Person:George Feasel (5)

GEORGE H. FEASEL, a highly respected farmer of Montgomery Twp was bo rn November 21, 1830, in Fairfield CO OH. His parents, Henry and Ja ne (Kendall) Feasel, removed to Seneca CO when our subject was three y ears old, and located on a farm in the woods, near the center of Liberty t ownship. Here the father owned 100 acres of land, and on this place rear ed his family of nine children, five of whom were boys, and all of whom re ached adult age.

He was a quiet, peaceful man, who never quarrelled with his neighbors, w as never sued, and was known for miles around as old uncle Henry Fease l. " He lived to the age of eighty-four years, and his wife to that of sev enty-two years, both dying in Liberty township.

Our subject was the youngest son and seventh child of his parents. His fir st schooling was in a building made of logs, whose windows consisted of o ne pane of glass, eight by ten inches. The seats were made of basswood log s, split in two, with sticks inserted for legs, while the writing desk, wh ich extended all around the building, was made of boards laid on pins stu ck in the wall. A chimney was built on the outside of sticks and mortar, a nd big logs in the fire place heated the room. Such was the kind of scho ol houses in which the early pioneers of the West obtained what little sch ooling they had. Our subject was brought up as a farmer boy, and, it bei ng in the days before threshing machines were invented, he was often ke pt at home from school to ride one of the horses while the wheat was bei ng tramped out on the barn floor. When nineteen years old he left schoo l, and the day after reaching his majority he started out to work for hims elf, his first occupation being that of c! hopping cord wood at twenty-two cents a day.

On January 22, 1854, when our subject was twenty-three years old, he was m arried to Elizabeth, daughter of Charles and Keziah Dicken, was born in Cr awford CO OH, November 29, 1833. The children born of this union we re as follows: Angeline married Philip Stump, and died in Montgomery towns hip; Charles D. died in childhood; Mary J. married Jacob Dieter, and di ed in the same township; Sevilla B. died in childhood; Keziah D. married F rank Warner, and is deceased; Ann E. married James Hutton, and is also dec eased; Henry G. is a farmer in the township; John W. lives in West Millgro ve; Livona R. died in childhood; George W. resides with his father. The mo ther of these children died May 29, 1888, and is buried in Freeport cemete ry. Mr. Feasel was married to his present wife October 10, 1889. She was t he widow of A. J. Rainey, her maiden name being Regina Baker, and s he is a daughter of Frederick Baker.

After our subject's first marriage he rented land in Jackson Twp sub sequently working the home farm of his father in Seneca CO. Later he b ought one-half of his father-in-law's farm, in Liberty Twp of the sa me CO, on which he lived until September, 1865, when he bought his pre sent place in Sections 32 and

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33, Montgomery Twp which then comprised 190 acres, and of which he h as since sold about seventy acres. He has about 110 acres of this land cle ared and under good cultivation, and has a comfortable residence. Th is is the second house he has built on the place, the first one having be en destroyed by fire. Mr. Feasel has always been a Republican, has been to wnship trustee, and has held other local offices. He is a member of the Me thodist Protestant Church, in which he has held office for over twenty-fi ve years. He is a self-made man, and has been a hard worker all his lif e, but at present does not take an active part in farm work. He is high ly respected for his upright, honest life, and is one of the best citize ns of the township