Annette G. McClanahan

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ID: I362
Last: McClanahan
First: Annette
Middle: G.
Birth: ABT 1830 at Greenville Co., South Carolina 1
Death:
Burial:
Sex: F
Notes: Per Ederington's History of Edgefield Co: "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". Various documents show that this is Annette McClanahan, dau of Samuel G. McClanahan Esq. of Greenville Co., South Carolina.

Annette G. McClanahan was an accomplished young woman. She distinguished herself while attending the Limestone Springs Female High School in Spartanburg District, organized by the Revs. T. Curtis and W. Curtis. From the school Catalog:
"A Gold Medal for the best English Essay on "The Claims of a Young Lady to a Superior Education" was presented during the [1847] Commencement Exercises by Governor [David] Johnson to Miss Annette G. McClanahan, of Greenville, S.C." (Source: lib.limestone.edu/pdffiles/Chapter_4.pdf)

Full name and father of Annette G. McClanahan is given in her marriage notice to N.A. Feaster:
[December, 1856]
Married on the 18th inst., by the Rev. T. D. Gwinn, Mr. N. A. Feaster, and Miss A. G. McClanahan, eldest daughter of S. G. McClanahan, Esq., all of Greenville. (ibid.)

Annette appeared with N.A. Feaster in the 1860 US census in the tiny foothills community of Oil Camp on Oil Camp Creek below Caeser's Head. By 1860 the household included Annette and her husband who would die during the Civil War, their first child Samuel age 2; and two daughters by N.A. Feaster's previous marriages: 13-yr-old dau Maria "Lula" Feaster (by first wife Maria Louisa Rawls of Columbia, Richland Co., SC), and 5-yr-old Emma Feaster (by second wife Emma Brown of Anderson Co., SC).

Annette and N.A. Feaster had a second child, Hattie Feaster, whose photo appears in the Civil War photo album of her half-sister, Maria "Lula" Feaster.

Further information on link between McClanahan and Harrison lines is available from:
Harrison Genealogy Repository:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrisonrep/
Maintained by Becky Bass Bonner (bbbonner@cox.net)
Sources: 2 3 4
 
Mother: Harriet Harrison b: ABT 1807 d: UNKNOWN
Father: Samuel Girard McClanahan b: ABT 1803 d: AFT 1870
 
Marriage 1   Nathan Andrew Feaster b: 8 Oct 1820 d: ABT Sep 1862
Wedding: 18 Dec 1856 Greenville, South Carolina 5 6
 
Children:
1 Samuel Nathan Feaster b: Nov 1857 Greenville Co., South Carolina
2 Harriet Harrison Feaster b: 1861 Greenville Co., South Carolina
 
Sources:
1 Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Greenville Co., South Carolina
Publication: M653_1220
Page: p. 463-B
Note: Birth year from age 30 in HN1401/FN1274 of Nathan Andrew Feaster in1860 census in Oil Camp Township, Oil Camp Post Office, north of Greenville, SC.
 
2 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: "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".
 
3 Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Greenville Co., South Carolina
Publication: M432_853
Date: 10 Dec 1850
Page: p. 471-A (old 305)
Note: Annette McClanahan age 20 in HN/FN 2231 with her parents, S.G. and Harriet McClanahan.
Annette McClanahan's younger brother, James, was a soldier during the Civil War and became a doctor in Greenville and Oconee counties. Her younger sister, Kate, shared her home with Annette's son, Samuel Feaster, in the 1880 census.
Text: HN2231/FN2231
Name Age Sex Col Occup Born Value
S. G. McClanahan 47 M w Farmer SC $25,000
Harriet 43 F w SC
Annette 20 F w SC
Elizabeth 18 F w SC
Laura 16 F w SC
Harriett 14 F w SC
John 12 M w SC
James 10 M w SC
Kate 7 F w SC
 
4 Title: 1860 U.S. Census, Greenville Co., South Carolina
Publication: M653_1220
Date: 16 Sep 1860
Page: p. 463-B
Note:
Location: Oil Camp Township, Oil Camp Post Office, north of Greenville, SC. Oil Camp Creek runs below Caeser's Head in the picturesque mountains of northwestern South Carolina.
Annette McClanahan of Greenville Co., South Carolina, was the third wife of Nathan Andrew Feaster of Fairfield Co., SC. This is the last census containing Nathan Andrew Feaster, who died during the Civil War. Samuel Feaster, age 2, is the son of Nathan and Annette and was probably named after Annette's father Samuel G. McClanahan Esq. of Greenville Co., SC.
Also living with them are Nathan Feaster's children from his first and second wives, respectively: Maria "Lula" Feaster, dau by Maria Louisa Rawls; and Emma Feaster, dau by Emma Brown who was sister of Col. J. Newton Brown and of Milton Brown of Townville, Anderson Co., SC.
Text: HN1401/FN1274
Name Age Sex Color Occup Values Born
N. A. Feaster 39 M w Farmer 150/15,000 SC
Annette " 30 F w Housekeeper SC
Maria " 13 F w SC
Emma " 5 F w SC
Samuel " 2 M w SC
[Transcriber CMB]
 
5 Title: History of Edgefield County from the earliest settlements to 1897
Author: Chapman, John Abney, A.M.
Publication: Repr. 1980, The Reprint Co., Publ., Spartanburg, South Carolina 29304, from 1897 ed. publ. by E. H. Aull, Newberry, SC
Text: Biographical and anecdotical; with sketches of the Seminole War; Nullification; Secession; Reconstruction; churches and literature; with rolls of all the Companies from Edgefield in the War of Secession; War with Mexico and with the Seminole Indians.
Text: 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
 
6 Title: Internet
Note: Marriage and Death Notices From the Up-Country of South Carolina as taken from Greenville newspapers 1826 - 1863 compiled by Brent H. Holcomb, C. A. L. S.
Listed on Ancestry.com database: Greenville, South Carolina Marriage and Death Notices, 1826-63. URL: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&gsfn=&gsln=feaster&gskw=&submit.x=7&submit.y=7&prox=1&ti=0&db=greenvil&gss=angs&ct=2261
Text:
[December, 1856]
Married on the 18th inst., by the Rev. T. D. Gwinn, Mr. N. A. Feaster, and Miss A. G. McClanahan, eldest daughter of S. G. McClanahan, Esq., all of Greenville. (ibid.)
 


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