Born about 1847
CSA VETERAN
Married to Hattie T. Smith
1930 Federal Census shows George W. boarding a room and widowed at the age of 83 and in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
GEORGE FAUCETT DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
Retired Merchant and Cotton Broker of Opelika, Alabama, Taken By Death
George Washington Faucett, 87, Confederate Veteran and for 58 years a mercantile and cotton broker of Opelika, Ala., died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. W. Ballard, 838 S. W. Second street. He had been a winter visitor in Miami for six years.
Mr. Faucett was a native of Roanoke, Ala., and served at Fort Morgan, Mobile, during the Civil war, joining the Confederate army when he was 16 years old. Following the war he engaged in the mercantile and cotton business at Opelika for 58 years, retiring two years ago.
Besides his daughter, he leaves a granddaughter, Miss Hattie Faucett Ballard, Miami; five brothers, Jesse and John of Roanoke, Thomas of Dallas, Texas, Judge R. L. of Montgomery, Ala. and Nathan of Washington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Britt Tomlinson and Mrs. E. P. Mickle, Roanoke, and Mrs. A. E. White of Opelika. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Joseph P. McGhan Funeral Home.
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CSA VETERAN
Married to Hattie T. Smith
1930 Federal Census shows George W. boarding a room and widowed at the age of 83 and in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
GEORGE FAUCETT DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
Retired Merchant and Cotton Broker of Opelika, Alabama, Taken By Death
George Washington Faucett, 87, Confederate Veteran and for 58 years a mercantile and cotton broker of Opelika, Ala., died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. W. Ballard, 838 S. W. Second street. He had been a winter visitor in Miami for six years.
Mr. Faucett was a native of Roanoke, Ala., and served at Fort Morgan, Mobile, during the Civil war, joining the Confederate army when he was 16 years old. Following the war he engaged in the mercantile and cotton business at Opelika for 58 years, retiring two years ago.
Besides his daughter, he leaves a granddaughter, Miss Hattie Faucett Ballard, Miami; five brothers, Jesse and John of Roanoke, Thomas of Dallas, Texas, Judge R. L. of Montgomery, Ala. and Nathan of Washington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Britt Tomlinson and Mrs. E. P. Mickle, Roanoke, and Mrs. A. E. White of Opelika. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Joseph P. McGhan Funeral Home.
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Born about 1847
CSA VETERAN
Married to Hattie T. Smith
1930 Federal Census shows George W. boarding a room and widowed at the age of 83 and in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
GEORGE FAUCETT DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
Retired Merchant and Cotton Broker of Opelika, Alabama, Taken By Death
George Washington Faucett, 87, Confederate Veteran and for 58 years a mercantile and cotton broker of Opelika, Ala., died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. W. Ballard, 838 S. W. Second street. He had been a winter visitor in Miami for six years.
Mr. Faucett was a native of Roanoke, Ala., and served at Fort Morgan, Mobile, during the Civil war, joining the Confederate army when he was 16 years old. Following the war he engaged in the mercantile and cotton business at Opelika for 58 years, retiring two years ago.
Besides his daughter, he leaves a granddaughter, Miss Hattie Faucett Ballard, Miami; five brothers, Jesse and John of Roanoke, Thomas of Dallas, Texas, Judge R. L. of Montgomery, Ala. and Nathan of Washington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Britt Tomlinson and Mrs. E. P. Mickle, Roanoke, and Mrs. A. E. White of Opelika. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Joseph P. McGhan Funeral Home.
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CSA VETERAN
Married to Hattie T. Smith
1930 Federal Census shows George W. boarding a room and widowed at the age of 83 and in Opelika, Lee County, Alabama.
GEORGE FAUCETT DIES AT HOME OF DAUGHTER
Retired Merchant and Cotton Broker of Opelika, Alabama, Taken By Death
George Washington Faucett, 87, Confederate Veteran and for 58 years a mercantile and cotton broker of Opelika, Ala., died yesterday in the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. W. Ballard, 838 S. W. Second street. He had been a winter visitor in Miami for six years.
Mr. Faucett was a native of Roanoke, Ala., and served at Fort Morgan, Mobile, during the Civil war, joining the Confederate army when he was 16 years old. Following the war he engaged in the mercantile and cotton business at Opelika for 58 years, retiring two years ago.
Besides his daughter, he leaves a granddaughter, Miss Hattie Faucett Ballard, Miami; five brothers, Jesse and John of Roanoke, Thomas of Dallas, Texas, Judge R. L. of Montgomery, Ala. and Nathan of Washington, D. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Britt Tomlinson and Mrs. E. P. Mickle, Roanoke, and Mrs. A. E. White of Opelika. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Joseph P. McGhan Funeral Home.
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