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Grandniece of John A. Faulkner
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John A. Faulkner was born in October 1879, most likely in Curtail, Hopkins County, Kentucky, to Hutchins Burton Faulkner and Margaret Frances “Fanny” Mills Faulkner.1
In 1880, John, age 8 months, was living with his parents and older sister, Mary, in the Curtail district of Hopkins County.2 Lou Ella Oates, a student, was also living with the family.3
It is believed that John died in infancy or childhood before April 1888.4 It is unknown where he is buried..5
Endnotes
1. No birth record has been located for John. On the 1880 census, he was listed as 8 months of age in June 1880; his birth date is estimated as about October 1879.
Hopkins County birth records are not available between 1861 and 1893, film 004011623, images 457-469.
1880 U.S. census, Curtail, Hopkins County, Kentucky, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 190, sheet 46 B, dwelling 319, Hutch B Faulkner household.
– Hutch B Faulkner, age 24, farmer, born in Kentucky, both parents born in Kentucky
– Margaret F. Faulkner age 21, wife, born in Kentucky, both parents born in Kentucky
– Mary E. Faulkner, age 1, daughter, born in Kentucky
– John A. Faulkner, age 8 months, son, born in October 1879 in Kentucky
– Lew E Oates, age 18, student
2. Ibid
3. Lue Ella Oates was a student living with the Faulkner family, the daughter of George and Nancy Dobbins Oates. She married in 1882.
1880 U.S. census, Curtail, Hopkins County, Kentucky, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 190, sheet 46 B, dwelling 319, Hutch B Faulkner household.
– Lew E Oates, age 18
Also, 1870 U.S. census, Hopkins County, Massachusetts, precinct 1, population schedule, page 29, dwelling 202, family 202, Amanda Dobbins household.
Post office: Underwood
– Amanda Dobbins, age 46, born in Tennessee
– George W, age 22, farmer, born in Kentucky
– Oats, Nancy, age 27, born in Kentucky
– Oats, Luella, age 8, born in Kentucky
– George L., age 6, born in Kentucky
Also, Madisonville, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Kentucky Marriages, J. E. Dillingham–Luella Oates, 5 March 1882.
Also, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Hopkins County, certificate of death, no. 16156, Lue Ella Dillingham, 15 Aug 1949. Place of death: White Plain, Hopkins County, Kentucky. Widowed. Birth: 27 July 1862, Hopkins County. Parents: George L Oates and Nanny Dobbins. Burial: Oglesby, White Plains, Kentucky, 18 Aug 1949.
Also, Find A Grave, memorial 111498107, Lue Ella Oates Dillingham (1862–1942), Oglesby Cemetery, White Plains, Hopkins County, Kentucky, with headstone photo.
4. John was not listed with his siblings when his mother, Margaret Francis Faulkner, filed a Guardianship Bond in 1888. It is assumed he died prior to that time as he would have been a minor.
Hopkins County, Kentucky, Guardian Bonds 1886-1895, p. 137, 20 April 1888, Mrs. M. F. Faulkner for guardianship of Mary E., Chas. F., and Thos. B. Faulkner.
5. No grave or obituary for John has been found.
Searches; nothing found for John A. Faulkner.
– FindAGrave, Hopkins County, Kentucky, 1880-1890, Fa*.
– FindAGrave, Trigg County, Kentucky, 1880-1890, Fa*.
– FindAGrave, Christian County, Kentucky, 1880-1890, Fa*.
– Communication with Hopkins Co Genealogical Society; conducted search of cemeteries and did not find a burial location.
– DAR Kentucky Cemetry Records, Hopkins County
– Hopkins County Genealogical Society, Hopkins County Cemetery Records, vol. 1
– Evelyn May Cook, Hopkins County, Kentucky Records, Vol. V, Cemetery lists and church rolls, 1977
– Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Kentucky), page-by-page search, 1888 issues: 3 Jan, 6 Jan, 10 Jan, 13 Jan, 17 Jan, 20 Jan, 24 Jan, 27 Jan, 31 Jan, 3 Feb, 7 Feb, 10 Feb, 14 Feb, 17 Feb, 21 Feb, 24 Feb, 28 Feb, 2 Mar, 6 Mar, 9 Mar, 13 Mar, 16 Mar, 20 Mar, 23 Mar, 27 Mar, 30 Mar, 3 Apr, 6 Apr, 10 Apr, 13 Apr, 17 Apr, 20 Apr.
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