Robert Wright Featherston
This material was submitted by Margaret T. Macdonald from a copy she received
from her grandmother, Bessie Featherston Milward. This material was dated
January 1931. Her notes for this submitted material is that in the
1930's when American genealogists were trying to tie their families to English
nobility, Elizabeth Featherston Sellier was making a listing of the descendants
of her grandfather, Robert Wright Featherston, who had come to
Fayette Co., Ky. about 1810 with his parents Elizabeth Elmcre and Jeremiah
Featherston. She gave each of her cousins a handwritten copy. The one I have
used came from my grandmother, Bessie Featherston Milward. It is faded after
sixty years, but still legible.
I have changed her format considerably. To make sure that she was
understandable, Mrs. Sellier repeated names and dates and put each small family
on an individual sheet. I have tried to make it simpler. The material
in the footnotes was found in the course of my own research.
Margaret T. Macdonald
PREFACE
Desiring to preserve for future generations a genealogical record of the
descendants of my grandfather, Robert Wright Featherston, of Fayette County,
Kentucky, I have compiled these records obtained from a member of each family.
The greater number of his descendants were known to me personally and I believe
I can say this account is accurate, as far as it goes, but lacks a few names and
dates which I have been unable to find.
The data. relative to his father, Jeremiah Featherston, was given to me many
years ago by his daughter. Miss Susan Magdalene Featherston, my father's sister.
I am grateful to each one who assisted me in any way in acquiring these records,
and especially to my brother and sisters, who have been so helpful.
Elizabeth Featherston Sellier (Mrs. E.L.)
Lexington, Kentucky January 1931
INTRODUCTION
The first account we have of our great grandfather, Jeremiah Featherston, is
that he came with his wife, Elizabeth Elmore Featherston, and five children from
Virginia to Kentucky about the year 1810 and settled in Fayette Co.,
between Tates Creek and NicholasvilIe Pikes about five miles from Lexington.(1)
His mother, Jean Wright Featherston, was living at that time, but whether she
came to Kentucky or not we do not know. She died November 16, 1812.(2)
She had several children but we know the names of only three, Hezekiah,
Jeremiah, and Carolus.(3)
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