TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - Falkner Family of Ohio *************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *************************************************************************** File contributed for use on the Trumbull County Pages by Carole Villarreal cvilla98@yahoo.com February 11, 2001 *************************************************************************** Falkner Family of Ohio, Ontario, New York, England: Ralph Sr., Ralph Jr., and William brought their families from the Leeds area of England to Tryon County, New York, about 1774. They purchased a large tract of land, but lost it because they were Loyalists. They moved to Canada, what is now Lancaster, Ontario. Subsequent generations moved all over North America, and a book, with careful documentation (including Squire William Falkner's will) has been written about this. Contact Steve Day, . William and his first wife, Elenor, had two children: Joseph and Sarah. Joseph was born in England, he married Mary Seeley. One of their children was Joseph Eddy Falkner, born in Augusta, and married Harriet Landon. One of their children was William Eddy Falkner. He was born 13 Jun, 1834, in Elmsley, Canada, and died 24 Feb, 1907, in Mecca, Trumbull County, Ohio. He married Emily Giddings, born 16 Mar, 1840, in Hartstown, Crawford Co., PA. She died in Mecca. Her parents were Festus and Nancy Giddings. I have the Giddings history. Contact me if you want it. William and Emily had several children, one of whom was Charles William Falkner, born 3 Dec, 1875, Mecca, Ohio, died 8 Aug, 1944, in Cortland, Ohio. He married Lucina Goodwin Meacham, b. 13 Jan, 1877, died 7 Apr, 1903, in Mecca. Children of Charles and Lucina were Ernest, Grant, Fanny, and George. Charles married a second time to Nellie Hicks. They had two children, William and Doris. Please contact Steve Day if you want more information before William Eddy Falkner. Please contact me if you want more information after William Eddy. (There are too many to put here.) Charles Falkner owned the store that is still standing on the south side of the Mecca Square. It was built in 1828, by Jonathan Fowler, is the oldest building in Mecca, and is now on the Historic Register. In the 1980's it was a restaurant called the Mecca Country Inn and Enzo's. Previously, it had been a grocery, dry goods and hardware store, a post office, a tavern, and a dance hall. My grandfather, Ernest Falkner, and his younger brother, George, were running the Dry Goods Store in 1904, and tending to the two smaller children (Fanny and Grant) for their father, who was despondent over their mother's death. Grandpa converted the upper floor to many rooms of living quarters for the family. He said, under all those layers of old carpeting and linoleum, there is a beautiful hardwood floor that was originally a roller-skating rink. He told me a story about a young boy in town who went up there one night to skate. He started at the front of the building, skated as fast as he could to the back of the building, couldn't stop, and went right out the back window, and fell to his death. They closed the rink and made it a dance hall. When I visited the restaurant in the late 1980's, the manager and one of the employees told me they were working at 2:30 one night. Everything was silent. Suddenly, they heard a loud noise (and it seemed that the building shook) that went from the front of the building to the back, then stopped. They went upstairs to investigate and couldn't figure out how "somebody" or "something" could have passed through all those walls. They had no idea there had been a skating rink there a hundred years or more before. Other employees there told me they often heard children laughing and playing in the dark hallway of steps that leads upstairs, or in a little bathroom/closet. But when they went to look, they never found anyone. We suppose the place is haunted. When Charles Falkner met his second wife, Nellie Hicks, they purchased the house on the west side of the square (in 1904), and the family moved there. The house is also on the Historical Register and is an example of Greek Revival style. I hope this information is useful to someone. I encourage everyone to contribute to the free genealogy websites. What goes around, comes around. Carole