- Unable to find verify the spelling of his name or find him. Speculation is that he could be P.J. Faires. Spelling vary from Farrir, Fairas, Faires, Ferris, Farris. But from the phonetic attempts at his name, it looks quite similar to the spelling of her mother's 2nd marriage, James Faires, Sr. So, probably not too bold to assume he is from that family.
Also, records on James Faires also quite sketchy, as well, other than reference to him in the Daughters of The Texas Revolution records, plus they had settled in Anderson County, Texas, which is the part of Texas that the Sheltons lived before coming to Chambers.
Yet another clue, James' first wife Synthia Hanks had a middle name of Payne, which is the maiden name of Susannah Shelton's mother, another dead-end. But tracing Synthia's parents in hopes of finding a Payne connection - none were found.
It's pretty clear that this is the Faires (Farris) (Ferris) family of these gentlemen who married into the Shelton family. They must have been a very close knit family group of Paynes, Sheltons and Faires.
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