When Jeremiah Gibson Foster was born in May 1859, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Allen Foster, was 36 and his mother, Ferbie Davis, was 36. He married Matilda Jane Gossage on 20 February 1879, in Wayne, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 4, Wayne, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Pine Knot, McCreary, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died in 1934, in McCreary, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Marshes Siding, McCreary, Kentucky, United States.
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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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