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From: Marie Barnes <>
Subject: Re: [FAULKNER] Cherokee Faulkners
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 05:50:01 -0700
References: <33.19233530.28a40a52@aol.com>


Hello, I have Faulkners in Tennessee from the Carolinas married to Indian
families. Does anyone have a connection to this family? I would appreciate any
clues. Thanks for your time.
Descendants of John Fortner Folkner Faulkner

1 John Fortner Folkner Faulkner 1795 - b: Abt. 1795 in North Carolina d: in
Decatur County, Tennessee
. +Keziah Branch 1796 - b: Abt. 1796 in South Carolina d: in Decatur County,
Tennessee
...... 2 William Wesley Folkner Faulkner 1824 - 1888 b: March 24, 1824 in Cerro
Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: December 02, 1888 in Sugar Tree, Decatur
County, Tennessee
.......... +Maude Mary Branch 1830 - 1894 b: February 12, 1830 in Cerro Gordo,
Hardin County, Tennessee d: April 05, 1894 in Sugar Tree, Decatur County,
Tennessee
.............. 3 James Henry Folkner Faulkner 1864 - 1925 b: July 15, 1864 in
Cerro Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: April 24, 1925 in Hog Creek, Decatur
County, Tennessee
.................. +Ida Bell Macken 1868 - 1934 b: November 18, 1868 d: February
19, 1934 in Hog Creek, Decatur County, Tennessee
.............. 3 John Abraham Faulkner 1849 - b: February 1849 in Cerro Gordo,
Hardin County, Tennessee
.................. +Lu Ann Gardner 1851 - b: February 1851 in Tennessee
.............. 3 Joseph A. Faulkner 1851 - 1904 b: September 09, 1851 in Cerro
Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: November 28, 1904 in Perry County, Tennessee
.................. +Kizzier E. Branch 1849 - 1893 b: 1849 in Tennessee d: Bef.
1893
.............. *2nd Wife of Joseph A. Faulkner:
.................. +Dena Bell 1874 - b: December 1874 in Tennessee
.............. 3 William Isaac Faulkner 1855 - 1930 b: 1855 in Cerro Gordo,
Hardin County, Tennessee d: January 29, 1930 in Sugar Tree, Decatur County,
Tennessee
.................. +Mary Eliza Hill 1857 - 1922 b: August 1857 in Dekalb County,
Tennessee d: 1922 in Sugar Tree, Decatur County, Tennessee
.............. 3 Francis Marion Bud Faulkner 1857 - 1942 b: June 02, 1857 in
Cerro Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: November 27, 1942 in Decatur County,
Tennessee
.................. +Luiza Jane Macklin 1849 - 1918 b: December 13, 1849 d:
November 03, 1918 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.............. *2nd Wife of Francis Marion Bud Faulkner:
.................. +Virginia Hobbs
.............. 3 Thomas R. Faulkner 1859 - 1925 b: May 26, 1859 in Cerro Gordo,
Hardin County, Tennessee d: January 27, 1925 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.................. +Zelpha F. Branch 1860 - 1936 b: October 11, 1860 d: January
01, 1936
.............. 3 Elijah Leslie (Eli) H. Faulkner 1869 - 1916 b: March 20, 1869
in Cerro Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: December 20, 1916 in Decatur County,
Tennessee
.................. +Nancy Amelia ( Nan) Pirtle 1878 - 1945 b: June 18, 1878 in
Orange County, Indiana d: November 04, 1945 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.............. 3 Martha E. Faulkner 1866 - 1903 b: October 21, 1866 in Cerro
Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: April 04, 1903 in Hartley Cemetery, Decatur
County, Tennessee
.................. +Lawrence William Allen Pierce 1859 - 1930 b: May 06, 1859 in
Tennessee d: May 16, 1930 in Gallitin, Sumner County, Tennessee
.............. 3 [2] Mary Katherine Sis Faulkner 1861 - 1922 b: December 28,
1861 in Cerro Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: November 04, 1922 in Decatur
County, Tennessee
.................. +[1] Anderson Houston Mills 1861 - 1932 b: February 28, 1861
in Decatur County, Tennessee d: November 06, 1932 in Decatur County, Tennessee
...... 2 Rhoda E. Faulkner 1840 - 1884 b: January 02, 1840 in Hardin County,
Tennessee d: March 01, 1884 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.......... +George Alexander Mills 1843 - 1932 b: February 14, 1843 in Stanley
County, North Carolina d: October 11, 1932 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.............. 3 [1] Anderson Houston Mills 1861 - 1932 b: February 28, 1861 in
Decatur County, Tennessee d: November 06, 1932 in Decatur County, Tennessee
.................. +[2] Mary Katherine Sis Faulkner 1861 - 1922 b: December 28,
1861 in Cerro Gordo, Hardin County, Tennessee d: November 04, 1922 in Decatur
County, Tennessee
...... 2 David A. Faulkner 1828 - b: Abt. 1828 in Tennessee
...... 2 Loderick J. Faulkner 1832 - b: Abt. 1832 in Tennessee
...... 2 Martha Marsha Faulkner 1834 - 1865 b: Abt. 1834 in Tennessee d:
November 22, 1865 in Hardin County, Tennessee
.......... +James C. Wells d: in Arkansas
.............. 3 Rachel M. A. Wells 1859 - b: 1859
.............. 3 Lela A. D. Wells 1862 - b: 1862
...... 2 John Eli C. Faulkner 1836 - b: Abt. 1836 in Tennessee
...... 2 Henry S. Faulkner 1843 - b: Abt. 1843 in Tennessee

Marie

wrote:

> Lori--
>
> My great-grandmother Mary Ann Shields was half-Cherokee. She married James
> Marion Faulkner in Alabama, and they migrated to Arkansas at the end of the
> Civil War. Mary Ann's father was Jacob Edwards Shields. He married at least
> six times, but I think his Cherokee wife would have been named Elizabeth.
> Jacob was born in Tennessee (son of David Shields of the Family of the 10
> Brothers), but he was reared in Alabama and lived there until going to Fulton
> County, Illinois during the Civil War.
>
> I have been unable to identify the Cherokee lineage, but I have no doubt it
> existed. My grandmother told me about it, and my father, who remembered Mary
> Ann Shields Faulkner, said she was half-Cherokee.
>
> Mary Ann Shields' sister, Sarah, married James Marion Faulkner's brother
> George Washington Faulkner, and they also migrated from Alabama to Arkansas
> after the Civil War.
>
> An uncle of the Faulkner brothers, Luke Faulkner, married a Cherokee named
> Charlotte Little Paw.
>
> All of these Faulkners were Alabama natives.
>
> I would like to hear from anyone who has information on any of this Cherokee
> ancestry.
>
> Ken Parker
>
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