Here is some more information regarding our great-grandfather James Wilson Lingle’s mother’s people.
Henry FELKINS was born about 1695, in Virginia. He married Rose R. FARROW in 1729 in Prince William County, Virginia. They had one child during their marriage. He died on February 28, 1742, in Prince William County, Virginia, at the age of 47.
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William FELKINS was born in 1740 in Fauquier County, Virginia, the child of Henry and Rose R. He married Sarah HIGHETT about 1760, in Virginia. They had three children in 25 years. He died on May 2, 1814, in Fauquier County, Virginia, at the age of 74.
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When John FELKINS was born about 1761, in Fauquier County, Virginia, his father, William, was 21 and his mother, Sarah, was 23. He married Martha Anna SKETCHIAS in 1778 in Fauquier County, Virginia. They had eight children in 26 years. He died on January 21, 1839, in Overton County, Tennessee, having lived a long life of 78 years.
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John FELKINS served in the military in 1812 when he was 51 years old. (War of 1812)
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When John A. FELKINS was born on September 1, 1786, in Virginia, his father, John, was 25 and his mother, Martha, was 25. He married Bethseba CUNDIFF on May 26, 1808, in Pulaski County, Kentucky. They had nine children during their marriage. They lived in Overton, Tennessee for awhile. He died in 1860 in Guntersville, Alabama, at the age of 74.
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John A. FELKINS served in the military in 1812 when he was 26 years old.
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When Wilson Clemence FELKINS was born on April 2, 1806, in Tennessee, his father, John, was 19 and his mother, Bethseba, was 27. He married Malinda SHEPHARD and they had 18 children together. He then married Lottie PIERCEFIELD and they had two children together. He died in 1881 in Alton, Missouri, having lived a long life of 75 years.
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Sarah’s son, James Wilson Lingle, (the Wilson name came from his maternal grandfather) was my maternal great grandfather, my mother’s paternal grandfather.
When Sarah Jane Felkins was born on November 11, 1843, in Overton County, Tennessee, her father, Wilson, was 37 and her mother, Malinda, was 26. About 1865 she married William Joe LINGLE and they had three children together. She then married John Dotson BRATCHER and they had six children together. She died on January 28, 1929, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, at the age of 85, and was buried there in Oak Hill cemetery. Her grave is not marked, but is on the cemetery rolls.
Her great granddaughter, Ella Lingle, called her "Little Grandma" because she was tiny (compared to her grandmother Harriet Anderson Lingle). The Bratchers lived in a house behind the James Wilson Lingle's home on Tahlequah Street in Siloam Springs.
