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76y, she was living with her daughter Nancy Jane Fleming at Fort Smith, Crawford
Co., AR. On 12 Nov 1850, she was living with son William Grandison Featherston
in Waldron which location other US Censuses show as her usual abode. On 21 May
1854 Scott Co., AR court records show three heirs received their share of her
estate: William Grandison and Edward Hardiway Featherston, and Nancy Jane
Fleming. Sources: MARRIAGE RECORDS MECKLENBURG CO., VA, 1765-1810 by Katherine
B. Elliott, microfilm Salt Lake UT; Lincoln Co., TN Will Bk. ]_, pp. 116. 117,
118; General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service,
Washington, D.C.; Nancy (Marshall) Featherston's Bounty Land/Pension/Estate
papers also in National Archives; US Census Records - 1830 Crawford Co., AR;
1840 & 1850 Scott Co., AR
Issue: [* = information follows; + =
information follows on later page]
*1. William Grandison Featherston -
b. 1807 VA, d. Oct 1873 Scott Co., AR; m.l) ca. 1827 to Isabella __;
m.2) ca. 1837 AR to Elizabeth Thompson; m.3) betw. 1862-70 AR to Nancy __
2. Edward Hardiway Featherston
- b. 4 Nov 1813 Lincoln Co., TN, d. 23 Apr 1885 Mooreville, Falls Co.. TX;
m.l) ca. 1834 Waldron. Scott Co., AR to Julia Ann Thompson; m.2) Scott Co., AR
to Anne Reed; m.3)
Mrs. Sarah (Raines) Nichols
3. Phoebe Featherston - b.
Lincoln Co., TN, d. by 21 Aug 1854; m. Andrew Buchanan. Neither she nor heirs
are named in 21 Aug 1854 Scott Co., AR court document as receiving a share of
her mother's estate. On
12 Apr 1851 Scott Co.. AR, an affidavit (for?) was between her mother and Robert
and Andrew
Buchanan.
+4. Nancy Jane Featherston - b. ca.
1815 Lincoln Co., TN; m. William Warren Fleming
5. daughter Featherston -
not proven. If such child, d. by 21 Aug 1854 and left no heirs
VI William Grandison Featherston - b. 1807 VA-only location he knew, d. Oct 1873
at Waldron, Scott Co., AR, bur. south part of Waldron near the Methodist Church;
m.l) ca. 1827 to Isabella __ - d. ca. 1835; m.2) ca. 1837
AR to Elizabeth Thompson - b. ca. 1817 KY, d. ca. 1862—aged 45y Arkadelphia,
Dark Co.. AR—family tradition; m.3) betw. 1862-70 AR to Nancy__ who, when
widowed in 1873. married next a __ Casey. On 22 Jan 1840, Franklin Co., AR, he
filed a petition, which was approved, requesting guardianship of his two minor
children, George W. and Robert M. Featherston, and posted a $1,500 bond with H.B.
Rose as his security. On 15 Sep 1851, a Frank-lin Co., AR deed shows he received
a land grant for 80 acres at Clarksville. William Grandison was the pioneer
settler of Waldron, their first postmaster (1840), tavern owner, farmer, and
Scott Co., AR Treasurer in 1862. He was on the side of the Confederacy during
the Civil War and had not signed the Amnesty Oath- swearing allegiance to the
US—by 1870. During the War, he sent his family to Arkadelphia. dark Co., AR, for
safety. The Union Army headquartered in his home at Waldron. Sources: Probate
Records Franklin Co., AR, Bk. B., p. 5; Franklin Co., AR, 15 Sep 1851 Deed (Bk?);
Scott Co., AR Deed Bk. 4; HISTORY
OF SCOTT CO., AR, by Henry Grady McCutchen, "printed in Arkansas-USA,"
cont...