Noah Fawley & Sarah Wilkin Fawley

While in Ohio we visited the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Highland County, about 6 miles SW of Hillsboro on the corner of SR-138 and Mt. Zion Road (Township Road 205).

Harold Hiestand Uible in 2012 at the gravestone of his great-grandparents, Noah Fawley (1824-1914) and Sarah Wilkin Fawley (1829-1901).  They were the parents of eight children including Mary Ellen Fawley (1853-1929) who married Ira Franklin Hiestand (1851-1912).  Their youngest daughter, Gladys Hiestand (1892-1993) married Cecil J Uible (1883-1969).

Noah was born in Rockingham County, Virginia on Sept. 28, 1824 and was the oldest of John (1795-1882) and Mary Hawk (1804-1865) Fawley's 12 children.

Sarah was the daughter of Philip (1794-1894) and Mary Ann Polly Roush (1800-1893) Wilkin.  She was born in Hamer Township, Highland County.   She had two sisters – Mary Ann Wilkin Pence (1817-1904) and Catharine Wilkin Pence (1819-1902); and one brother, Philip Wilkin (1816-1889).  The Mt. Zion Cemetery has several other Fawley gravestones and many from the Roush, Pence and Wilkin families also.

From the Hillsboro Press Gazette abstracts:

November 20, 1914

Hillsboro Gazette

Noah Fawley

NOAH FAWLEY, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of the county died at the home of his son, Wright Fawley, near Tile Junction last Sunday from the infirmities incident to old age, he being over 90 years old.  Funeral services were held at the church at Mt. Zion on Tuesday morning, conducted by Dr. E. R. Slutz, after which the remains were interred in the cemetery at Mt. Zion.