Hi all. In an attempt to find information on my Bert/Burt T. Smith of Wilson County, I went back through my files and found that Bert's wife, Sarah Elizabeth "Betty" Fakes had a
sister named Mary Fakes, born 1841, who married Josephus H Smith.I suspect that Josephus and Bert may have been brothers but don't know that for sure. I know Mary and Sarah's parents were Albert L Fakes and Sarah B Johnson (daughter of Samuel Johnson and Sarah Moss) and Albert's dad was John Fakes, born in Scotland and lived and died in Kentucky (John also had a son named William C Fakes) but what I don't know is who John married or if he is the John W Fakes that I keep seeing bantied around. Does anyone have any idea about that?
I get some of this information from the following:

History of Arkansas, Woodruff County, Page 295, Arkansas State Archives:
"Dr. G.B. Fakes,(they're talking about Gideon B Fakes here) a prominent citizen, retired physician and surgeon, and considered on the wealthiest planters in Woodruff County (Arkansas), making his home in Barnes Township, is a native of Wilson County, Tenn., and was born in 1840. His father William C., first saw the light of day in Kentucky about 1813, and his mother was born in Wilson County, Tenn., in 1816, … Grandfather John Fakes is a Scotchman by birth and emigrated to America when a young man, settling in Kentucky where he married and passed the remainder of his life, working at his trader, that of a hatter.… Dr. Fakes is the third in a family of eleven children, and with them was reared on a farm, receiving all the advantages of the schools of that period."

and

Glimpses of Yesterday, Red River Journal, by Lucy Marion Reeves.
Subject: Dr. Gideon Bransford Fakes.
"Dr. Fakes was born April 11, 1841, at Lebanon, Tenn. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Moser Fakes. There were seven other boys in the family, Calvin, Bathaniel, John, Pinkney Lawson, William Joseph, Bailey and Grayson Fakes. There were four girls in the family, Margaret, Mary, Laura, and Betty Fakes. Attending school in Lebanon, Gideon planned at an early age to study medicine. First he went to school in Nashville, later attending medical school in St. Louis. Returning to Lebanon, the young doctor became dissatisified. Dr. Fakes decided to make his name in a new country. He joined the Sam Kittrell family in a covered wagon and after a hazardous trip over primitive roads and rivers, they settled about a quarter of a mile north of where the town of McCrory (Arkansas) is today. There was just a small clearing with several pioneer families and their homes and two miles south was the village of DeView (Arkansas), which was a stage coach stop and the largest settlement in that area."
Jim Reinhar's Note: I visited the graves of Gideon and Eleanor Fakes who are buried in Fakes Cemetery, McCrory, Arkansas this past May, 2001.

Would love to talk to anyone researching the same family!

Denise Price Boyd

Hi Denise, my name is Emily and I am reaching the Fakes family, I have some information about, as to when they came to California in 1942. My mother-in-law was Ruth Fakes, she was the daughter of Willie Fakes, he is the son of John Wilkerson Fakes of Granville, TN. After W.W. I Wille came to to Oklahoma, met and married Eliza Henson. There they had 11 children and from there they came to Los Banos, Merced County, California. I have more information on Willie and his wife. I also, would like to talk to you.

Emily Turner
Hollister, Ca 95023
(831) 636-4865

Hello Denise and Emily,

My name is Cheri Fakes, and my father's name is Arthur Fakes; and I've been trying to find where the rest of my family came from. I'm in Scotland at the moment, because my family was able to trace us back to a John Fakes who came to the United States from Scotland when he was about ten years old, and his profession was listed as a hatter. He eventually settled in Tennessee, where he grew up to become a justice of the peace. He married twice (because his first wife died), and if I'm remembering correctly his first wife'd namd was Mary and his second wife's name was Elizabeth. Right now, the Scottish Registry's and my best theory is that John Fakes and his family lived in the highlands but emmigrated to the United States when the English started to invade around the mid 1700s.

I don't have all my notes that I've taken in front of me at the moment...but in them I do have some exact dates written down...I'm at an internet cafe that's down the street from where I'm staying in Scotland, and will be back home in Illinois by the end of the month. But if either or BOTH of you could please reply to this message or e-mail me, I would love to piece together any information on our family as possible.

My family would love to talk to you as well. Please! I feel like I'm so close to connecting the dots as to where John Fakes came from...I would love to talk to you both!

Sincerely,
Cheri Fakes
Addison, IL 60101
(630) 495-3938