SARAH ELIZABETH FEAZEL Contributed by Sherry Gritzbaugh ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ When Sarah Elizabeth was about four years old, the year Louisiana became a state, she traveled with her German surveyor father and mother by flat bottom boat via the Mississippi River, Red River, Ouachita River and Corney Bayou Creek to live in the wilderness of Union Parish on the edge of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana. Sarah was the youngest daughter of Margaret Pear and George Feazel. She was named for her grandmother, Elizabeth Sumner Feazel, a probable daughter of Phillip Sumner. According to the bible record Sarah Elizabeth was born 1 November, 1807 and died on the 29th. day of April, 1883 in the state of Arkansas. On the 2nd. day of June, 1829 Ouachita Parish, La. she married E. S. Thomas Grisham. He was born 18 March, 1830 and died on the 29th. day of August, 1835. To this union there was born: 1. Thomas Jackson Grisham born 18 Mar. 1830. Died 29 Aug. 1835. 2. George Washington Grisham born 1 Sep.1832. Died 15 Aug.1834. Sadly, at the age of twenty eight years, Sarah Elizabeth Feazel Grisham was alone. Her husband and children were all deceased. She met and married the dashing Oliver Cromwel McAfee who was born about 1800 in Lincoln Cunty, North Carolina. He died 3 Oct. 1851 in Union County, Arkansas. McAfee failed to mention that he left a family behind when he moved to Union Parish, La. as indicated by a petition for divorce filed by Sarah Elizabeth Feazel Grisham McAfee in Union Parish, La. She suffered many heartaches during her lifetime as told in her death notice published in the Eldorado Eagle on 19 May, 1883. Sarah Elizabeth Feazel McAfee Mrs. McAfee died at the home of her son-in-law J. T. Giles near Champagnoller, where she has made her home. She was born 1 Nov. 1807 and died 29 Apr. 1883. Grandma was a good woman, & we have no doubt about her being safely on the home in heaven she longed to reach. She made her peace with God when young, & joined the M.E. Church South, in which she lived a sonsistant & true member. She was a true Christian. A constant reader of the holy scriptures, and took delight in the worship of God in his sanctuary, where her seat was never vacant. The sick never lacked for attention and sympathy from her. She was a woman of few words, but her daily walk & deeds expressed her feelings & wishes better than words could have done. For the last few years she has been a great sufferer, but her religion comforted her through the long nights and days of painful afflection, and enabled her to commit herself to Christ. Though her sufferings were great, she murmured but little and was willing to wait for the will of God. She was in great pain and longed to be with him and the love ones who had parted before her. Her last audiable words were; "Oh Jesus have mercy on me, and give me rest". She left one daughter and four grandchildren to morn her loss. Many friends and neighbors followed her remains to her last earthly resting place, where she was interred in the old family burying ground. Thee she awaits the resurrection of the just. May all her relations and friends meet her in heaven. Grandma is gone to the home she dearly loved. She will be sadly missed by her loved ones. Entering the pearly gates above, she is now free from all her pain and care. Champagnoller May 14, 1883. From this obituary we find that Sarah Elizabeth Feazel outlived three of her McAfee children plus the two Grisham children that died before her second marriage. She once remarked that a mother should not have to outlive her children. To the union of Oliver C. McAfee and Sarah Elizabeth Feazel there was born: 1. Robert Calhoun McAfee born 3 Jan. 1841. Died after 1856. 2. Tabitha Ann McAfee born 28 Nov. 1843. Died 9 Jun. 1884. 3. Mary Jane McAfee born 29 Jul. 1845. Died 28 Aug. 1845. 4. Prince Albert McAfee born Sep. 1, 1846. Died 30 Jul. 1849. Tabitha Ann married James Terrell Giles in 1861. They were the parents of (1)Polly who was born in 1862 and died in 1863. (2) Margaret Airlee Giles born 1865 died 1954. (3) Mary Giles born 9 May, 1868 died 1874. (4) William Oliver Giles born 1870 died 1950 (5) Ema Aurilla Giles born 1873 died 1939 and (6) Jimmie Giles born 5 July, 1879. # # #