Post by Melissa on Aug 11, 2004 21:23:04 GMT -5
Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. Garrard County.
THOMAS FELKINS, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of Garrard County, Ky., and is the youngest of the family of eight born to William and Jane (Williams) Felkins, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, and of Irish extraction. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Felkins, was a Revolutionary soldier, and was once taken prisoner by the British. William Felkins was a soldier of the war of 1812, after which he located in Kentucky, married, and farmed until 1852, when he moved to Arkansas and died in 1869, aged seventy-two. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Christian Church. Thomas Felkins was born November, 1825, and left motherless when eight years of age, and remained at home until he was nineteen, when he faced the world on his own account, and came to this
county with $2.50 in cash and one horse. He made his home with his brother, and worked at farming on shares for some time. September, 1850, he married Miss Martha Wheeler, of this county, but a native of Kentucky, which union gave birth to eight childen, of which number three sons and
three daughters survive. After marriage, Mr. Felkins lived in a log cabin on land he had previously entered, and afterwood took charge of his father-in-law's farm, where he lived until 1858, at which period he purchased 132 acres known as the "Old Joe Rhodes" farm. This he has improved and added to until he now owns 218 acres under good cultivation and well stocked. Mr. and Mrs. Felkin are members of the Christian Church.
Many of the Felkins are buried in the Felkins - Mullins Cemetery on the north side of Wolf River in Pickett County. As you travel northward on Highway 111, take the first right after crossing the Wolf River Bridge. The cemetery is at the top of the hill on the right. This land use to be in Overton County before 1879.
THOMAS FELKINS, stock-raiser and farmer, is a native of Garrard County, Ky., and is the youngest of the family of eight born to William and Jane (Williams) Felkins, natives respectively of Virginia and Kentucky, and of Irish extraction. The paternal grandfather of our subject, John Felkins, was a Revolutionary soldier, and was once taken prisoner by the British. William Felkins was a soldier of the war of 1812, after which he located in Kentucky, married, and farmed until 1852, when he moved to Arkansas and died in 1869, aged seventy-two. He was a Democrat, and a member of the Christian Church. Thomas Felkins was born November, 1825, and left motherless when eight years of age, and remained at home until he was nineteen, when he faced the world on his own account, and came to this
county with $2.50 in cash and one horse. He made his home with his brother, and worked at farming on shares for some time. September, 1850, he married Miss Martha Wheeler, of this county, but a native of Kentucky, which union gave birth to eight childen, of which number three sons and
three daughters survive. After marriage, Mr. Felkins lived in a log cabin on land he had previously entered, and afterwood took charge of his father-in-law's farm, where he lived until 1858, at which period he purchased 132 acres known as the "Old Joe Rhodes" farm. This he has improved and added to until he now owns 218 acres under good cultivation and well stocked. Mr. and Mrs. Felkin are members of the Christian Church.
Many of the Felkins are buried in the Felkins - Mullins Cemetery on the north side of Wolf River in Pickett County. As you travel northward on Highway 111, take the first right after crossing the Wolf River Bridge. The cemetery is at the top of the hill on the right. This land use to be in Overton County before 1879.