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Welcome to FEATHERSTON FINDINGS volume 13 (February 1994).

Please accept my apologies for the long delay between volumes 12 (September 1993) and 13.

We have now distributed booklets to individuals and libraries in many of our U.S. states including Arkansas. California. Connecticut. Florida. Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.  Information regarding this series has also been sent to individuals in many other states.   Therefore, many people have learned of our work and others have the opportunity to do so.

If you have not submitted your lineage for publication in our BRANCHES section, let me urge you to take care of this important matter.  All of us know the amount of work and frustration involved in researching our Featherston(e) family lines.  We can make research less difficult for our descendants by permanently recording this material.

 Every effort will be made to complete volume 14 within a shorter time period.

 Thank you for your support.

 Joyce Featherston Hawkins
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Index

FEATHERSTON FINDINGS – Volume 13

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Every Name Index

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Page 1

BRANCH #3 – additional information (continued) from volume 12. page 7)

{For information on Henry Featherston, Jr,’s family, see volume 12. ps. 3 & 4}

V          Henry Featherston, Jr. – b. 28 May 1774 Chesterfield Co., VA; m. Nancy

            Marshall

            *2. Edward Hardiway Featherston – b. 4 Nov 1813 Loncoln Co., TN.

VI         Edward Hardiway Featherston – b. 4 Nov 1813 Lincoln Co., TN. d. 23 Apr

1885 Mooreville, Falls Co., TX, bur. Mooreville TX; see correction was married four times:

m.1) by 4 Dec 1834 to Jane _______ - d. ca. 1835; m.2) abt. 1836 at Waldron,

Scott Co., AR to Julia Ann Thompson – probably b. abt. 1822, d. ca 1864, d/o

 Micajah Thompson/Sarah ______: m.3) abt. 1865 in MO to Mrs. Emeline W. Tindall –

d. 27 Jan 1867, Grundy Co., MO. (she was widow of Col, Jacob W. Tindall); m.4)

aft. 1867 to Mrs. Sarah (Raines) Nichols.  Sources: 4 Dec 1834 Loncoln Co.,

TN deeds mentions “Edward H. Featherston and his wife Jane Featherston”;

Family tradition sent 1983 to Mrs, Elmeree Oakley of Hopkinsville, KY by Mrs

John Bryant Featherston (Sambo (Gaines) Featherston) then 88 years of age

whose husband was a great grandson of Edward Hardiway); SCOTT COUNTY  ‘DAYS

GONE BY’, p. 30 by Norman Goodner of Waldron,  AR, pub. 1983; FAMILIES OF

FALLS COUNTY (TX),  pub, 1987 by the Falls Co., Historical Commission; 7 Feb

1867 Chillicothe, (Livingston Co.)  MO  SPECTATOR obit. of Mrs Emeline W.

(Tindall)  Featherston; Census records.  Edward Hardiway had many careers – he

was a farmer, lawyer, medical doctor, 1843 Postmaster at Winfield, AR, 1850 – 52

Surveyor of Scott Co.,  AR, 1854-56 Clerk of the Probate Court of Scott County

and 1871  Postmaster at Carolina – near Durango, TX.  In 1850 he was also US

Census Enumerator for Hickman Township, Scott Co., AR.

Issue by 1^st wife: [* = information follows]

*1 Edward Featherston – b. ca. 1836 AR

*2 John Featherston – b. ca. 1839 AR

FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY (TX) ARTICLE, NAMES “Julia Ann Thompson "

Featherston, born about 1816 in Kentucky,” as mother of Edward Hardiway’s son  “Edward John Featherston,  and also says Edward John was born in 1836 in Arkansas”.  Edward Hardiway lists two sons on the 1850 Scott Co., AR census - Edward Featherston. aged 14 years born in Arkansas and John Featherston Aged 11 years born in Texas.  The FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY (TX) article  appears to have combined these sons names (or was one not a son?) as it says:   “Edward John  (Jack) Featherston born 1836 in Arkansas, date of death and place of burial unknown, married (1) Catherine Warren who died in Missouri about 1864: married (2) Parmeda (?) in 1864: and with his family came with his father to Falls Co., TX in 1870 settling in an area around present day Chilton. TX.

Issue by 2^nd wife:

None Known

Issue by 3^rd wife:

None

Issue by 4^th wife:

None

Also given in the SCOTT COUNTY ‘DAYS GONE BY’ publication, page 53, is another wife – source (which would make a total of five wives for Edward Hardiway) taken from an affidavit written about 1940 by Sam K. Leming, Attorney and Historian of Scott County: Cont.                                                                                                                         

Page 2

BRANCH # 3 – additional information – Edward Hardiway Featherston (cont)

“Ed. H. Featherston whose first wife died, married one of the Reed girls, Anne”

Anne Reed is not listed here as a wife of Edward Hardiway since Julia D., aged  31 years, born in Kentucky, is alive on his 1860 Granby Township (Newton Co.) MO U.S. Census.  His sister Nancy Featherston/Reed/Crow married a Reuben Reed in Scott Co., AR about 1860.

 VII  Edward John (Jack Featherston – b. 1836 AR; m.1) Catherine Warren – d ca. 1864 MO; m.2) 1864 Parmeda _______ - b. ca. 1837 KY, Merchant, 1870 migrated to Falls Co., TX. From AR and MO with father settling in area now near Chilton.  Source: FAMILIES OF FALLS CO. (TX), compiled 1987 by the Falls Co. Historical Commission, p. 148.

Issue by 1^st wife: [* = information follows]

*1. John Henry Featherston – b. 11 Apr 1862 MO, d. 28 Sep 1940 Chilton, Falls Co., TX., m.1 May 1889 Chilton, TX to Lou Annie Bryant

Issue by 2^nd wife

2. Martha Featherston – b. 1865 MO

3. Edward Featherston – b. 1867 MO.

VIII  John Henry Featherston – b. 11 Apr 1862 MO, d. 28 Sep 1940 Chilton, Falls Co., TX, bur. Chilton Cem,;  Merchant; m. 1 May 1889 Chilton, TX to Lou Annie Bryant – b. 12 Jan 1873 Dime Box, Lee Co., TX, d. 3 Apr 1949 Chilton, TX, bur. Chilton Cem., d/o John Wesley Bryant (s/o James A. Bryant/Mary Stewert) and Sarah Ann Lively of Chilton. Source : FAMILIES OF FALLS CO, (TX) compiled 1987 by the Falls Co. Historical Commission, p. 149.

Issue: [* = information follows]

*1. John Bryant Featherston – b. 21 Jul 1891 Chilton, Falls Co., TX, d. 6 Jan 1976 Chilton. TX; m. 3 Apr 1915 Chilton, TX to Sambo Gaines

2. Bessie Featherston – d. aged 6 months

IX   John Bryant Featherston – b 21 Jul 1891 Chilton, Falls Co., TX d. 6 Jan 1976 Chilton Falls Co., TX, bur. Chilton Cem,; m. 3 Apr 1915 Chilton, TX to Sambo Gaines – b. 25 Nov 1894 Rosebud, Falls Co., TX, d. 1894 Falls Co., TX, bur. Chilton Cem., d/o Sidney Johnson Gaines/Katherine Jenna de Graffenried – pioneer settlers in The Republic of TX.  John Bryant like his father and grandfather Featherston was also a Merchant, built the J.B. Featherston building in Chilton, Officer of the Chilton Bank, active in school and civic affairs; he and Sambo members of the Chilton Church of Christ. Sources: records of wife Sambo (Gaines) Featherston she submitted 1983 to Elmeree (Tartar) Oakley; FAMILIES OF FALLS CO. (TX), compiled 1987 by the Falls Co. Historical Commission, pp. 148, 149.

Issue : [*= information follows; += continuation on a later page]

*1  Jenna Lou Featherston – b. 21 Mar 1917 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Blake Bailey

+2. Jack Gaines Featherston – b. 6 Dec 1918 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; living 1987 Chilton, TX; m.1) Mary Jo Stacey, m.2) Viola Maddox Ashby.     Cont.

Page 3

BRANCH #3 -  additional information – John Bryant  Featherston (cont.)

+3. Hinda Featherston – b. 3 Apr 1921 Chilton, Falls Co., TX, living after 1984 Chilton, TX; m.      L.R. Holland

+4. John Henry Featherston – b. 17 Oct 1927 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Marilyn Neel.

X   Jenna Lou Featherston – b. 21 Mar 1917 Chilton, Falls Co., TX, m. Blake Bailey.  Sources: mother’s records she sent 1983 to Elmeree (Tartar) Oakley; FAMILIES OF FALLS CO. (TX), compiled 1987 by the Falls Co. Historical Commission, p 149.

Issue:

1. Blake Henry Bailey
2. Sidney Johnson Bailey
3. Jack Eugene Bailey

IX   John Bryant Featherston – b. 21 Jul 1891 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Sambo Gaines

*2.  Jack Gaines Fatherstone – b. 6 Dec 1918 Chilton, Falls Co., TX.

 X     Jack Gaines Featherston – b. 6 Dec 1918 Chilton, Falls Co, TX, living 1987 Chilton, Tx; m.1) Mary Jo Stacey of Marlin, TX:  m.2) Viola Maddox Ashby – d.1985.  Sources: FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY (TX).  Compiled 1987 by the Falls Co., Historical Commission, p. 149;  Sambo (Gaines) Featherston (deceased 1984) records she sent 1983 to Elmeree (Tartar) Oakley.

Issue by 1st wife:

1. Gary Stacey Featherston – b. ca. 1954, d. 1968- aged 14y.

Issue by 2^nd wife:

IX      John Bryant Featherston – b. 21 Jul 1891 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Sambo Gaines

*3.  Hinda Featherston – b. 3 Apr 1921 Chilton, Falls Co., TX

 X      Hinda Featherston – b. 3 Apr 1921 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. L.R. Holland.  She returned to Chilton to live after her mother died (1984) – owning the small home next door to the Featherston family home, which was sold out of the family.  Sources:  FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY (TX), compiled by the Falls Co.  Historical Commission, 1987, p. 149;  Sambo (Gaines) Featherston (deceased 1984) records she sent 1983 to Elmeree (Tartar) Oakley.

Issue:

1. Richard Gaines Holland
2. Sam Featherston Holland – b. 4 Jan 1949, d, 1 Jun 1949       cont.

Page 4

 BRANCH #3 – additional information (cont.)

IX  John Bryant Featherston – b. 21 Jul 1891 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Sambo Gaines

*4.  John Henry Featherston – b. 17 Oct 1927 Chilton, Falls Co., TX;

 X   John Henry Featherstone – (added “e) to the end of his surname) was b. 17 Oct 1927 Chilton, Falls Co., TX; m. Marilyn Neel.   Sources: FAMILIES OF FALLS COUNTY (TX), compiled by the Falls Co. Historical Commission, 1987, p. 149;  Sambo (Gaines) Featherston (deceased 1984) records she sent 1983 to Elmeree (Tartar) Oakley.

Issue:

1. John Neel Featherston – does not use “e” on his surname.  He is a Church of Christ minister living in New York.
2. Marilyn Featherston – also does not use “e” on her maiden name.

[For information on Henry Featherston, Jr’s family, see volume 12, ps. 3 & 4 ]

V   Henry Featherston, Jr. – b. 28 May 1774 Chesterfield Co., VA; m. Nancy Marshall

*4.  Nancy Jane Featherston – b . ca. 1815 Loncoln Co., TN.

VI  Nancy Jane Featherston – b. ca. 1815 Lincoln Co., TN and spouse William Warren Fleming – b. ca. 1800 KY are listed on the 1850 US census, living in Fort Smith, Crawford Co., AR.   Nancy Jane’s mother, Nancy, at age of 76y, was a member of their household on 12 Nov 1850 – date census was taken.  The Flemings and six children are listed on the 1860 US Census, Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., AR.  William, a Farmer in 1850 was a Hotel Keeper in 1860.  Nancy Jane, called “Jane”, received her 1/3 share of her mother’s estate on 21 Aug 1854 Scott Co., AR.  Sources: mother’s pension distribution, National Archives, Washington D.C.; 1850 US Census Crawford Co., AR;  1860 US Census Sebastian Co., AR; 21 May 1854 Scott Co., AR affidavit.

Issue:

1. Arabella Fleming – b. ca. 1840 AR
2. William W. Fleming, Jr. – b. ca. 1843 AR
3. Edward H. Fleming – b. ca. 1845 AR
4. James C. Fleming – b. ca. 1846 AR
5. Charles A. Fleming - b. ca. 1848 AR
6. Sophia Fleming – b. ca. 1850 AR

[For information on William Featherston’s family, see volume 12, ps 4 & 5

VI   William Grandison Featherston – b. 1807 VA; m.1) Isabella_______

*2. Robert M. Featherston – b. ca. 1834 AR.

VII   Robert M. Featherston – b. ca. 1834 AR  (just about the time Scott Co., AR was forned from Crawford Co.); m.1) 10 Jun 1857 Waldron, Scott Co., AR, “at her home“ to Susan Elizabeth Gaines – b, abt, 1839 AR. d. as a result of      cont

Page 5

BRANCH #3  - additional information – Robert M. Featherston   (cont.)

childbirth on 13 Feb 1866 Scott Co., AR. d/o James Foster Gaines/Parmelia Frances Halley (m. 18 Jun 1835 Fayette Co., TN, “at father Francis Halley’s house”).  Robert M. Featherston m.2)  abt, 1870 Scott Co., AR to Annie May -  b. ca. 1852 AR, d/o George W. May.  Robert’s father was appointed his guardian on 22 Jan 1840 Franklin Co., AR  (Probate Records, Bk. B, p, 5).  Robert was a Farmer and “Speculator.”  US Censuses list him as living in 1860 and 1870 in Hickman Township (Waldron),  Scott Co., AR.   In 1870, he and daughter Andrewsia were living in his father’s home.  Sources:  Scot Co., AR Deeds;  2 Gaines Family Bible pages supplied in 1983 by Norman Goodner of Waldron, AR; SCOTT COUNTY ‘ DAYS GONE BY’ BY Norman Goodner, page 22; 1880 Lamar Co., TX Census

Issue by 1^st wife: [* = information follows]

1. Charles Oscar Featherston – d. 4 Apr 1860

*2. Andrewsia “Drewsia” J. Featherston – b. ca. 1862 AR; m. ____ Thomason

3. Francis Isabel Featherston - d. 3 Aug 1864 Clarksville, TX  (“The third year of the American Revolution.)  Born, lived and died during the great struggle for Southern independence.”
4. son Featherston – b. & d. 5 Feb 1866 Scott Co., AR,  “8 days previous to mother’s death, lived one hour and a half, and died, was buried in its mother’s arms,  It was a boy.”

Issue by 2^nd wife:

5. Jeffrey Featherston – b. ca. 1875 TX (according to 1880 Lamar Co., TX Census, Jeffrey was a daughter of Robert and Anna Featherston)
6. Robert L. Featherston – b. ca. 1878
7. Bertie Featherston – b. ca. 1880 (a school teacher at the Waldron. AR School in the late 1880’s; taught at Liles School house, Lafayette Township – July 1897.

VIII    Andrewsia  “Drewsia” J. Featherston – b. ca. 1862 AR: ,. A Mr, Thomason was named for her aunt Andrewsia Jacksonia Gaines who died 19 Oct 1860.  Andrewsia J. Featherston was living with her father in her grandfather Featherston’s house in 1870.  Sources: 1870 Scott Co., AR US Census; undated letter (before zip codes) to “Mr. Kelly” of Scott Co., AR,  Abstract and Land Title Co., Waldron, AR from Mrs. Maggie (Gaines) Hon which names heirs of James Foster Gaines (Andrewsia’s grandfather) and naming the “only surviving heirs of Andrewsia’s parents” (Andrewsia’s children).  This letter also says “The Thomason children may have lived in Oklahoma.  They lived at Heavener for a while and at a saw-mill camp – Thomasville, perhaps.  A Steve Thom_son of Parks may have information that could lead to their whereabouts.”

Issue:

1. Frank Thomason
2. Zoe Thomason
3. Clyde Thomason

VI    William Grandison Featherston – b. 1807; m.2 Elizabeth Thompson

*3.  Francis M. Featherston – b. ca. 1838 Waldron, Scott Co., AR    cont.