| 12. | Lucius Horace Featherston was born on 09 Jun 1814 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States of America (son of Charles Featherston and Lucy Pitts); died on 04 Jan 1886 in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, United States of America; was buried after 04 Jan 1886 in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, United States of America. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 59159
- Anecdote: Abt 1836
- Will: 17 Feb 1885, United States of America
Notes:
Anecdote:
Lucius Horace Featherston was born in Tennessee, but moved to Columbus, Georgia, as a young man, where he went into business with his brother Edward. He later moved to Franklin, in Heard County, Georgia, where he met and married Maria Ann Tompkins, daughter of Nicholas Tompkins and Catherine Griffin Leverett. He was admitted to the bar in Heard County, and represented that county in the Georgia Legislature. He served in the Seminole Indian war of 1836-1843 and was made Brigadier General of the State Militia. He also served as Judge of the Superior Court of his Circuit from 1863 to 1867. He furnished three sons, Charles Nicholas, Giles Winfield, and Lucius Horace, to the Confederate Army. His brother, Winfield Scott Featherston, was a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, who lived in Corinth, Mississippi, after the Civil War. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1877, following which Georgia was re-admitted to the Union. In December 1869, he moved to Newnan Ga., where he was one of the prominent members of the Newnan bar. He was noted to be a staunch Democrat., and a member of the Methodist church.
From his obituary in the Newnan Herald of 1886:
To the legal profession it would be no revelation to affirm that a more upright layer, a purer gentleman never lived. Judge Buchanan, R. S. Burgh, Judge J. S. Bigby, J. B. S. Davis, Samuel Freeman, W. A. Turner, H. A. Hall, W. Y. Atkinson, P. F. Smith, bore testimony that his record as a soldier was spotless, as a judge he was kind and just, as a lawyer he was able and honest, as a citizen his character was worthy of emulation.
The Last Will and Testament of Lucius H. Featherston was written 17 February 1885 and proved 6 January 1886 in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia Coweta County and State of Georgia
Although George Cuttino did not comment on it, L. H. Featherston’s marriage to Maria Tompkins brought him into the family of one of the richest men in the county. Nicholas Tompkins held 62 slaves and owned 8,000 acres of land valued at $50,000. His productions for 1860 included 90 bales of cotton and 3,000 bushels of corn. He had moved to Putnam Co., and then to Troup Co. about 1830 and settled on land now within the bounds of Heard Co. He served during the Seminole War, holding a commission as major. He also served as a soldier in the war with Mexico. He married first Catherine Griffin Leverett, daughter of Thomas Leverett, a Baptist minister, and Mary Griffin, born 25 July 1794, died 10 May 1836, near Franklin, Ga. 61
Nicholas Tompkins, our grandfather married the first time, Katharine Griffen Leverette, a daughter of Thomas Leverette, a Baptist minister.62 They had six children, five daughters and one son, viz: Giles S., Maria Ann, Mary Ellen, Sarah, Katharine, and Emily Eubanks. Nicholas Tompkins married and settled in Putnam Co., Ga., and after living there twenty years he moved to Heard Co. & died there.
56 Wilson, James G. and Fiske, John. Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography. (New York: Appleton & Co., 1887-1889.) 2:424. Cited in Featherston Findings 14:12, 1994. Also located at http://www.famousamericans.net/winfieldscottfeatherston/html. Accessed 28 Aug 2006.
57 Tusa, Bobs M. 8 Nov 2004. Located at http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/mo41.htm. Accessed 28 August 2006.
58 Cuttino, George P.
59 Jones, M. G., and Reynolds, L. Coweta County Chronicles for One Hundred Years. (Atlanta, Stein Printing Co., 1928.) p. 273.
60 Coweta Co., Ga., Will Book C:6.
61 Eller, Lynda S. Heard County, Georgia. A History of its People. (Hughley, Ala.: Genealogical Press, 1980,) p. 241.
62 Among the papers collected by George Cuttino were some describing the Tompkins family. The citation is from a letter from what appears to be a Mrs. Marks to the typist, whom I assume to be Zerlina Catherine Peddy, eldest daughter of L. H. Featherston and Maria Tompkins, and
grandmother to George Cuttino. Copies are in possession of my father in August 2006.
63 All information from Cuttino, George P. Ancestors and Descendants of Judge L. H. Featherston. Featherston Findings 9:9-11, 1992. Accessed 27 May 2003.
Will:
I, Lucius H. Featherston of the County and State aforesaid being of sound and disposing mind and memory and knowing that life is uncertain and that death is certain and being and being desirous of disposing of the property that I have been permitted by a kind providence to accumulate in this life do now make and publish this as my last will and Testament and by it do hereby revoke all others heretofore by me made.
Item 1st: My immortal Spirit I surrender to the all wise and merciful God who gave it, trusting and believing that my sins have been forgiven and hardened by the atonement made by his son our God and Savior Jesus Christ and I direct that my body be buried in a decent and Christian-like manner.
Item 2nd: I give and devise to my beloved wife for and during her natural life or widowhood the lands I at this time reside on known as my residence and composed of fifty and five eights of acres in the Southwest corner of lot No. Fifty Seven (57) and the same number of acres in the Southeast corner of lot No. Fifty Eight (58) both in the Fifth (5) District of said County and State and in making said settlement one hundred one and one fourth acres and located one mile North of the Courthouse in Newnan in said County and on the road leading to old town of Campbellton.
Item 3rd: I give and devise to my beloved wife for & during her natural life or widowhood, all of the personal property consisting of the household and kitchen furniture, stock, of all kinds and all the tools and implements that I own and possess that are at my death used on said farm.
Item 4th: I will and devise all of the property mentioned in the second and third items of this will (illegible) be used and enjoyed by my wife as a (illegible) for herself and my daughter Sallie M., who is at this time a femme sole or unmarried woman & that the rents, profits and issues of said lands & the use of said personal property be used and enjoyed by my said wife and my said daughter for a support and maintenance as long as they remain unmarried, but should my said daughter marry then in that event it is my will that my said wife be the sole owner of all of said real and personal property as long as she lives or remains unmarried.
Item 5th: Should my wife die or while in this life be so simple as to marry again, then it is my will that all of said property be sold by my Executors either at public or at private sale according to their discretion and the proceeds of said sales be equally divided among all my children share and share alike with the restrictions and limitations as are hereinafter set forth & detailed.
Item 6th: Should my said daughter Sallie marry before my wife dies or marries again, then it is my will that my wife give to Sallie household furniture equal in value to that we have given to my two other daughters when they married.
Item 7th: I will and direct that my Executors sell at public or private sale at their discretion all of the remainder of my property both real & personal and mixed and collection of the debts due me and from the proceeds of the sales and collection of the debts & money on hand at my death I direct that all my just debts be paid in full and the remainder be equally divided between my children share and share alike (with the restrictions and limitations as hereinafter set forth,) except that I give as special legacies, to wit, to my daughter Sallie four hundred ($400) Dollars, to my daughter Zerlina C. Peddy two hundred ($200) Dollars, to my daughter Mary Emma Wright Two hundred ($200) Dollars which special legacies are given to each one of my said daughters as that sum or amount more than an equal share of my estate.
Item 8th: The share that each of my sons would be entitled to out of my entire estate when distributed, I will and devise said share in Trust to their lawful children and hereby appoint each one of my sons the Trustee aforesaid.
Item 9th: Should any one or more of my sons die having lawful children to survive them or him, then in that event I will and devise that the share he received from my entire estate be held and used and enjoyed by him or them as trust property during his or their lifetime and I hereby give them or him the right and power to dispose of said Trust share or property by and to any one or more of my children or Heirs at law or Grandchildren as he or they will or desire or may think proper to give, and I appoint my executors to hold the lawful titles to said Trust property mentioned in this the 9th item of my will.
Item 10th: I appoint my sons Charles N. and William my executors to carry out and execute this my last will and Testament to carry out and execute this my last will and testament which has been written by myself and freely and voluntarily made and published and I do hereby sign execute publish and declare this the said (illegible) last will and Testament which I do in the presence of the attesting witnesses and they by my request subscribe it in my presence and in the presence of each other. Witnessed and executed, 17 Feby 1885.
Lucius H. Featherston
John W. Powell Geo. H. Carmical
B. H. Wright C. F. Hollis
W. A. Dent Daniel Swint
Georgia, Coweta County
Ordinary Office, Jany 8, 1886.
Before the undersigned, the Ordinary of said County in person came B. H. Wright and David Swint who being sworn depose and say that we, to wit, the 17th deceased, requested John W. Powell, W. A. Dent, Geo. H. Carmical, C. F. Hollis, and deponents to witness the execution by him, the said L. H. Featherston, of the writing hereto attached as his last will; that he the said Featherston then and in the presence of the said named witnesses signed, declared and published said paper and writing as his said will, that the said witnesses thereupon at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other severally inscribed their names to said paper as such witnesses and their several signatures and that of the Testator thereto are genuine. The deponents further say that the said L. H. Featherston at the time and in the execution of said paper was of sound mind and executed the same freely & voluntarily.
Sworn to & Subscribed before me in the day first aforesaid, W. H. Persons,
Ordinary.
B . H. Wright, Daniel Swint
Recorded Feb. 16, 1886 W. H. Persons, Ordinary
Lucius married Maria Ann Tompkins on 27 Dec 1836 in Heard County, Georgia, United States of America. Maria was born on 05 Jan 1819 in Heard County, Georgia, United States of America; died on 17 Jun 1898 in Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, United States of America; was buried after 17 Jun 1898 in Oak Hill Cemetery, Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, United States of America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1916 - 1964 (48 years)