F. M. Easterly, farmer and stock raiser, was born near where he now lives in Greene County, August 24, 1820, the son of Abraham and Anna (Parrott) Easterly. The next ancestors are Jacob and Mary (Bible) Easterly, and the next, George, a native of Virginia. who came to Greene County about 1812 and bought about 200 acres of Joseph and Jesse Bird, early settlers of the region. This land has continued in the family. They are of German origin. The father, a native of Greene County, died June 7, 1828, and the mother, a native of Cocke County, was the daughter of George Parrott. Her children are Frank M., Caroline, Narcissa, Sarah, Isaac and Mary A. Our subject was reared on his present farm and educated in the log schoolhouse. He was left at an early age with the care of a mother and five other children, for whom be cared, as the oldest of them, and in 1843 he married Narcissa, a daughter of Joseph Powell. Their children were Newton Y., Sarah E., Catherine A., George D., Robert F., M. Samuel (deceased); John B., Margaret, Mary E. and Narcissa I. His wife died in 1865, and in 1866 lie married Mrs. Matilda A. Patty (nee Robeson), a native of North Carolina. Their children are Harriet, Alexander, Eleura, Frank P., Jessie L. and Lelia. Our subject has been steward of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for thirty years, and has been treasurer of the Masonic Lodge. He gave $500 to the Oven Creek Church, and liberal sums to various other public enterprises.
