Mississippi Family Group Sheet for the John Falkner CHUNN Family *********************************************** Copyright Vicki Burress Roach. All rights reserved. http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html *********************************************** Submitted by: Vicki Burress Roach Email address: Husband: John Falkner CHUNN Birthdate: Aug. 17, 1880 Birthplace: Union Co., MS Death date: Feb. 6, 1955 Place of death: Memphis, Shelby Co., TN Burial: Memphis Memorial Park Cem. Father: Newton Jasper CHUNN Mother: Nancy Jane Matilda Moriah Bethel RANDLE Marriage date: Dec. 3, 1903 Marriage place: Union Co., MS Wife: Virginia Ida WILLIAMS Birthdate: Jan. 29, 1882 Birthplace: MS Death date: Nov. 16, 1968 Place of death: Memphis, Shelby Co., TN Burial: Memphis Memorial Park Cem. Father: Mother: CHILDREN Child No. 1: Bessie Mae CHUNN Sex: F Birthdate: Jan. 22, 1906 Birthplace: MS Death date: Aug. 23, 1946 Place of death: Memphis, Shelby Co., TN Burial: Marriage date: 1922 Marriage place: Spouse's name: Roy DIXON Child No. 2: Idalea CHUNN Sex: F Birthdate: May 29, 1908 Birthplace: MS Death date: Jan. 21, 1990 Place of death: Richardson, Dallas Co., TX Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Sidney Bradley BOLTON Documentation: The Chunn descendant who submitted this treasured photograph for all of us to enjoy sent the following note: "In looking through photos and information, I keep finding my grandfather's middle name spelled two ways...Falkner and Faulkner. I know that my grandmother told me that he was given the name Falkner because his grandmother, Nancy Jane Moore Chunn (1833-1910) had gone to live on the Falkner Plantation near Ripley after George Washington Chunn (1836-1861) had died of measles at a hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, during the Civil War. Col. William Falkner was a close friend of the family and provided aid to Nancy Jane and her three young children, Thomas, Newton Jasper and Emma." >From "The Chunn Clan", the writer thinks John Falkner Chunn was named for his father's baby brother who died as an infant during the Civil War.