Person:Fannie Lucas (2)

Widow Fannie married (2) widower Dr. John S. Featherston. In 1861 Featherston joined his father's regiment at age 16 as a private and was a captain at age 18. He was severely wounded near the end of the war. He graduated from Medical School at the University of Louisville, KY in 1869 and returned home to marry Emma Dismukes (first cousin of Fannie Eckford) but Emma died a few months after their marriage. Featherston married Fannie on 1 Feb 1877; they had no children but he must have been a good stepfather to little James Eckford who named his first-born son John Featherston Eckford.

Her tombstone inscription is Fannie Wife of Dr. F. S. Featherston Daughter W.B. & E.P. Lucas Born Sept 7, 1845 Died March 9, 1899 [book says 1891] A loving and affectionate wife, mother, and daughter. a zealous christian, a safe counselor, a friend to be trusted. She was a willing worker in every good cause.

The Noxubee Squadron of the First Mississippi Cavalry, C. S. A., 1861-1865 by J. G. Deupree (full text at http://www.archive.org/stream/centpublications02missuoft/centpublications02missuoft_djvu.txt) Lieutenants S. B. Day, Alec McCaskill, and J. G. Deupree lost a game of chess to "three beautiful and amiable and expert Chess amateurs, Misses Duck Foote, daughter of our first captain, Judge H. W. Foote, Pattie Lyle, afterwards famous as Mrs. Pattie [Patti] Lyle Collins of the Dead Letter Office in Washington, and Fannie Lucas, afterwards Mrs. Featherstone of Brooksville," at the home of Judge Foote in December 1864/January 1865.

For more about Patti, see http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/resources/6a2c_deadletters.html and http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2281&dat=18990422&id=j3goAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BQYGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2488,5059359

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Tombstone Inscriptions of Noxubee County, Mississippi.

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2. ↑ Mayes, Edward. Genealogy of the family of Longstreet with its related families: of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley, Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore, Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton, Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, 1989?)
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3. ↑ Tombstone Inscriptions of Noxubee County, Mississippi
   says 1891.

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4. ↑ Mayes, Edward. Genealogy of the family of Longstreet with its related families: of Van Liewen, Lanen Van Pelt, Van Laer, Verplanck, Wooley, Potter, Tucker, Fritz-Randalph, De Langton, Blossom, Dennis, Moore, Seabrook, Grover, Lawrence, Stilwell, Van Dyck, Coward, Throckmorton, Stout, Van Printz, Briton, Parke, Elmsley, Hawkins, and others. (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, 1989?)
   D-25 says March 9, 1899.

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5.   Gillis, Abstract of Goodspeed's Mississippi
   pp 720-721.

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6.   J. G. Deupree. The Noxubee Squadron of the First Mississippi Cavalry, C.S.A.1861-1865 (via Google Books) p 88.

   "The Noxubee Squadron of Pinson's regiment were furloughed for twenty days. It goes without saying, we had the time of our lives. All the delights of home were experienced. I cannot describe them as they deserve to be portrayed, and shall not undertake to do so. But I hazard naught when I claim that Lieutenant S. B. Day, Alec McCaskill, and J. G. Deupree were at least somewhat more fortunate than the others. We were challenged one afternoon by three beautiful and amiable and expert Chess amateurs, Misses Duck Foote, daughter of our first Captain, Judge H. W. Foote, Pattie Lyle, afterwards famous as Mrs. Pattie Lyle Collins of the Dead Letter Office in Washington, and Fannie Lucas, afterwards Mrs. Featherstone of Brooksville, to play a consultation game of Chess that evening at the hospitable home of Judge Foote. In the exuberance of joy, we accepted, knowing full well the great pleasure in store for us. When we arrived, we found all preparations had been made. Two tables and sets of Chess-men had been arranged, one in each of the double parlors. Around one table sat the three queens of grace and beauty while at the other the cavalrymen took their places. Judge Foote, himself a good player also, was chosen referee by unanimous vote; for though we knew his innate gallantry would incline him to give the benefit of any doubt to the ladies, we felt sure his rare judicial temperament would make him a just arbiter of any disputed point that might arise in the progress of the game. By drawing, the ladies won the Whites and the initial move. They moved Pawn to King 4. We replied the same. Shortly after we had passed the mid-game, the cavalrymen by skillful maneuvering outwitted the opposing team and were preparing to give the coup de grace. Each side had a passed Pawn on the seventh rank. It was the Black's turn to play. After some consultation, the cavalrymen decided they would advance the passed Pawn to the eighth rank, claim a Knight, and thus at the same time check the white King and menace the white Queen. But, foreseeing this impending disaster, the ladies executed a novel strategy to prevent it. By the tintinnabulation of a tiny bell, they summoned a maid-servant bearing a waiter, which contained seven foaming glasses of egg-nog, better far, from a soldier's view-point, than the nectar of Olympian Jupiter. The ladies sipped gently, while the soldiers drained their glasses. While there is no positive proof that these last glasses were extra-strong, it is certain that an instantaneous thrill sped along the nerves of the cavalrymen, obfuscated their reasoning faculties, and kindled their imaginations. Caring naught for hazard or peril, they shoved the passed Pawn, and, forgetting their decision to claim a Knight, they called for a Queen, which did not check, as the Knight would have done. This was fatal. The ladies then quietly pushed forward their passed Pawn and very properly claimed a Queen, which checked our King and after a few moves effected a mate. Thus ended the game and an evening of delight. How sad it is now to reflect that I am the only survivor of that most felicitous evening's entertainment!" _TMPLT:
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7. ↑ Tombstone says died in 1899; book says 1891.