Martin L. Fausold was reared on his father’s farm in Mt. Pleasant township where he was born June 26, 1853. He received his education in the common schools of this region and the Mount Pleasant and Madison Normal schools. At seventeen years of age he commenced teaching and followed this profession for eight years in his native township. When finally he gave up this work he engaged in farming and stock raising. In the year 1889 he purchased a farm in Unity township, a property consisting of thirty acres, and shortly afterwards bought an additional track of forty four acres in the near neighborhood, and still later bought a tract of twenty-three acres. Politically he was a Democrat. In 1875, when only twenty-two years of age he was elected county auditor and afterwards served four terms as tax collector of Mt. Pleasant township.He served an adult lifetime, Justice of the Peace, School Board member and church leader, St. Paul’s Evengelical Luthern Church.

Ada Hays, wife of Martin L. Fausold, was the daughter of Samuel Hays, a weaver. Ada’s son Samuel was named for his grandfather.

This picture, taken c 1985, at window of his grandfather and grandmother, Martin L. Fausold and Ada Hays Fausold, St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Trauger Hill, Pleasant Unity, Pa.

Home of Martin L. and Ada Fausold, where Mr. Fausold farmed, served as Justice of the Peace, maintained a small store and reared five children, Grace, Ada, John, Samuel, and Charles. Mr. Fausold also served as Westmoreland County Auditor.

Ada is readiang The Lutheran on a Sunday afternoon in front of the Martin L. Fausold home in Lycippus, Pa.

Circa 1985, Martin L. Fausold (2^nd.) in front of restored Martin L. Fausold Lycippus home.