children were born to this union, seven of who survive the father. They are: William D Faus, Pueblo Colo., Mrs. Ray Effie Cox, Blythe Calif., Sam Faus, Spearman; Mrs. John (Ella) Bushman, Spearman; Dewey Faus, Campo Co, Mrs. Tim (May) Minton, Caddo Co, and Ruben Faus, Amarillo TX. Other survivors are 32 Grand children, 19 great Grand children and many, many friends in this area in which he has spent so many years. Faus Came to Spearman in 1920 when the city was established and owned the Star Meat Market, across the street from the Spearman Reporter. He also was carrying mail from Guymon to Mullock. Faus was possessed of the spirit of the pioneer and pushed westward soon after his marriage and stayed in the Wilds of the Black Hills of South Dakota 4 years before he felt it safe to bring his wife out to brave the dangers with him. They settled on Rapid Creek near an Indian reservation, 65 miles from Rapid City the nearest city. While in this part of the country many noted Indian Battles occurred near the Faus home and he could relate numerous stories concerning these battles. Also he freighted between Rapid City and Deadwood, S. Dakota for quite sometime. In 1897 Mr. Faus decided the rigors of the frontier were to great for him and his family and they moved to northwest Arkansas near Fayetteville. The lure of the west and the dauntless spirit of the pioneer were imbedded too deep in the blood that flowed through George Faus's veins and he moved to western Oklahoma in 1898 and settled near Range Oklahoma. In 1910 he moved to old Hansford and then again he moved to Spearman in 1920 and established one of the first businesses in the new town. " In Mr. Faus passing we can say another pioneer of the west has passed on and answered the last summons of his master," said Rev. Rees at the services
Notes for SARA DAVIS: she died in childbirth child died soon after
Children of GEORGE FAUS and SARA DAVIS are:
Generation No. 3
3. EFFIE GRACE5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born September 23, 1887 in Runaway Springs SD, Pennington County, and died November 06 in Nampa Idaho. She married RAYMOND COX 1910. He died in Idaho. Notes for EFFIE GRACE FAUS: Obituary Effie G Robson (Cox) unknown source Effie G Robson Funeral Nov 9 Mrs. Effie Grace Robson 81 of Nampa, a former resident of Weiser, died at Park View Manor of Nampa, Wednesday Nov 6. Mrs. Robinson was born Sept 28 1887 at Rapid City SD, the daughter of George and Sara Davis Faus. She grew up in South Dakota and moved with her parents to Texas in 1905. She was married to Ray Cox in 1910 at Hansford TX. The couple lived in Texas until 1939, when they came to Weiser area. Mr. Cox died in Weiser in July 1944. On Jan 8 1948 she was married to Clarence Robson at Nampa. Robson died Feb 8 1867 at Nampa. Mrs. Robson attended the Nazarene Church. She was preceded in death by one son Raymond L Cox in 1946. Survivors include four sons: Herbert P Cox Weiser; George F Cox and James C Cox, Clatskanie Oregon; and Melvin M Cox, New Orleans, LA. and one daughter Mrs. Ella M Longley of Bentonville Ark; One brother Ruben Faus, Spearman, TX; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Bushman, Spearman TX, and Mrs. Mae Minton, Canon City Colorado; 20 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. Funeral Services will be conducted at 10 am Saturday at the Northam-Jones Chapel with Pastor Basil Lewis officiating. Interment will follow at Hillcrest Cemetery.
Children of EFFIE FAUS and RAYMOND COX are:
4. SAMUEL NORMAN5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born August 02, 1889 in S Dakota Runaway Springs. He married MYRTLE ELLA HALE Bet. 1909 - 1910. She was born 1891 in Cordell Oklahoma, and died 1957 in Guymon Oklahoma. Notes for SAMUEL NORMAN FAUS: all kids born in Old Hansford partial obituary unknown origin "died ...day morning in Canon City Colorado hospital. Funeral services will be held at the Apostolic Faith Church in Spearman with the Rev Robert Girrard of the Pampa TX Apostolic Faith church officiating, assisted by the Rev. V. E. Blythe pastor. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. Born in North Dakota, Mr. Faus moved to Canon City 10 yrs ago from Spearman, TX. A retired meat cutter, Mr. Faus was a member of the Apostolic Faith Church. Survivors include his daughters, Mrs. O.A. Scroggs and Mrs.. B.A. Byers of Spearman; and Mrs. Cecil Tombleson of Lamar Colo, sons, Francis of Hutchinson KS, and Jack Faus of Las Animas Colo, sisters Mrs. Tim Minton of Canon City, Mrs.. Effie Cox of Idaho, and Mrs. Ella Bushman of Spearman; and brothers Reuben Faus of Spearman, and Bill Faus of Idaho." Notes for MYRTLE ELLA HALE: 1909 she was 15 yrs old (* or 16)
Children of SAMUEL FAUS and MYRTLE HALE are:
5. HARRY KALE5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born July 01, 1891 in Runaway Springs Trading Post Remmington County SD, and died 1919 in Spearman TX Hansford County. He married ELIZABETH HENRIETTA SPRAGUE February 22, 1913 in Guymon OK home of her parents, daughter of ALPHUS SPRAGUE and ANN MOODY. She was born August 05, 1892 in Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa. Notes for HARRY KALE FAUS: Henry Kale Faus died of injuries received when he fell on a cultivator discs 1919 Notes for ELIZABETH HENRIETTA SPRAGUE: hand written note from Sister Mary Euphrasia to Way Faus May 3 1968 they were exchanging genealogy information "coincidence: note: You mother Elizabeth Henrietta Sprague was born in independence Iowa, Buchanan County Aug 5 1892. I Sister Euphrasia, (Ruth Lavina Faus) was born at Waterloo Iowa Blackhawk County a little west of Independence Aug 22 1894 this county is directly west of Buchannan County only 20 miles west of Independence is Waterloo Iowa. (She also drew a small map with this note)
Children of HARRY FAUS and ELIZABETH SPRAGUE are:
6. ELLA ONEIDA5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1893 in S Dakota. She married JOHN W. BUSHMAN 1926. He was born 1891 in Hillsboro TX, and died 1957.
Children of ELLA FAUS and JOHN BUSHMAN are:
7. DEWEY DELANEY5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born March 01, 1898 in Delaney Ark, and died 1947 in Spearman TX. He married ELBA FULLBRIGHT 1931 in Spearman TX Hansford County. Notes for DEWEY DELANEY FAUS: Married Elba Fullbright in 1931 they had no children. Elby died of diabetes in 1939 and Dewey was killed in a car wreck in Spearman in 1947.
Child of DEWEY FAUS and ELBA FULLBRIGHT is:
8. AMANDA MAY5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1902, and died in Canon city Co. She married TIMOTHY WILLIAM MINTON 1928 in Canadian. He died in Canon city Co. Notes for AMANDA MAY FAUS: two more girls and maybe one more boy
Children of AMANDA FAUS and TIMOTHY MINTON are:
9. REUBEN ROLAND PAUL5 FAUS (GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born March 04, 1904 in Range Oklahoma March 14???, and died November 17, 1981 in Spearman TX Hansford County interred Ochiltree Cemetery Nov 19. He married JULIA ROSA HIBBS February 24, 1930 in Guymon Oklahoma, daughter of SAMUEL HIBBS and LURA LUKE. She was born September 20, 1911 in Beaver Oklahoma. Notes for REUBEN ROLAND PAUL FAUS: Obituary Amarillo Daily News Thursday Nov 19 1981 of Rube Faus
Rube Faus Spearman: ---Rube Faus 77 died yesterday. Services will be held 2pm tomorrow in Union Church with the Rev Steve Rogers, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors. Mr. Faus was born in Range, Ok. He moved to Spearman in 1910 He was the owner and operator of Rube's Boot shop since 1932. Survivors include five daughters, Rosa Steele of Vernonia Ore., Juanita Pierce of Spearman TX, Phyllis Mann and Bertha Elene Willison both of Gage Ok. and Ruby Saltness of Amarillo; a son of Harry Faus of Fountain Valley CA. a sister Ella Faus Bushman of Alex, Ark, 26 grandchildren, and 17 Great grand children. casket bearers; Kem Mann Ruben Mann Tracy Mann Lynn Pierce Mike Pierce Tylan Pierce David Oakley John Willison Richard Pierce Jody Willison Pallbearers: Sam Janzen Daniel Newman Carl Scroggs Floyd Fike Jana Janzen J M Randolph Article about Rube Faus and his boot shop Feb. 19 1950 New West Provides Wide Market for Cowboy Boots By Margaret Kirk Amarillo News-Globe Correspondent Spearman: Feb. 18 1950 Rube Faus traded himself into Spearman's industrial stream back in 1933. It hadn't been a very good farming year and Rube was ready to change occupations. Leon Bowling had heard about wonderful bean farming in New Mexico. He was tired of making boots. So Rube traded Leon a 1929 Chevrolet Roadster, two cows, two hogs, five horses, a four-wheeled trailer, and two sets of harness for the Bowling Bootshop a four room affair which provided living quarters, boot and shoe machines, a supply of leather. The deal involved no cash. Leon was to remain with Rube until Rube learned how to make boots. They had finished only two pairs when Leon had to take off, and Rube was on his own. He took the situation from there to develop a business, which serves the North Plains and many special customers. Rube made his first pair of boots for Louis Smith, Jimmy Cator's nephew. He has on file 95 order books, which cover approximately 1600 pair, which he has made in the 17 years on the bench. The biggest order came from a man who was 7 feet, 4 inches tall, weighed 260 pounds, and wore a size 15 shoe. In July 1933 the price range was from $15 to $20. Now it's from $47.50 to $75. Rube's strangest order was for a pair of woman's white boots with four aces on the back and front with an inlay of hearts and diamonds around the caps and tops. They sold for $62.50. One day a guy swaggered in and ordered a medium, round, square, quarter box toe! Maybe so. Rube did not argue. When the customer came in for them he wanted to know where the quarter box was. Rube told him it was on the inside, and the man left completely satisfied. Mr. and Mrs. Faus spent about 5 years in Amarillo. They had a shop on fourth Between Polk and Taylor. Mrs. Faus had become an expert top maker. She helped Rube at odd times. She also made tops for the Maddox and Igerton shops. She is quite a designer. She turned out two pairs daily. Could do three pairs for maybe a week at a time during the rush season. Three pair in two days is considered a good average. One day two teen-age boys came into Rube's Bootshop and stalked around a while. As they left each grabbed a boot from the window display. Rube took out after them but his 220 pounds was a handicap. The kids were flagging down the alley, each swinging a boot. The police took over. One morning Rube put a beautiful pair of boots on top of the showcase for display. It was a busy day. When he closed that night he noticed that the worst looking broken down books had replaced the new pair. The replacement was permanent A pair of boots mysteriously disappeared from Rub's showcase. Everybody denied selling them. Mrs. Faus made the deduction that if they sold they would sooner or later be returned for heels. and if they were stolen they would never hear of them. In the usual time, 3-4 months they came back for repair. The wearer had bought them _______place. He paid for them by check. He brought in the cancelled check. Some part lost Continued: …Back and forth. If a pattern is altered nothing is though of it. One rarely has a request for something absolutely different. If the boot artist makes such a creation, nobody would be caught dead liking it A couple of Radio entertainers came to Amarillo to put on an USO show. They wanted Texas boots. The man was satisfied with a plain pair. They wife wanted a tops that reflected her personality and was absolutely different to all tops ever made or ever would be. She wanted white boots with white tops and Mrs. Faus had to ______all day. She worked and drafted all day. And got nowhere. She went to be worrying about it. At 2 am she woke remembering the blue birds hadn't mentioned. They next day she told her client that bluebirds made out of suede would have that feathered look. It was a bird of an idea, satisfactory to all concerned. Besides all the boot business, rube takes care of half soles, and other shoe repairs. He estimates he does a yearly average of 1000 repairs. Rube has set prices for all except "little, bitsy, teeny boots." He takes off 10 percent on such super-small sizes. Rube Fiddles for recreation. He "doesn't know how come unless its like boot making" Maybe he inherited it. His dad was a fiddler. His Wife's Julia's grandfathers were shoemakers. So was her great, great granddad. Rube had never even so much as sat down on a shoe bench, till he traded with Leon. Judging from the results, maybe there was a cobbler back on the Faus family tree. Newspaper Article Perryton Herald Sunday may 11 1962 RUBE FAUS BOOT MAKER DOESN'T MAKE BOOTS NOW By Mel Marshall
RUBE FAUS BOOT MAKER DOESN'T MAKE BOOTS NOW By Mel Marshall Spearman-- When he closed the order book number 100 after checking off the completion of 5784 pair of hand -made cowboy boots, Rube Faus decided he had made all the boots a man should make in 30 years. That was six years ago, and Rube has not cut leather for a pair of boots since. He spends all his time keeping boots and shoes in good condition. There are plenty of Ranchers and farmers on the North Plains, though; who are still wearing boots Rube made for them. "I get a pair in to fix every now and then," Rube Says. "A Good pair of hand-made boots will last a man 20 years or more. But mostly, what I work on now is shoes and factory boots. Nothing wrong with factory boots, of course, but they don't compare with hand-made boots." Rube Faus got into the bootmaking business 36 years ago, when a bad crop year made him decide to quite farming. He had heard that Leon Bowling wanted to quit making boots in the shop Bowling owned in Spearman, So the two men sat down to dicker out a trade. The deal was closed with an agreement to swap. Rube gave Bowling a 1929 Chevrolet Roadster, two cows, two hogs, five horses, a couple sets of harnesses and a trailer. Bowling turned the shop, a four-room building with living quarters included, all machinery in the shop and a stock of leather---NO Cash. Bowling agreed to stay with Rube to teach him the trade, before taking off for New Mexico. But after working with Rube on two pair of boots, Bowling had to leave to close the deal for the bean farm he'd bought and Rube had to make it himself from then on. He did. The day after his teacher left, a customer walked in and ordered a pair of boots. (Note from LD Pierce Rube's grandson-this customer was Jim Cator's nephew) Rube made them and they fit. So Rube didn't worry any longer a bout not being able to handle to the job b he had taken on. During the next quarter of a Century- he turned out boots of all shapes and sizes, accumulating a supply of over 500 boot-lasts which he still has, stored in the back of the shop he operates now strictly for repair work. "Most of the last are for special customers." Rube muses. "Like the fellow who stood 7 feet tall and wore a size 15 shoe. And a lot of them are for ladies' boots, and little-bite lasts for children's feet. I used to knock 10 percent off the price for those tiny sizes" Rube Explains: "A man who buys hand-made expects them to fit perfectly, so I built up a last using, using thin strips of leather, until I got the exact shop of his foot. That job takes a lot of time and when I'd made a pair of special lasts I'd just put them aside with the customers name of them, because I'd figure he would want another pair sooner or later." Hand made boots are made by stretching the lining and uppers over the last with special pliers, tacking the uppers and lining to the insole as the bootmaker works around the edge of the last. When the leather is stretched-the tension must be just right so the uppers will hold their shape and be neither too loose nor too tight-the edge is welted and the outer sole is sewed on. Then the last is removed and the uppers stitched to the boot. Its is a painstaking job, because each piece of leather is slightly different, and the bootmaker works by feel and judgement. "I got the hang of it pretty quick, I guess" Rube chuckled. "Most of my regulars would just stick their heads in the door when they'd pass the shop and just yell for me to made another pair. "Half the time they didn't even say what color they wanted, and they knew I'd made brown. They liked brown or black or even tan, or whatever. And most of them wouldn't even try their boots on when they came to pick them up. They'd know the boot would fit." When Rube Faus began making boots, the going price was $15 a pair, special fancy jobs running as high as $25. When he put aside his lasts, the minimum price was $65 with the fancy decorated jobs running over $100. Rube Still recalls some of the strange orders he got for fancy boots-especially during the five years he set up shop on Fourth Street in Amarillo. He filled some orders for some wild designs-boots with all white tops, or barber-pole strips of alternate colors, or designs of playing cards around the top, and even one pair with the inserts of bluebirds made from dyed suede. We never used to patent a design he says. " A man came in with a pair of boots he liked and I'd copy for them-just as I would expect a boot-maker somewhere else to copy of one of my designs somewhere else if a customers asked him to. Of course on the really fancy jobs, nobody who wears boots would want a pair like somebody else had." For a hobby, Rube plays the fiddle. "Keeps my hands busy," he explains. "I guess its a little bit like working with leather. But I'll never get back to bootmaking" he adds. "I quit that because I could not find help, couldn't find anybody interested in doing the kind of hand work the job needs. I guess leather workers are what you would call a dying breed. There's not many of us left any more, and no young fellows coming along to take our place." "So I'll just stick to keeping boots and shoes in shape, and let them factories turn out the boots from now on."
Genealogy letter from Sister Mary Euphrasia (Ruth Lavinia Faus) Sacred Heart Convent To Rube's Daughter Juanita Faus Pierce (my mother-LD Pierce preparer) 1958 Dear Juanita Your letter arrived only now and I'm surely interested in the information you have sent. Just last week I sent out addenda information. As our cousins Martha Faus Parish in Ft Wayne, Indiana got in touch with Lester Faus-a son of John Faus-John Faus a son of john Faus- John Faus was a son of Oliver Faus Oliver Faus was a son of Henry Faus. Oliver had a brother Norman Faus and another one Henry Faus III . Henry Faus III is the grandfather of Lester C Faus of Los Angeles, who I met in LA in 1956. This makes 2 Lester Faus's in the Henry (II) Faus history. Laura Faus or Oram's Orchard, Alton, New Hampshire sent me the larger part of the Faus History. My aunt Minerva (Faus) Rosebush did some search work into the history in the east some years ago. In 1953 I was confined to bed after some surgery on my knee for torn ligaments. At this time I began compiling data, but never realized what a task it would become. However, whenever I think well now so much and no more, something new shows up in the mails, this has happened 2 or 3 times since January 1958. First it was Thomas Throne Faus and descendents of Ohio--then Lester Faus of Bluffton Indiana, which set me clear on just where Norman and Oliver Faus came in and now you add another link to the Henry Faus III descendents. Before long we may have all 16 of Henry 16 II's children listed. Henry Faus II and Thomas Faus were brothers. Thomas Faus is my great grandfather. Thomas Ware Faus and Henry Faus his brother are my two grandfathers. All of the Henry Faus' children are deceased but 3 of Thomas Ware Faus's children are still living--mainly my father Lundy Boyd Faus (89 years)-Minerva Faus? (80) In Mcook Nebraska, and Estelle May Faus (73) in Los Angeles CA. My father is in Santa Anna California. I 'll enclose a copy of 1954 history plus the recent addenda but I've only a stenciled carbon copy to send. Hope this may help you out. I have a nephew Rev Lawrence Harrison Faus in Fort Worth TX who is pastor of a Baptist Church there. He is my youngest brother's oldest son. My brother was a victim of a car accident in 1951. My mother Mrs. LB Faus died in 1908 and is buried in Dalhart TX. L.B. junior is buried in Sunset Garden's cemetery in San Antonio TX. My other brother Clarence Faus lives in Clayton new, Mexico. I've got a sister Mrs. A.C. Barton (Marguerite Faus) who lives in Alamogordo NM and my youngest sister Lila, Mrs. L.K. Bangerter, lives in Los Angeles. Then I have 4 half sisters all married. Laura Faus the daughter of Theodore Smith Faus is a retired teacher and Librarian. She lives at Orams Orchard in Alton, N H. I receieved a card from her along with your letter. Her brothers Harold Faus of West Lynn Mass is an inventory for General Electric Co. there and has over fifty patents on his electrical inventions. Her other brother Herbert Faus has been the consulting engineer for new York Central line, but resigned last year as age is getting him down now. About a Coat of Arms and a family crest, Perhaps Laura Faus could find out- or has Dr Neil Faus ever consulted LC Faus of Los Angeles who looks up family records as part of his work>??? Lester C Faus's address is Box 26061 Elendale Stations Los Angeles 26 Calif. I m sure Lester would be happy to hear from you, being in his own lineage of the Henry (II) Faus family. When I visited my father in 1956 he met me at the airport with my Aunt Estelle and then drove up from LA to my home in Laguna Beach, 50 miles south of Los Angeles. He has promised me that when I get all my family data down Pat the way I want it that he will photostat it for me, but the Faus lineage is just endless. Herbert Faus met another Henry Faus at Times Sq. in Philadelphia, whom he recognized as a Faus before introductions by his features. Now they talked about lineage and this Henry Faus just from German Since WWI could trace back his ancestry over 300 years. Maybe he knows of the crest and the coat of arms. Henry S Faus's address is in the first addenda. You may have to study up my findings like a puzzle, but I hope you will find some missing links. I still have many incomplete records. Sincerely Yours- Sister M Euphrasia Faus (Ruth Lavina Faus) 1958 Notes for JULIA ROSA HIBBS: JULIA HIBBS McMANUS I, Julia Hibbs (Faus) McManus was born September 20, 1911 in Beaver County Oklahoma. My parents were Robert and Lura Luke Hibbs. My father Rob Hibbs was born in Kansas and came to Beaver County with his parents in 1883. His father was an ox-team freighter for the Army from Dodge City to Tascosa, Texas and Miami, Texas. Beaver Okla. was half-way. Papa first saw the Mulock State Station, northwest of Hansford where the road crossed the Palo Duro Creek, about 1886, on a freighting trip with his father. He went to work as a chore boy on a ranch in Hansford County in 1890, they bought their supplies at Farwell east of where Gruver is now. Papa filed on land in Beaver County, Oklahoma in the early 1900's. He came back to Hansford (County) with Irv Steele and helped the Steeles locate there. Lura Luke came to Hansford County in 1906 with her parents Ethan Allen Luke and Luke. E.A. Luke was a civil engineer, he got a contract to build a bridge the first in Hansford County, on the Palo Duro Creek at Old Hansford. He later joined with Tom and Charley Crowley to form the Alamo Irrigation Ditch Company and built two dams on the Palo Duro Creek; one at Mulock and one on the Crowly Ranch (the Huff Wright Place). He also built a bridge on the J.I. Steele Ranch and many fireplaces and brick chimneys Lura Luke went to Beaver, Oklahoma to visit her brother and met and married Robert Hibbs in 1908. Rob Hibbs got a letter from J.I. Steele telling him of the Mulock place and some surrounding land that was for sale. He came to Hansford County and bought the Mulock place and four sections in Hansford and four sections of a-joining land in Ochiltree County. Our neighbors were; Simmons, O'Loughlins, Andrews, Steeles, and the Powers to the south. Bertrands, McMurry, Newcomb, Crowleys,James, Burks, and Lukes to the north and west. My sister Ruth (Reardon) and brother Lawerence Hibbs were born at the old Mulock Place. We attended school at New Hope which was held in the church (Huff's Chapel) as the old sod at New Hope School-house was unsafe by that time. They later built a new schoolhouse on the site of the old sod Newcomb Place. I married Ruben Paul Faus in February 1930 and moved to Spearman where we raised our family except for the war years in Amarillo. They are: Rosa Amelia (Steele) 12/21/30; Harry Elmer, 9/l4/32; Jaunita Lois (Pierce), 12/l 5/33; Bertha lleen (Willison) 11/5/35; Ruby Joyce (Saltnes) 5/5/ 37; Phyllis lnez (Mann) 7/5/44. Homer McManus was born in Brownwood, Texas, grew up in Slaton, his father was an Engineer for the Santa Fe Railroad. Homer went to work for the railroad when he finished high school in 1926, he transferred to Amarillo in 1929 but left during the depression for lack of seniority. He came to work in the oilfield in 1956. Homer and I married in Perryton in 1960 and lived in South Texas some years. And have lived in Amarillo since 1977. By Julia Hibbs McManus from: Hansford County History Vol 1 1980 page 211 Palo Duro Way Station O'Laughlin Ranch By Julia Hibbs Faus McManus written early spring of 1999 in Gage Oklahoma. Copyright 1999 805 Sante Fe, Gage OK 73843 580-923-7958 THIS IS THE FIRST TIME AND PLACE THIS WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED. MY GRANDMOTHER IS 88! There are lots of cotton wood, hackberry trees, and willows on the Palo Duro Creek, a good wide hallow gravel crossing about six miles up the creek from the Oklahoma line. There are nice wide level valleys and the Indians camped there for hundreds of years. There were many Indian artifacts pick there in latter years. When the railroad came into Dodge City Kansas, the army contracted freighters with wagons and teams, mostly Ox teams to haul supplies to the Army Forts, from the railroad. The freighters made what was called trails. They chose the best way to get across the country- everyone followed that trail. They wore the ground down so it was easier to get across the country. Two such trails crossed the Palo Duro Creek at the Old Indian Crossing. The first from Dodge City Kansas to Tascosa, Texas, and a latter one from Denver, Colorado. One of the first freighters from Dodge City to Tascosa was Amos Hibbs, with four wagons in tandem; (two wagons hooked together and pulled by six oxen) There was plenty of grass. He had twelve head of oxen hitched and twelve feeding on grass. The ones that were not pulling were tied together and herded along with the wagons, grazing on the grass. It took him almost three months round trip from Dodge City to Tascosa and back. The next three months he freighted from Dodge City to Fort Elliot, Texas, by way of Fort Supply and Canadian, Texas. This route was not quite as far but almost took as long. So He made four trips a year. He had the contract until the railroad came into Amarillo Texas, and Fort Elliot was shut down. Tascosa was a trading post and small town. All the freighters on the Dodge-Tascosa trail stopped over at the Indian Crossing to rest their live stock and repair wagons and harnesses. The O Laughlin brothers' filed on the land, they came there in the later part of the 18?? They built a Way station about three hundred yards north of the Indian Crossing. It was a 24 by 48 foot two story building, and was set in the side on a hill. There were two rooms downstairs, and three upstairs-two bedrooms and a freight storage. A loading dock and doors even with Wagon beds; the bottom north room was just about three-foot above ground. The entire bottom floor that was above ground was rock on the outside but lumber inside. Freighters hauled lumber from Dodge City. The freighters hauled buffalo hides and bones on their trip back to Dodge City. There was a large kitchen in the north end of the bottom floor and a lobby in the south end, which was used as a sitting room but the men would roll out their beds on the floor if the weather was bad. The O'Laughlin brothers lived there a few years. Robert Hibbs said he thought the Way-station was built 1881 or 1882. He was there on a trip with his father Amos Hibbs in the summer of 1883, when he was a small boy, and one of their wagons needed some repairs. They stayed there three or four days and it was very new then. He was there many times through the years. Rob Hibbs said they called it Palo Duro Station back then. Rob Hibbs bought the Palo Duro Mullock Station thirty years later. The O'Laughlin brothers built a ranch headquarters up on the flats about three miles south east of the weigh station before 1890. They sold the weigh station and some land to Ira P Mullock. Mullock had sheep and built a sheep shed about 300 ft long. The shed was very low only five or six ft high, about ten or twelve foot deep, and open on the southside. There were some horse barns. At some time someone drilled a well on the top of the hill just above the house and put a windmill, then piped the water into the kitchen, into a barrel, then into a trough for cooling, and then out the side of the house into a ditch and on down the hill. What modern convience! There was a lot of woven wire sheep fence. Mullock planted alfalfa on both sides of the creek. The creek at that time had a large curve beginning just below the crossing and ran about 150 yards west of the house, full width of a half section one half mile to Bertrand's Property line. The north side of the section line (the Bertrand's were not there yet at that time) The Way station was on a half section connected with a full section on the west and a full section on the east. The Bertrand Place was a half-section, surrounded on side by Mullock. The land was free range if not claimed and fenced. No one could claim more than one half mile of the creek unless they bought someone else's land. O'Laughlins got the next half-mile up the creek after they sold the weigh station. Ira P Mullock established a Post Office April 8th 1899. Located section 47 block 45 H& TC RR survey. Mullock Post office postmaster Ira P Mullock. Mullock sold out and moved to California 1902, but the Post Office retained the same name until it was discontinued Nov. 30 1918. The Post Office was moved from Ranch to Ranch the next 9 years (1902-1911. Other Postmasters were Simmons, Caldwell, and Robinson. Austin A Robinson and wife Rosa Robinson bought the weigh station and two and one half sections of land. The Post Office was moved back to the Weigh Station June 6 1904. The Robinson's also had sheep and alfalfa. Mr. Robinson decided he wanted to straighten out the bend in the creek, he had the channel changed and moved the crossing down the creek about a quarter of a mile. It was a very bad crossing, but was never changed again. The change brought the creek brought the creek to about fifty-foot or less from the house down the hill but not far enough. When the creek rose it came very near the house. Charlie Crowley had bought the Huff and Mel Wright Ranch. Beginning w miles north of the Mullock north line. E.A. Luke a stone mason and a civil Engineer was a long time friend of Crawly. Mr. Luke had just finished a ten-year contract building a railroad across Eastern Oklahoma from Coffeeville KS to Denison Texas I 1904. They operated as Luke's and Sons, Alamo construction Company-contractors. Mr. Crowley persuaded Mr. Luke to come to Hansford County to build some irrigation dams on the Palo Duro Creek. The Luke family bought a section of railroad land just north of Newcomb's ranch near New Hope sod schoolhouse. They had three children of school age, two girls, and a boy, and also a baby boy, four grown boys (two married) and a grown daughter. The married sons soon moved to Oklahoma and file on land of their own. The Luke family fenced their land, build a sod house and a dugout. They drilled a well, and put up a windmill and built a shed for two milk cows, which they bought from one of the neighbors. They also fenced and plowed a garden near the well. They built two small Dams for McCrawly, and on the property line between Mr. MrCrowley and Oren Bertand and they built ten Chimney's on houses in Hansford. They also built steel bridge and a concrete and rock slab crossing for JD Steele on Palo Duro Creek. It is still holding eighty years later. Mr. Robinson decided he wanted a bigger damn than the others dams. There was no safe place to put a dam on his half mile of the creek. Mr. Luke tried to dissuade him, told him a dam would not hold there, but Mr. Robinson believed it would work, he was very adamant. Mr. Luke finally gave in with the stipulation that it had to be in the contract that if the damn failed he would not be responsible, and that he had told this strongly to Mr. Robinson. I think they finished in 1909. I have a picture of the men working on building the dam. It was taken in May 1908. It was not a big damn. It was not much bigger than the other three. The first big rise washes around it, if it had not it would have probably would have came into the house. They estimated they put in one hundred tons of rock hauled by wagons and mules from the Caprock east of Mullock and cement hauled from Guymon, OK. It was three hundred foot long with two wooden gates. The other two dams were smaller dams built with overflow and concrete and rock shirts to keep it from washing the ground away on the other side. The Robinson's moved away early spring of 1910. John Luke was working for the O'Laughlins. John Luke and his wife Betty moved into the Way Station. Betty Luke took care of the mail without a commission from the spring of 1910 to July 1911, when Mrs. Newcombe was commissioned. At that time Betty Luke went to work cooking for the O'Laughlin Ranch. Robert Hibbs and his wife Lura (the oldest daughter of Ethan A. Luke) bought the Way station and eight sections of land, four in Hansford County, and four in Ochiltree County in 1912. They moved in with a small daughter about Feb 1913. Another daughter was born at the Way Station March 25 1913. A son was born there Sept 1 1914. The freight station was discontinued then but many travelers and freighters camped there until about 1920. Some would stay several months when the weather was bad or some of the family was unable to travel. Mr. Hibbs would sometimes hire the men for a while to build fence and sheds or put up some alfalfa hay. He tore down the sheep's sheds, and built horse barns and wind brake sheds for one hundred heads of cattle. He also built a chicken house, A black smith shop, and a small bunkhouse for a hired man. He brought about 150 head of cattle, six horses, a crippled mule and a jersey milk cow with him from Oklahoma. Some of the horses were both work and saddle horses. It seemed he was building fence the next twenty years. There was always fence to be repaired or new fence to build. Everything went very well until the winter of 1918. The creek kept getting nearer the back door of the house. Each rise it came nearer. In 1917 Mr. Hibbs hired Joe Edden. He rented the Tom McMurry Place. It had a two-room house and a three room half-dugout. The Eddens moved into the house and the Hibbs family moved into the dugout. Mr. Hibbs and Mr. Edden tore down the Way station and built a four-room house on higher ground. Hibbs had about 100 head of cow. Mr. Wilmeth didn't have much pasture. Hibbs and Mr. Wilmeth made a dead. Mr. Wilmeth bought a twelve hundred-dollar Bull and one head of registered Hereford Cows. Mr. Hibbs bought one hundred head of Registered Hereford cows. They put them all on Hibbs pasture. Mr. Hibbs gave Mr. Wilmeth's sons board. They stayed in the bunkhouse and helped care for the cattle. Then things began going bad. First World War I, then the Flu Epidemic, then the worst winter in history, and in the middle, they cattle market dropped to the bottom. Hibbs lost all 90 head of cows and all the calves in the blizzard. I think Mr. Wilmeth lost about all of his as did all the neighbors. Hibbs had plenty of alfalfa hay for all he could get into the sheds They were so crowded he lost ten of them. He got all his Hereford in the sheds. He parked his Oldsmobile car between the haystacks and put cows in the car shed. Mrs. Hibbs and two little children were down with the flu. Mr. Hibbs and the oldest girl (8) did not get the flu, but most of the neighbors were down sick also. Mr. Hibbs tried to care of his family and all the neighbors. A neighbor, Mrs. McElreath (a nurse), tried to help but she had an invalid husband in a wheel chair, and two small boys with the flu. When it was all over in 1921 Mr. Hibbs gave up the cattle business. He had twenty head of mustang mares left. He sold several sections of land, moved to mares on what pasture he had left, and started raising wheat, and built a house two miles east. Bob Archer bought the Palo Duro Place and sold it to Bill McClarity of Perryton TX in 1922. Mr. McClarity leased it to J.C. Scroggs the first of April 1922. Mr. Scroggs had a heart attack about three weeks later and died. He left a wife and eight children who lived on the land for eighteen months. George Faus leased the place for five years in 1925 and moved to Colorado in 1930. Grover Brillhart and his family bought the Palo Duro Way station place , the O'Laughlin Ranch, and The McMurry and Newcombe ranch in the early 1930;s. They still own all of that land. James Brillhart owns the old Palo Duro Station--all of the old buildings are gone, the creek crossings all washing out……Nothing like it was when I was a child there. I am Rob Hibbs 88-year-old daughter. Everyone else that lived in that part of Hansford County, except James Brillhart, has passed on. Julia Hibbs McManus Amos Hibbs and E.A. (Ethan
Allen) Luke were both my grandfathers.
Children of REUBEN FAUS and JULIA HIBBS are:
Generation No. 4
10. HERBERT6 COX (EFFIE GRACE5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1913. He married MAY ???. She was born in Borger.
Child of HERBERT COX and MAY ??? is:
11. ELLA MAXINE6 COX (EFFIE GRACE5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born April 08, 1917. She married JOHN SYLUS LONGLEY September 22, 1926. He was born March 10, 1918 in Spearman TX, and died 1993 in Stillwell Oklahoma. Notes for ELLA MAXINE COX: lives in sunray TX
Children of ELLA COX and JOHN LONGLEY are:
12. CALVIN6 COX (EFFIE GRACE5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1926 in Spearman TX Hansford County. He married PHYLLIS HUMPHREY.
Children of CALVIN COX and PHYLLIS HUMPHREY are:
13. OPAL IRENE6 FAUS (SAMUEL NORMAN5, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born October 1910 in Guymon Oklahoma, and died March 28, 1998 in Spearman TX. She married OAKES AMES SCROGGS December 1929. He was born 1910, and died 1992 in Spearman TX Hansford County. Notes for OAKES AMES SCROGGS: Oakes Scroggs Family Oakes was born in Kent County, Texas. His parents were James and Mary Scroggs. They came to the Texas Panhandle in 1918, by covered wagon. His brothers were George, Willard, Winfield and Carl. His sisters were Annie, Irene, Jean, Mary and Nell. They spent the bad winter of 1918 and 1919 on a cattle ranch near Hartley, Texas. Later they came to Ochiltree County. The children attended school at Crow School on Wolf Creek. In 1922, Mr. Scroggs rented and in Hansford County on the Palo Duro Creek. They had only lived there about a month when Mr. Scroggs died of a heart at-tack. Mrs. Scroggs then bought land in Ochiltree County, north of Waka. There they lived until the children were grown. She and Jean moved to Waka. where she died in 1964. I was born in Hansford County. My parents were Samuel and Mvrtle Faus. Dad was born in South Dakota. Mother was born in Oklahoma. Both families had moved to the Oklahoma Panhandle and settled near Range. My parents were married in Hansford, Texas and lived on a farm west of that town, where I and my sisters, Amelia and Ona May were born. In 1915. we moved to a farm near Guymon, Oklahoma. I attended school in a country schoolhouse about two miles from our house. A son, Francis, was born into the family. He had two teeth when he was born. We moved back to Hansford in 1917. Dad carried mail from Hansford to Guymon. The next year, we moved to a farm, a mile west of where the new town of Spearman was to be. We watched as the railroad came through and houses were moved from Hansford to Spearman, the old schoolhouse being one of them. Another brother, Jack, was born at this place. We girls attended school the first year it was held in Spearman. Grandfather Faus and his sons moved a building from Texhoma, Oklahoma to Spearman and opened a meat market. Dad learned to cut meat and worked in the shop. We moved into town in 1920. In the fall of that year, The Morton Sisters held a meeting in the new town. Because of that meeting, The Union Church was built, which became our church home. In 1925, Granddad rented land on the Palo Duro Creek. In the winter months, we children lived in town and attended school. We spent the summer months on the creek swimming, riding horses and helping with the farm work. We attended a small country church about a mile from our place. There I met Oakes and we were married December 24, 1929, at Perryton, Texas, by Judge J.M. Grigsby. The next spring, Granddad moved to Baca County, Colorado. Oakes and I helped drive his cattle from Texas to Colorado. In 1932, Oakes bought a truck and went to work for Massey, Lindsey and Gash, sub-contractors for Bell and Braden, doing road construction work. We lived in Mobeetie, Jacksboro and Estelline. In 1933, we came back to Spearman and he helped haul the caliche for the pavement from Spearman to Perryton. When the road was completed he went to work for Grover Brillhart and worked for two years; then he worked for Mr. Porter. In 1941, we bought our present home at 301 Brandt Street. Oakes bought machinery and started custom farm work, making the harvest from South Texas to the Dakotas. it was during this time that tires and gasoline was rationed but he managed to get what he needed. In 1951, Oakes started to work for Beach Aircraft in Liberal, Kansas, coming home over the weekends. He worked there for four years; then he worked a year at the Air Base in Amarillo and for Mooney Aircraft in Kerrville, Texas for two years. In 1961, he started to work for Precinct 4 of Hutchinson, County, where he works at the present time. Our children are Irene Ford, Amarillo; Doris Jean Pipkin, Spearman; Joyce Leach Dumas; June Edwards, Spearman; Tilde; and James Scroggs, Spearman; Mary Harper, Perryton; Ted Scroggs, Spearman; Peggy Mitchell and Zada Cooper, Fort Worth; Coleen Neal, Lebanon, MO.; Dallen Scroggs and Sharon Pearson, Spearman. We also have 43 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. The Union Church was our church home until December 1951, when the "Alliance" came in and caused a split. Not only in our church but in the entire Apostolic Faith movement. Knowing the Bible said "Mark them which cause division and offenses contrary to the doctrine, which ye have learned and avoid them." Romans 16:17. We worshipped with the ones that stood for the old time faith. The Apostolic Faith Church becoming our church home after it was built. As Paul said in Romans 1:16 "We are not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto Salvation that everyone believeth." By Opal Faus Scroggs from: Hansford County History Vol. 1 1980 page 263-264
Children of OPAL FAUS and OAKES SCROGGS are:
14. SARAH AMELIA6 FAUS (SAMUEL NORMAN5, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born September 19, 1912 in Hansford TX (orig had july 1911 ) as Birthdate other page shows sept 14. She married CECIL TOMBLESON. He was born January 07, 1913 in Springfield Colorado.
Children of SARAH FAUS and CECIL TOMBLESON are:
15. ONA MAE6 FAUS (SAMUEL NORMAN5, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born November 27, 1914 in Range Oklahoma, and died February 21, 1969 in Sperman TX hansford. She married BERNARD ALFRED BYERS June 14, 1933 in Springfield Colorado, son of JOSEPH BYERS and BERTHA HARREL. He was born June 14, 1909 in Harper County KS, and died October 26, 1995 in Spearman TX buried Hansford cemetary.
Child of ONA FAUS and BERNARD BYERS is:
16. BENJAMIN PAUL ROBINSON6 BUSCHMAN (ELLA ONEIDA5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born 1928 in Spearman TX. He married LEOLA HENDERGARD 1955.
Child of BENJAMIN BUSCHMAN and LEOLA HENDERGARD is:
17. GRACE MAY6 BUSCHMAN (ELLA ONEIDA5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born November 29, 1929 in Spearman TX Hansford on Buschman Farm Lindsay Placxw3. She married LEON GIFT March 09, 1958 in Spearman TX. He was born May 09, 1927 in Beaver County OK.
Children of GRACE BUSCHMAN and LEON GIFT are:
18. SARAH ANN6 BUSCHMAN (ELLA ONEIDA5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born April 01, 1931 in Spearman TX. She married RICHARD Nealy January 1955.
Children of SARAH BUSCHMAN and RICHARD Nealy are:
19. GEORGE FAUS6 BUSCHMAN (ELLA ONEIDA5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born May 27, 1935 in Spearman TX. He married (1) COREEN CADE. She was born 1939, and died November 27, 1992 in Canadian TX Canadian Cemetery. He married (2) LEONA THOMPSON SWORD. She was born July 31, 1929 in Canadian TX.
Children of GEORGE BUSCHMAN and COREEN CADE are:
20. JAMES DALE6 MINTON (AMANDA MAY5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born November 13, 1932. He married BETTY JEAN MARSHALL March 24, 1951. She was born October 14, 1929.
Children of JAMES MINTON and BETTY MARSHALL are:
21. ILETTA MARIETTA6 MINTON (AMANDA MAY5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born January 20, 1940. She married FLOYD FIELDS, son of ORLIN FIELDS and EARLENE FIELDS. He was born in Pueblo Colorado.
Children of ILETTA MINTON and FLOYD FIELDS are:
22. RUBY SHARON6 MINTON (AMANDA MAY5 FAUS, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born February 22, 1945. She married GERALD ANDREW MAGLIETTO November 23, 1963 in Canon City Colorado Freemont County.
Children of RUBY MINTON and GERALD MAGLIETTO are:
23. ROSA AMELIA6 FAUS (REUBEN ROLAND PAUL5, GEORGE WEICKER4, WILLIAM DELONG3, HENRY (II)2, HENRY I1) was born December 02, 1930 in Dennis place spearman TX, and died May 27, 1996 in Amarillo TX Buried Ochiltree Cemetery Perryton TX. She married (1) JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE November 28, 1948 in Spearman TX, son of ROBERT PIERCE and OLA. He was born 1929 in Riverside Calif Thermole Calif, and died 1990 in Denver Colorado. She married (2) JOHN STEELE January 14, 1972, son of MARY STEELE. He was born July 20, 1930. Notes for ROSA AMELIA FAUS: Rosa Faus Pierce Steele I was born on my Grandpa Hibb's Ranch North of Spearman, TX, December 2, 1930. When I was three, we moved east of town to the Dennis Place. Now 43 years later in Veronica, Oregon, population 1,700 I live three blocks from Jo Dennis! Granda Faus Carried the mail. I went with him often. Sometimes I went the complete route, sometimes I stopped off at Grandpa Hibb's going home the next mail day. Then, the mail went out three days a week. I learned to drive at the age of five sitting on Grandpa's lap, steering and shifting gears. When Daddy first got Electricity in the Boot Shop the whole family went down that night to turn the lights on. Those lights were so bright. When I was eight, Mamma took over the Spearman Hotel. We kids hated living in that hotel. We had to be so quite, so clean, and make the fastest trips possible to the bathroom. There was only one bathroom for the whole hotel. December 7, 1941 I was in the Boot Shop, listening to the radio, we were at war. I'll never forget, I was so scared. In the spring we moved to Amarillo, TX, living there through the War years. In the summer of 1948 we moved back to Spearman. That summer I met and Married James (Jim) Pierce. For the next several years I lived the life of a nomad, moving on the average of three times a year. Our first two sons were born in Dimmitt, TX. Franklin Lee born June 27, 1950, and Roy Paul born May 31, 1951. Our third and fourth sons were born in Spearman, David Lloyd born August 7 1952, and James Michael Born January 17 1955. Our fifth and sixth sons were born while we lived in Perris, California--Calvin Douglas born January 27 1959, and Richard Dean born June 22 1961. In September 1969, Jim and I were divorced and I had to start supporting a family. I went to work as a community center Aide in 1969. In 1971 I had advanced to Community Coordinator. In 1972 I was County Program Director, directing Youth Program, County Community Centers, and Committee for Progress through Law. In 1971 I met John Steele, we married 1972, and I resigned my job and went back to being a wife and a mother. Together we have 11 children, 15 grandchildren, and 15 foster children. John had a disabling back injury, so I am employed again as a Community School Coordinator. July 30 1978, one of my precious sons, Calvin Pierce, was killed by a hit and run driver as he sat beside the road. Frank will finish college in June this year. Roy is working in the world's largest nuclear plant in Illinois. He has three sons, Kevin, Ryan, and Jeffery. David works in a Crowne Zellarbach Paper Mill in Clatskanie, Oregon, he has two children, a girl, Lisa, and a boy Dustin. Mike and Richard are working in the oil fields in Oklahoma. John and I are planning to move to Spearman, hopefully in the summer or fall of 1979. Editors note: Rosie and John Steele did move back to the panhandle but over to GAGE OK to be near her mother. My mom had had cancer since 1990 and passed away in Aug 1995. Unfortunately my Aunt Rosie was diagnosed that same year with a particularly virulent form of cancer and she passed away a short 6 months or so after my mom. John Steele still lives in Gage OK, and my Grandmother Julia Hibbs Faus McManus lives next door to him. Rosie's oldest son Frank Pierce is living with John but has recently bought a small house in Gage. John and Julia both live across the street from my Aunt Phyllis Mann and her husband Leroy. Rosie's son RICHARD DEAN PIERCE, drowned in Lake Meredith close to Fritch TX. during a sudden thunderstorm. He is buried in Ochiltree Cemetery Perryton TX. By Rosa Faus Steele Hansford County History Book pg. 277-278.
Obituary Rosa Faus Steele Ellis County Capital June 6 1996 Rosa Faus Steele Rosa Faus Steele, 65, died Sunday May 26 196 in Amarillo TX. Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, May 30 1996, Union Church of Spearman TX with the Rev. Curtis Torrance of Gage , Ok, Assisted by Rev Kenneth Smith of Amarillo, officiating. Burial was in the Ochiltree Cemetery at Perryton, TX, by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of Spearman TX. Mrs. Steele was born in Hansford County, TX., and attended schools in Spearman and Amarillo. She moved with her family to Oregon in 1963. She married John Steele in 1972 at Vernonia, Or, and the couple moved to Gage Ok in 1994. Mrs. Steele was a homemaker and has worked as a computer operator for Tectronics Electronics before retiring in 1994. She was a lifelong member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Mrs. Steele was preceded in death by two sons, Calvin Pierce, Richard Pierce, and an infant daughter; a sister, Juanita pierce; and her father, Ruben Pierce. Survivors included her husband, John Steele; four sons, Frank Pierce of Vernonia, Or, Roy Pierce of Zion Ill., Dave Pierce of Clatskanie, Or, and Michael Pierce of Gage Ok; a foster son, Jim Richards of Vernonia Or; three stepsons; two stepdaughters; her mother, Julia Faus McManus of Gage, OK; Three sisters, Bertha Willison, Ruby Saltness, and Phyllis Mann all of Gage OK. a brother, Harry Faus of Fountain Valley CA; 15 grandchildren,and numerous great grandchildren. Memorial may be made to St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center in Amarillo TX
Notes for JAMES FRANKLIN PIERCE: death info provided by search co
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