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9-4-2025
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William Faulkner fell from his horse Stonewall on June 17, 1962. Eighteen days later, he died at Wright's Sanatorium in Byhalia, Mississippi. His daughter Jill Faulkner Summers inherited Greenfield Farm. She then lived in Virgina. She was devoted to her growing family and to the equestrian community in Charlottesville. She held onto Greenfield for eight years. Two months after Renzi McJunkins died on December 15, 1969, Jill sold the farm to her cousin, Jimmy Faulkner. He had lived on the farm when his father Johncy managed the property.
Jimmy Faulkner made the farm accessible to the University of Mississippi. Evans Harrington and Ann Abadie, co-founders in 1974 of the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, began to lead conference field trips to the farm. Those trips continued after Jimmy sold the property to Malcolm Reese in 1982. The First National Bank of Oxford foreclosed on the land in 1983. In 1990 bank president Billy Gottshall sold a 20.43-acre parcel of the original 362 acres to the University of Mississippi Foundation. That parcel will become Greenfield Farm Writers Residency.
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