James Word FALKNER was the youngest brother in the family of Joseph William FALKNER and Caroline WORD. James lived with his uncle John Wesley THOMPSON in 1860 (census). JWT was married to Justianna Dickinson WORD, sister of Caroline. He had probably come to Ripley, MS from Missouri in the 1850s with other members of the family who resettled there. James was the first FALKNER to attend the University of Mississippi. In 1860 he received his law degree. Right after that, he entered practice with his brother William. James was in Ripley until March 1862 when he left for the Civil War. When he enlisted, he said he was born in Knox Co, TN and he was described as being 5 feet 8 inches tall with hazel eyes, dark hair, and dark skin. Part of the information above and the following two paragraphs are from Joel Williamson's excellent, interesting book "William Faulkner and Southern History," page 47: "Even while the Colonel was fighting in Virginia in July, 1861, the law firm of Falkner and Falkner continued to operate in Ripley in the person of his brother James. Indeed, for some months there was no guarantee that the war would not end shortly and business as usual would resume. Eventually, however, the judicial process in Tippah County ground to a halt. During the winter of 1862, Colonel Falkner came home to gather recruits and raise a new company for his regiment. James enrolled in the company and was soon elected a lieutenant. His military career was even more sporadic than the Colonel's, who returned to Ripley not long after James arrived in Virginia to join the Second Mississippi. James Falkner participated in the Battle of Seven Pines near Richmond, May 31 to June 1, but thereafter missed a sequence of important engagements by being ill. One entry in his record declared that he had been left "sick at Richmond" while the army marched northward into Maryland and fought the Battle of Antietam in September. The record stated also that he had been furloughed for thirty days from September 3, but concluded that he was "not heard of since and from declaration made to several men, not likely ever to return." In October the official record indicated that he had been "dropped from the rolls as a deserter." "In fact, James had returned to Ripley and joined his brother's regiment of cavalry. In May, 1863, he was captured at Holly Springs. For a year he was a prisoner of war in Illinois and Maryland. He suffered such severe "chronic diarrhea" that in the spring of 1864 he was paroled and exchanged. For a time after the war, James practiced law in Ripley, then married and moved away. He had several children, one of whom followed Falkner family tradition by becoming a student at Ole Miss in the 1890s. James eventually died of consumption contracted, so his great-great-grandson thought, when he was a prisoner of war." The book mentioned above was published by the Oxford University Press in 1993, paperback in 1995. ISBN (hardcover) 0-19-507404-1 and (paperback) ISBN 0-19-510129-4. It is indexed. Does anyone know where James moved to or have the names of his wife and children? Hope this helps someone. Becky