When William B Foster was born on 21 September 1893, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Hiel Foster, was 32 and his mother, Harriet Samantha Sellers, was 27. He died on 6 July 1913, in McMinn, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Niota, McMinn, Tennessee, United States.
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1861–1947 Male
1866–1905 Female
1883–1963 Male
1885–1901 Female
1886–1943 Male
1888–1974 Female
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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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