This is a genealogical study of the families of Russell Faulkner (ca.1775-1840s) of Edgefield District, SC; his son Elijah Faulkner (1813-1896), and his grandson Eligah Melvin Faulkner (1858-1941). It includes death and marriage records, obituaries, deeds, grave inscriptions and over 230 census records. It covers over 237 years of the Faulkner family in Edgefield, Greenwood, McCormick, and Aiken Counties, South Carolina

Peter Straub (b.ca.1698) and his family immigrated in 1764 from the Palatinate of Germany to Charleston, South Carolina, and settled at Londonborough, Edgefield County, South Carolina. Peter later changed his surname to Strum (Strom). Descendants and relatives lived in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere.