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Chase County Sketches
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Featherkile, Samuel
Samuel Featherkile was born March 17, 1838, near Farmersburgh, Indiana, a son of Daniel and Nancy Oakes Featherkile. Daniel was born in 1814 and came to Indiana from Maryland. He married Nancy Oakes at Farmersburgh.
Samuel Featherkile was the second of a family of twelve children. He grew up on the Indiana farm where he was born and was engaged in farming all his life. On the 28th of November 1861 Samuel was married to Treasy Ring of Farmersburgh. Samuel had one crippled foot and was not able to serve in the army.
Mrs. Treasy King Featherkile was a cousin of Nelson Patten and the Featherkile and Patten families came to Chase County together in I868.
Samuel Featherkile and his family lived for one year on the farm of Joseph L. Crawford near Clements or Crawfordsville as it was then called. They spent the next year on one of the Laloge farms near Cedar Point, then Samuel homesteaded a tract of land in Marion County four miles east of Florence, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their days.
Samuel died December 28, 1909. Treasy King was born August 12,
1845, and passed from life April 11, 1929. Samuel and Treasy were the parents of twelve children, most of whom were pioneers of Marion County. Two of their, Ida M. and William T. have spent most of their lives in Chase County. Ida M. married C. J. Magathan, Cedar Point farmer and lived and farmed in that neighborhood until 1910 when they moved to Lyon County.
William T. Featherkile was born in Indiana and came to Chase County with his parents in 1868. He has ever since been a resident of Chase County. He grew to manhood on a farm near Cedar Point and was married to Miss Ada Broom of that place November 2S, 1888. Ada Broom was a resident of Effingham City, Illinois, who moved to Chase County in 1882.
William Featherkile farmed in the Cottonwood valley all his adult life until 1913 when he moved his family to Cottonwood Falls where he and Mrs. Featherkile now live (1940) . Their descendants are: Pearl Featherkile who married Lonnie Barton of Marshfield, Missouri; Clarence, married Cordie Mitchell and lives at Dunlap, Kansas; Floyd, still single, lives at home and at Fort Riley, Kansas; Blanche married Lester Bourland, they live at Cottonwood Falls.
Written by William T. Featherkile, submitted by Joann Baker Susman and Nora Creswell, Aug 17 2008.
by Lorna Marvin.
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