Mary Drucilla Feaster

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ID: I492
Last: Feaster
First: Mary
Middle: Drucilla
Birth: 28 Dec 1828 at Feasterville, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 1
Death: at La Grange, Brevard Co., Florida 2
Burial:
Sex: F
Sources: 3 4 5 6 7 8
 
Mother: Mary Drucilla Norris b: 5 Apr 1800 d: 23 Aug 1878
Father: Andrew Feaster b: 25 Aug 1793 d: 15 Apr 1869
 
Marriage 1   Thomas J. Rawls b: ABT 1816 d: 15 Sep 1875
Wedding: 18 May 1847 9
 
Children:
1 Benjamin Andrew Rawls b: Mar 1848 Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina
 
Sources:
1 Repository:
  --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
  --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211
  --Phone: (803) 734-8577
Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965
Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others
Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp
Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/
Page: p. 306
Note: From a transcription "Copy of the family record in the Bible of Andrew Feaster and his wife, Mary Norris"
Text: Mary Drusilla Feaster, born December 28, 1828, married Dr. Thomas Rawls, May 18, 1847.
 
2 Title: Lula Feaster Photo Album
Author: Wolling, Maria Louisa Georgiana Feaster (1847-1931)
Publication: Private family photo album with notations by various generations
Note: Album given to Lula by her old sweetheart Charlie C. Radcliffe.
Note: Per marginal notes around photos of "Aunt Drucie" Feaster Rawls and her sister Julia Feaster Coleman, aunts of Lula Feaster.
Text: Buried in Titusville, Fla, in plot with her sister Julia (on opposite page) - La Grange, Fla, but suburb of Titusville.
 
3 Title: Lula Feaster Photo Album
Author: Wolling, Maria Louisa Georgiana Feaster (1847-1931)
Publication: Private family photo album with notations by various generations
Note: Album given to Lula by her old sweetheart Charlie C. Radcliffe.
Note:
Have photo of Aunt Drucia Feaster Rawls, also of her husband Dr. Thomas Rawls.
Text: Great great Aunt Drucilla Feaster Rawls / wife of Dr. Thomas Rawls and sister of great-grandfather Nathan Andrew Feaster.
 
4 Repository:
  --Name: Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society Library
  --Address: 1203 North Main
P.O. Box 1121
Wichita, KS 67201-1121
internet http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/mhgs/scarolina.htm
  --Phone: (316) 264-3611
Title: Ederington's History of Fairfield County, South Carolina
Author: Ederington, William
Publication: Publ. May 3, 1901 - July 9, 1902 In "News&Herald", Winnsboro, SC; reprint Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Willo Publishing~1960.
Call Number: R-70-18
Note: Manuscript history published in the News & Herald, a newspaper of Winnsboro,
Fairfield County, South Carolina, in installments, on the dates as indicated
with each installment herein /, Mrs. B.H. Rosson, Jr., compiler ; Mrs. A.H.
Maybin, chapter genealogist ; Mrs. G.D. Foxworth, state genealogist ; original
copy owned by Mrs. B.H. Rosson ; and copied by W.T. Castles, Jr. Tuscaloosam
[sic], Ala.
Text: Andrew Feaster, John Feaster's second son, married Mary Norris of Edgefield County, by whom he had eleven children, 5 sons and 6 daughters...
The eldest daughter married Dr. T. J. Rawls of Columbia. The doctor is dead, and Mrs. Rawls and her only child, B. A. Rawls, are now living in Columbia.
 
5 Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Richland Co., South Carolina
Publication: M432_858
Date: 23 Oct 1850
Page: p. 34-a
Note:
Mary D. (Drucilla Feaster) Rawls, age 22, born in SC, living with her husband and child home of her father-in-law Benjamin Rawls HN572/FN589. Also in home: a sister-in-law, and a niece (by marriage) Lula Feaster. Drucilla's son "Bennie" was 2 and Lula was 3, so the children may have been playmates.
Text: HN572/FN589
Name Age Sex Born Occup Value
Benjamin Rawls 78 M Virginia Machinist $2100
Susannah " 79 F SC
Harriet C. " 43 F SC
Thomas J. " 34 M SC Physician
Mary D. " 22 F SC
Benjamin A. " 2 M SC
Maria L. Feaster 3 F SC
[Transcriber CMB]
 
6 Title: 1880 U.S. Census, Richland Co., South Carolina
Publication: T9_1238
Date: 1880
Page: p. 283-c
Note:
Mary D(rucilla) Rawls age 46, head of household, in Columbia, South Carolina.
Data from LDS database at Familysearch.org, shared by Nancy Jo Ross Smith, email 19 Jan 2003.
Text:
HN __
Name  Reln Mar Sex Race Age Born-Fa-Mo Occup
Mary D. Rawls  Self  Wd  F  w 46  SC-SC-SC   At Home
Benjamin A. Rawls  Son    Md   M w 32  SC-SC-SC   Dry Goods Merchant
Ada P. Rawls    Dau-L Md   F w  25  SC-SC-SC   Keeping House
Reginald Mcc Rawls G-Son Sgl  M w   6  SC-SC-SC
 
7 Title: Correspondence
Note: Drucilla Feaster Rawls was the owner of the first sewing machine in Columbia, per e-mail of 19 Jan 2003 from Nancy Jo Ross Smith, Pres. Feaster-Coleman-Mobley Association.
 
8 Title: 1900 U.S. Census, Richland Co., South Carolina [E.D. 88]
Publication: T623 1539
Date: 4 Jun 1900
Page: p. 6A
Note: Mary D. Rawls, age 71, widow, in home of her son Benjamin A. Rawls and his family at 1233 Taylor St. near Sumter St., Ward 3 of city of Columbia, E.D. 88.
Neighbors: Stack, Moore, McCoy. (image 11 of 43)
Text: Street#1233/HN100/FN108
Name Reln Col Sex Yr-mo Age Mar-yrs Born-Fa-Mo Occup
Benjamin A. Rawls Head w M Mar-1848 52 Md-27 SC-SC-SC Insurance-Agt
Owns home free-and-clear.
Ada P. Rawls Wife w F Jun 1844 55 Md-27 SC-SC-SC
Had 1 child; 1 child living.
Reginald N. Rawls Son w M July 1873 26 Single SC-SC-SC Physician
Mary D. Rawls Mother w F Dec 1828 71 Widow SC-SC-SC
[Transcriber CMB]
 
9 Repository:
  --Name: South Carolina Department of Archives and History
  --Address: 1430 Senate St., P.O. Box 11,669, Columbia, SC 29211
  --Phone: (803) 734-8577
Title: Robert Coleman Family: From Virginia to Texas 1652-1965
Author: Coleman, James P., with the assistance of many others
Publication: Privately published by James P. Coleman, Ackerman, Mississippi, 1965; mfg. by Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport TN, 451 pp
Note: Also available on internet through: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nansemondcolemans/
Page: p. 306
 


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