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History of Grundy County, Mo. 1881
Mrs. J. L. Faucett
Melinda Jane Weldon, daughter of Andrew and Matilda Weldon, nee Hamm, was born in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on March 5, 1831. Her parents left Kentucky September 3, 1838, and landed in Franklin Township, this county, January 3, 1839. The county was not then organized and they moved in a log house on what is now Mrs. Austin's land. Garrison Carmine and Joseph Mendenhall were living there at the time. In the fall of 1838 the battle of Honn's Mill was fought between the Mormons and citizens of Missouri, and at that time two Mormon families, named Lathrop and Jackson, lived in this same house. The night and day after the battle, these Mormon families kept her sister-in-law, Nancy Hatfield, and several others, prisoners until they, the said Mormons, were ready to leave the country, which they did with all speed.
In February 1839, her family moved two and one-half miles west of their first cabin home and there she remained until her mother died in April, 1849. In the following August, she went to Decatur, Iowa and June 26, 1856, was united in marriage to Joseph Hanley. In 1859, she moved to Lincoln County, Kansas, but returned in 1860 to Livingston County, Missouri. In 1862 her husband joined the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry, Company K; was taken prisoner at Pettsburg Landing on April 6, 1862 and paroled in August, and died February 21, 1863. After her husband's death she removed to Grundy County, and in March, 1867, was married to J. L. Faucett. She became the mother of four children, all of whom are dead. The Weldon Fork of the Grand River was named after her uncle, James Weldon. Her second husband, J. L. Faucett, was born in Orange County, North Carolina. In 1850 he moved to Richland County, Illinois, and in 1855 came to Grundy County, where he has since resided. On October 24, 1849, he married Miss. Mary A. Pettigrew, who died May 8, 1866, leaving one daughter, Isabel, who married Joseph Moore. On March 11, 1867, he married Mrs. Melinda J. Hanley, his present wife.
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