Falkner Family Collection, 1887-1902.

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Falkner Family Collection, 1887-1902.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/643326418

Collection of Colonel W.C. Falkner's railroad records at the turn of the twentieth-century.

3 boxes (1.251 linear ft.)

University of Mississippi

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SNAC Resource ID: 7913671

University of Mississippi

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Kansas City, Memphis, and Birmingham Railroad Company

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Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad Company

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Southern Express Company

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Faulkner Family.

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Colonel W.C. Falkner, great-grandfather to William Faulkner, was born 6 July 1826 in Knox County, Tennessee. He arrived in Mississippi at Seventeen and settled in Ripley, where he married Holland Pearce, who died shortly after. After serving in the Mexican War and the Civil War, where he formed the Magnolia Rifles Company as part of the Second Mississippi Infantry and attained the rank of Colonel. During Reconstruction, Falkner formed the Ship Island, Ripley, and Kentucky Railroad Company. He wa...