When Sarah Foster was born in 1750, in Virginia, United States, her father, Thomas Foster, was 25 and her mother, Dorothy Gatewood, was 36. She married William Gatewood II in 1765, in Amherst, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1827, in Bedford, Trimble, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Bedford, Trimble, 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.
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