"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
ADAMS TOWNSHIP, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
PAGE 301
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 children, 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 afterward 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. Felkins are
members of the Christian Church.
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