interesting story about Simon Feeler from History of Maries County - King Simon, was the first to come here. He was born in Indiana April 3, 1808, and there is some evidence that the family had come from Tennessee and settled in that state some years before his birth. Their location back of that time is not preserved, even in tradition. On reaching his majority he was married to Doborah E. Daley, who was born October 2, 1817, also in Indiana, and they made that state their home for some years after their marriage. During most of this time he worked as a collier at the various charcoal plants in his home state and Ohio, and in the course of his work he heard of the new iron furnace at Meramec Spring in Missouri, which he decided to investigate. Making the journey of some hundreds of miles on foot, he applied for work at his trade and was promptly hired, the manager of the plant advising him that a gallon of whiskey was his every time his furnace showed a perfectly-charred stick of cordwood. Simon--nicknamed Red Shirts--collected one hundred twenty-six gallons on the first kiln he fired. James paid up--and then withdrew the offer. Simon worked there a year and returned afoot to Indiana where he stayed a few years and then returned to the Meramec, where he spent three more years before returning to his native state. The lure of the west was upon him, however, and he loaded his family in wagons and started to California about 1847. Reaching Lanes Prairie on this trip over the Kickapoo Trace he laid over for a year, making a crop there in 1848. The next years he moved to the mouth of Spring Creek, near which his brother, Thomas, had lived for some years, where he made his home until his death on December 13, 1872. maramecspringpark/maramec/history/history.html
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:00:47 +0000
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