Margaret Narcissa Feaster

Margaret Narcissa Feaster

ID:	I744
Last:	Feaster
First:	Margaret
Middle:	Narcissa
Birth:	15 Sep 1839 at Feasterville, Fairfield Co., South Carolina ¹ ²
Death:	1879 at Fairfield Co., South Carolina ³
Burial:	Blair, Fairfield Co., South Carolina ⁴
Sex:	F
Notes:	Margaret Narcissa Feaster 1839-1879 "Narcissa Feaster, the youngest of the eleven children born to Andrew Feaster III and his wife MaryDeSaussure Norris Feaster. Andrew and Mary married in Edgefield, Mary's home. They lived in Feasterville, a few miles from John and Drusilla Feaster's home. The house was one of the nicest in its day, and a portion of it was still standing in the [nineteen] fifties. "Narcie's diary reveals the fact that she was a typical southern lady talented in music, sewing, cooking, and other fine arts of house work. She taught school, did many nice things for the soldiers, and was quite helpful to her family and others in the neighborhood. "The war was hard on the family - - some of General Sherman's men rode their horses through the ground floor of the house where the kitchen was located. Nathan, a brother, was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland. After the war when financial conditions were so trying, the family moved to LaGrange, Florida. They were pioneers in that area and did much to build it up. "Narcissa got sick and came back to Feasterville to spend her last days. She lived with her brother Trez. She was buried in an old family cemetery near Blair where the Jacob Feaster family are buried." Source: The Diary of Margaret Narcissa Feaster, 1860-1865, p. 3, privately published. Repository: Private collection of Nancy Jo Ross Smith. History of early Titusville, Florida recalls "a log house which stood in what is now called LaGrange Cemetery. In 1869 Narcissa Feaster taught an integrated school of 17 pupils in this log house where the people of the community also worshiped." Source: www.dixiecrossroads.org/history.html
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Mother:	Mary Drucilla Norris b: 5 Apr 1800 d: 23 Aug 1878
Father:	Andrew Feaster b: 25 Aug 1793 d: 15 Apr 1869

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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/

2	Repository: --Name: Nancy Jo Ross Smith, personal collection Title: Diary of Margaret Narcissa Feaster 1860-1865 Author: High, Kathryn Scott, and Kathleen Coleman, eds. Publication: Privately published. 75pp. Note: Notes identify persons mentioned in Diary. Page: p. 26 Note: This record confirms the birth date of Narcissa Feaster, daughter of Andrew Feaster and Mary Norris, and sister of Nathan Andrew Feaster. Text: September 15, 1861. Today twenty-two years ago, I first saw the light...

3	Repository: --Name: Nancy Jo Ross Smith, personal collection Title: Diary of Margaret Narcissa Feaster 1860-1865 Author: High, Kathryn Scott, and Kathleen Coleman, eds. Publication: Privately published. 75pp. Note: Notes identify persons mentioned in Diary. Page: p. 3 Text: ... Narcissa got sick and came back to Feasterville to spend her last days. She lived with her brother Trez.

4	Repository: --Name: Nancy Jo Ross Smith, personal collection Title: Diary of Margaret Narcissa Feaster 1860-1865 Author: High, Kathryn Scott, and Kathleen Coleman, eds. Publication: Privately published. 75pp. Note: Notes identify persons mentioned in Diary. Page: p. 3 Text: Narcissa ... was buried in an old family cemetery near Blair where the Jacob Feaster family are buried.

5	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: Narcissa M. Feaster died a few years since, unmarried.

6	Repository: --Name: Nancy Jo Ross Smith, personal collection Title: Diary of Margaret Narcissa Feaster 1860-1865 Author: High, Kathryn Scott, and Kathleen Coleman, eds. Publication: Privately published. 75pp. Note: Notes identify persons mentioned in Diary. Page: p. 3 Text: Margaret Narcissa Feaster, 1839-1879. Narcissa Feaster, the youngest of the eleven children born to Andrew Feaster III and his wife Mary DeSaussure Norris Feaster. Andrew and Mary married in Edgefield, Mary's home. They lived in Feasterville, a few miles from John and Drusilla Feaster's home. The house was one of the nicest in its day, and a portion of it was still standing in the [nineteen] fifties. Narcie's diary reveals the fact that she was a typical southern lady talented in music, sewing, cooking, and other fine arts of house work. She taught school, did many nice things for the soldiers, and was quite helpful to her family and others in the neighborhood. The war was hard on the family - - some of General Sherman's men rode their horses through the ground floor of the house where the kitchen was located. Nathan, a brother, was killed at the Battle of Sharpsburg, Maryland. After the war when financial conditions were so trying, the family moved to LaGrange, Florida. They were pioneers in that area and did much to build it up. Narcissa got sick and came back to Feasterville to spend her last days. She lived with her brother Trez. She was buried in an old family cemetery near Blair where the Jacob Feaster family are buried.