My Feaganes Family Line

By: Grace D. Cooper

My Feaganes family line has not been all the way uncovered just yet, but I do have the following:

Samuel Feaganes born in Va Oct 22 1815 to James Feagans & ?

died Dec 19 1896. He married Nancy Elizabeth Smith born in Culpeper County VA Sept 18, 1818 to John M. Smith and Patience Hague and died Dec 25, 1912.

Their children were all but one born in Culpeper VA.

1. Olivia Ann Feaganes b Oct 1840 d 1904 married Benjamin Landon Brown (b: 18 May 1842 d 21 July 1926) children: a. John Henry Brown b 1874 d 1964 m.1 Sarah Alexander Walker 2. Janie Belle Brown

b. Ophie Jane Brown b 1879 d 1953 m: Robert Wesley Brown (b 1870 d 1953)

c Rice M Brown (b 1880 d 1962) married Sallie Grymes

d Anna Lee Brown (b 1884 d 1971)

2. Amelia T. Feaganes b 1843 ? married 1879 Robert P. Claxton

3. John R Feaganes b 1847 d 1928 married 1.Elizabeth Bennett, 2. Lucy Tanner

4. George Morton Feaganes b 1850 d 1931 married 1 Ella D. Legg 2 Lillie Ann Smith

5. Joseph Logan Feaganes b 1852 d 1932 married Annie M Hunt in aft 1880. (Joseph moved to Kentucky and changed his last name to Feagan)

6.Frances J Feaganes b 1855 d 1946 married John Robertson Brown

7. Alice Feaganes b 1857 died as a child bef 1870

8. Samuel Judson Feaganes b 1862 d 1940. married Lavania Martin.

I descend from Olivia Ann Feaganes and Benjamin Landon Brown

through Ophie Jane Brown.

Ophie & Robert Wesley Brown

had 2 children:

Anna Lee Brown b 1903 d 1920

Elsie Wilson Brown b Nov 5 1912 died Feb 11 1963

married James Billie Dwyer (b April 24 1908 d July 1969)

children:

1. Robert Marshall Dwyer b Aug 30 1931 died April 18 1989

2. Melvin Richard Dwyer b Oct 29 1933 Living

3. James William Dwyer Jr. born May 15, 1938 Culpeper, Va died August 4 1991 Orange VA. married Jean Florence Shaw born Feb 17, 1940

children: 1. Grace Ann Dwyer born Nov 5 1968 married July 15, 1987 Daniel J Cooper b Oct 29, 1968

a. Erin Joyce Cooper b Sept 5, 1990

b. Caleb Aaron Cooper b Sept 16, 1991

2. Elsie Mae Dwyer b Nov 14 1973 married Dec 31, 1997 Russell Bruce Burke (Nov 29, 1972)

a. Ariel Nichole Burke b April 3 2000

3. Judith Marie Dwyer born Nov. 7 1976 married Aug 22 1998 William Christopher Settle

a. William Austin Dwyer b Aug 15 1996

Thats my line. from Feaganes down!

Grace D Cooper

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