FAIRES, JAMES
J. L. FAIRES IS M’KINNEY OLDEST CONTINUOUS CITIZEN
Weekly Democrat Gazette, June 20, 1932.
James L. Faires is celebrating his 85th birthday today, Wednesday, June 24. He is in excellent health for a man of his age and is always in good spirits with his many friends and acquaintances.
He had spent eighty of his eighty-five years here in McKinney and says that no man or woman is now living in McKinney who preceded him here in 1852.
He was born June 24, 1847, at Columbia, Tenn. When he was only five years old he was brought to Texas by his father and mother, who landed in McKinney in January, 1852.
His grandfather, Uncle Johnnie Faires, came to Texas and settled in McKinney in 1851. His father, Uncle Jack (John Joseph) Faires, and family followed him here the next year. His grandfather build a home in 1855 on the lot on South Tennessee Street in the fourth block south of the public square. That house has stood on the same spot for seventy-seven years, being occupied ever since by the grandfather, son and grandson. The father, his wife and daughter, Mrs. Lois Robinson are still occupying it. Mr. Faires say until now has its third roof, the same windows, same doors and the same floor that it originally had.
The grandfather, son and grandson, were all excellent wood workmen. The grandfather and father build the house with nothing but the very best of materials. Mr. Faires states that when the home was built in which he has steadily resided for almost eighty years there was but one other building between it and Wilson Creek Bridge as we know it now. That house was the double log home of W. E. Short, standing on the lot now occupied by the home of Short’s granddaughter, Mrs. J. G. (Short) Fitzhugh, facing on Anthony street.
James L. Faires is and expert wood-workman, who also learned the blacksmith’s trade; the latter trade having practically been his lifetime avocation. Mr. Faires occasionally walks up town to mingle with his friends. He tells this editor that during the long period of eighty years that he had made his home in McKinney, he has never in all that time made but one visit [rest missing.]
Weekly Democrat Gazette, June 20, 1932.
James L. Faires is celebrating his 85th birthday today, Wednesday, June 24. He is in excellent health for a man of his age and is always in good spirits with his many friends and acquaintances.
He had spent eighty of his eighty-five years here in McKinney and says that no man or woman is now living in McKinney who preceded him here in 1852.
He was born June 24, 1847, at Columbia, Tenn. When he was only five years old he was brought to Texas by his father and mother, who landed in McKinney in January, 1852.
His grandfather, Uncle Johnnie Faires, came to Texas and settled in McKinney in 1851. His father, Uncle Jack (John Joseph) Faires, and family followed him here the next year. His grandfather build a home in 1855 on the lot on South Tennessee Street in the fourth block south of the public square. That house has stood on the same spot for seventy-seven years, being occupied ever since by the grandfather, son and grandson. The father, his wife and daughter, Mrs. Lois Robinson are still occupying it. Mr. Faires say until now has its third roof, the same windows, same doors and the same floor that it originally had.
The grandfather, son and grandson, were all excellent wood workmen. The grandfather and father build the house with nothing but the very best of materials. Mr. Faires states that when the home was built in which he has steadily resided for almost eighty years there was but one other building between it and Wilson Creek Bridge as we know it now. That house was the double log home of W. E. Short, standing on the lot now occupied by the home of Short’s granddaughter, Mrs. J. G. (Short) Fitzhugh, facing on Anthony street.
James L. Faires is and expert wood-workman, who also learned the blacksmith’s trade; the latter trade having practically been his lifetime avocation. Mr. Faires occasionally walks up town to mingle with his friends. He tells this editor that during the long period of eighty years that he had made his home in McKinney, he has never in all that time made but one visit [rest missing.]
