Joshua Faulkner

Joshua Faulkner

This is from a letter written by Aunt V. (Grandma Taft's sister...Vivian Copus Price)

• Joshua Faulkner was born in Union County, Ohio, 3 April 1831 to Samuel and Ida Minerva Martin (or Jordan) Faulkner. He was married to Charlote Calist Coleman, daughter of Nathan and Mary Tilberry Coleman. To them were born two children, Ida and Hiram. They probably lived on our Grandpa George Copus's farm since that land was purchased by Calista's father and given to her. She died in June of 1864 when Hiram was two.
• On March 20, 1865 Joshua enlisted for one year in the Army. According to his record he had blue eyes, brown hair, and ruddy complexion. he was five feet seven inches tall. He was musterred out of the Army July 14, 1865 near Jeffersonville, Indiana. A neighbor cared for the two young children during his absence. Side note: he was actually drafted...he didn't enlist.
• He later married a widow I believe, and they had one son. After her death he married a young woman named Emma Totlin and they had a very large family. His last child was born when Joshua was 69 years old. They may have lived in Sand Creek until after a teenage son and teenage daughter of George and Ida (George and Ida were Grandma Taft's paternal grandparents) were struck and killed by a bolt of lightning as they were closing windows during a storm. One was upstairs and one down. That was 23 June 1897.
• After that Grandma Ida refused to live in that house so I would think that is when Joshua gave the farm to Ida since it belonged to her mother. He bought a farm near Soldier's Grove on County Trunk X and lived there until they moved west.
• Aunt Garnie said he moved to Bellingham, WA because he was determined one of his young daughters would marry an old man with a lot of money. The grown up children were so against it that he sold up and moved and the old man went also. The daughter married him in Washington. The married children stayed in Wisconsin, one was Calista Potts. Uncle Edgar stayed although he wasn't married at the time.
• I think maybe Joshua didn't have much of a sense of humor. Aunt Garnie told me about one he walked into their house and rapped on the door. Grandma Ida didn't know who it was, but she called out, "Come in if your nose is clean." He was insulted and started to leave, but she soothed him down.
• I think he must have moved West shortly before Grandma Ida died since the family group picture was taken before they left showed the youngest son to be about 3 or so. Ida died in January of 1904. The boy was born in 1900.
• Joshua died 22 April 1911 and two of his sons brought his body to Wisconsin for burial. He was buried in the Whiteaker Cemetery in Clayton Township, Crawford, Wisconsin. It was about a mile and a half from the old farm, but the road that went to it then is no longer there.
• Teddi, Jenni, Robby, Holli, Joshua, Amy, Andrew, Shea
• Denise Virgil/Felice Vigil
• Shirley Anne Taft
• Hazel Agnes Copus
• Leroy Copus
• Ida Faulkner
• Joshua Faulkner

I have pictures of Joshua I will have to post when I can get them scanned.