The News and Herald, 1901-05-17

Susan, John Feaster's eldest daughter, married Robert F. Cole Coleman, - man, Coleman, a son of the Patriarch D. B. Coleman. Mrs. Wesley Mayneld is the only one living of that family. The second daughter, Mary, married H. Jonathan Cole Coleman~ - man~ Coleman~ by whom she had sixteen children, eleven of whom lived to be grown, 9 sons and 2 daughters. Truly may it be said that Feaster Feastervile - vile Feastervile township was benefited by the issue of this marriage. It gave to the township three of the very best physicians, two of whom, Drs. Preston and Franklin Cole. man, gave up their lives in Vir Virginia - ginia Virginia for the "lost cause." Only two of the boys are now living, D. R. Coleman of Feasterville, and G. W. Coleman, of Cash's Depot, S. C. Allan lost his life at Petersburg; Jacob F. died i.t Wilmington, N. C., in 1864. Dr. R. W. Coleman, better known as "Dr. Bob." was one of the best urses that ever lived. He mar married - ried married Nancy McConnell by whom he bad several children. He was as game as a Kukiux to the day >f his death, which occurred .in fay, 1873. John Feaster, . the ildest son, married a Miss Glad Gladien - ien Gladien and died in February, 1856. is wife d'*ed the April following, ea.ing six small chdren to the old charities of the world. But ;he noble old Roman H. Jonathan "oleman was equal to the oe oeasion. - asion. oeasion. He and his married bhildren took these orphans and aised them in their families as ne of their own children. H. J. aoleman, Jr., died in May, 1874, A eaving a wife and five children. I is widow is now *he wife of < ). R. Feaster. Dr. Preston Cole Colenan - nan Colenan married a Miss Secrest of 1 ancaster. He, was captain of i ompany C., 17 S. C. regiment, nd had his leg shot off -at the ' :nee at the second battle of Ma Maassas. - assas. Maassas. He and Dr. B. F. Cole-. oan were educated at the Citade bade .f_ Dr. F. [e was wounded and died a few i onths after at Winchester, Vs., ( here his body now lies. D. R. f oleman had his eyesight im- b aired by a blast during the con- .4 truection of the S. & U. railroad. J L. W., the~youngest son, went to , e front at the age of 17. liz 0 eth zaarried Micajah B. Picket. 1 arah married Beverly OMitchell; i oth living in Americus, Ga. s ohn Feaster's grand-daughter, d haney, married H. A. Coleman. - 'here were eight children by this t arriage; only three are now liv- c g. J. A. F. Coleman is now i ving at the old homestead, a N sn of high social qualities and r dustrious habits. He is better a own by the sobriquet of "Bees- n ax" David A. Coleman mar- I ed Sarah A. Youngue who sur- a ves him, he having died during d e late war. She has reared as C ble a family of boys as there is a Feasterville township. J. A. a .Coleman married a daughter t fSamuel H. Stephenson who~ 1 es in the hearts of his neigh- '] rs and friends and everybody c lows "Uncle Sam'' a1'd it will J t be left for the future gen- s ations to do so, but the present i e, calls him blessed. Henry ( .Coleman married Rebecca e ounge. He was wounded'three ( mes at the second battle of i [anassas and did not live long c ~ter, leaving an only daughter t w livmng with her mother in a innsboro, S. C. Robert C. Cole- ( ian, the youngest son of "Uncle r enry'," was drowned while ( thing at Church Flats in 1862. d 'he eldest daughter married Win. c ounge, son of Robert Younge. 1 'he second daughter married 2 mes Levy Hunter of Chester g mnty, but now of Powder Springs a obb County, Ga. Isabelle, the I iird daughter, ,.narried Thos. L. c anning, of Marietta,.Ga. The I urth daughter married A. J. t cConnell, better known as t Dick." She died a short while i fter her marriage. He was first x etenant of Bailey's Co., 17th g egiment, and was killed the day 1 the blow-up at Petersburg. a ohn Feaster's youngest daugh- c er, as has been mentioned be- I re, married R. Gregg Cameron. f he raised seven sons and four i aughters; James, the eldest emi- a rated to Florida to look after be interest of John N!. Feaster, those daughter he afterwards ] arrie Re died not long after, (

leaving a widow with one child John married Mrs. Hoiffman, ne Robinson. She did not live long and John died in Columbia 8 oi 10 years ago. J. Feaster Cameron was a mws of education and refinement, i nobleman of the day. He was colonel of an Arkansas regiment was twice shot and left for dead but he was spared to be a living witness to the destroying powei of ardent spirits. Here was one of the "ust of lawyers, a hero ol many battles that* fell a victim tc our nation's curse, atrong drink. The second -son, Dr. A w S. Cameron, married Susan T. Ar Arnqe, - nqe, Arnqe, ak daughter of Mrs. Wesley tflyeld, of Buckhead. H. died noon after the war, leaving a widow and one child. She having since died, her son is living with his grandmother, Mrs. Mayield. Rotert Cameron died during tL4 early part of the war. Alex, the onl urviving child, resides near Wate Oak. He married the soc soco - o soco .4. daughter -of Janes W. Yo e, by his Crosby-Estes wif. The eldest daughter. rie&Henry Younge, son of JohA L lounge, from whom Younges Youngesriletook - riletook Youngesriletook its name. The soond daughter married: Dr. hiisopher Simeston, o.good Sam d a Brt raote doctor. He spvedi9 Florida, but lived only ghart time. She returned to Soun* Qgrolina with ber two chil chilhan - han chilhan John and 'obert. John ~ine arriving at audood, re reaIred - aIred reaIred to florida. Robert is-at ha. old John i$Wbto. home homeand - and homeand is one of the m tsuc tsucplaters - platers tsucplaters in that- section. ngiiged John Sinlenton; a of Dr. Chris; he also to Florida.where he soon SThe fourth .id -youp at ter inarried CoL Le. 6. ee f North Qarolina. She was ne the pretti.st women of the l. a dIer husbaud both ngan infai4 so ,. wn~t it. rand..mother at the old am onlomestead. Out of this of eleven children we now aye ving the old mother, her on ex and five grand-children. Ldrw Feaster's second son, aco Feast'er, married a Kenne Kennelore! - lore! Kennelore! and died without issue aving a good solid estate to be ivided between brothers and isters. One of. Andrew Feaster's aughters married E. Woolay, rho removed to Edgefield- and ience to Cass, now Barton >unty, Ga., where he died, leav leavone - one leavone son, Col. A. Feaster Voole. Another daughter mar marled - led marled HudyMcShan. They had veral chilrn, all of whom re reoved - oved reoved to the West. The boys, erdinand and Andy. to Missis Missisppi - ppi Missisppi and Arkansas, One of the ughters, Judith, married laaac oleman. She died a few years ace in Union county this State, the home of one of her daugh daughrs, - rs, daughrs, three of whom have .marred that county; one to Wm. ucker, she is now a widow;. ne to Win. Jeter and another to hn Jeter. Isaac Coleman still rives. Another daughter of adrew Feaster's married Moses ockerell. There are only two idren now living, John Feaster ockerell and Margaret Stone, h married a son of the old Rev Revutionary - utionary Revutionary soldier before men menLoned. - Loned. menLoned. She is now 85 years of ge. Of the step-son Adam looper, all of his descendants smoved toMississippi. His son rorge, the crack rifle shot of his ay, married a Triplet of Chester unty. His children all now ye in Winster couty, Miss. Ldam Cooper's daughter, Mar Mararet, - aret, Mararet, married Capt. Wmn. E. Hill, brother of Simeon Hill, and ere the old election, it was aled Hill's Box, afterwards 'easterville, and it was then said, at as the Hill box goes, so goes i county, and it verified, to the isappoitment of many who had wn well elsewhere; but Hill's box ae them "Hell," as they ex exressed - ressed exressed it, and this was so often aid, that they gave it the name f Hell's Box. This same Simeon [ill was "one of the plain, old oldshioned, - shioned, oldshioned, honest men" of the ay, of whom nothing could be aid except in his praise. David R. Coleman, the Patri Patrirch - rch Patrirch of the Coleman family in 'airfield, was born in Halifax 3ouy N. C. May 19th, 1783,

THE TIN NOW wher" yOL Summer We can supply your v full stock of Serge Coat:., Ser Coats and Pants, Scicilian Coats, and Coats and Vests, 2 A few Crash goods at --Al1 Children's and Boys' Serge Boys' and Children's Trouser Remember our prices a D. V. Wa THE PEASTERS AND COLEMAN5. From Edrington's History. Andrew Feaster (the name was then spelt Phister, 1740,) emi emirated - rated emirated to this State from Bucks buri some where in Virginia. From him was descended the C esent family of Feasters of the aver Creek section of this county, better known as the Feasterville township. He had a cousin, John Feaster, who came 'at the same time and settled in Edgefield county. He was the great grand-father of Laurens Faster of the "Dark Corner" section. Andrew Feaster was twice married; by the first wife only one daughter, who married ^ Andrew Colvin of the Sandy River section of Chester county, niow known as the Halseliville .township, near where John Simp Simpson - son Simpson now lives. She moved with some of the children to Greene -county, Ala., and lived to be -quite an hundred years of age. His second wife was Margaret Fay Cooper, who had by a former inarriage two children, Adam and Eve Cooper, both of whom lived ~to be quite old. Eve married Jacob Stone, whose mother was Ruth Lyles, a member of the 'Chester branch of that family. Jacob Stone was a soldier in the Revolution and drew a pension as long as he lived. Andrew Feas Feaster's - ter's Feaster's children by the second mar marriage - riage marriage were John, who married Drucilla Mobley, daughter of Ed Ed,rard - ,rard Ed,rard Mobley and sister of John iobley, who died a few years -since. She died June, 1886. Johni's children were Jacob, bet better - ter better known as "Squire Jake," An Andrew, - drew, Andrew, Savilla, Susan, Mary, Chaney andt John M., the two last named are yet living. Savilla married Robert Gregg Cameron, and now lives near White Oak. John M. married Keziah Pickett. He is now living in Florida on Indian River. Jacob, son of John, married Isabelle Coleman, daugh daughcer - cer daughcer of David R. Coleman, than whom a better man never lived. Jacob Feaster lived and died near Buckhead. His children were Jacob k'., who married Elizabeth Stone. Moses C. Feaster is the -only living child of that marriage. Edith D. married Henry J. Lyles; ~they had four children, three of 'whom are now living. John C. mnarried Miss Sallie Lyles, yong yongest - est yongest daughter of the late Col. WVm. 8. Lyles, by his first marriage to M&iss Woodward. Susan E. mar married - ried married S. M. Simons of Lexington 'County, S. C. David IR. married Miss Victoria E. Rawls of Co Columbia, - lumbia, Columbia, S. C., by whom he had

a will need Clothing! ants in this line. We have a ge Coats and Vests, Flannel Coats and Vests, Drap d'Ete lpaca Coats and Vests. half price. 50, 50,Coats. -- Coats. 50,Coats. A full stock of Men's, re always the lowest. lker & Co. several children. His first wife died in January, 1877; and in December, 1878, married Mrs. Hattie E. Coleman, nee Porter, a daughter of Rev. C. M. Porter, of Ridgeway,, S. C. By her former I By he ariage e :Fet ur - They have one of the largest families in the ' county. Sixteen children and six V grand-children. There were two ( girls younger than D. R., Isabelle I and Mary N., both of whom died quite young. Andrew Feaster, John Feaster's t second son, married Mary Norris, b of Edgefield County, by whom he 6 had eleven children, 5 sons and 6 t daughters. The youngest son, J T. D. Feaster, is now living near C the old homestead. He is the ' only one of this family now living in this county. U The eldest son and daughter are 1 living in or near Columbia. The ' fourth son, Elbert H., was blind i from infancy, and was educated at k Boston, Mass. He was a remark- 1 able man; he knew every one by r their voice Once- having been V itroduced and conversing with t the veriest stranger, he would U ever after know him by his voice, 1] no matter where he met him. I Nathan A. Feaster,, second son c of Andrew, was twice married; I1 first to Maria Louisa Bawls, of 1] Columbia, by whom he had one k daughter, who married John G. fl Wolling, of Feasterville. His e second wife was a Miss Brown, of 0 Anderson county, a sister of Col. 2A Newton Brown, by whom he had 3 one daughter, who is now the wife t of a Mr. Trimble of the town of 3 Anderson. His third wife was a a Miss McClanahan of Greenville '3 County. There are ~two children 3 by the marriage now livig in ' Greenville, a son and daughter. F Jacob N., Andrew Feaster's third El son, was twice married, and is J now living in Florida. The eldest 3 daughter married Dr. T. J. Rawls, TJ of Columbia. The doctor is dead 3 and Mrs. Rawls -and her only c child, B. A. Bawls, are now living ( in Columbia. t The second daughter married I W. Williams of Anderson county and moved to Texas since the war and there died. Belle, the third daughter, married Wmn.8 Lonergan of Charlotte, N. C., by1 whom she had several children; only one is now living, the wife ofC G. W. Coleman. Julia, the fourth daughter, married Robert H. Cole-f man who died at Augusta, Ga, during the late war. Mrs. Cole Coleman - man Coleman now lives in Florida. Sallie, C the prettiest of all the girls, mar marred - red marred George Butler and died with without - out without issue. Narcissa M. Feaster 1 died a ew y asince unmarried. r