Obits: JOHN T. FAULK, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana Source: The Ouachita Telegraph Date: November 25, 1871 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** The Ouachita Telegraph Saturday, November 25, 1871 Page 3, Column 2 IN MEMORIAM. JOHN T. FAULK, one of the early immigrants to the State of Louisiana and one of the links connecting the present generation with the early history of our government as established by Washington and his compeers, was born in Bladen county, North Carolina, on the 26th of December, 1784, from whence he emmigrated with his father and family in 1806. Arriving in Mississippi early in the following year, he made a short stay in Adams county, where he married Elizabeth Martin on the 29th of May, 1807. Moving soon after to Louisiana, he remained a citizen of the State, and with a little exception a resident of Ouachita parish, to the day of his death, which occured on the 5th of November, 1871, he having attained the advanced age of 86 years, 10 months and 10 days. He was one of the very few now remaining who served his country in the last British war, under General Jackson, and was wounded in the defense of New Orleans on the 7th of January, 1815, on the day before the great and decisive battle was fought, and the wound made him comparatively a cripple to the day of his death. Early in life he became convinced of his need of a Savior, and about the year 1800, under the preaching of Bishop Asbury and by those words in the prayer of Jesus for his apostles, "Neither pray I for thee alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word, "he was led to a saving faith in Christ, and the enjoyment of that peace comforted him through life and sustained him while passing through the valley of the shadow of death. It was ever a grateful thought to him, and one on which he loved to dwell, that he and all believers were the subjects of the Savior's prayer. He became a member of the Methodist church when quite young, and was ever devoted to the religion of Jesus as taught in the holy evangelists, never missing an opportunity of impressing upon the minds of those with whom he came in contact the truth as revealed in holy writ, and more especially the members of his own household. Religion has been his theme, and the Bible his companion for years past. From age and infirmity he had become very feeble but his mind was ever clear, and he was ready to give a reason "of the hope that was in him." During the latter years of his life when sickness would prostrate him, his only fear was that he would again recover, but in every instance would say, "Not mine but thy will be done, O Lord." During his last illness he appeared to be fully aware that his dissolution was at hand, and said the invitation had come for him to take up his abode in a more fitting and commodious mansion, and taht he should soon receive that crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous judge, had in reserve for him. He gave some instructions respecting his burial, and bid those he left behind not to sorrow for him as all was well. He was perfectly resigned to the will of God, and in whose paradise we doubt not his immortal soul now is, while his body lies in the embrace of mother earth in the church-yard at Faulk's chapel, there to sleep until aroused by the trump of the great Arch Angel. # # #