Feather, Mary Jane-[180]

  General Notes:

About 1790, Jacob Feather, who had served seven years in the Revolutionary
War, came from Somerset County, Penna. He was originally from Germany,
and married Mary Connery in Somerset County. He settled near where Lucian
Martin now lives, but afterwards removed to the present neighborhood of
Willey, in Portland District, less than a mile from Lick Run, where Adam
Feather, father of the Rev. Jos. B. Feather, still "holds the fort."
No doubt the young Feathers in his backwoods home were to him what
feathers are in the pinions of the dove - supports in the upward flight
toward heaven. Clustered aroung him these were certainly enough to keep
his heart warm with love and affection - Sarah, Jane, and John, long a
justice of the peace; Jacob, Ezekiel, Christopher, James and Joseph,
father of John H. of Sugar Valley, and J. Wesley and Michael E., of
Cranesville; Mrs. Joseph Michaels, and Mrs. Ethbell Falkenstine of
Garrett County, Maryland; and Adam and Eve among the older children.

Mary married Ethbell Falkenstein-[80] [MRIN:27], son of Jacob Falkenstein (3)-[57] and Jane Forman-[75], in 1862 in West Virginia. (Ethbell Falkenstein-[80] was born on 16 Aug 1835 in Valley Pt., Preston Co., WV, died on 3 Mar 1903 in Cranesville, Preston Co., WV and was buried in Mar 1903 in Cranesville Cemetery, WV.)