Typed by: Jan Shelfer
FANNIN, JAMES O.
Surnames: FANNIN, CAMPBELL, GRANT, CARTER, CRENSHAW, VAN FOOTE, BRAMLETT,
FORREST, FORSON, DUNN, JONES, ELLISON, CASE, VARNADO, DAVIS
James O. Fannin,
b. 1819 in Georgia, d. 1862 in Richmond, Virginia and buried there in Oakwood
Cemetery-moved from Georgia to Mississippi in 1836, settling in Copiah County,
Mississippi, where he married ca 1839 to Sarah Campbell (called "Sallie"), b.
January 23, 1818 in North Carolina, d. December 14, 1900 at Stranger, Falls
County, Texas and buried in the Stranger Cemetery.
James O. Fannin
enlisted in Mississippi in 1862 in the Confederate States Army with his eldest
son, William Thomas Fannin, and they served in Company C of the 21st Mississippi
Regiment. That same year of the Civil War, James O. Fannin died in Richmond,
Virginia.
James O. Fannin
was a tanner by trade, and had his business in Copiah County, Mississippi, where
all his children were born. He and Sallie were the parents of ten children:
Minerva Elizabeth Fannin, b. 1840 in Mississippi, (was called
"Lizzie"). She married a Mr. Grant, and she died in Mississippi-leaving five
minor children: Holly Grand, b. 1866, d. 1947-married a Mr. Carter and had one
daughter, Willie Carter. Holly Grant Carter was buried in the Bremond Cemetery,
Robertson County, Texas. The second child of "Lizzie" Fannin Grant was Elizabeth
Grant, who married Thomas Nathaniel Crenshaw. The third child was Minerva Grant,
who married Mr. Van Foote, was buried at White Rock Cemetery in Limestone
County, Texas, and had Ola Foote who married a Mr. Bramlett, had two children,
and after the death of her first husband married second to Carl Forrest; Monnie
Belle Foote, b. 1877, married a Mr. Forson, and was buried in White Rock
Cemetery in Limestone County, Texas; Hudnah Foote, b. 1900 - married a Mr. Dunn
and resided in Bremond, Texas; Ruby Foote, b. 1906, d. 1971-married to a Mr.
Jones and lived, died and was buried in San Angelo, Texas; Reed Foote, b. 1911;
and Mary Elizabeth Foote who married a Mr. Ellison. The fourth child of Lizzie
Fannin Grant was Frank ("Bud") Grant who never married and was buried in Mustang
Prairie Cemetery in Falls County, Texas. The fifth and youngest child of Lizzie
Fannin Grant was Sarah ("Sallie") Grant, who married Charles Case. After the
death of Minerva Elizabeth (Fannin) Grant in Mississippi, her mother, Sarah
(Campbell) Fannin and a brother, William Thomas Fannin, traveled to Mississippi
to bring the five orphaned Grant children to Falls County, where they were
reared.
Infant Fannin,
b. & d. ca 1842 in Mississippi.
Infant Fannin,
b. & d. ca 1844 in Mississippi.
William Thomas
Fannin, b. January 18, 1846 in Copiah County, Mississippi, d. March 17, 1910 and
buried in Calvary Cemetery in Marlin, Texas-married December 19, 1867 in
Mississippi to Mary Minerva Varnado, b. January 11, 1847 in Copiah County,
Mississippi, d. January 11, 1949 and buried in Calvary Cemetery by her husband-a
daughter of Howell and Assenith Elizabeth ("Cenith" Davis) Varnado.
Nancy Fannin, b.
ca 1848 in Mississippi-no further information.
Sarah M. Fannin,
b. ca 1850 in Mississippi-no further information.
Joseph B.
Fannin, b. ca 1852 in Mississippi-no further information.
James Campbell
Fannin, b. ca 1854 in Mississippi-no further information.
John Franklin
Fannin, b. ca 1858 in Mississippi-married and had three sons: Thomas, Frank, and
Furman Fannin, and settled in East Texas where he had lived since 1875-married
December 17, 1885 to Sarah Varnado, b. August 16, 1869 in Copiah County,
Mississippi, d. January 14, 1950 at Stranger, Falls County, Texas-a daughter of
Charles and Rebecca Jane (Davis) Varnado.
The Fannins were
members of the Baptist denomination, and those who resided in Stranger were
affiliated with the Stranger Baptist Church at Stranger. Sarah ("Sallie"
Campbell) Fannin moved from Mississippi to Texas with three of her sons in 1875,
and they settled in East Falls County at Stranger. They purchased the land of
Allen H. Morrell-eldest son of Reverend Z. N. Morrell, who had died in 1857, and
they also bought other land in the community-some of which is still owned by
members of the Fannin family. There are many Fannin descendants who continue to
reside in Falls County, Texas.
Copyright
Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls
County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical
Commission, page 143, column 1.
Member of Falls
County Historical Commission
