Heard-Floyd-Coweta County GaArchives Obituaries.....Featherston, Capt., C. N. August 29, 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 August 19, 2006, 12:27 pm "The Herald & Advertiser" Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, September 3, 1909 DEATH OF CAPT. C.N. FEATHERSTON Rome Tribune-Herald, 31st ult. Rome has lost one of her most valuable citizens, for Capt. Charles N. Featherston died in Seattle, Washington on Sunday night [Aug 29] after an illness of several days of pneumonia. This sad news was received here Monday in telegrams from Mrs. M.R. Rixie, Mrs. Featherston's mother. The telegrams were very brief telling only of the Captain's death. The circumstances surrounding the death are particularly sad. In company with Mrs. Featherston, Mrs. Rixie and C.N. Featherston Jr., Capt. Featherston left Rome, Ga. six weeks ago, with bright anticipations of a Western journey, and a visit to the Alaska-Yukon Exposition. Illness seized upon him while in Seattle and death put an end to the career that had been such an honorable one. In some manner, Capt. Featherston caught a severe cold which developed into pneumonia. He had been ill for a number of days at his hotel in Seattle and for more than a week his physicians had realized that death was liable to come at any moment. Capt. Thompson Hiles who was in Seattle at the time, called to see him several time but found him always too ill to receive company and all visitors were kept from his room. In Capt. Featherston, the Grim Reaper garners a man who, though reserved and unassuming, left a strong impress upon the community, a man who had often been honored by his fellow citizens, and whose attainments merited a distinction that he was too modest to claim. Capt. Featherston was born at Franklin, Heard county, Ga., about 70 years ago. He came of distinguished parentage being the son of the late Judge L.H. Featherston who occupied the Superior Court bench in that circuit. His youth was spent in his native county and from there, after a preliminary education in the common schools, he went to Emory College. He graduated from Emory just before the war and was the first honor man of his class. Then he taught school for a short time but laid by his books to take up the sword when the call to arms came. The title of Captain was not an honorary one, but was due to the fact that he held that rank in the Seventh Georgia Cavalry. He went to the head of the company from Polk county and commanded it at the Battle of Manassas in 1861. After 12 months of service he was mustered out and Capt. Featherston entered the service again as an aide on the staff of one of the Generals and served in that capacity until the end of the war. When the conflict was over he returned to Georgia and again took up school teaching. For several years he presided over a school in Vann's Valley. During this time he was studying law and being naturally adapted for that profession by temperament and heredity, he made rapid progress. In the late '60's, he came into the office of Wright & Broyles at Rome and under their tutelage was admitted to the bar which he adorned for four decades. In a short time Col. Broyles left Rome and Featherston was admitted to partnership with the lamented Judge A.R. Wright and continued in that relation until about 1880 since which time he has practiced under his own name. In 1880 he was married to Miss Sallie Jones. She was the daughter of a prominent and wealthy Alabama family and is one of Rome's largest property holders. Their union was a most happy one and was blessed with one child, Charles N. Featherston Jr., now a youth of 17, who is a student at the Darlington school. With Capt. Featherston at the time of his death were his wife and son and his wife's mother Mrs. Rixie. It is expected that they will accompany the body home, but owing to the distance of Seattle, the funeral party will probably not reach here until late in the week. --- LOCAL News Capt. C.N. Featherston, whose death notice is printed elsewhere in The Herald and Advertiser, was a brother of Mrs. G.W. Peddy and Mr. J.E. Featherston of this city. He was one of the oldest and most prominent members of the Rome bar and a leading citizen of that town where his death is universally lamented. He was about 70 years of age and a veteran of the Civil War. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/heard/obits/f/feathers5142gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.8 Kb