Fourth Generation.—His son, William [Feamster] (born October, 1797, married March 17, 1825, died February 27, 1854), married Martha (she was called Patsey) Alderson (born February 19, 1797, and died September 2, 1885), the daughter of Joseph Aiderson, legislator, sheriff, etc., who was the son of the Rev. John
Alderson. William Feamster was administrator for his father and executor for his father-in-law. In 1820, his father and stepmother deeded him 490 acres of land in the Meadows, in Greenbrier, as his portion of his father's estate. He lived on this until his father's death, when there was a settlement of the estate (his grandfather's estate) among all the heirs ; then he moved back to the old Feamster place on Muddy creek. Later he bought the Arbuckle place, just west of Lewisburg, removed to it, and lived there until his death.
His children were as follow:
(1 and 2) Twins, born September 18, 1826, died October 2 and 12.
(3) Mary Martha, born September 19, 1827, and died as a child.
(4) Thomas Lewis, born November 12, 1829 (see Fifth Generation).
(5) Sarah Elizabeth, born 1832, married Capt. Moorman B. White, Confederate States of America, and died November 15, 1898.(6) Joseph Alderson, born 1833, married Mary Huffnagle, December 13, 1865, descent through daughters only survive. Married
again, to Mary Stone, one daughter and one son, Thomas L. Feamster, and died July 7, 1917.
(7) Lieut. Samuel William Newman, Confederate States of America, born February 21, 1836.
(8) Martha Jane, born October 3, 1840, married May 30, 1865, to C. S. Anderson, of Salem, Va., a Confederate soldier, and she died February 2, 1909. The family now live near Morristown, Tenn.
(9) Sabina Creigh, born March 27, 1844, married September
12, 1865, to Capt. Samuel F. Tyree, Confederate States of America, and died April 26, 191 2. Both William and Patsy Feamster, his wife, are buried in the Lewisburg cemetery. He left a very large estate, as is shown by his will and appraisement. There were sixteen slaves, twelve horses, 135 cattle, three yoke of oxen, 112 sheep, fifty hogs, etc., etc., and land of 1,000 acres on Muddy creek, and also the farm just west of Lewisburg, which now comprises five or six goodsized farms.
