Andrew Feaster

Andrew Feaster

ID:	I83
Last:	Feaster
First:	Andrew
Middle:
Birth:	ABT 1735 at Canton of Berne, Switzerland ¹
Death:	15 Jul 1821 at Fairfield County, South Carolina ²
Burial:	Feaster Grave Yard, Fairfield Co., South Carolina ³
Sex:	M
Event:	1767 - Changed spelling of name from Pfeister to Feaster Event ⁴
Event:	Move 1770/1780 Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania to South Carolina ⁵
Notes:	Andrew Feaster (1735-1821), Revolutionary War Veteran. He enlisted from Fairfield County, South Carolina, as a private, serving 1781-82. He was born in Berne, Switzerland; died in South Carolina. Detailed information and references are available on the Feaster website: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1499/FeasBio.html.

Mother:	UNKNOWN
Father:	Peter Pfeister b: ABT 1715 d: from 1770 to 1780

Marriage 1	Margaret Fry Cooper b: ABT 1728 d: 10 Oct 1823
	Wedding: AFT 1766 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ⁶ ⁷

	Children:
	1 John Feaster b: 1768 Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania

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. 303 ++ Text: Part II THE FEASTERS I will first copy what William Edrington wrote of the Feasters and Colemans in his history of Fairfield County. He got these facts, no doubt from members of each family, men who were his contemporaries He lived to be a very old man. "Andrew Feaster, the first settler of the name (the name was then spelled Pfister) in 1740 emigrated to this state (South Carolina) from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His father, Peter, died on the road and was buried somewhere in Virginia. From him was descended the present family of Feasters of the Beaver Creek section of this county, Better known as the Feasterville township. He had a cousin, John Feaster, who came at the same time and settled in Edgefield County. He was the great-grandfather of Laurens Feaster, of the "Dark Corner" section. Andrew Feaster was twice married (first wife's name not known), by the first wife only one daughter, Martha, who married William Colvin, of the Sandy River section of Chester County, now known as the Halsellville township, and near where John Simpson now lives. She moved with some of her children to Greene County, Alabama, and lived to be quite an old lady, over 100 years. Most of her children died before she did, several going further West, into Louisiana and Texas. Her son, Tom Colvin, married Savilla Mobley, and their son, "Long." Thomas Colvin's daughter, Mary, married Nehemiah Cobb. Their son, Tom, married Dora Steele; their daughter, Fannie, married Herbert Gosa, great-great-grandson of David Roe Coleman. Peter Pfeister came to America from the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, wife and son, Andrew, and perhaps other children, in 1754 on the ship "Brothers." They settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Andrew changed the spelling of the name to its present form about 1767. He married in Philadelphia a widow, Mrs. Peter Cooper (her maiden name was Margaret Fry). She had four children: Adam, Eve, Peter and Eliza. 'Tis not known just when they left Pennsylvania for the south, some tradition saying 1770, others nearer 1780. Peter Pfeister was then a very old man. There isn't a thing known about his wife, mother of Andrew.... [much more follows]

2	Title: Monument Note: Inscription on monument in Feaster Grave Yard, Fairfield Co., South Carolina, transcribed in book, "The Robert Coleman Family", p. 305

3	Title: Monument Note: Inscription on monument in Feaster Grave Yard, Fairfield Co., South Carolina, transcribed in book, "The Robert Coleman Family", p. 305; also inscriptions for wife Margaret Fry Cooper, sons Andrew Jr. and John, and John's wife Drusilla Mobley. Book lists burials of his other children Text: Andrew Feaster, Sr., Departed this life the 15th day of July 1821, in the 86th year of his age. A native of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland

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: Pfeister to Feaster Text: Andrew changed the spelling of the name to its present form about 1767.

5	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. 303 Note: First date mentioned in reference was 1740, but father's immigration to America was 1757 on ship "Brothers"

6	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. 303 Text: He married in Philadelphia a widow, Mrs. Peter Cooper (her maiden name was Margaret Fry). She had four children: Adam, Eve, Peter and Eliza.

7	Title: Internet Note: Death 1766, York Co. Pennsylvania indicated with Will of Peter Cooper, first husband of Margaret Fry, online at rootsweb.com "The Branch Ranch" database, contact Lois Branch , <Webevannin@aol.com>