ATHENS - Services for Alcidie Featherston, 90, Athens, are scheduled for 2 p.m.
Sunday at the Foster & Brown Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Dr. Grover Bishop
officiating.
Burial will be in the Davis Cemetery.
Mrs. Featherston died Thursday night in an Athens hospital. She was born Jan.
18, 1904. in Erath County to the late Earl S. and Zada Felicity Montgomery
Douglas. She was a housewife. Mrs. Featherston was preceded in death by her
husband, Leonard Featherston, in 1976, and by a daughter, Lucille Marie Kelly,
in 1985.
Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Jimmie and Joel Harris, Tyier;
six grandchildren, Joel Harris Jr., Wenatchie, Wash.. Thomas Kelly, Mansfield,
Larry Harris, Flower Mound, Wilda Arnold, Ennis, Jimmy Honza,
Telico, and Wilson Kelly, Corsicana; 11 great-grandchildren; and one great-
great-grandchild.
Pallbearers will be Larry Harris, Chris Arnold, David Arnold, Thomas Kelly,
Larry Honza and Wilson Kelly.
Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
(JFH: A Leonard Featherston, son of James and Caroline "Callie" J. (Gaunt)
Featherston was age 5 (born Jan 1895) on the 1900 Grimes Co., TX Census and was
age 12 on the 1910 Henderson Co., 'TX Census. An Index to Probate Birth Records
- TX Delayed Vol. 11 shows Leonard was born 1 Jan 1895 in Henderson Co., TX. Is
this the same Leonard (Branch #2) that married Alcidie Douglas?)
submitted by: C.R. "Ron" Featherston
pub. Parthenon Press, Nashville
pages 399 & 400 - year 1891
Francis Marion Featherstun
On January 30, 1891, a little more than one month after Francis M. Featherstun
had been appointed to Woodville Station for the second time, he passed to his
reward. He was born in Robertson County, Tennessee, September
24, 1827; before he was grown he moved to Mississippi and settled in Warren
County. He married Miss Elizabeth Rundell in June 1848, and 10 children were
born to them, two of them becoming Methodist preachers and members of the
Mississippi Conference, H. Walter Featherstun and Lewis R. Featherstun. In 1879
he married Miss Virginia Markham of Warren County, and to them a daughter was
born.
cont.