Brief Life History of Benjamin Clark
When Benjamin Clark Foster was born on 30 October 1790, in Abbeville, South Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Foster, was 46 and his mother, Hannah Sinclair, was 36. He married Elizabeth Henderson in 1817. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Laurens, South Carolina, United States in 1820 and Alabama, United States in 1870. He died on 29 October 1871, in Clarke, Alabama, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Choctaw Corner Cemetery, Thomasville, Clarke, Alabama, United States.
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- Benjamin C Foster, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860"
- Benjamin C Foster, "Find A Grave Index"
- Benjaman Foster in entry for Caroline Shields, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1792 · Head Tax Law
In 1792, South Carolina passes a law called the "head tax" for all free African Americans from age 16-50. This tax was $2.00.
1819 · Alabama Becomes a State
Alabama became the twenty-second state admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819.
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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