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Rh in 1894, and since that date he has conducted with remarkable success one of the leading retail grocery establishments of the city. He is highly regarded as an enterprising citizen, is prominent in the Masonic order as past master, past high priest and past eminent commander, Knights Templar, and is commander of Magruder camp, United Confederate Veterans. His present wife, Anna M. (Baker) Willey, to whom he was married at Baltimore, November 8, 1893 is a member of Bethel chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Faulkner's first and second marriages were blighted by death, leaving him but one child, Mary Julia Rebecca, born in 1886.

Captain John Alexander Fauver, of Augusta county, Va., a gallant officer of the Fifty-second Virginia volunteer infantry, was born of German ancestry in Augusta county, Va., in 1840. He was reared and educated in his native county, and in July, 1861, entered the Confederate service as a private in Company F of the Fifty-second regiment. In May, 1862, he was elected junior second lieutenant, in 1863 was promoted first lieutenant, and, under the consolidation act of 1864, was promoted captain of his company, in which rank he served until the end of the struggle, at that time also serving as acting-adjutant of the regiment. He served with distinction under the command of Stonewall Jackson in the Valley of the Shenandoah, at Allegheny, McDowell, Winchester, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, Cross Keys, Port Republic and Front Royal. After this active participation in the immortal deeds of the Valley campaign of 1862, he followed Jackson to Richmond and fought in the defense of the capital at Gaines' Mill and Malvern Hill. Subsequently he was engaged at Cedar Mountain and the two battles at Fredericksburg, the defeat of Milroy at Winchester, the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania and the defense of Lynchburg, served with Early in the movement through Maryland against Washington, fighting at Monocacy (where he came in possession of a Federal sword), and in the demonstration against the United States capital. Then he served in the trenches at Petersburg and in the gallant sortie which resulted in the capture of Fort Stedman, and on the retreat was engaged at Deep Creek and Appomattox. Captain Fauver was wounded July 20, 1864, four miles north of Winchester, receiving a ball which lodged under the left shoulder blade and was not extracted until 1869. After the close of this notable career as a soldier. Captain Fauver returned to Augusta county and was engaged in farming for four years. Then, becoming interested in railroad construction, he followed that occupation in Virginia and West Virginia until about the year 1875, when he made his home at Staunton and embarked in the grocery trade, in which he has since been engaged, with marked success. He was married in 1873 to Margaret C., daughter of John H. Will, of Augusta county, and they have five children, Richard A., Addie J. (wife of J. Luther Henderson, of Staunton), John A., Katie W., and Harry S.

Captain John Charles Featherston, since the war an honored citizen of Lynchburg, Va., was born at Athens, Ala., in 1837. He was reared there and educated, preparatory to entering the military institute at Frankfort, Ky., where he pursued his studies for three years. Then, returning to his Alabama home, he entered the Confederate service in April, 1861, as lieutenant of Company