Trezevant DeGraffenried Feaster

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ID: I746
Last: Feaster
First: Trezevant
Middle: DeGraffenried
Birth: 23 Sep 1826 at Feasterville, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 1
Death: 7 Sep 1897 at Feasterville, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 2
Burial: Feaster Cemetery, Feasterville, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 3
Sex: M
Notes: Have photo inscribed "Trez Feaster" in Lula Feaster photo album. He was brother of Nathan Andrew Feaster and father of Florence Feaster, of whom Maria Louisa "Lula" Georgiana Feaster was fond.
Sources: 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   Martha D. McConnell b: ABT 1835 d: 20 Jan 1855
Wedding: 11 Dec 1849 South Carolina 9
 
 
Marriage 2   Julia Collins b: UNKNOWN d: Feb 1858
Wedding: 19 Feb 1854 Alston, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 10
 
 
Marriage 3   Mary Cubbison b: ABT 1838 d: BEF 1880
Wedding: 23 Oct 1858 Alston, Fairfield Co., South Carolina 11
 
Children:
1 Florence Grace Feaster b: 18 Mar 1864 Columbia, Richland Co., South Carolina
 
Sources:
1 Title: Monument
Note: Birth date on 4-sided monument to Feaster Family; transcribed by Ray Beam on http://www.rootsweb.com/~scchest2/sccbeam.htm#FEASTER
 
2 Title: Monument
Note: Death date on 4-sided monument to Feaster Family; transcribed by Ray Beam on http://www.rootsweb.com/~scchest2/sccbeam.htm#FEASTER
Text: 3rd side:
To memory of Trezvant DeGraffenreid Feaster, son of Andrew and Mary Feaster,
born Feasterville, SC, 23 Sep 1826, died Feasterville SC 7 Sep 1897.
To Memory of Florence Grace Feaster, daughter of Trezvant D. and Mary C. Feaster,
born in Columbia SC, 18 Mar 1864 died Daytona Beach Florida, 18 Nov 1929.
 
3 Title: Monument
Note: Graves of T.D. Feaster and daughter Florence Feaster lie by monument to their families, transcribed by Ray Beam on http://www.rootsweb.com/~scchest2/sccbeam.htm#FEASTER
Feaster Family Cemetery is respectfully maintained by Coleman-Feaster-Mobley Association.
 
4 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/
Note: Trez Feaster was pictured, and his daughter Florence was mentioned, in photo album of Maria Louisa "Lula" G. Feaster.
Text: Trezevant Dc Graffenried Feaster, born September 23, 1826, married
(1st) Martha D. McConnell, December 11 , 1849. She and baby died January 20, 1855, 20 years of age.
(2nd) Julia Collins, who died February, 1858.
Two children: Trez Collins and Mary Josephine, died young.
(3rd) Mary Cubbison.
3 children of third marriage, Florence Grace, born March 18, 1864, Frank Cubbison, and child who died aged 10.
 
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: The youngest son [of Andrew Feaster and Mary Norris], T.D. Feaster, is now living near the old homestead. He is the only one of this family now living in this county.
 
6 Title: City Directory for Columbia, South Carolina - 1859
Publication: Internet: http://www.distantcousin.com/Directories/SC/Columbia/1859/
Note:
In 1859, Jacob J.N. Feaster and his youngest brother, Trezevant DeGraffenreid Feaster of Fairfield Co., SC were listed as partners in the grocery business at 194 Richardson Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina.
Note: additional website: http://yeoldedirectoryshoppe.com/1859ColuSC.html.
Text:
Feaster, Jacob N. - grocer (J. N. & T. D. Feaster) 194 Richardson - House Washington between Richardson and Sumter
Feaster, Trexevant D. - grocer (J. N. & T. D. Feaster) 194 Richardson - House Lady between Lincoln and Gadsden
 
7 Title: 1870 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: M593-1496
Note: Online version with index available: ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/sc/fairfield/1870.
Transcribed by Ray Beam and proofread by Jo Beam for the USGenWeb Census Project, http://www.us-census.org/. Copyright 2002 by Ray Beam.
Date: 1 Jul 1870
Page: p. 15-a,b
Note:
Trez Feaster, age 45, head of HN 215, with land and $4000, living with second wife Mary, daughter, and niece Louisa age 22 (probably Maria Louisa Georgiana Feaster) in Twp. 1.
Neighbors: Green, Morgan, Williams, Lyles // Shiver, Alex'r Coleman, Washington.
Text:
HN/FN 215
Name Age Sex Col Born Occup Real-Val Pers-Val
Trez D. Feaster 45 M w SC Farmer 5,000 4,000
Mary " 32 F w SC Keeping house
Florence " 6 F w SC
Louisa D. " 22 F w SC At home _ 2,000
 
8 Title: 1880 U.S. Census, Fairfield Co., South Carolina
Publication: Roll T9-1229
Date: 12 Jun 1880
Page: p. 282-b
Note:
Treasvan Feaster, male age 52, white, widowed, Grocer, in Twp. 13, ED#79. Neighbors are Hamp, Kelly, Hodge, Yongue // Hopkins, Mayfield, Carter, Cameron.
Most of his siblings had left Fairfield County, by this census. His daughter Florence age 16 was living in Columbia with her maternal grandmother Margaret Cubberson (correct sp. Cubbison) age 70.
ED#79 was in western Fairfield co., bounded on the west by Broad River, east by Little River, and west side traversed by S&N railroad. (see image 26 of 61 on ancestry.com).
 
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/
Text: Trezevant Dc Graffenried Feaster, born September 23, 1826, married
(1st) Martha D. McConnell, December 11 , 1849. She and baby died January 20, 1855, 20 years of age...
 
10 Repository:
  --Name: South Caroliniana Library - Univ. So. Carolina
  --Address: University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina 29208
  --Phone: (803) 777-3132
Title: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR
Publication: Brent H. Holcomb, ed., P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, S.C., 29221
Call Number: 929.205 So8s
Note: p. 122 in Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860. Columbia. Publ SCMAR, 1988. (online at ancestry.com)
Text: Columbia Newspapers: The South-Carolinian - Issue of March 21, 1854 [Duke]
Married, at Alston, South Carolina, on the 19th ultimo, Mr. T. D. Feaster, of Fairfield District, and Miss Julia F. Collins, of Philadelphia, Penn.
 
11 Title: Forty Seven Years in the Universalist Ministry
Author: Clayton, Rev. Daniel B.
Publication: 1889. Columbia, South Carolina
Note: Portions kindly shared by Nancy Jo Ross Smith in e-mails, January 2003.
Page: pp. 210-212
Note: Transcription shared by Nancy Jo Ross Smith, 16 Mar 2003.

Text: A Sensible Wedding.
/
During this visit, the writer celebrated on October 23, [1858] what he may, he thinks, properly designate a unique wedding. At Alston a friend of his, Mr. T. D. Feaster, intimated to him, as he went on up to Spartanburg, that he might possibly want him to perform a marriage ceremony for him as he returned. Mr. Feaster had already been married more than once, and was at that time boarding with the mother of his last wife, who was a widow, with one grown-up daughter and another about ten years of age. The residence was within a very few steps of the railroad track. Passengers going down from Spartanburg had to wait an hour or two for a train down from Greenville, on which to reach Columbia. On the arrival of the writer, Mr. Feaster invited him to his boarding house. He had not intimated, nor had the preacher any idea, who the bride was to be, in case a marriage should occur. On reaching the house introductions were passed, and Mr. Feaster and his friend sated.
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No one was about, besides the two gentleman, but the mother and her two daughters, the elder of whom sat at her work-table sewing, the younger being engaged in the culinary department, which was in a side room. Conversation was engaged in, and continued for an hour or so, without any allusion to a wedding, when Mr. Feaster inquired of the preacher: "What is the time of day?" On being told, he remarked: "It will soon be train time" and then turning to the young lady at the work-table he said, "Mary, if we are going to get married, I guess we had better attend to it. Are you ready?" "Yes," replied she, and together they faced the minister, who by that time had taken his stand. The younger sister and her mother being called, stepped in from the cooking department, and, in much less time than it takes to record this description of the scene, the couple were united in the bonds of wedlock: whereupon the bride resumed the seat from which she had so recently arisen, took her work from the table, and resumed where she left off, the younger sister returned to her work, and the preacher, after waiting a little while longer till the train arrived, boarded it and went on his journey, with a five-dollar-bill in his pocket that he had not carried there, feeling that he had officiated at about as sensible a wedding as he had ever attended.
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In February 1859, D. B. Clayton went to SW Georgia to begin procuring subscriptions of stock for the proposed [Universalist] High School....When the excitement [of 1860] arose, people became so intensely interested in the great Presidential struggle of that year that it was useless to tro to interest them in High School enterprises, and so the writer suspended his operations in that direction until the poritical storm should pass over, when they were to be resumed, .....But the favorable time never arrived, and the enterprise had to be abandoned.
 


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