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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
His father was Col. Simeon Fair, a native of Newberry county, S. C., a distinguished member of the bar in his day in South Carolina and a lieutenant in the Seminole war. He was also a member of the South Carolina State legislature for a number of years, and was solicitor of the State for twenty-one years, a member of the secession convention of South Carolina on December 20, 1860, and a colonel in the old State militia. He died in 1872. His wife, to whom he was married in 1841, was Mary Butler Pearson, a woman of great beauty and refinement, who also died in 1872. Two sons of Col. Simeon Fair served in the Confederate army; one of them, Robert P. Fair, as a private in Company E (Quitman Rifles), Third South Carolina regiment. His term of service was short, for he died of typhoid fever in September, 1861, being not quite seventeen years of age. The other son is William Young Fair, who was reared and educated in Newberry until he entered the Arsenal military academy of Columbia. It