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FEATHERSTON, EDWARD HARDIWAY

Surnames: FEATHERSTON, MARSHALL, THOMPSON, WARREN, RAINES, NICHOLS

Edward Hardiway Featherston. M.D., b. November 4, 1813 in Tennessee, d. April 23, 1885 at Mooreville and buried in Mooreville Cemetery in Falls County, Texas-was a son of Henry F. and Nancy (Marshall) Featherston. Dr. Featherston married first to Julia Ann Thompson, b. 1816 Kentucky, d. prior to 1870.

They were the parents of a son:

Edward John Featherston, b. 1836 in Arkansas, who married Catherine Warren, who died in Missouri ca 1864, who came to Falls County, Texas with his father, about 1870.

Dr. Featherston had lived in Missouri and Arkansas before emigrating to the Mooreville area of Falls County, Texas, after the death of his first wife, Julia Ann. In 1871, he was appointed Postmaster of the Carolina Post Office near Durango. He married second to Mrs. Sarah (Raines) Nichols, b. ca 1830 in North Carolina. They had no children.

Dr. Featherston was an early doctor in west Falls County, and his descendants have been prominent in the history of Chilton, Texas, where some continue to reside.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing this bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 148, column 1.

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