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My Dad was a very special person. He wasn't the type to show his gentle feelings
but towards the last few years he had begun to show them. Often you saw the gruff side of him but deep down he was a
good, gentle, caring, but stubborn person. He loved my Mom very much and my sister and me. He loved his grandchildren
although he was much better with them as they got older. He was a born salesman. He could sell anything to anyone
whether they needed it or not. And that was the profession he was in all of his life. He was a very smart man,
not very patient and high strung but he was a good father and provider.
One of his true passions was Kentucky Wildcat basketball. I remember him watching
the games all his life just as his Father listed to them on the radio when Adolph Rupp was the coach. He loved those
Wildcats but got so aggravated at them that sometimes he'd just turn the tv off.
He was born in Corbin, Kentucky in 1927, to Ed and Vivian Feather. He left Corbin
and joined the Navy during WWII. After he was assigned back to the states he was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia and
that's where he met my mother, Betty. They were married in 1949. And in 1950 I was born. They moved
to Corbin, Kentucky when I was just 6 weeks old. My sister, Debbie was born in Corbin in 1953. We moved alot over
the next few years but when I was five we settled in Louisville where my Dad lived until he died in 1994.
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I'm including some pictures
of my Dad and members of his family. I am not sure of his ancestory. I do know my Grandfather's people were Dutch
and came from Europe and settled in Pennsylvania. My great grandmother passed away and my great grandfather, Harry Feather
married Mary Feather and moved to Corbin, Kentucky at some point. My Grandpa had 5 brothers, I believe and one sister.
Grandpa went to work for L&N Railroad along with most of his brothers and his sister. He remained in Corbin the
rest of his life.
My Grandpa, Edward L. Feather
passed away in 1967 when I was seventeen.
My Grandmother, or Nannie as I called her, I really don't know alot about as far as her ancestry. I believe
she had Irish and a little French blood. I know her parents, Salmon and Amanda Byrd, lived in Middlesboro where
they raised my Nannie, Vivian and her three sisters, Ruth, Mabel and Bee. Aunt Ruth died very young.
My Nannie went to a private school in Corbin and that's how she came to know my Grandpa. They married and had 3 children,
my Dad and his two sisters, Mary Jo and Helen. My Nannie lived for many years after Grandpa died. She lived
to be "93" and lived in Tennessee with my Aunt Helen. are a few pictures of my
Dad through the years and his family. I am not sure about the history of his family. I do know his father's family
came to the states, they were of Dutch descent. They settled in Pennsylvania. My Grandfather's father worked for
L&N Railroad, as did my Grandfather and several of his brothers and one sister.
My Grandmother or "Nannie" was from Middlesboro but
went to a private school in Corbin. That's how she met my Grandfather. She had some Irish blood and a little French
descent in her but I'm not real sure of any other details. She had three sisters. I remember her mother, Granny
Salmon but not real well. My Grandfather died when I was seventeen. He was such a wonderful man. Very kind
and good natured. My Grandmother lived to be 93 years old. She was living with my Aunt Helen and her family at
the time.
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