Joseph Feaster

    Joseph Feaster, engaged in the manufacture of had wood lumber, together with threshing and farming, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, May 27, 1849, his parents, John and Elizabeth (Smerr) Feaster, being natives of the same county and State, the father born in 1806, of English descent, and the mother born October 21, 1815, of German ancestry. The father was twice married, his first wife being a Miss Smith, by whom he had six children. Of the six children born to his second marriage our subject was the eldest child. The father lived in his native county until his death, which occurred August 21, 1861, at the age of fifty-five years. The mother still survives, being now seventy-one years old.

    Joseph Feaster, the subject of this sketch, went to Montgomery county, Ohio, when sixteen years of age, where he grew to manhood, and was there married January 14, 1875, to Miss Laura Wells, who was born in Montgomery county, August 25, 1858. Her parents Milton and Rhoda (Black) Wells, were also natives of Montgomery county, her mother still living at Dayton, that county. Her father died at the age of forty years.

    Mr. and Mrs. Feaster are the parents of six children -Ettie M., John A., George W., Cora B., Joseph H. and Harry Logan. Mr. Feaster remained in Montgomery County, Ohio, until 1877, when he came with his family to Blackford County, Indiana, and settled on the Polk Prairie farm in Washington Township, where he lived seven years. He then settled on section 20, Washington Township, where he has since resided, his home farm containing eighty acres of w4ell tilled land, a comfortable house and barn, and other farm buildings in good condition. In his political views Mr. Feaster affiliates with the Republican party.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.