Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

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656 BIOGRAPHY AJYD REMINISCENCES
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 merc:~ntile tracle and also tenclecl the
loclcs on the canal. At the age of twenty he mai-ried Miss Ellen Ditmon,
who cliecl about fourteen veers later. To his first marriage five
children were born, only two d whom are now living. About three
years after the death of llis first wife, he nlarriecl Miss Lucy Artllington.
Immediately after their nlarriage they came to Illinois in 1852, al~tl settlino
in Peoria county, began fanning. Six years ;~fter the\. removed
to alley t,ornnship, \~hore they ~~urchasetl a farm, antl wheie, in 1863,
Mrs. Faulkner cliecl, leaving five chiltlren, all of ~~holli are living. On
March 19, 1885, Mr. Faullcner was called to his rewarcl, in his seventythird
year. Antlre\v J. Frzulkner is tlln tl~ircl cl~ilcl of u family of five
children. Flis early life ~v\.ibs spent at lmne w it11 his parents, assisting iii
the duties of the fanm. In 1 880 he married Miss Minnie I., daughter of
William and Elizabeth (Iiillinger) Retlcling. S11e mas born 111 Uoone
cotulty, Incl., December 30, 1860. IIer parents, natives of Ohio,
removed to Tnclianil at an early (la,~, where they enpged in farnling.
In 1864. they came to Illinois ancl settled in Penn to~vnshlp, Stnrlc county,
where, one ye; tr later, April 24, .IS65, Mr. Redcling's death occurrecl,
in his fifty-sixth year. IIe \vas the father of nine children, six of
whoin weie living :.at his death. After her ilusbantl's dent11 Mrs. Redding
relnoved to Wyoming ~vith her family. She mas married, in
1868 to Mr. Charles Andress, witlr ~vllom she lived until lier death,
April 13, 1876. I