WILLIAM P. FAULKNER, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Mason City; was born in Dearborn Co., Ind., Doc. 23, 1825; with his parents, he went to Fulton Co., Ill., Nov. 30, 1838, and, in February, 1839, to Mason Co. In the spring of 1851, he began farming on his own account; not being worth a dollar, yet his credit enabled him lo buy forty acres prairie land on time, and live in a shanty until they could do better. He married Melissa A. Virgin March 20, the same year; she was born in Ohio Dec. 4, 1831. They had five children:  Thomas J., born Dec. 27, 1852, and died March 8, 1853; Eliza J., born Feb. 25, 1854, died Aug. 3, 1873; Arabella E., born Feb. 28, 1856, died April 15, 1857; Belle A., born Nov. 6, 1860, died April 28, 1865, and Francis R., born Dec. 16, 1863. Mrs. Faulkner died March 22, 1877. His second marriage was celebrated Sept. 5, 1877, with Mrs. Mahulda Phillips, of Mason Co.; she was born May 24, 1855. She has, in her union with John M. Phillips, deceased, two children:  Walter R., born Sept. 4, 1873, and William K., born Jan. 13, 1875. By this second marriage, they have one child, Ora May, born Feb. 19, 1879. Mr. Faulkner now owns 604 acres of as good land as there is in Mason Co.



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