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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Howard County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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George W. Faulkner is at present postmaster at Bates, in Clay Township, and has at different periods of his life given his attention to agriculture, politics, teaching and mercantile business, meeting always with marked success. A Royal Arch Mason, an ardent Democrat, and a justice of the peace, he is a prominent man in the district where he resides. Born in Whitley County, Ky., October 12, 1830, he passed his youth in Alabama, where his parents moved in about 1832, and continued to live until 1869. In that year the family moved to Howard County, Ark. His father, Hiram J. Faulkner, and his mother, Miss Lavina Still, were both of Kentucky, being married about 1828 and having ten children. Of these, George W., Daniel P., Thomas P., Susan, William and Franklin are now living. Mr. Faulkner married Miss Sarah M. Shields, of Jackson County, Ala., on September 21, 1856, and they had four children: Moses, Josephine, Cicero and Theodore. In 1867 he married Miss Eliza Killian, daughter of Daniel Killian, of Alabama. They have no children. Mr. Faulkner enlisted in 1862 in the Fourth Alabama Battalion. In 1863 the Fourth and Sixth Battalions were consolidated, making the Fifty-fifth Alabama Regiment. The subject of our sketch started out as orderly sergeant, was afterward made first lieutenant of his company and again brigade inspector. He was in the battles of Baton Rouge, Baker's Creek, Jackson, Franklin, Nashville and Kingston, and surrendered at Goldsboro, N. C, in 1865.

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