Brief Life History of Absolom
When Absolom Foster was born on 5 September 1806, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, his father, David Robert Foster, was 25 and his mother, Frances W Massey, was 11803. He married Elizabeth Clark on 20 December 1828, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in District 1049, Whitfield, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Whitfield, Georgia, United States in 1870. He died on 15 March 1891, in Tunnel Hill, Whitfield, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Foster Cemetery, Tunnel Hill, Whitfield, Georgia, United States.
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- Absalom Foster, "United States Census, 1840"
- Legacy NFS Source: Absalom Foster - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Absalom Foster
- Absalom Foster, "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1811 · The Savannah Riots
A barroom brawl in Savannah on Tuesday, November 12, 1811, had international impact. An American seaman boasted of having joined the crew of a French vessel, likely named La Vengeance. Others became upset at the idea of the American joining a foreign nation and a brawl erupted. The county coroner asked for peace but was beaten with clubs. A second clash occurred the following day when French sailors attacked five American seaman. A day after the second attack, twenty French sailors attacked six Americans. Four of them escaped but two were beaten and stabbed. Jacob Taylor died on the scene and a rigger named Collins died the following day. By Friday, a full scale riot erupted when the French crewmen arrested on murder charges were released. Many were arrested and French ships La Vengeance and La Franchise were burned. In the end, the incident caused disruptions in French-American relations and affected shipping and trade.
1829 · Fort Sumter Constructed
In 1829 Fort Sumter is constructed in the Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Fort Sumter is most known for being the site of the first shots of the Civil War. It is barely ready when the American Civil War starts.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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