Schneider Family Tree - John Faulkenbury

Notes for John Faulkenbury:
He was 44 years 6 months 27 days old.
Copy of Faulkenberry-Smith Family from Ovene Tune 1958.
In 1852, John Faulkenberry and his wife, the father Jane R. Cathey, left Nashville,
Tennessee with their three daughters; Sarah Isabelle, age 12, Martha Jane, age 10, and Millie Elizabeth age 6 to travel by ox team and wagon to a new home in Oregon County in Missouri. They located near the inland town of Alton, Mo. There was a huge spring near the home by the name of Greer Spring. Two yrs. after they settled here Rebecca Tennessee Faulkenberry was born.
The father of John Faulkenberry came with them and brought his family of two daughters; Eleanor and Martha, and their step mother and her daughter.
Two sons were born to them here, they were Frank and Martin. Their mother died when the boys were small, and the father remarried, but this marriage failed. The boys grew to manhood in this community and spent their lives here.
Frank and his wife had 14 children and Martin and his wife had 10, or more. An older brother of John's remained in Tennessee and no record is of his life.
The sister, Eleanor Faulkenberry, married Peter Simpson and they stayed on in the home community and reared a family of seven children. Her sister Martha, married a Tennessee man, Arch Manning, they had one child when they moved to Tenn. No record of them after that.
John Faulkenberry watched the water flow over the dam at Greer Springs and decided to
harness the water power by means of a water wheel and use it to grind the wheat and corn for domestic uses. He made 2 large stones in big round wheels and cut deep grooves in the sides. The water wheel turned these stones and ground the grain which fell between them. The mill was operated on the toll basis for the settlers who drove for miles and brought their grain to be ground into flour and meal. This was the first power mill in Oregon Co. Some 30 yrs. later a modern mill was located on top of the giant hill over the springs and the water fall did the grinding by a tumbling rod arrangement which had to be built over a length of almost a half mile to reach to the top of the hill.
As the troubles of war began to grow, Jobm Faulkenberry died on July 22 1861, leaving a family of helpless women alone to farm, cut and haul the wood and just live in poverty stricken circumstances. His son-in-Iaw, Angelo Henning, the husband of Sarah Isabelle had died on the 2nd day of March that spring, leaving his wife and daughter, Martha Ellen, in the care of her father. Now the family had to take care of themselves.
About this time, a man from the north, Merret Stevens came into the community and he and Martha Jane were married; but he chose to return to Illinois to establish his home. They reared a family of nine children. After his death she married Henry McCarthy.
A father and two sons and their sister had settled in an adjacent community to the Faulkenberry
neighborhood, they
Too were from Tennessee. A loving friendship sprang up between the oldest Smith boy, Francis Marion and
the small daughter of Sarah Isabelle. His devotion to the child and her fondness of him led to the
courtship and marriage of her mother to Frances Marion on August the 10th.1862.
Now that the mother, Jane R. Faulkenberry and Millie age 20 and Rebecca Tennessee age 12 were alone, they moved north also to better conditions if possible. They located near Martha Jane and Merret Stevens. An Englishman hired the mother and Rebecca to keep house for him. Millie Elizabeth married soon after they moved to Ill. She was the wife of Fredrick Herscher, a farmer and for whom the town Herscher, Illinois was named. They reared 6 children

Six years after, Rebecca and her mother went to keep house for the batchelor Charles Thomas Lockwood, he and Rebecca were married (she was 18 yrs. old). They were the parents of three children; two boys; George and Richard who grew to manhood in the old home surroundings. Rebecca' s mother made her home with the Lockwoods until her death on Aug.25, 1876. She was laid to rest in the family lot of Fredrick and Millie Herscher in the Township Cemetery .

Sorrow again took it's toll in the life of Sarah Isabelle. Little Martha Ellen Henning died on Aug.26,1865. In the home now was 18 month old John Anderson Smith. A second child was born to the Smiths on Nov, 18 of that year; they named her Millie Artimisha.
Two more babies were added to the family home, near Alton, Mo., Anninta Isabelle on Nov.15,1868 and Rebecca Jane on Mar.10,1871. The father took the family to Arkansas near New Port. There Vesta was born on Mar.6,1874 and Francis Marion Jr. on Dec.6 1880. An infant son whose life span was just a day was also born in Ark.
The move to Arkansas started a series of moves which lasted for some time. The older children could pick cotton and help with the family up keep. They went back to Missouri and located in and around Chapin, Missouri. It was here that Rosa Mae was born on May6,1883. The war had broken the tie between father Smith and his only brother down near Alton, Mo. They had gone through the war, fighting on opposite sides and it could not be forgotten. So the family of Francis Marion Sr. settled away from Alton community. They never met again.
In 1889, John Anderson, now 26 yrs.old, located a homestead that could be bought for a small sum. He located his father and family here on this land, which was a permanent home, until fall of 1904. John Anderson found a homesite only a few miles away where he took up permanent home in 1897.

Copy of letter from Ovene Tune Mar.l1,1958
Dear Art and Family;
Well I really had begun to wonder if it was what I said or hadn't said that brought on the silance. Aunt Mae said she had'nt heard from any of you. I am especially interested in getting this off to you, because I scared up some more of the relatives. She is a daughter of our grandma Smith's father's half brother. She says we are 5th cousins, it is too deep for me. The thing of it is that Faulkenbury is the original spelling of that name. Ada B. Bolton lives at 2156 Washington, in Granite City, Il. Our grandfather (great grandfather) was 36 yrs. old when the father of Mrs. Bolton was born. He was Frank Faulkenbury, the father of 15 children in all, by 2 marriages. Mrs. Bolton is the oldest girl of the last bunch. She is a history book itself, when it comes to family records. I have re-arranged our family story to include her family in it and will furnish her a copy for future use. My great aunt Millie Herscher, of Herscher, Il. gave me the dater of the move to Mo.and the date they moved on to Il. There are only 2 of her children now. 2 of my grandmother's family. None are left of their sisters families Sometimes we take for granted that we are here on earth forever, but a glance around at whole families that are wiped out to the last person; kindly reminds me that the time will come when our folks too, are all gone. Now how are you to finish up our Aunt Anninta Isabelle's family? They lost every record when their house was burned. I had to scrape the bottom to prove as nearly as possible some ages for 'old age assist'. After we got that done then here came the excuses that his daughter and husband were making too much for him to have any help. Charles Lewis seemed to think that his brother John made the hill at last and got his old age help We have had a most wonderful snow of 9 inches. Looks good after an 8 yr. drought. When we told ????Smith's wife how long we had sat here and dried up she felt sure she would have moved out. When you get your money tied up in land and all of the country is as poor and destitute as you are, you can't do anything but sit tight and get the weather forecasts. Things are really looking good now" Jim buys cattle and keeps them 6 months or a yr. and resells. Cattle are so high and you can "t tell when their prices will hit a recession like all else is doing. Our son has had a job with Phillips Petroleum Co. They are letting men off now and he thinks he may to return to the life of a farmer again. When you seed hundreds of acres yr. after yr. and you don't make seed back, it counts up on notes and mortgages. When you get out of facts and figures, call again and see what I have found out. We are always happy to hear from you, Aunt Mae passes her news and her letters around. Odie has been working on her old age asst. but hadn't got any answer of anything for sure. It would be a shame if she don't get it. Her youngest boy has about all he can support at his home. I just can't figure out people who draw big salaries for yrs. and never put one penny where it will return when they are old. Odie' s husband drew 15 to 20 $ a day when my husband and I were lucky to have brown beans and stewed
pumpkin. Our money has come the hard way and seeped in so slowly that we never got enuff in one place to live it up. HA.HA.
As ever, Ovene

More About John Faulkenbury and Jane Rutherford Cathey:
Marriage: October 24, 1839, Cannon Co, TN.

Marriage Notes for John Faulkenbury and Jane Rutherford Cathey:
Their Marriage lic. issued Oct. 24, 1839