FAULKNER, J. W.
AFTER OVER FORTY YEARS
J. W. FAULKNER AGAIN VISITS McKINNEY
ENLISTED IN ARMY HERE
Joined Company Raised by J. W. Throckmorton and Marched Away to Battlefield.
Democrat Gazette, November 15, 1906
J. W. Faulkner of the Territory, is visiting relatives and old friends in McKinney for the first time in forty years. He came to McKinney in 1859 and in October 1861 enlisted in the Confederacy at McKinney. He joined a company which J. W. Throckmorton raised – Co. I, Stone’s Regiment, cavalry, of which Coley White, father of J. L., J. H., H. and P. L. White, was elected captain. Mr. Faulkner says he distinctly remembers that bright October day, 45 years ago, when his company was worn into service. The oath was administered to them at the old Jack Tucker hotel which stood on the present site of the store of Dick Allen and J. A. Waters in the Morrow block, on the northeast corner of the public square. A big crowd assembled to witness the ceremony. An incident of the occasion he says that impressed him was the speech of Miss Jennie Harrison, daughter of Dr. W. J. Harrison, in presenting the company flag. So many people crowded out on the double-decked porch of the old wooden hotel structure to hear her, that it gave way and partly collapsed and caused a wold stampede in the midst of the proceedings, but that no one was seriously injured.
J. W. FAULKNER AGAIN VISITS McKINNEY
ENLISTED IN ARMY HERE
Joined Company Raised by J. W. Throckmorton and Marched Away to Battlefield.
Democrat Gazette, November 15, 1906
J. W. Faulkner of the Territory, is visiting relatives and old friends in McKinney for the first time in forty years. He came to McKinney in 1859 and in October 1861 enlisted in the Confederacy at McKinney. He joined a company which J. W. Throckmorton raised – Co. I, Stone’s Regiment, cavalry, of which Coley White, father of J. L., J. H., H. and P. L. White, was elected captain. Mr. Faulkner says he distinctly remembers that bright October day, 45 years ago, when his company was worn into service. The oath was administered to them at the old Jack Tucker hotel which stood on the present site of the store of Dick Allen and J. A. Waters in the Morrow block, on the northeast corner of the public square. A big crowd assembled to witness the ceremony. An incident of the occasion he says that impressed him was the speech of Miss Jennie Harrison, daughter of Dr. W. J. Harrison, in presenting the company flag. So many people crowded out on the double-decked porch of the old wooden hotel structure to hear her, that it gave way and partly collapsed and caused a wold stampede in the midst of the proceedings, but that no one was seriously injured.