Mississippi Department of Archives & History
The Mississippi Department of Archives & History has placed a marker outside St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at 113 S. 9th Street in Oxford. Mississippi. Among other historical highlights of this church, William Faulkner was a parishioner here.
![Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker for St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a parishioner of this church.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/St_Peters_Episcopal_Church-Oxford-MDAH-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091402-1662x1247.jpg)
This marker reads:
“ST. PETER’S (1851), EPISCOPAL – First Cathedral in Diocese. Distinguished members: F.A.P. Barnard, Rector, Chancellor of University of Miss., President of Columbia; Jacob Thompson, Secretary of Interior; William Faulkner, Nobel Prize winner.”
Here are some photos of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
![St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a parishioner of this church.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/St_Peters_Episcopal_Church-Oxford-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091403-1662x2216-768x1024.jpg)
![St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a parishioner of this church.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/St_Peters_Episcopal_Church-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091419-1662x1247.jpg)
![St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a parishioner of this church.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/St_Peters_Episcopal_Church-Oxford-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091418-1662x1247.jpg)
![St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Mississippi. William Faulkner was a parishioner of this church.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/St_Peters_Episcopal_Church-Oxford-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091414-1662x2013-845x1024.jpg)
If you visit Oxford, Mississippi and you are interested in William Faulkner, you may want to see William Faulkner’s grave, a short drive from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
![William Faulkner's grave in Oxford, Mississippi. The liquor bottles are tributes left at the grave by William Faulkner's fans.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/William_Faulkner-gravesite-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091469-1662x1247.jpg)
![Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker for William Faulkner is located 20 paces from William Faulkner's grave in Oxford, Mississippi.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/William_Faulkner-gravesite_sign-Oxford-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091458-1662x1679.jpg)
You may also want to see Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home from 1930 until his death in 1962.
![Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker at the entrance to Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home from 1930 until his death in 1962.](https://www.mississippibluestravellers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Rowan_Oak-MDAH-MississippiBluesTravellers-P5091433-1662x1247.jpg)
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