Person:Thomas Fail (2)

!Source: Fail/Faile/Fails Trail by Weldon Rule Fail, 1979 #(2) ? ID#: (2) ? pg 5

NC - GRANTOR/GRANTEE INDEX OF JOHNSTON, DOBBS, AND LENOIR COUNTIES This appears in Book 2 in the Grantor Index From Stallings, James To Thomas Faile page 134

!LAND: Lancaster County, South Carolina Deed Abstracts. 1787-1811. Thomas Faile planter in St. Davids parish to Lewis Faile of St. Marks Parish, for b 350...land granted by letters patent in N.C. to James McManus late of St. Davids Parish decd, and conveyed by Thomas McManus heir of James McManus to Peter Arrant, by deed 20 May 1771, conveyed by Peter Arrant to Thomas Faile, 116 acres... Thos Faile (LS), Wit: Benjn. Martin, Wm Narramor (X), William Faile. Prov. 23 May 1774, by William Nattavore, before Tho: Charlton.

The following is from The Fail/Faile/Fails Family Trail by Welton Reul Fail: At the November Court, 1733, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, Richard Killingsworth lists the goods and chattels of John Fail: "The list of all John Fail's goods and chattels There is one bed and dubel blanket $ 1 rugg, 1 pot and pot hooks, 1 frying pann, 1 skillet, 1 narrow axe and broad axe and a parcel of Joyners Tools, one chest and a lock and key, Roundlet and 1 gun,1 grindstone and a parcel of timbers tied & one table frame put together, one mare, one saddle, one unmarked heiffer and his wearing cloaths. Richard R. Killingsworth, Edgecombe Precinct. November court 1733 - - - -The above inventory of the Estate of John Fail was exhited by Richard Killingworth, Extor. thereof on his oath which was ordreed to be recorded." - -Test. A.B. Foster, Clerk. "No reference is made to any family of John Fail; I therefore presume that he had none. In Edgecombe Precinct, North Carolina, 15 May 1733, Thomas Fail sold 200 acres of land to Richard Killingsworth. I do not know when nor how he acquired this land, as I have found no records of the acquisition.I do not have documented proof that John and Thomas Fail mentioned above are the sons of John Fail of Virginia. However, I feel stronly they are his sons since John Fail in Edgecombe County, North Carolina had capenter tools (youners tools) and was obviouly to make of furniture, and since carpenter tools had been willed to John and Thomas Fail by their father in the John Fail Will of 1712, Henrico County, Virginia. However, no trace was found of John and Thomas Fail in Virginia after 1712. I have discussed this with professional genealogists and they agree that it is logical to presume that John and Thomas Fail of Edgecombe County, North Carolina are the sons listed in John Fail's Will in Henrico County, Virginia in 1712. I have found no further trace of John and Thomas Fail in Virginia.In 1901, Dr. Warren Dexter Fales of Washington, D.C. was in correspondence with James Faile of Taxahaw, South Carolina who, according to Dr. Fales "has quite complete information about his line."James Thomas Faile gave the names and dates of birth of Thomas Fail's children as follows:Thomas Fail Issue:Mary Fail b 20 February 1737 Martha Fail 9 November 1739 Elizabeth Fail 12 May 1742 John Fail 7 February 1743 Thomas Fail 3 May 1745 Ann Fail 3 April 1747 Lewis Fail 5 February 1751 William Fail 19 April 1759 Dickson Fail 5 September 1760 "From an old paper compiled and left in a trunk, members of a Fail Family in Taxahaw, South Carolina. "No pictures are available of Thomas Fail, therefore I am left to wonder if he was tall or short; what was the color of his eyes; was be bald? He acquired considerable land in Edgecombe and Johnston Counties, North Carolina from 1733 to 1770. I know he was well respected in his community as he was called on many times to provide security for the settlement of estates, to serve as executor of wills and as a grand juror for the County Court. Thomas Fail apparently moved from Edgecombe County, North Carolina between 11 August 1740 when he sold 320 acres of land in Edgecome County, North Carolina to John Jenkins and 21 May 1741 when he petitioned the State of North Carolina, for 200acres of land in Craven County, North Carolina, the county from which Johnston County was created in 1746. Then, Thomas Fail removed from Johnston County, North Carolina about 1770, to Lancaster District, South Carolina where he started acquiring land. Beginning with the year 1770, he acquired land grants from South Carolina totaling 1000 acres, the last grant being received in 1772.By 1777, Thomas Fail was deceased, as his son John Fail of Johnston County, North Carolina sold 150 acres of Thomas Fail's estate in South Carolina to William Fail, also son of Thomas Fail. I have not found a record of the distribution of the estate of Thomas Fail. In late 1795 or early 1796 "John Fail, Administrator, returned into Johnston County, North Carolina as account of sales of the Estate of Thomas Fail, deceased, amounting to L48-5 which was ordered to be filed." "On March 27, 1797, Mary Johnson, daughter of the late Thomas Faile of Camden District, S.C. gave a Power of Attorney to her brother Thomas Faile of Hancock County, Georgia to collect her share of her father's estate."

Descendants of Thomas Faile

1 Thomas Faile b: December 30, 1788 in Lancaster County, SC d: in Washington County, AL . +Mary Funderburk b: December 14, 1799 in Lancaster County, SC d: August 1833 in Barbour County, AL ........ 2 Nathan Grandison Faile b: November 05, 1815 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: October 18, 1896 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ............ +Elizabeth Hay b: September 23, 1806 in Eufaula, AL d: September 19, 1896 ................... 3 Mary Nelson Faile b: December 15, 1835 in Eufaula, AL d: February 12, 1914 ....................... +James Thomas Faile b: April 04, 1834 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: March 31, 1907 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ................... 3 Sarah Jane Faile b: January 21, 1839 in Eufaula, AL ................... 3 Ring-Neck Faile b: May 13, 1841 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: April 22, 1921 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ....................... +Mateldia Kennington Gregory b: 1834 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: August 17, 1890 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ................... *2nd Wife of John Isom Faile: ....................... +Alice Cagle b: Abt. 1845 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ................... 3 Josiah Flanigan Faile b: May 13, 1841 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: October 15, 1867 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ....................... +Caroline Phillips b: August 22, 1838 in Lancaster County, SC d: June 18, 1912 ................... 3 George Washington Faile b: October 14, 1843 in Union County, NC d: December 22, 1938 ....................... +Biddie Ann Phillips b: June 15, 1843 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: February 22, 1926 ................... 3 Nathan Grandison Faile b: March 04, 1848 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) ....................... +Matilda Hilton b: June 15, 1849 in Taxahaw, SC (Lancaster) d: March 05, 1930 ........ 2 Elizabeth Faile b: 1825 in South Carolina d: November 20, 1905 in Silas, AL (Choctaw) ............ +Josiah Cunningham b: 1828 in South Carolina d: 1892 ................... 3 Thomas Benjamin Cunningham b: May 28, 1848 in Barbour County, AL d: February 18, 1928 ....................... +Ellen Gilder b: 1845 in Choctaw County, AL ................... *2nd Wife of Thomas Benjamin Cunningham: ....................... +Clara Emma Parks b: January 09, 1860 in Choctaw County, AL d: June 22, 1950 ................... 3 James Nathan Cunningham b: September 1850 in Barbour County, AL ....................... +Emmaline Palmer b: November 1865 in Choctaw County, AL ................... 3 George Levert Cunningham b: 1852 in Barbour County, AL ....................... +Lucy Ann Sumners b: Abt. 1851 in Barbour County, AL ................... 3 Mary Jane Cunningham b: December 01, 1854 in Healing Springs, AL (Washington) d: June 25, 1939 ....................... +William Cletus Beard b: September 15, 1853 in Bladen Springs, AL (Choctaw) d: September 17, 1919 in Silas, AL (Choctaw) ................... 3 Martha Ann Cunningham b: August 11, 1856 in Healing Springs, AL (Washington) d: December 12, 1913 ....................... +Joseph E. Stokley b: July 07, 1859 in Washington County, AL d: October 20, 1943 ................... 3 Sarah Elizabeth Cunningham b: April 1858 in Washington County, AL ....................... +James M. Carroll b: Abt. 1854 in Washington County, AL ................... 3 Theodosia Levert Cunningham b: 1859 in Washington County, AL d: 1881 in Choctaw County, AL ....................... +William Daniel Ainsworth b: 1859 in Washington County, AL d: 1881 ................... 3 Frances Elizabeth Cunningham b: 1861 in Washington County, AL d: 1900 ....................... +James W. Stokley b: May 1865 in Washington County, AL ................... 3 Ciscero C. Cunningham b: May 29, 1866 in Washington County, AL d: August 25, 1917 ....................... +Theodosia Parker b: August 04, 1868 in Jones County, MS d: 1959