Stephen Feather and Mary Jane Carringer

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Husband Stephen Feather ¹

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           Born: 1 Dec 1840 - Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Feather (1806-1878) 2
         Mother: Phoebe Condit (      -Aft 1888) 1

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       Marriage: 28 Feb 1865 1

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Wife Mary Jane Carringer ³

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         Father: George Carringer (Abt 1795-1876) 1 4
         Mother: Isabella Montgomery (Abt 1803-1888) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Rolla J. Feather ¹

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           Born: 1867 1
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General Notes: Husband - Stephen Feather

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He was educated at the schools of the period, and followed farming. In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company F, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served until February 12, 1863, where he was honorably discharged because of wounds received at the sec­ond battle of Bull Run. After his recovery he enlisted in Company H, Fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia, and served three months, holding commission of first lieutenant; was commissioned captain August 13, 1864, in the Iowa State Militia, by Gov. Stone, of Iowa, which position he held until the close of the war. After leaving the service he went to Iowa and remained eight years, and after that time lived on a farm in Perry Twp, Mercer County. Mr. Feather was school director, town clerk and treasurer of Perry Township. He was a member of John C. Dickey Post No. 433, G. A. R., of the E. A. U. of Hadley, voted the Republican ticket, and was an elder in the Hadley Presbyterian Church. [HMC 1888, 1121]

1 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1121.

2 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1053.

3 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1120, 1121.

4 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 981.

5 Editor, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1119.