Brief Life History of Gordon P
When Gordon P Faulkner was born on 30 June 1837, in Montgomery, Virginia, United States, his father, Hugh Morrison Faulkner, was 21 and his mother, Susan Helvey, was 22. He married Ann Elizabeth Taylor on 4 February 1858, in Mercer, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Montgomery, Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1850 and Mercer, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 21 March 1896, in Mercer, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Sandlick Cemetery, Mercer, Virginia, United States.
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- Gordon Falkner, "United States Census, 1870"
- Gordon Faulkner, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- Gordon Faulkner, "Find A Grave Index"
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1844 · Lumpkin's Jail
In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fauconer, fauk(e)ner, falconer ‘falconer’ (Old French fau(l)connier), an occupational name for someone who kept and trained falcons (a common feudal service). Falconry was a tremendously popular sport among the aristocracy in medieval Europe, and most great houses had their falconers. The surname could also have arisen as a metonymic occupational name for someone who operated the siege gun known as a falcon.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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