JFH: An accompanying note from Ms. Krieger states "The Featherstonebough I am researching is either Mary or Elizabeth (depending on the source) daughter of the 1 'Chief of the Featherstone Clan" .She married Sir Thomas Foster who fought in the battle of Agincourt so they were alive about 1350-1400." Does anyone have information that would help her?

1961 letter from Mr. & Mrs. E.S. Kitterman of Benton Harbor, MI

to Mrs. Jordan (Brenda) Fischler of Rockville, MD

Nov. 7, 1961

Dear Mrs. Fischler,

A few weeks ago Mrs. Kitterman who was Kathryn Featherston until I ruined her name on Dec. 25, 1912 rec'd a letter from her brother Fred in Ill. and in it was your letter to him in regard to the Featherston family history. We hope you will forgive us for this long delay for when the letter came our daughter and family were visiting us, so the letters were put by and left not answered, then we left on a trip, went to visit my sister in Montana, were home just long enough to rest up a bit and then went on a trip east, without bringing our correspondence up to date, and that is what is embarrassing to us now for today in going thru last summers letters we discovered and read your letter to Fred. No doubt you and the Le Mars, Iowa Featherstons are of the same line for Mrs. Kitterman's father was John Richard Featherston 'born at Meherrin, Va., in 1858. His father was John C. Featherstone and his mother's maiden name was Catherine Williams; he had a sister Mary who married Henry Wetzel and lived for years in Cedar Rapids, la., one daughter Kathryn Anderson still lives there. Mr. Featherston's mother died when he was just a boy and his father John C. Featherstone married again, and one daughter from that marriage still lives at Dubuque, la. Her name is Margaret Wahl; she is our only living Aunt in either of our families. We saw her in May this year and her mind is clear, she remembers relatives far back. We plan to see her next week enroute to Tucson, Arizona so will take your letter along and get all the family history we can and write it to you. Since Meherrin is in the County adjoining Amelia Co. it would seem you are almost of the same line of Featherstons.

The thing we regret now is that we didn't dig into our mail before we went east, for we would have called you from our daughters Apt. in Alexandria, Va. We were there ten days and would have (planned to) gone down to Meherrin in search of family records, but our sons wife in Iowa was seriously ill so we hurried back. ...Our daughter is Mrs. Ben H. Ward(?) (poss. Huard? -JFH) . Her husband is Col. Ward(?) and has office in the Pentagon Bldg. Dorothy is librarian out at Congressional school. ...She too is interested in family history.

I have a first cousin Fred Kitterman who lives at Germantown, Md. not far from you. ..but he wouldn't know the Featherstons. We visited Fred in Nov last year when our daughter and husband were stationed at Carlisle and he was spending his years at war college there, after a four year assignment in Germany. He graduated with the fall class at Geo. Washington University