James Wesley Foster (1878 - 1927)

Born 8 Feb 1878 in Lillie Dale, near Byrdstown, Pickett, Tennessee

Ancestors

Husband of Perilda Victoria (Amonette) Foster — married 18 Jun 1896 in Idaho Falls, Idaho

Died 17 Sep 1927 at age 49 in James, Upshur, Texas

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Biography

James Wesley Foster moved to Upshur County Texas in 1900. He settled in Ashland. He was a mail carrier at one time. He lived in a few different towns in Upshur county, Texas.

Ivy Heath and her daughter Edith Taylor were present when he died in 1927. Edith was a young girl at the time and remembers her mother telling of them helping take care of him before he died.

Sources

• WWI Draft Reg Card.

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZFM-7S6 : accessed 10 June 2016), James Wesley Foster, 1917-1918; citing Upshur County, Texas, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,983,676.

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSCR-D7Z : accessed 10 June 2016), James W Foster, Civil Districts 3-4, Pickett, Tennessee, United States; citing sheet 108A, family 77, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,592.

"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDW3-TJT : accessed 10 June 2016), Jas W Foster in household of Thomas Foster, District 13, Overton, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 94, sheet 373A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1274; FHL microfilm 1,255,274.