SKETCHES BY RONNIE W. FAULKNER ALONG WITH FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

                                                                                            

Sketch at left of former slaves celebrating emancipation in Harnett County, North Carolina,

1865. Photo at right of Mrs. Bessie Matthews feeding her chickens near Angier, Harnett County,

c.1920.

                                    

Left, old farmer talking and chewing tobacco in Harnett County.  Right, World War I soldier

Hervie "Hicks" Cutts of the Coats area and Great Uncle of Ronnie Faulkner  is ready to fight.

                                                      

Left, boy turns over outhouse without realizing his father is inside in Harnett County, c.1930s. 

Right, Farmer Faulkner, posed as a typical resident of the Coats area, prepares for Farmer's

Day parade, October, 2005.

                                    

Right, parents of Dr. Faulkner, Mary Etheline Carroll Faulkner and Silas Salmon Faulkner, d.

2005.

                                                                                                                          

Left, KKK cross-burning in Harnett County, mid-1960s.  Right, Mary Malon Dupree Carroll,

maternal grandmother of Ronnie Faulkner, washing clothing in c.1945.

Left, Connie Faulkner Bryant, sister of Ronnie Faulkner, in High School.  She died of cancer

in 1998 at the age of 45.  In the Center is Etheline Faulkner, mother of Ronnie, at age 10;

and at the Right is Joan Faulkner King, sister of Ronnie, in High School.

Left to Right, J. Allen Faulkner and Paul E. Faulkner, late Uncles of Ronnie.  Nora Alice

Cutts and Erastus Cleveland Faulkner, grandparents of Ronnie.  Satan examines his creation,

the tobacco seed, which he made to challenge God's creation of the mustard seed.  Mrs.

Addie Parrish of Coats, last surviving Confederate widow native to Harnett County.