Andrew J. Faulkner

Andrew J. Faulkner, son of Thomas J. and Lucy (Arthington) Faulkner, was born in Peoria county, Ill., March 10, 1857. His father, a Virginian, moved to Ross county, Ohio, when but seventeen years of age, where he engaged in the mercantile trade and also tended the locks on the canal. At the age of twenty he married Miss Ellen Ditmon, who died about fourteen years later. To his first marriage five children were born, only two of whom are now living. About three years after the death of his first wife, he married Miss Lucy Arthington. Immediately after their marriage they came to Illinois in 1852, and settling in Peoria county, began farming. Six years after they removed to Valley township, where they purchased a farm, and where, in 1863, Mrs. Faulkner died, leaving five children, all of whom are living. On March 19, 1885, Mr. Faulkner was called to his reward, in his seventy-third year. Andrew J. Faulkner is the third child of a family of five children. His early life was spent at home with his parents, assisting in the duties of the farm. In 1880 he married Miss Minnie F., daughter of William and Elizabeth (Killinger) Redding. She was born in Boone county, Inch, December 30, 1860. Her parents, natives of Ohio, removed to Indiana at an early day, where they engaged in farming. In 1864 they came to Illinois and settled in Penn township, Stark county, where, one year later, April 24, 1865, Mr. Redding's death occurred, in his fifty-sixth year. He was the father of nine children, six of whom were living at his death. After her husband's death Mrs. Redding removed to Wyoming with her family. She was married, in 1868 to Mr. Charles Andress, with whom she lived until her death, April 13, 1876. By her second marriage she was the mother of one child. Minnie, after her eleventh year, made her home in the family of Mr. Thomas Timmons until her marriage, in 1880, with Mr. Faulkner. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner have resided in Stark county, and at present live on their farm about three miles south of Wyoming. Their union has been blessed by two children, Hattie P. and Matie E. Politically Mr. Faulkner is, like his father was, a Democrat.