Amelia Sees

Amelia Sees

ID:	I753
Last:	Sees
First:	Amelia
Middle:
Birth:	ABT 1825 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ¹
Death:	ABT 1870 at New York, New York ²
Burial:
Sex:	F
Notes:	Amelia Sees was better known as Amelia Boozer, a northern sympathizer who lived in South Carolina during the Civil War and reportedly evacuated Columbia with the Union troops in 1865. Amelia Sees is included in this database to provide historical context for the photograph of her daughter, Mary Boozer, which was found in the Civil War era photo album of Amelia's niece, Maria Louisa "Lula" Georgiana Feaster of Fairfield Co., South Carolina. Amelia and Mary Boozer were also mentioned in the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut and Margaret Narcissa Feaster. Two novels focus on the exploits of Amelia and Mary Boozer: 1. Another Jezebel, a Yankee Spy in South Carolina. 1958. R. L. Bryan Co., Columbia, S.C. 219 pp. Author: Graydon, Nell S. 2. La Belle: a novel based on the life of the notorious southern belle, Marie Boozer. 1960. New York: Dell, 1960, c. 1959. Author: Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright. Amelia's full name is given in the research papers of Nell S. Graydon for her novel, as Amelia Sees Harned Burton Boozer Feaster. Her various marriages in South Carolina were reported by the periodicals of the day: - 12 Dec 1841 the Rev. Wm. C. Dana married Mr. Peter Burton of Charleston to Mrs. Amelia Harned of Philadelphia - 16 Sep 1847 the Rev. Mr. Talley married Mr. David Boozer of Newberry Village to Mrs. Amelia Burton of Columbia. Amelia's many marriages were the subject of a sharp commentary in the Diary of Mary Chestnut following the Boozer's departure with Union troops: "- Boozer went off with flying colors. She sat in state in Mrs. Singleton’s landau. And she has married a Philadelphia officer. -No doubt. And by this time she has married one from Boston - from New York - indiscriminately. Will she marry the Yankee army?" For more information on Amelia Sees: - Davis, Burke, J. Stone, C. Reidy. 1980. Sherman's March. Publ. Random House, ASIN: 0394507398, 335 pp., reprint Vintage Books, 1988 ISBN: 0394757637. - Martin, Samuel J. 1996. Kill-Cavalry: Sherman's Merchant of Terror - The Life of Union General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr. ISBN: 0838636659. 325 pp. Reprinted 2000. ISBN: 081170887X. 336 pp. - Boozer, Mary Elizabeth. 1970. The Boozer Family of South Carolina. R. L. Bryan Co., Columbia, S.C. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 77-141878. 360 pp. Reprinted 1984. [Supplement 1973 by Mary Elizabeth Boozer, White Rock, S.C. pp. 361-376]. Repository: Richland County Library, Columbia, SC; also, South Caroliniana Library, Columbia, SC. - Robert de Treville Lawrence - Confederate Veteran articles by Lawrence on "The Spirit of the South" and "Signal Corps in Defense of Charleston"; article on "Miss Mary Boozer." Located at: Kennesaw State University - Sturgis Library, Bentley Rare Book Room: Lawrence Collection, Books and Papers Donated to Kennesaw State Univ. - Online: Graydon, Nell S. - Papers, 1878; 1908; 1959. - 10 items. Item #3446. Library of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - Manuscripts Department - Southern Historical Collection. www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Graydon,Nell_S.html. - Online: Rootsweb.com database "Ancestors of Linda Mossmayer South Carolina to California" (lskm54), entries for Amelia Sees Burton, David Boozer. - Online: Monumental Battlefields website, article on L.D. Childs www.monumentalbattlefields.com/LD_childs_page10.htm -Online: Per a message to Rootsweb.com List SC-Genealogy-L of 28 Sep 2001 by Glenna Kinard <gkinard@sc.rr.com>: (Jacob J. Norris) Feaster is mentioned in a book by Elizabeth Boatwright Coker published in 1959 - - "La Belle". It is the story of Marie Boozer, a notorious woman of the mid to late 1800's..... (1) Marie was the dau. of Amelia Sees Harned Burton Boozer Feaster. Amelia came to SC from Philadelphia, was married twice, the 2nd husband (Peter Burton_ probably being the father of Marie (who was born ca 1846). (2) Amelia married (third) David Boozer of Newberry who adopted Marie. It is hinted that Amelia murdered Boozer." (3) Amelia and young Marie moved to Columbia where she met Jacob Feaster of Fairfield County.....
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Mother:	UNKNOWN
Father:	UNKNOWN

Marriage 1	UNKNOWN Harned b: UNKNOWN d: UNKNOWN
	Wedding: BEF 12 Dec 1840


Marriage 2	Peter Burton b: UNKNOWN d: UNKNOWN
	Wedding: 12 Dec 1840 Charleston, South Carolina ⁷

	Children:
	1 Mary Boozer b: ABT 1847 South Carolina

Marriage 3	David Boozer b: BEF 1800 d: UNKNOWN
	Wedding: 16 Sep 1847 South Carolina ⁸
	Note: The Rev. Talley who married David Boozer and Mrs. Amelia Butler came from a long line of ministers. See the Talley Family data online at: http://users.ev1.net/~siobhan1/talleybook.html.


Marriage 4	Jacob Jefferson Feaster b: 30 Sep 1822 d: BEF 1900
	Wedding: 14 Aug 1852 South Carolina ⁹
	Note: When the marriage of Jacob J. Norris Feaster and Mrs. Amelia Boozer ended, she and her daughter Mary Boozer by a previous marriage separated from Jacob and the other children.

	Children:
	1 Julia C. Feaster b: ABT 1854 South Carolina
	2 Jacob Norris Feaster b: ABT 1856 South Carolina
	3 Etheland Brooks Feaster b: 7 Mar 1857 Greenville, South Carolina

Sources:
1	Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Newberry Co., South Carolina Publication: M432_856 Page: p. 186-b Note: Birth year calculated from Amelia Boozer of Pennsylvania, age 25 in HN/FN 34.

2	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 Text: COPY OF THE FAMILY RECORD IN THE BIBLE OF ANDREW FEASTER AND HIS WIFE, MARY NORRIS Jacob Jefferson Norris Feaster, born September 30, 1822. Married Amelia Boozer, August 14, 1852. She died in N. Y. City, 1870. (2nd) Mrs. Twitchell.

3	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. 305 Text: COPY OF THE FAMILY RECORD IN THE BIBLE OF ANDREW FEASTER AND HIS WIFE, MARY NORRIS Jacob Jefferson Norris Feaster, born September 30, 1822. Married Amelia Boozer, August 14, 1852. She died in N. Y. City, 1870. (2nd) Mrs. Twitchell.

4	Title: Internet Note: Source: www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Graydon,Nell_S.html Library of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - Manuscripts Department - Southern Historical Collection. Item #3446. NELL S. GRAYDON PAPERS. Text: Graydon, Nell S. - Papers, 1878; 1908; 1959. - 10 items. Five items are typed transcriptions; orginals presumably in private hands in 1959. Correspondence, 1959, of Nell S. Graydon concerning the historical background of her novel, "Another Jezebel: A Yankee Spy in South Carolina" (1958), especially regarding Amelia Sees Harned Burton Boozer Feaster, model for the protaganist; and transcriptions of items relating to Feaster's daughter, Marie Boozer, who married Count de Pourtales-Gorgier. (NOTE: A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection. Contact staff at: (919)962-1345 (telephone); (919)962-4452 (FAX); mss@email.unc.edu.)

5	Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Newberry Co., South Carolina Publication: M432_856 Date: 19 Jul 1850 Page: p. 186-b Note: NOTE - - Data for birth and death of David Boozer are listed elsewhere as b. 9 Feb 1788 and d. 10 Feb 1850. The names, ages, and birthplaces of Amelia and the child seem to match those of Amelia Sees Harned Burton who married David Boozer, and her child Mary (Sarah Amelia) Boozer. Was this a different David Boozer? Text: HN/FN 34 Name Age Sex Occup Value Born David Boozer 55 M Farmer 15,000 South Carolina Amelia " 25 F Pennsylvania M.S.A. " 3 F South Carolina [Transcriber CMB]

6	Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Richland Co., South Carolina Publication: M653_1227 Date: 18 Jul 1860 Page: p. 28-a Note: Amelia Feaster, age 30 in HN438/FN448 with husband Jacob N. Feaster, her daughter Mary Boozer by a previous husband, and the couple's 3 children: Julia, Jacob, and "Cootie" (presumably Etheland) in HN438/FN448, Columbia, SC. Note: age of Marie Boozer agrees with 1850 census; age of Amelia is 5 years younger than expected based on 1850 census. Location: Family lived on Washington St. between Richardson and Sumter, about 3 blocks from the State capitol building, per the 1859 City Directory of Columbia, SC. Neighbors: Powell, Fisher, Backman, John H. Boatwright (Mayor of Columbia), Edgar, Baldwin, Hargrave, McCants; and DeSaussure, Rodgers, Friday, Gibbes (physician). Text: HN438/FN448 Name Age Sex Occup Value Born Jacob N. Feaster 37 M Merchant 4000-30,000 SC Amelia " 30 F Pennsylvania Mary Boozer 13 F at school SC Julia " 6 F at school SC Jacob N., Jr. 4 M SC Cootie " 2 F SC [Transcriber CMB]

7	Title: SCMAR - Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860. Author: Holcomb, Brent Howard. Publication: 1988. SCMAR (South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research), Columbia, South Carolina. Date: 21 Jan 1841 Page: p. 10 Text: [Columbia Newspapers: the South-Carolinian] [THE SOUTH-CAROLINIAN - p. 10] [Issue of January 21, 1841] Married in Charleston, on the 12th December, by the Rev. Wm. C. Dana, Mr. Peter Burton, to this Town, to Mrs. Amelia Harned, of Philadelphia.

8	Title: SCMAR - Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina, Newspapers, 1838-1860. Author: Holcomb, Brent Howard. Publication: 1988. SCMAR (South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research), Columbia, South Carolina. Date: 7 Oct 1847 Page: p. 177 Text: [Columbia Newspapers: the South-Carolinian] [COLUMBIA NEWSPAPERS: SOUTH-CAROLINA TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE - p. 177] [Issue of October 7, 1847] Married, in this place, on the 16th ult., by the Rev. Mr. Talley, Mr. David Boozer, of Newberry Village, to Mrs. Amelia Burton, of Columbia.

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. 305 Text: COPY OF THE FAMILY RECORD IN THE BIBLE OF ANDREW FEASTER AND HIS WIFE, MARY NORRIS... Jacob Jefferson Norris Feaster, born September 30, 1822. Married Amelia Boozer, August 14, 1852. She died in N. Y. City, 1870. (2nd) Mrs. Twitchell.