Milo G. Featherston, whose home is five miles south of Lexington on
Walnut Hill Pike, has spent practically all his life in that locality, gave
his efforts successfully for half a century to farming, and has also been
identified with a number of public interests and public offices. He is one of
the well known and highly esteemed citizens of Fayette County.
Not far from his present home he was born November 24, 1842, a son of
Robert and Elizabeth (Neet) Featherston. His father was born in Virginia in
1803, and in 1808 was brought to Kentucky by his parents, Jeremiah and
Elizabeth (Elmore) Featherston. He was one of a family consisting of two sons
and several daughters. His brother William removed to Illinois. Jeremiah
Featherston located in the district south of Lexington and died there in 1855.
at the age of seventy-five. Robert Featherston settled near his father, and
at one time was one of the most extensive farmers in the county, having about
450 acres. His mother reached the age of ninety-six, and he was also
ninety-six when he passed away in 1899. He made a success of farming and was
also a citizen of irreproachable character and of great independence of
thought. He began voting as a whig, was a Know Nothing, and later was one of
the few men in his community to vote the republican ticket. He served for
some years as a county magistrate, and was never afraid to voice his
convictions in politics or his hatred of whiskey. He was an active member of
the Christian Church, and for a number of years worshipped in the church at
Providence. His first wife was the widow Farrar, whose only son, William
Featherston, is living at Lexington at the age of eighty-nine. Elizabeth
Neet, second wife of Robert Featherston, died when past eighty. Her children
were: Charles, a farmer and butcher, who died at Lexington, where his widow
and son Ernest still live; Frank, who died at the age of twenty-two; John, who
became a physician, practiced at Indianapolis and died there; Milo G.; Warren,
who died young; Oscar, a Kentucky farmer, now living in California; Elizabeth,
who died in 1905, the wife of Dr. J.M. Rice; and Susan, unmarried, who died in
1921.
Milo G. Featherston was educated in the schools of Fayette County, and in
1875 came to the locality where he is still living. He acquired a farm of 100
acres, and has made that the scene of a very busy career. For eight years he
served as a magistrate, was on the board at the time of the building of the
county jail, and for nearly forty years was almost regularly a member of the
County Court jury until finally excused from that duty on account of age.
Politically he is a democrat.
In 1875 Mr. Featherston married Miss Belle Foley, daughter of James
Foley, of the well-known family of the Versailles Pike. Mrs. Featherston was
born in Fayette County and died in 1917, after they had been married nearly
half a century. Thirteen children were born to their union, eight of whom
reached mature years, as follows: Susie, wife of John Kimberly, of Bracken
County, Kentucky; Amanda, wife of Claude Featherston, of Scott County,
Kentucky; Belle, Mrs. Colby Carr, of Lexington; Milo G., Jr., a farmer living
near his father; Sally, Mrs. Albert Carsner, of Montana; Lucy and Margaret
both at home. The family are members of the Christian Church.
(JFH: Milo Gist Featherston - d. 13 Aug 1927; m. 28 Sep 1865 (according to
Fayette Co., KY marriage records) to Belle Foley. He was a son of Robert
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