1st row left to right
James Darlington "Jimmy" Mixson^#922, Wendell Turner^#6834, Arnold Mixson^#919, Morris Mixson^#918, Harold Fedrick "Fred" FeasterFE099, James Otis Feaster, Jr.FE098, Lawrence Richard Feaster^FE097, Carol Joyce, Mary Lucille Filmer, Gladys Lynette Feaster^FE010, Wesley DixonFE043, John Alvin Dixon^FE044, Marion Feaster, Jacob Lynn "JL" FeasterFE008, Betty Dixon Yawn^FE042

2nd row left to right
Maxie Mixson#846, Lois Mixson Marsh#845, Bessie Mixson Turner#844, Charles Benjamin Mixson#843, Wilbur Mixson#843, Alice Mixson Bell#841, Henry Walkup Mixson#840, Job Mixson#839, Julia Estelle Mixson Gladney#838, Annelle Sikes#11088 , Hettie Viola Mixson Ratteree#837, Mary Telula "Lula" Mixson Feaster#836 (holding baby Charles H. Filner), James Gilbert Mixson#835

3rd row left to right
Lottie Viola Skykes, Iva Mae Mixsonw846, Charles Claude Mixson#920, Mabel Bell Mixsonw843, Clifford Mixson#921, Adrian Mixson#916, Rosalie Anderson Mixsonw842, Claude Bellh#841, Elizabeth "Berta" Boulware Mixsonw840, Sara Mae Bell Mixsonw839, John "Hal" Harvey Gladneyw838, Robert Palmer Rattereeh#837, Jacob "Jake" Feaster, Elizabeth Feaster DixonFE002  holding baby Anita DixonFE045, Onnie Lee Smoke Mixsonw835 holding baby Andrew Laverne Anderson#16562, Amber Lee Mixson Anderson#906.

4th row left to right
Ollie Glen FeasterFE004 holding Ollie Glen Feaster, Jr.FE148, Claire Feaster , Vera Brown FeasterwFE003, James Otis FeasterFE003, Gladys Abraham FeasterwFE001, Jacob Lynn FeasterFE001, Royce Mixson#911, Mary Alice Walker Mixsonw912, Lula Mae Filmer holding Charles Filmer, Ercel Mixson#912, Aurice Mixson#913, Ralph Mixson#915, Harvey Gladneyh#838, Julie Gladney Hudson, Elmer Hudson, Agnes Drusilla FeasterFE007, Mary Telua Mixson Feaster#836, James Clark Mixson#909, Andres Anderson.

Note: 'w' reference number prefix means "wife of", 'h' "husband of

The Feasters

The Feaster and Mixson families in Marion County Florida have been intertwined since 1901 when Mary Telula Mixson married Jacob Wesley Feaster. Mary Telula Mixson is my grandfather’s, Wilbur Darlington Mixson’s, oldest sister. Both the Mixson and Feaster families came from South Carolina and migrated to Marion County Florida around 1850 when the area was opened to settlement after the Second Seminole War and after the ownership of the Arrendondo Grant was settled by the US Supreme Court.

The families settled near each other in the Flemington/Shiloh area in Marion County and the children of both families attended school, church  and social events together so it was inevitable that they would know each other. With the joining of Mary Telula and Jabob Wesley, both families prospered and had numerous children, which is apparent from the photo of the 1937 Feaster-Mixson family reunion under the old oak tree on the old Feaster homestead. There is no record of when the gathering first started, likely before 1937, but the 1937 photo is well known throughout both families.  With few exceptions, the reunion was held from 1937 though 2019 under the same old oak tree.  The reunions were stopped in 2020 due to COVID and have not resumed since, in large part due to many of the elders in the family who did most of the planning for the reunion dying.
 
This section of the Mixsonian is the genealogy, history and stories of the Feasters descended from Mary Telula and Jacob Wesley Feaster.
 

 Index

 
The Old Home Place by Nadine Dixon
Genealogy
Stories by Jerome Feaster
Stories by Danny Tillman
The Smokehouse Pond Adventure
The Old Home Place
If the Old Houses Could Talk
Experts From My Grandmother’s and Great Grandfather’s Lives