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Amelia County continued
According to the record still preserved, we find that their first child was a son, Charles
H. who was born 13 October 1807, died 19 Jan. 1833. His will was written 18 May
1832 in which he left his riding mare to his sister Amanda L. P., his mule to his
mother for life and then to brother John L. and sister Mary B.
Featherston. Negro Man Joe to be hired out until brother Montgomery
is 21 years of age, when he is to have him. He left Stokes Thurstall as
executor; witnesses:
Charles H. Featherston, Sr., Samuel Burton, Claudius C. Jones. (Will Bk.
12, p. 430)
Richard S. Featherston, born Dec. 8, 1808; nothing further known. Amanda,
born 9 Feb. 1811, died 10 June 1859.
Edward, born 8 Dec. 1813, died 1 Sept. 1853; married Mary Howlett in
Edenton, NC, 23 April 1845
(Record in Dept. of Hist., Raleigh). (Joyce F.Hawkins: “This Edward,
shown other places as Edward A., that Mrs. Fothergill says died 1 Sept.
1853, and widely recorded in other sources this way, did not die until 1 Sept. 1888.
Even Mrs. Fothergill continues records for Edward after 1853.”)
Their children: Fannie, who married Walter
Coleman of Amelia and still living - 1935.
Sally, who married Alfred M. Archer
Annie, married (1) A.M. Brown and (2) Price Jones
Harvey, who died unmarried
Libby, who married R. A. Bendall
Charles Henry, who married Lillian Quarles and had
issue: Edward. Charles. Sallie. Norfleet
Fredrick Marcellus, who married Inez Reed and had issue: Frederick.
Elizabeth. James.Charles Virgil. Watson.
Margaret. Nannie.Howlett
Mercer and Montgomery,
twin sons of Charles and Elizabeth Featherston, were born 8 Dec 1814. Montgomery married (1) Susan
Snellings of Chesterfield Co. and had 2 children who died unmarried; (2) Emily
Ann Agee, and had Sarah who died young and James who married Sallie
Massie (Ragland) and had issue: Alpha
Agee, died single; Emily Montgomery, died single; Nathaniel Ragland,
who married Anna Marshall and lives (1935) in Appomattox; Mary Elizabeth,
who married Warren A. Thornhill; Martha Trent, single; Lucie Lillie,
married Robert E. Baldwin.
William Booker Featherston
was born 25 May 1817, went to Lynchburg where he married his first cousin Melvina
Fitzallen Talbott; they had a school there but removed to Cleburn, Texas
about 1854, where she died about five years later, leaving an only child, William
Booker Featherston, who was later Judge of the United States District Court.
Martha E. and Mary
went to Texas with their brother William Booker Featherston, Sr., where Martha
married John W. Doty, leaving no issue.
Mary married General E. C. Turner and left one child, Martha,
who married B. F. Clayton and left issue: Edwin,
Benjamin, Charles and Mary Clayton.
Leadrius M. Featherston, son
of Charles H. and Elizabeth S. Thornton Featherston, was born 1 Jan.
1820. Everard Meade,
another son, was born 13 March 1822, died Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1895, leaving a widow
and a daughter Bettie Lee, now (1935) Mrs. Ford of Oklahoma
City.
John R. A. Featherston, born
6 Dec. 1824, died at the age of 87 years at the home of his nephew, Judge William
Booker Featherston in Cleburn, Texas. He
seemingly did not marry.
18 March 1843, John Robertson
and Elizabeth his wife conveyed to Charles H. Featherston, trustee, 225 acres of
land at Tabbe Bridge, adjoining Joseph Scott, W. Dunnevant and William
Booker; also 8 negroes. (Deed Bk. 35, p.
73)
22 July 1863, Edward A.
Featherston, as executor of the will of Charles H. Featherston, conveyed to William
A. Willston and Pleasant Wilkinson, trustees of the Baptist congregation
worshipping in the brick church known as Mt. Tabor, for the sum of $500 the land on which
the church stands, on the Jenitoe Road; to permit the Mt. Tabor congregation to remain in
possession as long as white members may think proper to do so. The part of the first part to give no interest to
colored congregations, but to be in the entire and exclusive control of white members. (Deeds 40, p. 105)
By
this time Edward A. Featherston was living in the lower part of Amelia and was
buying more land, as on 30 October 1869 he bought of J. S. Fitzgerald and Elizabeth
his wife 644 acres, lying on Sweathouse Creek adjoining Daniel Craddock and C.
C. Coleman. (Deeds 41, p. 138).
24 April 1860, William J.
Norfleet and Eliza P. his wife of Chowan Co., NC, conveyed to Edward A.
Featherston of Amelia Co., for the sum of $1000 a tract of land containing 25 acres,
lying in Amelia County adjoining the heirs of Alfred Mann, on the
Richmond Road and Namozeen Road, commonly called the Cross Road. (Deeds 41, p. 247).
15 Feb. 1870, Edward A.
Featherston and Mary M. his wife had conveyed to Richard Hardaway
21 Nov. 1876 a tract of land adjoining Mt. Tabor Church on Genitoe Road; said Hardaway
gave a deed of trust on same to W. O. Harvey in order to secure payment on same
to E. A. Featherston. (Deeds 45, p.
123)
13 October 1880, Edward A.
Featherston and Mary his wife gave a deed of trust on 350 acres of land
lying on Genitoe Road adjoining B. Dennis, Isham Clements, Baker, Meade’s old
farm, to pay bonds due Robert R. Wood. (Deeds
45, p. 155).
Edward A. Featherston
purchased the first tract of land in the lower part of Amelia Co. Feb. 10, 1851, when Mary
Cocke, Mary Susan Cocke, Martha A. Cocke, Richard F. Taylor, and Rosa Lee
his wife, the only heirs of James E. Cocke, deceased, the tract of land which
said E. A. Featherston had purchased of James E. Cocke, who had not made
a title to it. The tract contained 150 acres
and adjoined Armistead Coleman, John Phillips, and John Willson on Namozeen Road. It was purchased by said James E. Cocke
from John A. Jeter in 1843. (Deeds
_____)
11 Nov. 1865 Edward A.
Featherston purchased from Asa Kidd, executor of estate of Patty ____ 210
1/2 acres for the sum of $1294.57, on the south side of Namozeen Road on Wintercomake (?)
creek adjoining Robert Cousins and Henry C. Gregory. (Deeds 39, p. 410)
On October 3, 1813, Charles
Featherston and Ann M. his wife conveyed to John R. Archer and Charles
E. Featherston as trustees, certain real and personal estate and provided that Charles
E. Featherston should have power to direct to whom the said property should be given
at his death; in pursuance of said power, said Charles H. Featherston on 4 Nov
1860 did direct that the said tract of land so conveyed with all crops, stock, tools, and
implements that might be on his land at his death together with kitchen furniture on the
place be sold. Edward A. Featherston,
executor named in this will, 10 Aug. 1865, qualified and gave bond in the sum of $10,000. The other executor, Everard M. Featherston,
failed to qualify. Edward A. Featherston,
in pursuance of the power contained in the deed 23 Oct. 1813 and in the will of 1860,
agreed to sell to GV Garrett Vanderbrough the tract on which said Charles
H. Featherston resided, containing 411 1/2 acres, for the sum of $4010.00, reserving
1/2 acre contained in and around the grave yard, to be the family graveyard. (Deeds 41, p. 105).
Deed dated 23 Dec 1868.
25 February 1885, Edward A.
Featherston, R. A. Coleman, and R. E. Clay, school trustees of
Jackson District, Amelia Co., purchased of R. S. Wills and Mary his
wife, for the sum of $10 one acre of land adjoining said Wills on Ricky Hill Road. (Deeds 47, p. 523)