William Faulkner's Funeral on the Hill

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Palbearers carrying Faulkner to his gravesite in 1962. This part of the cemetery was mostly unused at that time. Now, he’s surrounded by several of his Oxford, MS neighbors.

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Martin Dain visited Faulkner in 1961 and took some great photographs of him painting, riding his horse, and visiting around Oxford. He came back the next year and took pictures of the graveside service. The Martin J. Dain Collection was donated by the Estate of Martin J. Dain to the Southern Media Archive at the University of Mississippi. These materials transferred to the Visual Collections in 2000. Copyright for this collection is held by the University of Mississippi Libraries.