Biography of Andrew McFeaters

2 Biographies of Andrew McFeaters

"Andrew McFeaters was born December 7, 1811, in Mifflin County, Pa., and was five years old when brought by his parents to Brushvalley township, where he attended public school. He began farming as soon as he was able to be of any assistance. In time he came to East Wheatfield township, where he settled on a farm 100 south of the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh pike, following farming and stock raising there to the end of his life. He died on his farm July 19, 1882, and is buried in the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church at Armagh. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and served as elder and in other official capacities. In politics he was a Republican, and he served his township as overseer of the poor. His first wife, Rebecca (Mahon), was born May 7, 1819 and died in January 1851."

Source: Stewart, Prof. J. T., Indiana County Pennsylvania: Her People, Past and Present, Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co, 1913, 2 vols. Vol II, pg 1365.

"Andrew McFeaters was an early settler of Indiana county, living in the southern portion, where he spent the rest of his life in farming, his death occuring in 1882. His wife, Rebecca (Mahan), passed away in 1851, the same year that John M. McFeaters was born. She was a native of the Irish coast."

Source: Stewart, Prof. J. T., Indiana County Pennsylvania: Her People, Past and Present, Chicago, J.H. Beers & Co, 1913, 2 vols. Vol II, pg 1334.

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