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J. B. Faulk, farmer and miller, was born in Stokes County, N. C., August 8, 1827. His parents came to Tennessee in 1834. His father, Jacob C. Faulk, was born in North Carolina, October 13, 1803, and died March 29, 1886, in Obion County, Tenn. The mother’s maiden name was Rebecca Shores, a native of North Carolina, born March 1, 1799, died in August, 1860. Their son, J. B. Faulk, is of German descent. He worked on his father’s farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when he began working at house carpentering, continuing until the date of the late war. In 1861 he joined Capt. White’s volunteers, Forty-seventh Tennessee Infantry, Co A., and during the latter part of the war, was promoted to the rank of captain of the commissary department, and was not wounded or captured during his entire service. After his return home, he purchased a one-half interest in the mill property that he now owns, known as Faulk Mills, also being connected with a saw-mill about eighteen months. He has been very prosperous, and is now worth about $8,000. November 24, 1867, he married Mrs. Lizzie (Farris) Thomas, who was the mother of three children, by a former marriage: T. D. Thomas, Samuel Y. and Mattie E. (Mrs. Thomas Walker). Mr. and Mrs. Faulk have five children, Catherine G., Annie P., Joseph E. and Josephine A., who are twins, and Jacob Farris, who was drowned June 10, 1885. Mr. Faulk and his wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and he is a Mason—Troy Lodge, No. 88. He is a Democrat.