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The Foster and associated families are said to descend from Anacher who was the founder of the Flemish dynasty of Baldwin, Counts of Flanders. Richard of Flanders, brother-in-law of William the Conquerer, accompanied the Normans to England in 1066. Richard was surnamed Forrester after the conquest and is considered to be the common ancestor of the Forsters and Fosters. In the early 1600s, Richard Foster (1619-1681) immigrated to Virginia. He was the father of at least three children. Descendants live in Virginia, Missouri, Texas and other parts of the United States.
Collected letters of a Confederate officer and his family detail daily life and loss on the battlefield Hope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no small measure. Drawing from dozens of public and privately owned letters, A. Gibert Kennedy recounts the story of his great-great-grandfather and his family in A South Carolina Upcountry Saga: The Civil War Letters of Barham Bobo Foster and His Family, 1860-1863. Barham Bobo Foster was a gentleman planter from the Piedmont who signed the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession and served as a lieutenant colonel in the Third South Carolina Volunteers alongside hi...
Lovell Harrison (1718-1850?) married Hannah Footman (1718-1793) about 1740 in Virginia. Their descendants lived in Oklahoma, Texas, and other areas of the U.S.
Thomas Samuell and his wife Ann Brooking were both born in Caroline County, Virginia in the 1740's.
A history of the community and people of Lawrence County, Arkansas.