Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1920-09-21
JUDGE E. BOYD FAULKNER DIES
AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS.

one years Judge of this circuit anc
for the past eight years leading a re-
tired life in Martinsburg and known
throughout the state as a jurist and
diplomat, died at his home on East
Burke street about midnight last Sat
urday. Death was due to hypostatic
pneumonia, which developed early
Saturday morning following a sudden
relapse in illness which had kept him
abed for approximately week.
Until he was compelled to stay in
the house, Judge Faulkner was cease
lessly active in legal business and So
cial circles, attending in person to
his affairs in the city and interesting
himself actively in wide range of
community projects. News that he
was sick and that his illness was SER
ious was given out the middle of last
week and was received with surprise
and regret by the host of his friends
in this and other sections. He grew
gradually worse until Saturday morn
ing when his condition took a decided
turn for the worse and his physicians
and trends then gave up hope for his
recovery.
Judge Faulkner was in his 80th
year. On July "a last, he celebrated
quietly, as was his custom, his seven
ty-ninth birthday, which was general
ly remembered by his friends, many
of whom called to see him and other
wise felicitated him..
Judge Faulkner's life was one of
uninterrupted public service. By
training he was lawyer and by prac-
tice he filled the offices of jurist, dip
lomat and public executive. His
friendships and acquaintance ex-
tended throughout the United States
and his work for period took him to
Paris for study and official duties. He
was a Southern man in sympathy and
identified himself in arms with the
South during the war between the
states, later returning to Martinsburg
his birthplace for legal work.
Surviving are one daughter, Miss
Mary Buckner Faulkner, at home, an
elder sister, Mrs. John P Campbell,
of Winchester now in her eighty-third
year, and one brother, Senator
Charles J. Faulkner, of Martinsburg.
By an unusual coincidence Judge
Faulkner's body will be buried on
Senator Faulkner's birthday, this
Tuesday, when the Senator will reach
his 73rd year.
Funeral services for the deceased
We're held from the home this Tues
day. afternoon with DIR. w. C. Taylor
IN charge Burial was in the family
lot in Old Norbourne Cemetery. The
Berkeley County Bar Association act
ed as honorary pallbearers for the
remains, and the following close
friends were active pallbearers; At
torney A. C. Nadenbousch, Paul H.
Martin, G.. B. Wiltshire, NJ A. Snod-
Henshaw, Alexander Parks and A. T.
Hess. The last named and Judge
Faulkner were the only remaining
members of Wise's battery, and the
death of Judge Faulkner leaves Mr..
Hess as the only living member.
Judge Faulkner was son of the
Hon Charles James and Mary W.
Boyd Faulkner, and was born near
Martinsburg, July "a, 1S41. He
passed his early youth attending pri-
vate schools and studying under pri-
vate tutors, and later was student
at Winchester (Va.,) Academy. La
ter he entered Georgetown College,
and the University of Virginia, then
attended lectures on Constitutional
Law in Paris, where he was attached
to the Legation of the United States,
his father being Ambassador of the
United States at the Court of st.
Cloud. He made law his life work,
and in it he attained eminence.
From 1867 to 1872 he lived in Ken
lucky, leaving Virginia on account
of the 'Test Oath" required to be
be taken at that date. March 3, 1896,
the legislature of West Virginia pass
ed am act relieving him of taking the
test oath, but that was not taken adj
vantage of by him.
In 1872 he returned to Martins
burg for the practice of law. In
granting him his certificate proceed
ing his license to practice, Judge
Balsh added in the certificate g
that he is a man of honest demeanor
unless the fact that he has been an
officer in the Rebel Army may be re-
garded as affecting his demeanor."
He was elected to the House of Dele
gates of West Virginia in 1876; to
the State Senate in 1878, declining
the presidency of that body; appoint
ed a member of the revisory commit
tee by the legislature to revise the
laws of the state; was defeated for
the Dmocratic nomination for COVER
nor at Wheeling in 1884, by very
small vote in an exciting convention;
during President Cleveland's admin
istration he was rendered the office
of counsel-genera1 and agent to Cairo
in 1885, and also Minister to Persia,
both being declined.
He was appointed Judge of this
Judicial District, and was three times
reelected to that Office with little OPP
position. He served in all more than
twenty-one years on the bench, de-
clining in 1912 to be reelected.
At the time of his appointments as
Judge he was attorney for the Baltl-
more and Ohio and the Cumberland
Valley railroads; for all the numer-
Gus banking institutions of Martins
burg and for other large corporations
He was trustee of the Berkeley
Springs corporation.
Politically he was a Democrat. His
war record was as follows: At the
outbreak of the war he entered the
Wise Artillery, later joining the
Rockbridge Artillery; he was then
appointed on the staff of Governor
Letcher; and afterwards was made a
captain in the Provisional Army of
the Confederacy. He was captured
at the battle of Piedmont in June,
1864, when Gen. w. R. Jones, was
killed, and was confined as a prisoner
on Johnson's Island for a year. At
the first battle of Manassas he re-
ceived wounds in the ear from burst
ing shell. He was in many hard
fought engagements, including those
of Manassas and Cedar Creek. He
fought as he believed was right, and
was brave soldier in the greatest
civil war of the worlds history.
February IL 1868, he married
Susan Campbell, of Hopkinsville,
KY, daughter of John P. Campbell,
of Scotch descent.
Judge and Mrs. Faulkner had two
children: Mamie Holmes, who died
in 1883 and Mary Buckner Faulkner,