1880 Hickman Co., KY Census (cont.

Spring Hill district *6 20-20

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submitted by:Jerry Ponder, HC 1, Box 713, Fairdealing, MO 63939

THE HERITAGE OF PERSON COUNTY , NORTH CAROLINA -VOLUME I I

pub. 1983 by Person Co. Historical Society

p. 110

Albert Clayton, Jr. was born in 1905. He married Mary Elizabeth Featherston and they moved to Durham. Betsy Muriel Clayton was the only child born to this marriage.

p. 153

Charles Mclver Featherston was born in Caswell Co. 17 Dec 1906, the youngest child of nine living children born to Thomas Preston Featherston and Amanda Hester Featherston. At his birth, his oldest sister Elizabeth (Lizzie) begged her mother to let her name him for Dr. Charles Mclver who was President of Women's College in Greensboro where Lizzie had finished school. Mclver's older sisters relate that at his birth he was so small they used to take turns, along with their mother, sitting in front of the fire with him to keep him warm. A man's handkerchief folded in the shape of a triangle was used as a diaper. This story seems hard to believe for a man people remember of being over six feet tall and a shoe size of thirteen.

Being the youngest of nine children and having seven older sisters had its advantages as well as disadvantages. Manya time Mclver was given a nickel to wash dishes for his sisters so they could "go out courting" .