When Barbara Tumlinson Foster was born on 8 December 1918, in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States, her father, James Homer Tumlinson, was 37 and her mother, Mary Roselle Jones, was 34. She lived in Beat 2, Clay, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and Port Neches, Jefferson, Texas, United States in 2007. She died on 28 February 2007, in West Point, Clay, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Oak Bluff Cemetery, Berlin Heights, Erie, Ohio, United States.