Brief Life History of William B
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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Family Time Line
Sources (2)
- William Foster in household of John Foster, "United States Census, 1900"
- William B. Foster, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1861–1947 Male
1866–1905 Female
Siblings (9)
1883–1963 Male
1885–1901 Female
1886–1943 Male
1888–1974 Female
1890–1951 Female
+4 More Children
World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
Age 3
1898 · War with the Spanish
Age 5
1900 · Gold for Cash!
Age 7
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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