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.

Felkins Williams Wheeler Rhodes
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VA AR Morgan-IN

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