William Featherston head 71 wid farmer TN TN TN
(JFH:) son of Presley/Preston and Elizabeth (Harris) Featherston – Branch #5)
Burian(?) Featherston son 35 single TN TN TN
Lilia Featherston dau 24 single TN TN TN
Bell Featherston dau 22 single TN TN TN
Olive Featherston dau 19 single TN TN TN
Lily Featherston dau 16 TN TN TN
Jesse B. Featherston 25 single carpenter MS MS MS
(JFH:) ?son of Richard Asberry and Sallie (Hines) Featherston – Branch #5)
Maralis Hall head 59 m. 29yrs TN MO MO
Prudence Hall wife 49 AR TN TN
(children not copied)
M.A. Featherston mother 82 TN UNK UNK
(JFH:) ?Mary A. (Carrolton) Featherston, who married James H. in 1878 at Carroll Co., TN – Branch #3)
Virginia M. Featherston head 54 1ch/1 lvg wid MS VA AL
(JFH:) Mary Virginia (Markham) Featherston, widow of Francis Marion – Br #5)
Mamie V. Featherston dau 29 CA TN MS
Lucy G. Markham sis 44 MS VA AL
William S. Featherston roomer 41 m. 2nd 11yrs IL US GA
(JFH:) William Samuel Featherston, son of Ralph and Sarah Rebecca (Young) Featherston – Branch not listed in FFs)
James J. Featherston head 30 m. 3yrs. Teamster-logging TN TN TN
(JFH:) son of Thomas J. and Saluda “Lou” or “Lula” (below) J. (Burkeen) Featherston – Branch #1)
Nancy E. Featherston wife 21 3ch/2 lvg TN TN TN
Elma Featherston dau 5 TN TN TN
Ethel Featherston dau 1 TN TN TN
Thomas J. Featherston head 67 m. 46yrs Teamster-saw logs TN TN TN
(JFH:) son of Robert R. and Sally (Cary) Featherston – Branch #1)
Lula J. Featherston wife 65 11ch/5 lvg TN NC NC
Greenfield
Callie A. Featherston head 43 wid. 3ch/3 lvg. TN TN TN
(JFH:) Callie A. (Perry) Featherston, widow of Benjamin Franklin – Branch #3)
Eva L. Featherston dau 18 TN TN TN
Gladys Featherston dau 15 TN TN TN
Lurline Featherston
dau
10 TN TN
TN
Cont.
immediately follows Robert – below
Lonnie Featherston head 37 m. 16yrs. farmer TN TN TN
(JFH: Alonzo, son of Charles Edward and Jane Amanda (Young) Featherston – Branch #3)
Minnie Featherston wife 34 9ch/8 lvg. TN TN TN
Bertie Featherston dau 15 TN TN TN
Irene Featherston dau 14 TN TN TN
Foster Featherston son 12 TN TN TN
Douglas Featherston son 10 TN TN TN
Johnnie Featherston son 7 TN TN TN
Fred Featherston son 5 TN TN TN
Owen Featherston son 3 TN TN TN
Bennie L. Featherston dau 7/12 TN TN TN
Robert Featherston head 45 m. 15yrs TN US US
(JFH: son of Charles Edward and Jane Amanda (Young) Featherston – Branch #3)
Ugene Featherston wife 44 6ch/3 lvg. TN VA US
Tasso Featherston son 11 TN TN TN
Mary B. Featherston dau 7 TN TN TN
Lorene Featherston dau 5 TN TN TN
Sam Featherston head 46 m. 17 yrs. TN VA VA
(JFH: son of Charles Edward and Jane Amanda (Young) Featherston – Branches #3)
Nettie Featherston wife 34 4ch/4 lvg. TN TN TN
Mabel Featherston dau 16 TN TN TN
Homer Featherston son 10 TN TN TN
Burnice Featherston dau 6 TN TN TN
Waunita Featherston dau 3 TN TN TN
Tollie Featherston hired man 40 single TN US US
(enumerated with Thomas J. Walters)
(JFH: Can anyone identify this individual?)
William H. Featherston head 45 m. 24 yrs TN TN TN
(JFH: son of Charles Edward and Jane Amanda (Young) Featherston – Branch #3)
Tennessee Featherston wife 48 m. 24 yrs TN TN TN
J.D. Featherston son 23 m. 4yrs TN TN TN
Lena A. Featherston dau-in-law 22 1ch/1 lvg TN TN TN
Ambus A. Featherston gr.son 23/12 TN TN TN
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JFH: The document on the following
pages mentions A.A. Featherston, N.B. Featherston, S.M. Featherston,
J.B.Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Minnie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Emma
Featherston, Sallie Featherston, Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp.
These are heirs of William Featherston, son of Merriman – Branch #5. Did
William marry 1st Mary Byers and 2nd Emily Edney?
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Henderson County, NC. Superior Court – Nov. Term 1911
Book 82, pages 49-56
A.A. Featherson vs. N.B. Featherston
State of North Carolina : In the Superior Court
Henderson County : November Term – 1911
A.A. Featherston :
Vs :
N.B. Featherston, S.M.Featherston :
J.B. Featherston, Lillie Featherston : Judgment
Minnie Featherston, Mamie Featherston :
Emma Featherston, Sallie Featherston :
Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp :
This cause coming on to be heard and the same having been heard before his Honor Benjamin F. Long, Judge presiding and holding the courts in and for the 14th Judicial District in and for the State of North Carolina, and it appearing to the court that the summons was duly issued and served upon J.B. Featherston, ten days before the return day of the October Term, 1911, of this court, as is required by law; and it further appearing to the court that service by publication as is required by law of the summons was had upon J.B. Featherston; and it further appearing to the court that the complaint duly verified has been filed in this cause in due time, as it is required by law and it further appearing to the court that McD. Ray, of counsel of the defendant J.B. Featherston. appeared in open court at the October Term 1911 therof, and was granted time within which to file and answer to said complaint by the said J.B. Featherston; and it further appearing to the court that the time heretofore granted has elapsed and that the said J.B. Featherston has failed to find any answer to said complaint, or to give any defense bond, as is required by law that he shall do. and that said J.B. Featherston has not been excused from giving the undertaking required in such cases as is required by law that he shall do: and it further appearing to the court that this is an action for the recovery of real property; and it further appearing to the court that the plaintiff’s complaint states a cause of action against the defendant J.B. Featherston, which entitles him to the relief therein demanded and prayed for; and it further appearing to the court from the record plaintiff A.A. Featherston paid the purchase money for the lands described in the complaint, and that the legal title thereto was made to Mary E. Featherston for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A. Featherston and that the said Mary E. Featherston held said lands as trustee for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A. Featherston; and it further appearing to the court that the plaintiff A.A. Featherston is the equitable owner of said land and is entitled to have the legal title thereto vested in him, it is therefore considered ordered adjusted and decreed by the court that the plaintiff A.A. Featherston is the owner in fee simple of said land described in the plaintiff’s complaint which lands are described as follows, to wit: - Beginning on a white oak known as the beginning corner of a State grant to David Miller, and running a South West course with Mariah C. Alexander’s line to where said line intersects S.T. Fatherston’s line on the south side of cont.
Henderson County. NC Superior Court – Nov. Term 1911 (cont.)
Mill Creek: thence with said S.T. Featherston’s line to the corner; thence with the line of the land formerly owned by A.M.Featherston to a stake in the branch below Thomas S. Case’s line; thence with said branch to the head of a ditch; thence down said ditch thirty poles to a white pine and three Maples; Thence North Twenty teen(?) degrees West to the back line clained by A.M. Featherston, thence with the said line to the Beginning, together with all and singular the right’s. Members hereditaments and appurtenances to the said premises belonging to or in any wise incident or appertaining, and being the same tract of land belonging to William Featherston prior to the 28th day of May, 1870, and sold to Seborn T. Featherston as assignee in Bankruptcy of the said William Featherston on the said 28th day of May, 1870 and a deed thereof made to Mary E. Featherson which deed is registered in the office of the register of Deeds in Henderson County in Book … Page___ and being the same land described in a partition proceeding dividing the lands of A.M. Featherstone deceased by B.H. Merrimon, G.B. Johnson, John Woodfin, John Miller, Jesse Featherston and James Brittain, commissioners, between William Featherstone, S.T. Featherstone and Mariah C. Featherstone, legatees, under the will of A.M. Featherstone, and designated at Lot no.3, which proceedings is recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Henderson County, in Book no. 12 at page 217 at seg. To which Partition Proceeding Book and Page and particular Lot no. 3, reference is hereby made for a further description of said land. It is further considered, ordered, adjudged and decreed that the defendant J.B. Featherston, together with N.B. Featherston, S.M.Featherston, Enna Featherston, Littie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Sallie Featherston, Minnie Featherston and Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp are the holders of the bare naked legal title to the said land above described. They being the sole survivors of the said Mary E. Featherston, deceased, and as such are holders of the same as trustees for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A. Featherston: it is further adjudged and decreed that this decree and judgment shall operate as a conveyance of the legal title to the land above decribed from the defendants N.B. Featherston, S.M. Featherston, Sallie Featherston, Minnie Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Emma Featherston, and Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp, and this defendant, J.B. Featherston to the plaintiff A.A. Featherston; and it is further ordered by the court that this judgment be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Henderson County, State of North Carolina in the records therein kept for the registration of Deeds: this judgment to stand unless J.B. Featherston had appeared by Clerk and answer for himself within 20 days from this time.
B.F. Long
Judge Presiding
J.B. substituted for J.C. Featherston at request of his attorney McD. Ray cont.
A.A. Featherston vs. N.B. Featherston
State of North Carolina : In the Superior Court
Henderson County : November Term 1911
A.A. Featherston, :
vs. :
N.B. Featherston,, S.M. Featherston :
Lillie Featherston, Minnie Featherston : Judgment
Mamie Featherston, Emma Featherston :
Sallie Featherston, Alice Stepp and :
her husband Decatur Stepp :
This cause coming on to be heard and the same having been heard before his Honor Benjamin F. Long, Judge presiding and holding the courts in and for the 14th Judicial District in and for the State of North Carolina, and it appearing to the court that the summons was duly issued and served upon N.B. Featherwton, S.M. Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Minnie Featherston, Emma Featherston, Sallie Featherston and Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp ten days before the return day of this term of court as is required by law; and it further appearing to the court that personal service of the summons was had upon N.B. Featherston, S.M. Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Mamie Featherston, Emma Featherston, Alice Stepp and her husband Decatur Stepp and that service by publication as is requited by law of the summons was made upon Sallie Featherston and Minnie Featherston; and it further appearing to the court that the complaint duly verified has been filed in this case in due time as is required by law; and it further appearing to the court that N.B. Featherston, Lillie Featherston, Mamie Featherston and Emma Featherston have filed duly verified answers to the complaint of the plainriff, A.A. Featherston admitting the facts as alleged in the complaint and disclaiming title to the lands described in the complaint; and if further appearing to the court that Sallie Featherston, Minnie Featherston, Alice Stepp and her husband and S.M. Featherston have not filed answers to said complaint; and it further appearing to the court that none of the defendants have filed a defense bond or defense bonds, as is required by law that they shall do and that they have not been excused from giving the undertaking required in such cases as is required by law they shall do; and it further appearing to the court that this is an action for the recovery of real property; and it further appearing to the court that the plaintiffs complaint states a cause of action against the defendants which entitles him to the relief therein demanded and prayed for and if further appearing to the court that the plaintiff, A.A. Featherston, paid the purchase money for the lands described in the complaint and that the legal title thereto was made to Mary E. Featherston for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A. Featherston and that the said Mary E. Featherston held said lands as trustee for the use and benefit of the plaintiff A.A.. Featherston and it further appearing to the court that the plaintiff A.A. Featherstone is the equitable owner of said lands and is entitled to have the legal title thereto vested in him. It is therefore, considered, ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the plaintiff A.A. Featherston, is the owner in fee simple of the lands described in the plaintiff’s complaint, which lands are CONT