Thank you all for your contributions of time, research, donations, support and feedback.

Many thanks to the good folks at Bassett Historical Center for their input and assistance.

Thank you for visiting our heritage and history.
Please consider making a contribution (any amount is appreciated) to help offset the expense, and help us continually improve the quality and quantity of information.

We Gratefully Accept Yout Old/Odd Bitcoin, and Bit Cents at:
14Q2Cm1pRmUrSGTfn1a66Qe9YbAmdD8Dez

  First Name:  Last Name:
Log In
Surnames
What's New
Statistics

Terms of Use & Privacy
Contact Us
Join Our Community

William Clark Falkner/Faulkner

William Clark Falkner/Faulkner[1]

Female 1825 - 1889  (64 years)

Personal Information    |    Media    |    Sources    |    All    |    PDF

  • Name William Clark Falkner/Faulkner 
    Born 6 Jul 1825  Knox County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 6 Nov 1889  Ripley, Tippah Co., Miss Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Ripley Cemetery, Tippah Co., Miss Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I11508  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2019 

    Family 1 Elizabeth Houston Vance,   b. 15 Feb 1833, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1910, Richmond, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married 1851 
    • Children of William Falkner and Elizabeth Vance:
      William Henry Falkner, 1853?1878
      Willett Medora Falkner Carter, 1856?1918
      Thomas Vance Falkner, 1859?1861
      Lizzie Manassah Falkner, 1861?1861
      Effie Falkner Davis, 1868?1957
      Alabama Leroy Falkner McLean, 1874?1968

    Children 
    +1. Willett Medora Falkner,   b. 17 Jul 1856, Ripley, Tippah, MS Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jul 1918, Baltimore City, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years)
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2019 
    Family ID F7859  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Holland Pearce,   b. Est 1825, Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1849, Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 24 years) 
    Married 1869  Likely Oxford Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. John Wesley Thompson Falkner/Faulkner,   b. 2 Sep 1848, Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Mar 1922, Lafayette County, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2019 
    Family ID F7860  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    William Falkner
    William Falkner
    p11508WilliamFalkner.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5383/william-falkner.
      William Falkner
      Birth 6 Jul 1825, Knox County, Tennessee
      Death 6 Nov 1889, Kipley, Tippah County, Miss
      Burial: Ripley Cemetery
      Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi
      Novelist. Colonel William Falker, the great-grandfather of the author-William Faulkner, was born in Tennessee in 1826 and came to Ripley at the age of 17. He stabbed and killed Robert H. Hindman with a Bowie knife in 1849 and shot and killed Erasmus Norris in 1851. On November 5, 1889, Col. Falkner was himself shot and killed by a former partner of the Ripley Railroad. He wrote several novels, of which "The White Rose of Memphis" was the most popular. He was the great-grandfather of two other novelists--Nobel Award Winning author William Faulkner who lived in Ripley as a child and John Faulker who was born in Ripley in 1901. Col. Falkner's violent death in 1889 furnished William Faulkner with material for "Sartoris" and "The Unvanguished", in which he was the model for Col. John Sartoris.

    2. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16480311/holland-falkner.
      Holland Pearce Falkner
      Birth unknown
      Death 31 May 1849
      Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi
      Burial
      Ripley Cemetery
      Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi


      Holland Pearce Falkner was the daughter of Joseph Pearce (b. 24 Apr 1791, Jones Co. NC ? d. ca. 1846, Weakley, Co, TN) and Elizabeth R. Harrison (b. 4 Mar 1804, NC ? d. 22 Jan 1835, Weakley Co., TN). Joseph and Elizabeth were married 15 Nov 1821.
      Elizabeth was the daughter of Simmons Harrison (1777-1855) and Holland Spight (1781-1836). Thus Holland Pearce Falkner was related to Simon R. Spight of Ripley through her grandmother Holland Spight Harrison.
      The probate records 1847-1848 of Tippah County shows Simon R. Spight as guardian of Holland Pearce, Mary Pearce, Simmons Pearce, Joseph Pearce and Lazarous Pearce. W. C. Falkner and wife Holland R. Pearce Falkner and D. L. Kilgore and wife Mary Pearce Kilgore are listed as petitioners, the two wives being daughters of Joseph Pearce,
      Simon R. Spight lived in a two-story home on the present site of Ripley Public Library. The home was sometimes called "Spight's Hotel." It survived the Civil War and burned in 1915 when it was the home of John N. & Frances A. Street.
      In July of 1847 W.C. Falkner married Holland Pearce and on September 2, 1848 their son, John Wesley Thompson Falkner was born. Holland Falkner died May 31, 1849. John Wesley Thompson Falkner was then adopted by W.C. Falkner's aunt and uncle, Justinia Word Dickinson Thompson & John Wesley Thompson. The Thompsons are buried at Rucker Cemetery.
      On September 2, 1869, John Wesley Thompson Falkner married Sallie Murry, the daughter of Dr. & Mrs. John Y. Murry. Their son, Murry Falkner, married Maud Butler and they became the parents of William Cuthbert Fa(u)lkner, Murry Charles Falkner, John Wesley Thompson Fa(u)lkner III, and Dean Falkner.
      So far no record of where Holland Falkner was buried has been found. A marker for her was placed in the Falkner lot at Ripley Cemetery in 2005 by Frances Street Reid.
      The assistance of Mr. Pete Crum of Ripley Monument Company is appreciated.