Jacob FELKNER

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Son
JACOB L. FELKNER, farmer, P. O. Ostrander, Delaware County, was born in Hawkins County, East Tenn., September 1, 1819, and is a son of Jacob and Mary E. (Hutchinson) Felkner. In 1827, they removed to Franklin County, Ohio, and in 1836 removed to Delaware County, Ohio, where both died. Lewis Felkner, father of Jacob, Sr., was born in Germany, and settled in Virginia. In 1827, the father of our subject bought 120 acres of land here, sixty of which he gave to him. He died Christmas Day, 1840. The subject of this sketch was married, November 5, 1840, to Ellen, daughter of Jacob and Mary Carr, who was born in Grant County, W. Va., in 1821. To them have been born six children, five of whom are living, viz.: Calvin, Mary E., Luther, Dudley and Laura. Jacob L., deceased, aged sixteen years. When twenty-two years of age, he learned the carpenter's trade, which he followed fifteen years, and in an early day he made many coffins. He has served as Trustee two terms, and was Land Appraiser in 1870. Politically, he is a Democrat.
Grand Son
CALVIN FELKNER, farmer, P. O. Ostrander. Delaware County, eldest son of Jacob L. and Ellen Felkner, was born in Mill Creek Township February 13, 1842. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools. April 13, 1862, he was married to Marinda, daughter of James Liggett. Mrs. Felkner was born in Mill Creek Township February 9, 1845. Of their four children, two are living-William Arthur, born September 13, 1866, and Laura Amelia, born May 23, 1871. Sarah Ellen, born May 18, 1863, and died August 5, 1879, and Fay Shields, born February 27, 1868, and died October 6, 1878.In April 1862, Mr, Felkner located on the farm he now occupies, which contains eighty-seven and three-fourths acres. He is by occupation a farmer, and rears fine horses-roadsters. In politics, he is Democrati

Jacob married Mary Elizabeth HUTCHISSON, daughter of Benjamin HUTCHISSON and Margaret GONCE, on 12 Sep 1812 in TN. (Mary Elizabeth HUTCHISSON was born on 24 Sep 1793 in TN, died on 20 Jan 1847 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States and was buried in Fairview Cem, Ostrander, Ohio.)