FOURTH GENERATION

81. Mary Adeline Hunter was born on 22 Jan 1824 in White's Creek, Davidson County, Tennessee. ⁽⁸⁴⁾ She died on 25 Jan 1854 in Greene County, Missouri.
GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS FROM REPORTED DEATHS
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
AND THE NASHVILLE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE 1852-1856
By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith
Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1997

March 2, 1854

MARY ADALINE FALKNER w/o Rev. Robert P. Falkner; d/o Isaac and Mary Hunter, Davidson Co., Tenn.; born Jan. 22, 1824; md July 16, 1846; joined Cumberland Presbyterian Church and moved to Greene Co., Mo. where she joined the MECS; died Jan. 25, 1854.

She was married to Robert Pitt Faulkner (son of James Faulkner and Rebecca Woodard) on 16 Jul 1846 in Davidson County, Tennessee. Robert Pitt Faulkner was born on 9 Sep 1823 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He appeared on the census on 6 Aug 1860 in Campbell Township, Greene County, Missouri. ⁽²¹⁵⁾ He appeared on the census on 18 Jun 1870 in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri.⁽²¹⁶⁾ He died on 31 Dec 1872 in Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri. From recolloections of early Greene County, Mo., Settlers:


In 1860 the fair association offered a prize for the best ten acres of corn and one for the best five acres of meadow. I cannot remember how many people competed for the different prizes, but I can remember that Robert P. Faulkner, whose farm was a part of the southwest part of town, Kindred Rose, who lived in the Grand Prairie, and Elijah Gray, who lived southwest of town, were the three best exhibitors.

Robert P. Faulkner raised 126 bushels to the acre; Kindred Rose raised 123 bushels to the acre; Elijah Gray 121 bushels to the acre. The men who exhibited the corn were required to explain how they cultivated it. I remember Mr. Faulkner's, because it was the first time I ever heard of level cultivation. In his statement as to how he cultivated his corn he stated that he broke the land with a turning plow made by John Lair, whose shop was where the Woodruff building now stands. Following that furrow was an old-fashioned bull tongued plow drawn by a big mule, and sunk as deeply into the ground as the mule could pull it. He then harrowed the land twice and planted it, and then harrowed it twice again; then plowed it with bull-tongue plows four times, always leaving the land as level as he could. Part of the ten acres was an old Indian field when the first settlers came here, but old Colonel Neville stated that Mr. Faulkner was "cultivating another farm lower down."





WILL OF ROBERT P. FAULKNER
Will book A & B - page 113-115, Phelps County, Missouri

I, Robert P. Faulkner of Phelps County Missouri being of sound mind and deposing memory do make and constitute this my Last Will and testament.

1. It is my will that my funeral expenses and all of my individual debts, be paid as soon as the necessary funds for that purpose shall come into the hands of my executor.

2. I hereby empower and direct my executors to sell all the real estate of which I may die seized wherever situated upon the following terms and conditions viz: twenty five per cent of the purchase money to be paid at the time of purchase & sale the remainder to be paid in Three equal annual payments bearing eight per cent interest per annum and secured in such a manner as to insure their payment, by deed of Trust on the real estate sold or personal security or both when thought to be necessary in no case shall my executors deliver a deed to any of my real estate until such security is given.

3. It is my will that all my personal property except the specific portion thereof herein after special disposed of be sold at such time and in such manner and upon such manner and upon such times as shall be deemed most advantageous to my estate by my executors.

4. I devise and bequeath to each of my seven children to:wit James D. Faulkner, Mary R. Livesay, William Charles, Anna Laura, Millard Fillmore, Frank Gay and Maggie Elizabeth Faulkner Five thousand dollars, and in addition to the above, I give, divise and bequeath to my daughter Mary D. Livesay in consideration of her attention and kindness to me in my sickness, my set of bed room furniture and the bedding thereto belonging, and also one piano now in my dwelling house which she is to take however at the price of four hundred dollars. to be deducted from her distribution share of my estate and to Wm. C. Faulkner I will and bequeath my gold watch and chain to charged to him at the price and sum of seventy five dollars. and to Anna Laura Faulkner I will and bequeath the gold watch and chain worn formally by her mother to be charged to her at the price and sum of seventy-five dollars and to Anna Laura, Millard Fillmore, Frank. Guy and Maggie Elizabeth Faulkner I give devise & bequeath the sum of five hundred dollars each in addition to the specific legacies of Five thousand dollars each for the purpose of aiding in their more thourough education.

5. It is my will and I so direct after the payment of all my debts, funeral expenses, the above and foregoing specific legacies and bequest and expenses of administration of my estate that whatever May remain of my estate be equally divide between my seven children.

6. It is my will and I hereby direct my executors and their successors or successor to invest the shares and legacies of my minor children William Charles, Anna Laura, Millard Fillmore, Frank Guy and Maggie Elizabeth. in such security as shall be most profitable and secure to my said children and to spend no more of the interest arising from such investments than shall be necessary for the proper maintanance and education of the said children and to invest all surplus of interest from time to time in such manner as shall be secured and profitable and I hereby direct that no part of the principal or accumulated interest above referred to be paid to William Charles, Millard Filmore or Frank Guy Faulkner until each shall arrive at the age of twenty-four years and that the share of each be paid when he arrives at the age of twenty-four years and that no part of the principal accumulated interest above referred to which shall come to the shares of Anna Laura or Maggie Elizabeth Faulkner to be paid over to either of them until she shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years.

7. That my afore five minor children be supported and maintained and properly educated from the interest arisen upon their respective legacies and distribution shares of my estate and from the other provisions herein made for them for their purpose.

8. I hereby constitute and appoint James D. Faulkner an. Charles C. Bland my executors to carry out the provisions of this will.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and this 20th day of November 1872.


R.P. Faulkner (seal)
We attest the foregoing and above will by subscribing our names thereto as witnesses in the presence of Robert P. Faulkner the testator this 20th day of November 1872.
Alexander Demuth
William E. Glenn.
State of Missouri)
County of Phelps) In vacation of the Probate Court.
Be it remembered that on the 3rd day of January 1873. personally appeared before me the undersigned. Wm. W. Southgate clerk of the Probate Court of the county and state aforesaid Alexander Dermuth and W.E. Glenn the subscribing witnesses to the annexed will of R.P. Faulkner and being by me first duly sworn depose and say that the said R.P. Faulkner the testator declared in there presence that he had subscribed the same and published the said will or instrument in writing as his Last Will that he the said Testator was at the time of publishing his said will of sound mind and more than twenty-one years of age and that they the said deponants attested the said will as witnesses thereto by subscribing their names to the same in the presence of said testator.
Alexander Dermuth
Wm. E. Glenn.
(seal) In witness whereof I Wm. W. Southgate clerk of the probate court aforesaid have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office this 3rd day of January 1873.


Wm. W. Southgate clerk.
filed, prove & recorded 5th day of January 1873.

W.W. Southgate.
Mary Adeline Hunter and Robert Pitt Faulkner had the following children:

294 i. James D. Faulkner was born in 1847 in Tennessee.
+295 ii. Mary R. Faulkner.
296 iii. E. F. Faulkner was born in 1851 in Missouri.