David Fee

Male 1847 - 1907  (59 years)


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  • Name David Fee 
    Birth 25 Oct 1847  Breathitt Co, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 1850  Breathitt Co, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    District 1, p 24A, dwelling/family 100/100, enumerated 30 Jul 1850 by John Hargis; living with parents, Henderson & Margaret Fee. 
    1850 Census for Breathitt County, Kentucky, District No. 1, Sheet 24A
    1850 Census for Breathitt County, Kentucky, District No. 1, Sheet 24A
    Fee, Henderson.....30....head...farmer
    ___, Peggy.........25....wife
    ___, Jane.......... 3....dau
    ___, David......... 2....son
    ___, J C Mason..... 1....son
    McQuinn, Zechr.....22..........farmer
    McDaniel, John.....22..........farmer
    Bruer, Forrest.....25
    Turnbo Manuscripts 1852  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    One among the early timers of North Arkansas is Dave Fee who resides at Peel Marion County. His parents Henderson and Margarette (Myers) Fee with four of their children, Jane, Dave, John M. and Ben who was the baby then and Mr. Mike Myers his father in law came from the state of Kentucky to where Buffalo City in Marion County is now on a steam boat in 1851. Dave Fee was born in Breathitt County Kentucky October 25 1847. Daves father was born in 1819. Dave Fee says that his father made a crop in the river bottom where Buffalo City now Is in 1852. He remembers that Jim Laffoon and a Mr. Lin Scott lived in this same bottom at the same time his father did and that his grandfather Miky Myers who was quite an old man died there in the early part of 1853. "Soon after the death of my grandfather’ said Mr. Fee "My father bought an improvement from David. Mr. Tutt who lived on Crooked Creek 1 ½ miles above Yellville and moved onto it and then he went to Batesville which was the nearest land office and entered his land. Here on this farm my mother died at the age of 74 years and was buried in the Fee Grave yard on this land. Later on my brother John M. and my sister Jane died and their bodies received interment in this same cemetery. David M. Tutt was a son in law of Dave Stinnette father of I. C. Stinnette. Tutt’s wife was named Elizabeth. When we first come to Crooked Creek" continued Mr. Fee, "John Estes was running a saloon in Yellville and Isaac Wilson was selling goods. Henry Burch lived on Crooked Creek below Yellville. Peter Shoup who was a blacksmith lived on the creek 2 miles above Yellville." Mr. Fee says that he well remembers Ed. Tunsil the proprietor of a small steam boat with only one chimney to it plying the waters of White River from the Mississippi River to the Buffalo Shoals. In calling over the names of the Weist family who lived in Yellville he said the old mania given name was Adam and that his sons given names were Jim, Wash., Ben, John and Doc. His daughters were Sally, Mary, and Martha. In the war between the states Dave Fee was a Confederate soldier and served in B. F, (Ben) Iveys Co. C. Col. Schnavels Battallion of Cavalry and he also served as Sheriffe of Marion County from 1894 to 1898. Mr. Fee also gives a brief account of Ben Stinnettes freak pig that he possessed in the year 1871. He said that it was a male pig and was spotted in color. Its fore legs were all right but it had no hind legs at all. Mr. Stinnette exhibited the little grunter in Yellville as a show charging the public one dime for a look at it. Paul Ellenburg offered him $25 for the pig but the owner thinking he could make more out of it refused to accept it. Finally Ben got tired of caring for the little two legged creature and put in a hog bed where there was a saw and other pigs overlaid the helpless pig and killed it. Mr. Fee tells of going to school in Yellville when Van Tate taught school in the Weist school house. "But the first school I ever attended" said he "was when Jim Rawlins taught on Crooked Creek a short distance above Yellville some of my school mates who went to this school were Dave and Mary Shoup and three of the Magness children Jim, Dan and Sarah and Ed Railsback, Dan Railsback and their sister Sarah Railsback. The house that Rawlins taught this school in was a small log cabin with dirt floor and the cracks between the logs all open and the gable ends not closed. Split saplings 6 inches wide with legs put in them was what we used for seats." 
    • Silas Claiborne Turnbo. "A Few Names of Early Residents,"The Turnbo Manuscripts, located in the Springfield-Green County Libraries, Springfield, Missouri.
    Census 1860  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Union twp, Yellville PO, p 17 [stamped 547], dwelling/family 117/1, enumerated 6 Jun 1860 by Wm C. Mitchell; attended school w/in the year. 
    1860 Census for Marion County, Arkansas, Union Township, p 17 [stamped 547]
    1860 Census for Marion County, Arkansas, Union Township, p 17 [stamped 547]
    Fee, Henderson......39...head...farmer
    ___, Margaret.......35...wife
    ___, David..........12...son....attended school
    ___, John...........11...son....attended school
    ___, Benjamin F..... 9...son....attended school
    ___, Mary........... 5...daughter
    ___, George......... 4...son
    ___, Sarah.......... 2...daughter
    ___, Thomas.........4/12...son
    Martin, Sebourn.....18....attended school
    Turnbo Manuscripts Dec 1864  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    It was not common in Civil War days for a war party to refuse to appropriate any property be it little or big if it belonged to the enemy and they were in reach of it. The following account was furnished me by Dave Fee of Peel, Arkansas, who in war times was a soldier on the southern side and be-longed to Captain Ben Ivey’s company, Colonel Schnavel’s Battallion. "One day in the month of December, 1864, after the Price raid into Missouri, I and three other members of our Battallion were on a scouting expedition near Jonesburrough in Cross County, Arkansas. Rations for ourselves and forage for our horses was exceedingly scarce with us and near noon we began to look about for something to eat and feed for our almost exhausted animals. As we rode along on Crawley’s Ridge we came to a house that had a fine prospect of furnishing us with food for ourselves and corn for our jaded horses, and we rode up to the yard gate and halted and found that there was no one there except the lady of the house and some children. We asked the woman what the chance was to get our dinners and have our horses fed there. She replied very kindly that we could dismount and take our horses to the barn and feed them and that she would also prepare dinner for us, and knowing that we were confederates, she informed us that her husband was in the federal army and that two of her brothers belonged to the confederate army, and that her desire was to treat both sides as nigh right as she was able to. She said that if a federal soldier came along and was hungry, she divided her eatables with him and she did the same with the southern men. She said she treated both sides alike or as near equal as she could. When we went to the barn, we found plenty of corn to feed our horses and when she announced dinner, we found plenty on the table and we fared sumptuously. When we had finished dining, we asked the lady our bill and she said nothing and refused to have pay for her trouble of preparing dinner for us and neither would she charge us anything for the corn we give our horses. After we had finished eating dinner, we soldiers retired into the sitting room to rest and wait for our horses to get done eating before starting out again. On going into the room, we saw a nice pair of buck-skin gloves lying on the mantle board. They were military gloves and belonged to the woman’s husband. We all stood in need of a pair of gloves, but we could not afford to take this pair, but we all tried them on our hands to see how they would look and fit our hands and then we laid them back on the mantle piece. If the woman had acted very cold toward us and told us that her two brothers belonged to the federal army too, there is no doubt but that the gloves would have went with us. But as it was, we could not stoop so low as to take them and went away with a kind feeling for her and her husband as well as for her brothers." 
    • Silas Claiborne Turnbo. "A Party of Southern Soldiers Refuse to Appropriate a Pair of Federal Gloves," The Turnbo Manuscripts, locate in the Springfield-Green County Libraries, Springfield, Missouri.
    Military 1862-1865  Civil War Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Captain Ben Ivey’s company, Colonel Schnavel’s Battalion, C.S.A.; wife applied for a pension in 1913. 
    • Arkansas Confederate Pension Records. Digital database. Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas History Commission.
    Masonic Lodge Nov 1867  Yellville, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Was a member of Yellville Lodge No 117 when he died. 
    • Arlene LaGrone, abst. Masonic Deaths in Arkansas, 1838-1916 (Hot Springs, AR: n. p., 1999), 53.
    Census 1880  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Union twp, ED 108, p 17 [stamped 30A], dwelling/family 263/188, farmer, b. Kentucky; f.b. Kentucky; m.b. Virginia; enumerated 14 Jun 1880 by H. W. Hudson.  
    1880 Census for Marion County, Arkansas, Union Township, Sheet 17 [30A]
    1880 Census for Marion County, Arkansas, Union Township, Sheet 17 [30A]
    186 - Fee, Henderson H....61...head...farmer
    ___, Margaret.............55...wife...Keeping house
    ___, Sarah................21...daughter...at home
    ___, Thomas...............20...son....work on farm
    ___, Elizabeth............17...daughter...at home
    ___, James................15...son........at home
    ___, Highman..............10...son........at home
    187 - Fee, Benjamin.......30...head...Lawyer
    ___, Louise...............26...wife...keeping house
    ___, Andrew H............. 3...son
    188 - Fee, David..........32...head...farmer
    ___, Mary J...............32...wife...keeping house
    ___, Benjamin F........... 8...son
    ___, Thomas G............. 4...son
    ___, Ella................. 1...daughter
    Tax Records 1887  Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 3, $100, Cattle, value: 17, $140, Mule, value: 3, $150, Hogs, value: 15, $15, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $20, Other property: $120, Total value: $545, Tax Paid: $5.00. 
    • Arkansas. Marion County, County Clerk. Personal Assessment Tax Book, 1887. NOTE: If you are using the microfilm from Family Search, Salt Lake City, UT, the film is found under Marion County, Arkansas records - Taxation. Personal property tax book, 1887-1894. Going further down into the records to the digital records. When you come to Personal property taxes 1887 film, the tax record is the third book scanned.
    Tax Records 1888  Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 5, $150, Cattle, value: 30, $200, Mule, value: 3, $150, Hogs, value: 12, $12, Other property: $75, Total value: $587. 
    • Arkansas. Marion County, County Clerk. Personal Assessment Tax Book, 1888. NOTE: If you are using the microfilm from Family Search, Salt Lake City, UT, the film is found under Marion County, Arkansas records - Taxation. Personal property tax book, 1887-1894. Go further down into the records to the digital records and there are two digital files.
    Tax Records 7 Apr 1890  Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 4, $160, Cattle, value: 24, $150, Mule, value: 3, $160, Hogs, value: 8, $8, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $15, Other property: $100, Total value: $593, School District: 23, Tax Paid: illegible. 
    • Arkansas. Marion County, County Clerk. Personal Assessment Tax Book, 1890. NOTE: If you are using the microfilm from Family Search, Salt Lake City, UT, the film is found under Marion County, Arkansas records - Taxation. Personal property tax book, 1887-1894.
    Tax Records 6 Apr 1891  Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 3, $100, Cattle, value: 40, $280, Mule, value: 3, 200, Hogs, value: 7, $7, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $40, Other property: $100, Total value: $727, School District: 23, Tax Paid: $0.10087. 
    • Arkansas. Marion County, County Clerk. Personal Assessment Tax Book, 1891. NOTE: If you are using the microfilm from Family Search, Salt Lake City, UT, the film is found under Marion County, Arkansas records - Taxation. Personal property tax book, 1887-1894.
    Occupation 1892-1898  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    County Sheriff 
    • Earl Berry. Pioneer Live and Pioneer Families of the Ozarks (Cassville, MO: Litho Printers, 1980), 95.
    Property, Real 5 Sep 1899  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Arkansas. Marion County. Circuit Clerk's Office & Recorder of Deeds. Deed Book 6, p 227. Warranty Deed, dated 5 Sep 1899. Austin H. & Mary E. Fee to David Fee. Filed and recorded 3 Oct 1899.
    Warranty Deed between Austin H. & Mary E. Fee and David Fee
    Warranty Deed between Austin H. & Mary E. Fee and David Fee
    Know All Men in These Presents: that we Austin H. Fee and Mary E. Fee, for and in consideration of the sum of $100.00 to us in hand paid by David Fee, do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey unto the said David Fee and unto his heirs and assigns forever the following lands lying in the County of Marion and State of Arkansas, to-wit: The NW ¼ NE ¼ of Section 34, Township 21N, Range 17W, containing 40 acres. To have and to hold the same unto the said David Fee and unto his heirs and assigns forever, with all appurtenances thereunto belonging. And we hereby covenant with said David Fee that we will forever warrant and defend the title to the said lands against all lawful claims whatever. Witness our hands and seals on this 5 Sep 1899. [Signed] Austin Fee (Seal) Mary E. Fee (Seal). ACKNOWLEDGMENT. State of Arkansas, County of Marion > ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this day came before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting Austin H. Fee and Mary E. Fee, to me well known as grantors in the foregoing Deed, and state that they had executed the same for the consideration and purposes therein mentioned and set forth. Witness my hand and seal as such Notary Public on 5 Sep 1899. [Signed] H. Fee, Notary Public. Filed and recorded on 13 Oct 1899. [Signed] T. L. Gilley, Clerk by R. L. Berry, Deputy Clerk.
    Census 1900  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Franklin twp, ED 81, p 6B, dwelling/family 102/104, farmer age 52, married 28 years; reads, writes and speaks English; b. Oct 1847, Kentucky, f.b. Kentucky, m.b. Virginia; owns a farm with a mortgage; enumerated 12 Jun 1900 by William R. Younger. 
    • United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Record Group 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. NARA microfilm T623, roll 67.
    Property, Real 31 Oct 1906  Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Arkansas. Marion County. Circuit Clerk's Office & Recorder of Deeds. Deed Book 66, p 535. Warranty Deed dated 31 Oct 1906. David & M. J. Fee to Ella Cagle. Filed 1 Apr 1919 and recorded 2 Apr 1919.
    Warranty Deed between David Fee & Mary Jane (Haggard) Fee to Ella Cagle, their daughter
    Warranty Deed between David Fee & Mary Jane (Haggard) Fee to Ella Cagle, their daughter
    Know All Men in These Presents: that we David Fee and M. J. Fee, his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of $75.00 to us in hand paid by Ella Cagle do hereby grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto the said Ella Cagle and unto her heirs and assigns forever the following lands lying in the County of Marion and State of Arkansas, to-wit: Commencing at the Southwest corner of the NW ¼ of the NE ¼; thence north 32 rods more or less to the Public Road to a stone; thence east with the meanderings of said road 80 rods to a stone; thence south 26 yds to a stone on the White River-Chappelle line; thence west 80 yards with said line to the beginning corner this being a part of NW ¼ of the NE ¼ of Section 34, Township 21N, Range 17W, containing 12 acres more or less. To have and to hold the same unto the said Ella Cagle and unto her heirs and assigns forever, with all appurtenances thereunto belonging. And we hereby covenant with said Ella Cagle that we will forever warrant and defend this title to the said lands against all lawful claims whatever. An I, M. J. Fee, wife of the said David Fee for and in consideration of the said sum of money, do herby release and relinquish unto the said Ella Cagle all my right of dower and homestead in and to said lands. Witness our hands and seals on 31 Oct 1906. Signed David Fee (Seal) M. J. Fee X her mark (Seal). Acknowledged in the State of Arkansas, County of Marion > ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this day came before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and acting David Fee, to me well known as grantor in the foregoing Deed, and state that he had executed the same for the consideration and purposes therein mentioned and set forth. And on the same day, also voluntarily appeared before me the said M. J. Fee, wife of the said David Fee to me well-known, and in the absence of her said husband declared that she had or her own free will, executed said Deed and relinquished her right of dower and homestead in the said Deed, for the consideration and purposes therein contained and set forth, without compulsion or undue influence of her said, husband. Witness my hand and seal as such Justice of the Peace on 10 Nov 1906 Signed. W. H. Brown, JP. Filed for record on 1 Apr 1919 and duly recorded on 2 Apr 1919. Signed R. L. Berry, Clerk and Ex-Officio Recorder.
    Death 5 Jul 1907  Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Found Dead in Field. Former Sheriff of Marion County Thought to be Victim of Heart Failure
    Found Dead in Field. Former Sheriff of Marion County Thought to be Victim of Heart Failure
    Yellville, July 7.--David Fee of Peel was found dead in the field not far from his house this morning. The particulars of his death have ot been learned, but from what news could be gathered over the telepone, it seems that he was hastening to get across he field to meet a friend on some errand, and was stricken with heart failure. He was justice of the peace of Franklin township, and served two terms as sheriff of Marion county. He is a son of "Uncle Henderson" Fee of Yellville, and a brother of Judge Ben Fee of this place and Hi Fee, who clerks in the Layton department store, George Fee and James Fee. [Source: The Mountain Echo, Yellville, Arkansas July 8, 1907
    Burial Peel Cemetery, Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    David Fee
    David Fee
    Husband of Mary Jane Haggard. Son of Henderson & Margaret (Myers) Fee.
    David Fee
    David Fee
    Close up of original stone.
    Person ID I671  My Genealogy
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2024 

    Father Henderson Fee,   b. 27 Mar 1820, Harlan Co, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1915, Yellville, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 95 years) 
    Mother Margaret Myers,   b. 20 Dec 1825, Wythe Co, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1900, Yellville, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage 25 Nov 1845  Breathett Co, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage Record of Henderson Fee and Margarett Myers. Photocopy of Fee Family Bible pages, in Henderson Fee's own handwriting. Copies sent to Flossie Mae Wallace in 1978 by Dorothy Fee Traylor, Henderson's granddaughter. At the time Dorothy was elderly and lived in California.
    Family ID F304  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Jane Haggard,   b. 23 Apr 1847, Forsyth, Taney Co, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1924, Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 29 Oct 1869  Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Fee,   b. ca 1867, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. ca 1932 (Age 65 years)
     2. Benjamin Franklin Fee,   b. 1 Jan 1872, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 May 1943, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     3. Thomas Gunter Fee,   b. 18 Jan 1876, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Dec 1947, Cotter, Baxter Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     4. Ella Fee,   b. 12 Sep 1878, Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jul 1937, Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years)
     5. George Fee
    Family ID F305  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Oct 2016 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 25 Oct 1847 - Breathitt Co, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - District 1, p 24A, dwelling/family 100/100, enumerated 30 Jul 1850 by John Hargis; living with parents, Henderson & Margaret Fee. - 1850 - Breathitt Co, Kentucky, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMilitary - Captain Ben Ivey’s company, Colonel Schnavel’s Battalion, C.S.A.; wife applied for a pension in 1913. - 1862-1865 - Civil War Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsTax Records - Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 3, $100, Cattle, value: 17, $140, Mule, value: 3, $150, Hogs, value: 15, $15, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $20, Other property: $120, Total value: $545, Tax Paid: $5.00. - 1887 - Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsTax Records - Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 5, $150, Cattle, value: 30, $200, Mule, value: 3, $150, Hogs, value: 12, $12, Other property: $75, Total value: $587. - 1888 - Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsTax Records - Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 4, $160, Cattle, value: 24, $150, Mule, value: 3, $160, Hogs, value: 8, $8, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $15, Other property: $100, Total value: $593, School District: 23, Tax Paid: illegible. - 7 Apr 1890 - Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsTax Records - Poll Tax: 1, Horses, value: 3, $100, Cattle, value: 40, $280, Mule, value: 3, 200, Hogs, value: 7, $7, Pleasure carriage, value: 1, $40, Other property: $100, Total value: $727, School District: 23, Tax Paid: $0.10087. - 6 Apr 1891 - Franklin Township, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Peel Cemetery, Peel, Marion Co, Arkansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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