The daughter of Alfred Gregory Patton and Martha Collier Foster, she is buried beside her husband Thomas Benton Foster in Confederate Cemetery, Alvin, Brazoria County, Texas
Sources
Tombstone
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3MP-8TS : accessed 14 July 2015), Mary Bowder Foster, 30 Aug 1940; citing certificate number 36156, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,118,555.
Name: Mary Bowder Foster
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 30 Aug 1940
Event Place: Alvin, Brazoria, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed
Birth Date: 08 May 1846
Birthplace: Hoganville, Georgia
Father's Name: Alfred Gregory Patton
Mother's Name: Martha Collier Foster
Certificate Number: 36156
GS Film number: 2118555
Digital Folder Number: 005144966
Image Number: 02362
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
~1.56%Rue Avant :
23andMe, GEDmatch DR1451408[compare], yourDNAportal RUE7be85168
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch DR1451408[compare], yourDNAportal RUE7be85168, Ancestry member rvent2000
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch DR1451408[compare], yourDNAportal RUE7be85168, FTDNA kit #N263083