Maria Louisa Rawls
Additional Resources:| ID: | I5 |
| Last: | Rawls |
| First: | Maria |
| Middle: | Louisa |
| Birth: | 6 Sep 1828 at Columbia, South Carolina 1 |
| Death: | 13 Jul 1848 at Columbia, South Carolina 2 |
| Burial: | First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina 3 |
| Sex: | F |
| Sources: | 4 |
| Mother: | Anna Elizabeth Geiger b: 17 Oct 1810 d: 11 Aug 1852 |
| Father: | John Ivy Rawls b: 31 Mar 1800 d: 8 Jul 1869 |
| Marriage 1 | Nathan Andrew Feaster b: 8 Oct 1820 d: ABT Sep 1862 |
| Wedding: 25 Nov 1846 South Carolina 5 6 | |
| Children: | |
| 1 Maria Louisa Feaster b: 6 Sep 1847 Columbia, South Carolina | |
| Sources: | |
| 1 | Title: Tombstone Note: First child of this marriage. Predeceased her mother, father, and (at leat) 7 siblings |
| 2 | Title: Tombstone |
| 3 | Title: Tombstone Note: Marble crypt with broken cover and eroded inscription, readable with difficulty in 2001. She lies to right (south) of tombs of her aunt Mary S. and her grandparents Benjamin and Susannah Rawls who provided for her infant daughter. Location: 1324 Marion St, Columbia, SC 29201. Her husband remarried twice, died in Civil War. Her mother is buried in Harmon Geiger cemetery, Lexington Co. SC, and her father in block 256, Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia, SC Text: Sacred / to the memory of / Maria Louisa Feaster / Consort of / Nathan A. Feaster / and daughter of / John J. & Anna E. Rawls, / who departed this life / 13th July 1848 / aged 19 years 11 months and 7 days / leaving an infant Daughter 10 months / & 7 days old. / - - / Hush'd that sound comes again / Tis the welcome note of the angel train / Another spirit pure and bright / Hath joined them in that world of light // Had love the power to call again / Thy spirit to the world of pain / We would not, tho our hearts were riv'n / Deprive thee of one hour in heaven // Friends may mourn thy early doom / Affection rear a hallowed tomb / They feel their loss hath brought for thee / Bliss in a long eternity |
| 4 | Title: Photo of Tombstone Text: Available at http://sc-families.org |
| 5 | Title: Tombstone Note: Maria Louisa Rawls' crypt inscripton defines relationship to Nathan Feaster and infant daughter |
| 6 | 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: Nathan A. Feaster, second son of Andrew, was thrice married; first to Maria Louisa Rawls, of Columbia, by whom he had one daughter, who married John G. Wolling, of Feasterville. His second wife was a Miss Brown, of Anderson County, a sister of Col. Newton Brown, by whom he had one daughter, who is now the wife of a Mr. Tribble, of the town of Anderson. This third wife was a Miss McClanahan of Greenville County. There are two children by this marriage now living in Greenville, a son and a daughter |
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