Marten was born in 1844. Marten Foster ... [1] At age 6 by the order of the court (Bledsoe county, Tennessee) on 8 January 1850 he was bound out on a Apprentice Bond to Mikel Gingery to learn the trade of house carpenter.
We have very little information on Marten, just references to him in old family letters and documents. His name may have been spelled Martin. His brother William named a son after him.
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