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Zimri Fawcett

Birth	:	5 Nov 1854
Death	:	16 Oct 1916
Burial	:	Holly Hill Memorial Park, Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate	:	30.1139490, -81.8453980
Description	:	Zimri Fawcett. Few of the citizens of Wabash County have done more to advance the intrest of agriculture than has Zimri Fawcett of Paw Paw township, for his intelligent application of progressive methods to his operations and his unceasing efforts to simplify his work and increase production have stimulated others to greater endeavors and thus placed his community among the leaders in agricultural development. He is now living a retired life, for his ventures have been successful and he is now enjoying the fruits of his years of toil, but he still takes and interest in the various advancements... Read More	Zimri Fawcett. Few of the citizens of Wabash County have done more to advance the intrest of agriculture than has Zimri Fawcett of Paw Paw township, for his intelligent application of progressive methods to his operations and his unceasing efforts to simplify his work and increase production have stimulated others to greater endeavors and thus placed his community among the leaders in agricultural development. He is now living a retired life, for his ventures have been successful and he is now enjoying the fruits of his years of toil, but he still takes and interest in the various advancements connected with the work of the husbandman, and through his influence is still proving a beneficial factor in the county's farm life. Mr. Fawcett has been a lifelong resident of Wabash county, having been born on a farm in Noble Township, West of the city of Wabash, November 3, 1854, a son of Milton and Sarah Haines Fawcett, natives of Ohio, where they were educated , reared and Married. After the birth of their first child they migrated to Indiana by the way of wagon, settling in the woods West of Wabash, where not a stick of timber had yet been cut. It is related that the father, standing in one spot, and that not any appriciable distance from his door step, could shoot enough squirrels to last over Sunday. On this wild forty acre farm Mr. Fawcett put up a log cabin, but after he had made a number of other improvements disposed of it and moved to what is now the city of Wabash buying 127 acres which land is all now in the city limits and the owner of which is Allen W. King. A man of progressive spirit far ahead of his day, he took the lead in agricultural work in his section, and made his property pay him full value for the labor he expended upon it, generally raising eighty bushels of corn to the acre. Coming to this locality a poor man, through intelligent work and perseverance he rose to a position of substantiality, and when he passed away, at the age of fifty-four years of typhoid fever, no man stood higher in public esteem. He invested to some exent in realty, and was the owner of many shares in the old tole now Mill Creek turnpike. He was a republican, but not an office seeker. Mrs. Fawcett nursed her husban and children when they had typhoid fever, and came safely through that siege, but ten years later contracted the disease herself and did not recover there from. Mr. and Mrs Fawcett were the Parents of five children, the first born in Ohio, and the last four in Indiana, namely: Mordecia, who is deceased; Zimri, of this review; Mary Elizabenth, deceased, who was the wife of John Werst; Levi, who met his death in the great San Francisco earthquake; and Lydia, who is the wife of Elwood Ridenour. Zimri Fawcett was born in the little primitive log cabin on the first farm, but when he was a boy the family moved to Wabash. Like all farmer's sons of that day, he was early set to such tasks as could be accomplished by youthful hands, and when he was only three years of age, while picking up chips after the ax of his brother Mordecai, he lost the index finger on his right hand. He assisted in the work of clearing the homestead from the timber and was trained thoroughly in agricultural work by his father, whose progressive spirit and enterprise the youth inherited. His educational training was secured in the old home district schools of his day, and he remained at until his marriage, Novermbe 18, 1880, to Miss Julia Koons, the daughter of Absalom and Isabella Ray Koons. In the meantime he had purchased a farm on the Mill Creek Turnpike, which is the home of Sam DuBois, and there lived during the first nine years of his married life. This was a tract of thirty-four acres, and it was so highly developed and improved that in 1890 he sold it at the then record price of $100.00 an acre, considered so astonishing that the newspapers of this section all printed and account of the transaction. His present farm, a tract of 108 acres, in Paw Paw township, on the east side of Laketon Turnpike, about seven mile north of Wabash, he purchased for forty dollars and acres from the Heath heirs. He completed clearing the land put in many rods of tile ditch one costing $478.00, erected a set of seven buildings, put up a new modern residence, and now values his property at $200.00 an acre. Like his father, Mr. Fawcett has delighted in making his land produce great crops. On some of his property he has raised 100 bushell of corn to and acres, and holds may prizes won as premiums at corn shows held at Urbana and other points. He has also raised 1000 bushels of oats on ten acres. While he specializes in these, he also carrieds on general farming and stockraising through his sons, he having retired from active labors of the farm. Mr. Fawcett bears a high reputation in business circles and has numerous friends throughout Wasbash County. Politically a republican, public life held out no attractins for him, he preferring to remain a simple tiller of the soil. his religious faith is that of the Quakers, in which he was reared. Five Childred were born to Zimri and Julia Fawcett: Olzro, of Chester Township Wabash County, who married Katie Miller and has three childred, Maxwell,Eunice and Paul, Harley E. who is engaged in cultivating the home farm; Lilly, who is the wife or C. R. Ball and has two childred Dorothy ,a resident of Noble township, and a daughter Helen born April 13, 1914; Nellie who is now Mrs. C. C. Myers, of Texas; and Orval B.; who is at home. From the 1914 History of Wabash County,Indiana by Clarkson W. Weesner, Lewis Publishing Company New York,New York.

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Where is Zimri Fawcett's memorial?
Zimri Fawcett's memorial is located at: Holly Hill Memorial Park, Middleburg, Clay County, USA.
When did Zimri Fawcett death?
Zimri Fawcett death on 16 Oct 1916 in
Where are the coordinates of the Zimri Fawcett's memorial?
Latitude: 30.1139490
Longitude: -81.8453980

Family Members:

Parent

Milton Fawcett

(1821 - 1873)

Sarah Haines Fawcett

(1821 - 1882)

Spouse

Julia E Koons Fawcett

(1856 - 1936)

Siblings

Mordecai Haines “Martin” Fawcett

(1852 - 1910)

Mary Elizabeth Fawcett Werst

(1856 - 1909)

Lydia Emily Fawcett Ridenour

(1863 - 1921)

Children

Harley Everett Fawcett

(1883 - 1946)

Lillian Alda Fawcett Ball

(1888 - 1968)

Nellie Estella Fawcett Myers

(1890 - 1966)

Orville Barton Fawcett

(1895 - 1961)

Flowers:

Nearby Cemetories:

1. Holly Hill Memorial Park
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1139490, -81.8453980

2. Black Pond Baptist Church Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1144676, -81.8474121

3. Branning Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0773521, -81.8479440

4. Rideout Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0847010, -81.8129850

5. Fort Heileman Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0732666, -81.8546002

6. Johns Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1011009, -81.8953018

7. Middleburg Methodist Church Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0676480, -81.8619340

8. Oakland Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0816460, -81.8007202

9. Padgett Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1105995, -81.9036026

10. Federal Hill Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1653004, -81.8255997

11. McKendre Hammock Cemetery
Doctors Inlet, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0978190, -81.7819480

12. Peoria Cemetery
Orange Park, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1213493, -81.7703323

13. Budington Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0521202, -81.8781815

14. Bell Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1535149, -81.9195557

15. Nolan Ridge Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1504707, -81.9344864

16. Dunn Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1429706, -81.9464127

17. Russell Haven of Rest Cemetery
Green Cove Springs, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0491840, -81.7624210

18. Taylors Landing Cemetery
Green Cove Springs, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0742741, -81.7427673

19. Fowler Cemetery
Middleburg, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.0286007, -81.9005966

20. Daniel Souter Cemetery
Orange Park, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1779495, -81.7523651

21. Deese Cemetery
Jacksonville, Duval County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1919003, -81.9255981

22. Long Branch Cemetery
Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1594009, -81.9649963

23. Jacksonville Memory Gardens
Orange Park, Clay County, USA
Coordinate: 30.1818981, -81.7392502

24. Manning Cemetery
Jacksonville, Duval County, USA
Coordinate: 30.2068996, -81.9300003