Fauver Family

The beginning of the American branch of the Fauver family starts with George Joseph Fauver and Craig Fauver who were of French and German ancestry. George was a Revolutionary War soldier and he and his wife are buried in New Jersey.

Their son, George II, was born on March 18, 1796 at Bridgeport, New York, and died in 1879 at Ridgeville Corners, Ohio. He married Patience Shepherd on December 25, 1814. Patience was born on April 4, 1799 at Scipio, Cayuga County, New York. She died in 1871 at Ridgeville Corners, Ohio. Her parents were Eli and Anna Lambfur Shepherd who were residents of Newfield, New York. George and Patience were married in the Shepherd home. Eli Shepherd's father lived to be one hundred and eighteen years old and died in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Jane Shepherd, a sister of Patience, married Abner Beals in 1846 in Cuyahoga County.

George II and Patience Shepherd Fauver had several children. They were Walter, Robert Patterson, Alvin Bradley, Roxa, and Sarah. Walter was the third child born to his parents, and the first two died as infants.

Walter Fauver was born on August 2, 1819 in Stueben County, New York. He died on April 18, 1889 in Lorain County and is buried in that county. He married twice, to sisters. His first wife, Alzina Cornell, was born in Stueben County, New York, on April 28, 1820 and died on October 1, 1877 in Freedom Township, Henry County, Ohio. He and Alzina came to Freedom Township in 1860, left and went to Lorain County, returned to Freedom Township in '1865. After Alzina's death, Walter went back in 1878 to Lorain County and died there. Walter and Alzina had the following children: Betsy, Lydia, Narcissa, Celia, Heiro, Lorenzo, Dillon, Nettie, Charles, James, Harriet and Alice.

Betsey died at the age of eleven years in 1865. Narcissa died at Nashville, Holmes County in 1861 at the age of thirteen years.

Heiro A. Fauver was born in Lorain County on November 30, 1845. He married Mary Dowd on June 22, 1868. Mary died in April, 1872. Heiro married as his second wife, Jennie Beckham, daughter of Robert and Margaret Beckham, on November 6, 1877. Jennie was born in Licking County, Ohio, on September 22, 1848. Heiro and Jennie had Helen Pearl, Henry Neil, Helen May, Carl, and Curtis, and two sons that died soon after birth. Heiro attended Berea College and was a farmer and sold tombstones for Pen- der Tombstone Works, Napoleon.

Lorenzo Fauver served in Company A, 33rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the 22.nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry and died in the Danville, Virginia prison while in service in the Union Army. He was born in 1848 and died on October 16, 1865.

Dillon Fauver married Annette Higby and their children were Lorenzo, Mary, Betha and Clara. Mary married Harvey Reynolds; Bertha married Emory Carpenter; Clara Burgoon had one daughter, Geneva; and Lorenzo Donald married, first, Bessie Tedrow, and, second, Erma Goller, a widow.

James Eugene Fauver married Myra Chapman in 1905. Harriet Fauver married Lucius Keyes in 1873. Alice Adrienne Fauver married Moses Rand.

Alice was born in 1859 at Eaton, Lorain County, Ohio and died on July 31, 1906 at Ridgeville Corners. She married Moses Rand in 1878. Their daughter, Charlotte Elizabeth, was born on November -18, 1882. She was married in the Rand home to Harvey L. Brandau on June 14, 1905. Charlotte died on January 21, 1970 in Lucas County, Ohio. Her daughter, Margaret Brandau married Maurice McIntosh of Toledo, Ohio.

Roxie Fauver history appears with the Shadford history in this book.