Ruth Waton's notes say William and Sylvania Holland Faubion are buried at Faubion Cemetery in Gladstone, Missouri, but when I (Margaret R. Bates) surveyed the cemetery in about 1984, I did not find their markers.
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From Faubion and Allied Families, page 488:
William was the only child of Jacob who was married in Tennessee. If it is true that they were married in 1826, then William was about seventeen years of age and Sylvania was about thirty-two. (Clay County Census confirm an age difference - 1850 says he was 42 and she was 55; 1860 census says he was 53 and she was 60.) They had a daughter born in 1829, and then a set of twins born in February of 1832. They were among the families that came out with Jacob to Clay County, Missouri in 1832. The youngest of their four children was born in Clay County in 1835.

William was a Preacher, but he was also a farmer. Exactly which farm was his has not been determined. John Wesley, Sr. was married in March of 1851. William bought land from Henry Adams on May 5, 1851 (Deed Book M, page 80.) and on June 18, 1851 William and Sylvania granted to John Wesley . . . . for and in consideration of the affection they entertain for the party of the second part, (their son), "The NW1/4 of Section 15, Township 51, Range 33 containing 111 acres. Both William and Sylvania signed this document with an X mark. (Deed in possession of M. E. Rule., and in Deed Book N, page 337.) Then on February 3, 1860, Marion, their other son, bought land from William (Deed Book T, page 239.)

Rev. William may well have been a Lay Preacher because his name is not among those who performed marriages in Clay County, and this may have been due to the fact that he could not write. His name, however, is definitely associated with Faubion Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South. His obituary says that the church (formerly called Chapel or The Chapel) was named in his honor. It also says that as long as William had a home of his own his house was the preacher's home. Faubion Chapel was organized in 1838, but there does not appear to have been a building until 1850, William was one of the Trustees. He was also a Trustee when the next piece of land was purchased from William B. and Mariam (Broadhurst) Faubion in 1870.

The Faubion Cemetery was located on the corner of Jacob's farm, not far from where the first Chapel was built. After the death of Jacob, William joined with John Broadhurst and Joseph Broadhurst to purchase the one-half acre of land from Hiram Fugitt on April 12, 1858 to insure that it would continue to be the "family burying ground" (Clay County Deed Book R, page 235.) Sylvania died in 1861 and was buried there.

In the August 25, 1862 issue of the Liberty Tribune William is listed among those who gave their Loyalty Oath and Bond in Liberty. What happen to William between 1861 and 1885 is unknown. He did remain in Clay County although he is not shown in the 1870 census. The letter from Marion's son, dated 1875, is addressed to both William and John Wesley Faubion, Barry, Clay County, Missouri, so he must have lived close-by.

Then in 1885 it appears that William married a second time. The Clay County Marriage Records show that William Faubion and Argin Adams were married at the home of Mrs. Adams by J. J. Thompson, J. P. on June 25, 1895. (Book F, page 309). The Liberty Tribune issue dated July 3, 1885 says that William Faubion was age seventy and Argin Adams was age sixty-five. (William would have been 76, but he is the only William Faubion in that area who would have been about that age.) It seems that Argin Capps was the widow of Archibald Adams who died in November 1884. The Clay County probate Records for Argin Faubion (Box 117, CF 26-69) show that she died in 1891 and that William Faubion refused the right of Administration. The file contains an order for the tombstone of Argin, wife of William Faubion to be set in Little Shoal Cemetery in Clay County, Missouri. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry in Clay County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Volume 1, page 58 shows that Argin Adams was buried next to Archibald Adams in Little Shoal Cemetery. Among the papers of J. W. Faubion was a request by William Faubion for a sum over and above the normal and expected expenses of the support of the household. It was a claim against the Estate of Argin Faubion, and the X mark was witnessed by William's grandson, J. W. Faubion, Jr. This request, if submitted, apparently was refused by the administrator of Argin's estate. William received nothing from the Estate. Something is/was wrong because there is no mention of Argin as a wife of William in any of his obituaries.

About 1892 William went to Johnson County, Kansas to live with his daughter, Elizabeth Jane and her husband, Rev Alfred Spencer Broadhurst. The obituary says that he was deaf, but still enjoyed reading the newspaper from Clay County. William died there on February 13, 1895. His funeral service, held at Faubion Chapel, was preached by L. B. Madison. William was laid to rest beside Sylvania in Faubion Cemetery, Clay County, Missouri. The obituary says that he left 77 descendants - 3 children, 27 grandchildren, 43 great grandchildren and 4 great great grandchildren.505