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A. K. Foster appears as head of household on the 1840 census of Cass County, Georgia.[1]
He died before 06 Sep 1847, the date his sons William E. and Isaac as Administrators for the estate of Archillis Foster sold a negro girl slave named Mary Ann to Warren Akin at an auction in Cassville.[2][3]
Sources
↑ Ingmire, Frances T. 1840 Cass County, Georgia Census Index. Undated. Mountain Press. Signal Mountain, Tennessee. p5. Repository-Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Call # w975.8365 X22i.
↑ Belew, Imogene Basham and Jodeen Blazer Brown. Old Cass County, (Now Bartow) Georgia Deeds Abstract of: Deed Book C 1837-1838, Deed Book G 1845-1847, Deed Book H 1847-1848, Deed Book I 1849-1850. The R. J. Taylor Jr. Foundation. 1993. WH Wolfe Associates Historical Publications, Alpharetta, Georgia. p199. Repository-Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Call # 975.8365 R28b.
Clan Blackstock Helen Ring Womack. 1992. Henington Publishing Company, Wolf City, Texas, pp45-46.
Old Cass County (Now Bartow) Georgia Deeds (abstracts) compiled by Imogene Basham Belew & Jodeen Blazer Brown (see attached image)
US Federal Census - 1800 Spartanburg County, SC
US Federal Census - 1810 Spartanburg County, SC
"United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2Y-6RZ : accessed 13 December 2018), A K Foster, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 444, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 61; FHL microfilm 181,420.
US Federal Census - 1820 Hall County, GA
"United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHLX-KZW : accessed 13 December 2018), Achilles Foster, Capt Abbercrombies District, Hall, Georgia, United States; citing p. 144, NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 175,765.
US Federal Census - 1830 Hall County, GA
"United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPL-XYD : 11 August 2017), Akellis Foster, Hall, Georgia, United States; citing 109, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 18; FHL microfilm 7,038.
US Federal Census - 1840 Hall County, GA
Foster, B. G. The Foster Family of Flanders, England, and America. 1990.
Dennis, G. F. Forster/Foster and their Royal Descendants. 1990.
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