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JAMES H. FAUCETT, post-office Jasper; business, farmer. He was born in North Carolina and remained there until fifteen years of age; then moved to Tennessee. He lived there about fifteen years, going to school most of the time. On Sept. 22d, 1850, he was married to Purlina Williams, who was a native of Tennessee. In 1859 he moved to Arkansas and engaged in farming two years; he then enlisted in Company D, Third Wisconsin Cavalry, and was in the war two years. He was mustered out in about three months, but remained in service over one year and a half without receiving one cent from the government for his services, and during that time his wife went crazy. She was sent back to Tennessee and soon after died there in January, 1864. Mr. Faucett married for his second wife, Miss Mary Duckworth. They were married in Fayetteville, Ark. They moved to Hickory county, and from there to Johnson county, Mo. Mrs. Faucett died there in 1870. Mr. Faucett then married Susan E. Cooper, for his third wife, daughter of Horatio and Mary Cooper, who were natives of Kentucky, and moved to Missouri in 1840. Mr. Faucett was married June 24, 1873, and moved to Jasper county, Mo.; lived a short time in Barton county, and then returned and settled on his present farm in 1870. He now has eighty acres under cultivation, well improved, and has a good young orchard. Himself and wife are both members of the Methodist Protestant Church, and do all they can for the benefit of the church. They are sincere Christians and in the community stand high. Mr. Faucett has four children living by his first wife: John A., Surah L., Hilda L., and William; by his second wife: Lizzie E. and Ambrose; and by his third wife he has five living: Alta P., James E., Frank P., Fannie May, and Ernest H.