When Daniel Foust Sr was born on 13 October 1784, in Orange, North Carolina, British Colonial America, his father, Johannes Phillip Foust Jr, was 44 and his mother, Sophia Anna Catherine Clapp, was 39. He married Nancy Barron on 4 May 1808, in Knox, Tennessee, United States. He died in 1856, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Foust Cemetery, Clinton, Anderson, Tennessee, United States.