JORDAN FEAZELL

FEAZELL

Posted By: Jake Tornholm (email)
Date: 4/20/2020 at 13:33:00

JORDAN FEAZELL, a prominent farmer of section 6, Carl township (post office Mt. Etna), was born in Wayne county, Ohio, February 23, 1824, a son of John Feazell, who was born near New Lisbon, Bedford county, Virginia, a son of Barnett Feazell, who was born in Germany. Four brothers participated in the war of 1812. John Feazell married Nancy Lawrence, a native of Virginia and a daughter of John Lawrence, of English parentage. He was a boy when taken to Ohio. In 1845 he settled in Fayette county, Illinois, and in 1855 he died, at the age of sixty-one years. In his younger days he had learned the trades of shoemaker and miller, but was a farmer
during the rest of his life. In politics he was a Whig, and in religion a member of the Disciples’ Church, in which body he was a bishop. Ilis wife died in 1846, in Jasper county, Indiana, leaving four sons and four daughters.

Jordan Feazell, the fourth in the above family in order of birth, at the age of twenty one years spent a season in Indiana, and returned to Ohio. He served his time as a miller, becoming accomplished at the trade, and followed it for many years. In 1837 he went to Holmes county, Ohio, and lived there until 1868, when he came to Adams county and purchased eighty acres of wild land in the Nodaway bottom, when toward the northwest it was eight miles to the nearest neighbor. He and his sons now own less than 600 acres of the best bottom land in the county. They have raised as much as 110 bushels of corn to the acre there. Their blue-grass pasture would rival the best in Kentucky. Mr. Feazell’s Hereford cattle are of the best strain and in tine condition. A beautiful sight is to see sixty-four white-faced yearlings in one herd on his place. At
the head of the herd is Shiloh, No. 26,434, as good an animal as can be found in Adams county.

In 1890 Mr. Feazell sold three carloads of fat cattle, and he now has 162 head of cattle on the farm. “ Strawberry Plain ” is the fancy name of Mr. Feazell’s place, and it is indeed a beautiful home. In his political sympathies Mr. Feazell is a Republican, and he is a wide-awake, progressive citizen.

He was married February 8, 1849, to Miss Mary Harris, who was born in Holmes county, Ohio, October 13, 1829, a daughter of John Harris, a native of Virginia, and Sarah, Winslow Harris, who was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, of -New England ancestry. Mrs. Feazell’s parents died in Ohio, —the mother at the age of sixty-seven years, and the father at seventy-seven. They had ten children, of whom three sons and four daughters grew up. Mr. and Mrs. Feazell have had five children, and three are living, as follows: Sophronia Caroline Olds, who lives in Keya Paha county, Nebraska, and has six children; John F., who lives near his father, married Martha A. Burris, and has two daughters and a son,—Francis S., Thornton Walter and Hattie; and Joseph D., married to Laura Blooms, who was born in Richland county, Ohio, and resides near by, and has one boy,—Elmer. Two children died,— Sarah Isabelle, the first born, at the age of ten years, and George, in his fourteenth year.