Jeremiah Andrews Felt

Jeremiah Andrews Felt (1817-1906) was a school trustee, commissioner of the highways, and farmer in Quincy, Illinois, United States.

Jeremiah was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1817, the second surviving son of pioneer and abolitionist Peter Felt and Polly Mary Fletcher.

[3] Military service was never far from Jeremiah: his own eldest son Peter Leach Felt—named for his father and grandfather—died of wounds received in the American Civil War.

[4] Young Jeremiah, at age 13, left New Hampshire with his father, mother and siblings—Albert, Adeline, Charlie, and Edward—and came by carriage wagon to Troy, New York, thence canalboat by the Erie Canal to Buffalo, overland by wagon to the Ohio River and then by steamboat to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, alongside the Mississippi River, arriving in June 1830.

Chickamauga was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater, and involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.

On the final day, the 78th Illinois served a vital role as part of Mitchell's Brigade in reinforcing Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas at the height of the Confederate attack and took 40 percent casualties.

At age 23, in Mendon, Charles married Lydia McCarl, 20, of La Harpe Township, Hancock County, Illinois, on December 28, 1881.

Arthur Emil Felt (1911-2002) was an engineer for the Ethyl Corporation, and married Irene Fisher on February 10, 1940, in Angola, Indiana.

Charles Woodrow Felt (1913-1957) was a dentist and a Captain in the U.S. Army Dental Corps in England, France, Belgium and Germany during the Second World War.