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	William Faulkner: Northeast Mississippi
		William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, as the oldest of four sons of Murray Charles Faulkner and Maud (Butler) Faulkner.
		William Faulkner was born September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi to Murry Charles and Maud Butler Faulkner.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tippah County.
	www.lycos.com /info/william-faulkner--northeast-mississippi.html (537 words)

	William Clark Falkner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Clark Falkner (July 6, 1825 or 1826 - November 6, 1889) was a soldier, lawyer, politician, businessman, and author in northern Mississippi.
		Falkner was also an author, writing novels, poems, a travelogue, and at least one play.
		Thus, Colonel Falkner is the inspiration for an integral part of the history of Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Clark_Falkner (373 words)

	Falkner, William Clark
		W.C. Falkner was born on 6 July 1826 in Knox County, Tennessee, to Mr.
		Falkner was indicted for murder despite all appearances of self-defense in Hindman's death.
		Falkner has set his Southern apology in New York under the care of a New Yorker who is at the same time an opponent of slavery, the slave trade, and all inhumanity.
	myweb.wvnet.edu /~jelkins/lp-2001/falkner.html (2923 words)

	William Falkner - Encyclopedia.com
		Falkner served in the Army in 1945 and became...
		Auch wenn Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams und viele andere...
		The fraternal fury of the Falkners and the Bundrens.(William Faulkner)(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-Falkner.html (661 words)

	Falkner, William Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Falkner was indicted for murder despite all appearances of self-defense in Hindman's death.
		Falkner has set his Southern apology in New York under the care of a New Yorker who is at the same time an opponent of slavery, the slave trade, and all inhumanity.
		Falkner is no more a precursor of modern Southern literature than he is a member of the moonlight and magnolias school.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/falkner.html (2923 words)

	Falkner Biography
		Falkner accepted this decision and spent several years attending classes when they were in session and doing odd jobs the remainder of the time.
		But Falkner's joy at having an heir was soon dulled by the death of his wife, either in childbirth or a few weeks afterward from the complications attending her having a child.
		Falkner and his men, initially mustered in for a one year period, returned to Tippah County on furlough after the Manassas battle and after having re-enlisted for the duration of the war.
	www.rootsweb.com /~mstippah/FalknerBio.html (2236 words)

	MWP: William Clark Falkner (1826-1889)
		Soldier, statesman, railroad-builder, and author, Colonel William Falkner’s importance to northeast Mississippi and his influence on his great-grandson named after him, William Faulkner, is immense.
		The details of William Clark Falkner’s life are obscured by legend, beginning with his date of birth on July 6, 1826 (some scholars say 1825) in Knox County, Tennessee.
		Colonel William Clark Falkner’s impact on the literary world through his own writing is minimal, but the importance of his life and work on his great-grandson, William Faulkner, is great and has been duly noted by scholars.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/falkner_william_clark/index.html (937 words)

	Dominant "southern masculinity" in William Faulkner: A Life on Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Colonel Falkner was a lieutenant in the Mexican-American War and a second lieutenant in the Civil War, during which he commanded two regiments.
		William Clark Falkner was twice acquitted of murder; according to the film, Falkner stabbed one man to death during a brawl and killed another in a duel.
		William’s fictional past as a wounded war veteran accompanied him as far as New York City, where Sherwood Anderson told his friends to “take it easy on poor Bill, on account of the metal plate in his head”.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/f03-5538/messages/2.html (844 words)

	Wishing Tree, The - Literature Guide - MSN Encarta
		William Cuthbert Faulkner was born September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was a colonel in the Civil War, a successful entrepreneur, author of a bestselling novel, The White Rose of Memphis (1880), and a politician.
		Faulkner's father, Murray Falkner, operated a livery stable and later served as treasurer at the University of Mississippi.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_701712460/Wishing_Tree_The.html (107 words)

	William Clark Falkner
		He served in the Mexican War and, when the American Civil War broke out, he raised a company of men and was made colonel in the Second Mississippi Infantry of the Confederate Army.
		He never regained a prominent role in the Confederate Army, but he was forever known as "Colonel Falkner" or just "The Old Colonel" after the war.
		Falkner was also an author, writing novel s, poem s, a travelogue, and at least one play.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/William_Clark_Falkner (303 words)

	Square Books -- William Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Faulkner's forebears first came into Northeast Mississippi about the same time--circa 1840--the town of Oxford and, a few years later, the University of Mississippi were founded.
		The Falkner family history is typical of the struggle of the American pioneer: fraught with sickness, violence, despair, fortune, and war.
		This history presented a variety of colorful incidents and people who would appear in somewhat altered forms as events and characters in William Faulkner's literature, as was the case with the "Old Colonel," William Clark Falkner, William Faulkner's great-grandfather, dead for eight years at the time William Cuthbert Faulkner was born, September 25, 1897.
	www.squarebooks.com /faulkner/index.php (602 words)

	William Faulkner information - Search.com
		synonyms: Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, Falkner, William Falkner
		William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tippah County.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/William_Faulkner (1540 words)

	William I - Encyclopedia.com
		William I 1781-1864, king of Württemberg (1816-64), son and successor of Frederick I. Before his accession he fought (1812) with the French emperor Napoleon I in Russia and later, when Frederick I had broken his alliance with France, William served with the anti-French forces (1814-15).
		As king, William granted a constitution in 1819, strove to protect the rights of the smaller German states against both Austria and Prussia, and promoted the Zollverein, the German customs union.
		William Hunter Dammond was born (1873) in Pittsburgh...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Will1Wur.html (1115 words)

	Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Falkner (this is the original spelling of his family name) was born on September 25, 1887 in New Albany, Mississippi, into a long-established Southern family.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, respectfully known as the "Old Colonel" because he had been a colonel in the Civil War, had owned a plantation and started a railroad (in the grand tradition of Southern gentility).
		When young William Falkner was only five, his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, the town that Faulkner would count as his home for the rest of his life and which served as the inspiration for his fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
	alpha.furman.edu /~jlove/TJ/biography.htm (1607 words)

	Notes on a Goudy Family of Carolina and Mississippi
		William Hodges (Billy) Goudy was born on Jan 29 1858 in Tippah County, Mississippi.
		William Josiah (Joe) Goudy CSA was born on Feb 29 1840 in Greenville (Greenwood?], S.C..
		William (Billie) Goudy was born on Feb 18 1872 in [Tippah County, Mississippi].
	www.gowdy.org /gpierce.htm (19313 words)

	Family and Early LIfe
		William Faulkner's great-grandfather was called "Kunnel Falkner." He was a colorful figure whose life was the basis for family legend and pride.
		Qua lities of W. Falkner and his descendants are clearly present in the principal characters and themes of Sartoris and The Unvanquished.
		B esides his relationship to William, he is best remembered for a series of popular novels beginning in 1941 with Men Working.
	www.lib.umich.edu /spec-coll/faulknersite/faulknersite/family/family.html (801 words)

	William Faulkner Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi.
		Faulkner was born William Falkner (no "U") in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in and heavily influenced by that state, as well as the general ambience of the South.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, was an important figure in the history of northern Mississippi who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army, founded a railroad, and gave his name to the town of Falkner in nearby Tipah County.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=1000 (1180 words)

	William Faulkner: Life and Achievement
		William Faulkner was perhaps the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century.
		Faulkner's great-grandfather, his namesake, had been a legendary figure in Mississippi history, whom Faulkner would always refer to as "the Old Colonel." The Old Colonel, William Clark Falkner, was a wealthy lawyer, businessman and politician who had been shot to death in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi, not long after the Civil War.
		William Faulkner's paternal grandfather was known as "the Young Colonel," and he was also an influential fellow, a successful businessman and politician who lived in a large house in Oxford, Mississippi, where the novelist was raised and lived until his death.
	www.oprah.com /obc_classic/featbook/asof/author/author_bio_01.jhtml (450 words)

	Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Falkner (this is the original spelling of his family name) was born on September 25, 1887 in New Albany, Mississippi, into a long-established Southern family.
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, respectfully known as the "Old Colonel" because he had been a colonel in the Civil War, had owned a plantation and started a railroad (in the grand tradition of Southern gentility).
		When young William Falkner was only five, his family moved to Oxford, Mississippi, the town that Faulkner would count as his home for the rest of his life and which served as the inspiration for his fictional town of Jefferson, Mississippi.
	facweb.furman.edu /~jlove/TJ/biography.htm (1607 words)

	William Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Falkner (older spelling) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, the eldest of four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner.
		William attempted to enlist in the U.S. Army, but was rejected because he was too short.
		Plate (private coll.) Biography of William Faulkner At the age of 22 William Faulkner was commissioned as an Assistant Surgeon for the 41st Regiment in June 1810.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3780.html (988 words)

	William Faulkner - BookJive
		Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway.
		Faulkner was born William Falkner (without a "u") in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in and heavily influenced by that state, as well as by the history and culture of the South.
		It is understandable that the older Falkner was influenced by the history of his family and the region in which they lived.
	www.bookjive.com /wiki/William_Faulkner (1771 words)

	Y'all — The Magazine of Southern People
		His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, had been a colonel in the Confederate Army, and made a brief literary reputation for himself when he published the best-selling novel The White Rose of Memphis in 1881.
		Along with his three brothers, William Faulkner grew up at the turn of the century in a part of the country that was still emerging from frontier status; life was part Huck Finn and part Wild West.
		William Faulkner is buried beside his wife Estelle in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Oxford.
	www.yall.com /faulkner.shtml (2116 words)

	About the Author - William Faulkner - Message Board - ezboard.com
		William Faulkner was perhaps the greatest American novelist of the twentieth century.
		Faulkner's great-grandfather, his namesake, had been a legendary figure in Mississippi history, whom Faulkner would always refer to as "the Old Colonel." The Old Colonel, William Clark Falkner, was a wealthy lawyer, businessman and politician who had been shot to death in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi, not long after the Civil War.
		William Faulkner's paternal grandfather was known as "the Young Colonel," and he was also an influential fellow, a successful businessman and politician who lived in a large house in Oxford, Mississippi, where the novelist was raised and lived until his death.
	p066.ezboard.com /fbooksandmorefrm34.showMessage?topicID=2.topic (794 words)

	Revision of OWL Response One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the film William Faulkner: a Life on Paper, this culture of physical aggression appears to have shaped the lives of the men of Faulkner’s family.
		In a subtly telling choice of terminology, William Clark Falkner is overwhelmingly referred to throughout the documentary by his nickname, “The Old Colonel.” Colonel Falkner was a lieutenant in the Mexican-American War and a second lieutenant in the Civil War, during which he commanded two regiments.
		William Faulkner was apparently unashamed of his great-grandfather’s affinity for violent conflicts.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /boards/owl/f03-5538/messages/81.html (705 words)

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		Williams enlisted in the Confederate army on 25 April 1861 in Okolona.
		Israel wrote to William in 1815 and 1816 when he was serving in Congress in Washington about congressional affairs and family activities.
		Byrd Williams must have died sometime in late 1863 or 1864, but there is no indication of this in the papers.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/h/Howe,Chiliab_Smith (5327 words)

	WFotW ~ William Faulkner Trivia
		W. Falkner's nickname was the "Old Colonel," for his rank in the Civil War, and he was commended by Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston for his courage in repelling the Union General Irwin McDowell's final assault at the Battle of First Manassas.
		William Faulkner’s grandfather, John Wesley Thompson (J.W.T.) Falkner, was nicknamed the "Young Colonel," out of respect for his father, the "Old Colonel," but the younger Falkner in fact never fought in any war.
		When Faulkner (then named "Falkner") was born in September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, he was sick enough most nights that his mother, Maud, would rock him steadily, not in a rocking chair but in a straight kitchen chair, and the sound of the chair's legs could be heard through the open windows.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/trivia.html (2872 words)

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