Richard Fairbanks was born in Hamilton County, Tennessee to David Fairbanks and Nancy Heart.
Records show that Richard Fairbanks enlisted in the Confederate Army on 19 October 1862 in Thomas R. Mitchell's Company F, 5 Tenn. Reg't Tennessee Volunteers. However he is listed as "Absent without leave" or "No Person" on all Muster Rolls thereafter. Richard enrolled in Lebanon, Kentucky 7 Dec 1862 in the Union Army in Co. H, 7 Reg't Tennessee Infantry but was later transferred to Co. B, 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery. He was discharged July 20, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
On 21 July 1890 Richard applied for and received a military pension for his Civil War service.
Richard Fairbanks married Nancy Elizabeth Springer on June 1862 in Hamilton County, Tennessee (info per Civil War pension application). About 1872 Richard and Nancy Fairbanks and family moved from Hamilton County, Tennessee to Logan County, Arkansas.
Richard and Nancy Elizabeth Fairbanks were the parents of five children:
William Richard Fairbanks (1863-1938)
Narcissus Fairbanks Marshall (1866-1931)
David Franklin Merlin Fairbanks (1868-1960)
Tennessee Elizabeth Fairbanks (1871-1965)
Meredith Fairbanks (1874-1960)
bio by Vonda Fairbanks Dihm
Records show that Richard Fairbanks enlisted in the Confederate Army on 19 October 1862 in Thomas R. Mitchell's Company F, 5 Tenn. Reg't Tennessee Volunteers. However he is listed as "Absent without leave" or "No Person" on all Muster Rolls thereafter. Richard enrolled in Lebanon, Kentucky 7 Dec 1862 in the Union Army in Co. H, 7 Reg't Tennessee Infantry but was later transferred to Co. B, 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery. He was discharged July 20, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
On 21 July 1890 Richard applied for and received a military pension for his Civil War service.
Richard Fairbanks married Nancy Elizabeth Springer on June 1862 in Hamilton County, Tennessee (info per Civil War pension application). About 1872 Richard and Nancy Fairbanks and family moved from Hamilton County, Tennessee to Logan County, Arkansas.
Richard and Nancy Elizabeth Fairbanks were the parents of five children:
William Richard Fairbanks (1863-1938)
Narcissus Fairbanks Marshall (1866-1931)
David Franklin Merlin Fairbanks (1868-1960)
Tennessee Elizabeth Fairbanks (1871-1965)
Meredith Fairbanks (1874-1960)
bio by Vonda Fairbanks Dihm
Richard Fairbanks was born in Hamilton County, Tennessee to David Fairbanks and Nancy Heart.
Records show that Richard Fairbanks enlisted in the Confederate Army on 19 October 1862 in Thomas R. Mitchell's Company F, 5 Tenn. Reg't Tennessee Volunteers. However he is listed as "Absent without leave" or "No Person" on all Muster Rolls thereafter. Richard enrolled in Lebanon, Kentucky 7 Dec 1862 in the Union Army in Co. H, 7 Reg't Tennessee Infantry but was later transferred to Co. B, 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery. He was discharged July 20, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
On 21 July 1890 Richard applied for and received a military pension for his Civil War service.
Richard Fairbanks married Nancy Elizabeth Springer on June 1862 in Hamilton County, Tennessee (info per Civil War pension application). About 1872 Richard and Nancy Fairbanks and family moved from Hamilton County, Tennessee to Logan County, Arkansas.
Richard and Nancy Elizabeth Fairbanks were the parents of five children:
William Richard Fairbanks (1863-1938)
Narcissus Fairbanks Marshall (1866-1931)
David Franklin Merlin Fairbanks (1868-1960)
Tennessee Elizabeth Fairbanks (1871-1965)
Meredith Fairbanks (1874-1960)
bio by Vonda Fairbanks Dihm
Records show that Richard Fairbanks enlisted in the Confederate Army on 19 October 1862 in Thomas R. Mitchell's Company F, 5 Tenn. Reg't Tennessee Volunteers. However he is listed as "Absent without leave" or "No Person" on all Muster Rolls thereafter. Richard enrolled in Lebanon, Kentucky 7 Dec 1862 in the Union Army in Co. H, 7 Reg't Tennessee Infantry but was later transferred to Co. B, 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery. He was discharged July 20, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee.
On 21 July 1890 Richard applied for and received a military pension for his Civil War service.
Richard Fairbanks married Nancy Elizabeth Springer on June 1862 in Hamilton County, Tennessee (info per Civil War pension application). About 1872 Richard and Nancy Fairbanks and family moved from Hamilton County, Tennessee to Logan County, Arkansas.
Richard and Nancy Elizabeth Fairbanks were the parents of five children:
William Richard Fairbanks (1863-1938)
Narcissus Fairbanks Marshall (1866-1931)
David Franklin Merlin Fairbanks (1868-1960)
Tennessee Elizabeth Fairbanks (1871-1965)
Meredith Fairbanks (1874-1960)
bio by Vonda Fairbanks Dihm
Inscription
Military marker
Rich'd Fairbanks,__
Co. B. 1st. TN. Light Artillery
Headstone
R. Fairbanks
Feb 17, 1845
Aug 10, 1898
other side
Children of R and N E Fairbanks
