When Daniel Foust was born on 7 March 1798, in Maryland, United States, his father, Balthazar Faust, was 40 and his mother, Eva Fishel, was 32. He married Maria Lowisa Rohrbach about 1826, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 11 January 1848, in Ohio, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Woodbury, Carroll, Ohio, United States.