Notes for Josiah FELIX

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Notes for Josiah FELIX

Of Woodford County, Kentucky in 1853.
REVEREND WILLIAM H. FELIX, pastor
of the Baptist Church, Lexington, son of
Josiah and Jane Ann (Shouse) Felix, was born in
Mortinsville, Woodford County, Kentucky, Octo-
ber 6, 1838.
His father was a native Kentuckian, and when
a young man he settled in Woodford County,
where he married and lived up to the time of his
death in 1867, aged fifty-nine years. He was a
member of the Baptist Church, and a follower of
the political teachings of Henry Clay, but after
the dissolution of the old Whig party he acted
with the State Rights party of Mr. Jefferson.
Josiah Felix was long a justice of the peace
under the Constitution of 1799. He was an indus-
trious farmer and also was largely engaged in the
manufacture of bagging and rope. These articles
were carried on steamboats to New Orleans and
other cities of the Southern states. He was an
energetic and successful business man, and em-
ployed on an average of one hundred operatives
in his hemp factory, and managed a large farm.
He was strictly honest and never forgot the small-
est item of expense in his business operations. He
was of German descent.

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