When Charles James Faulkner Jr. was born on 21 December 1881, in Boydton, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, Charles James Faulkner (son of Leander, son of James, son of Jacob, son of Benjamin), was 32 and his mother, Lucy Ashton Harrison, was 34. He married Lucille Virden on 18 June 1912, in Talladega, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Chase City District, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States in 1940 and Chase, Peoria, Illinois, United States in 1976. He died in March 1970, in Chase City, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Boydton, Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States.

Dr. Leander Faulkner was born in Halifax county November 11, 1818. After receiving the ordinary school education of those days, he attended lectures in Philadelphia in the University of Pennsylvania, and received therefrom a diploma of doctor of medicine, April 3, 1820. ?He returned to Halifax and began the practice of medicine. On the 14th day of January, 1846, he married Miss Sarah Elizabeth Green, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Green and his wife, Frances Keeling (Burton) Green.?Of this marriage there were born seven children, viz.: Thomas G. Faulkner, Charles J. Faulkner, Mary Elizabeth Faulkner, Mrs. T. W. Leigh, Leander Faulkner, Garland Estes Faulkner, Frank Faulkner and John Minge Faulkner. ?Thomas Faulkner, the first of the name in the Colony, came in 1622 and settled in Elizabeth City county. ?The first we find in Halifax county was Benjamin Faulkner (the great-grandfather of Leander Faulkner). He was born December 17, 1714, being the eleventh and last child of Thomas and Mary Faulkner, of King and Queen counties. He was married twice. By his first marriage he had three children, of whom Jacob Faulkner, the grandfather of Leander Faulkner, was the eldest.?Benjamin Faulkner was in Halifax county in 1780, as we find from the census of that year, in which he was listed as head of family of ten (whites) and eleven (slaves).?His son, Jacob Faulkner, did not come with him at the time he moved to Halifax, but came later and settled in Halifax and was for a number of years the county surveyor, and as such laid off the first town of South Boston (which was then called Boston and later Old Boston), on the south side of the river. Jacob Faulkner married Catherine Howerton.?Benjamin Faulkner married the second time, and of that marriage there were eight children, three sons and five daughters. One of the sons, Joseph Faulkner, was the grandfather of Mr. R. E. Jordan, Sr., and others of the Jordan family.?The will of Benjamin Faulkner, dated October 20, 1783, is recorded in Halifax county, July 15, 1784, and Jacob Faulkner was one of the executors.?James Faulkner was married three times - first, February 10, 1804, to Martha Jane Jordan; second, July 16, 1816, to Mrs. Obedience Major, a widow. She was a Hamlet, of Charlotte county, before her marriage to Major. He married, thirdly, December 28, 1837, Mary Averett. There were children of all of those marriages.?Leander Faulkner, the subject of this sketch, was the first child of the second marriage to Mrs. Obedience Major. He continued to practice medicine in Halifax county until 1900, when he received a sunstroke and remained in bad health until 1902, when he died and was buried in St. John's church yard, Halifax, Virginia, of which church he had been a most consistent member and a vestryman for about fifty years.?Dr. Leander Faulkner was no ordinary country doctor, but a prototype for those who succeeded him. He was the first physician in this county to diagnose the disease, myxoedemer, and prescribe thyroid for it, when other doctors in Richmond, Lynchburg and in this county were treating the case for heart disease; and when the patient was taken to Dr. Osler, then of Johns Hopkins, Dr. Faulkner's diagnosis was confirmed and the same treatment prescribed. He was an intense student and always so deeply interested in his cases as to read everything he could obtain concerning them. He loved his profession so well that he not only ministered to the sick, but contributed to their necessities as well. He was a "country doctor" after the order of "Weelum MacLure," and gathered the love of his clients as he worked among them, counting their friendship as the gift of God.?When he left the University he was very anxious to go to China as a medical missionary, and it was a blessed thing for Halifax county that his wife was not willing to give up her home and all she held dear here, to accompany him, and so he fought, like St. Paul, a good fight here, and laid down his armor after a long and useful life.?Among his descendants now living is his daughter, Mrs. T. W. Leigh, who resides at Halifax in the old home of her father. How many anxious hearts and tired feet have gone up that walk, guarded by tall boxwood, to seek the Doctor, and sad to say, many of them came just at twilight. The farm horse Worked all day and could only be spared at nightfall, and the Doctor - God bless the country doctor - would frequently get out of bed to answer a call, well knowing that for remuneration there would be only gratitude and more love; but it was worth the self-denial, for he carried with him hope and comfort, and also the necessary medicine, for those were the days of "saddle bags" instead of drug stores.?Mrs. Leigh has the following children:?(1) Sarah Leigh.?(2) Mary Grammer Leigh, wife of John Taylor.?(3) William Leigh.?(4) Thomas Leigh, married Louise Carrington (of Charlotte).?(5) Rebecca Leigh, wife of William Channing Harrison.?(6) Leander Leigh, married Bessie Monroe (of Brookneal).

Charles James Faulkner Sr of Mecklenburg was a son of Dr Leander Faulkner.

Mount Pleasant
1161 Arthur Ware Trail
Cluster Springs area
Circa 1790, 1800
Jacob Faulkner, son of Benjamin Faulkner, purchased land in Halifax County from William Whitt in 1790. It is believed that the original section of Mount Pleasant, the story-and-a-halfframe section with an extended shed room, had already been built. In 1800, Faulkner built a two-and-a-half-story addition with an English basement. As Faulkner's first marriage to Catherine Howerton of Essex County, Virginia, produced eight children, it is reasonable to assume an addition to the house was made to accommodate their growing family. He and his second wife, Sally, had no children.