Malcom Matthew Foster (1847 - abt. 1926)

Born Jul 1847 in Collin County, Texas, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Ann (Knox) Foster — married 5 Apr 1866 (to about 1880) in Collin, Texas, United States

Descendants

Died about 22 Mar 1926 at about age 78 in Bowie County, Texas, USA

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Biography

Malcom, called Mack by family and friends, was born in 1847 in Collin County Tx, living in Collin County Tx in 1850 with his father, Maize Foster and mother, Sarah Unknown His father, Maize R. Foster, brought his family to Collin County Texas in 1841 when Texas was a Rebublic after the Texas Revolutionary War freed the Republic from Mexico. His father, Maize, surveyed and held a 640 acre grant that straddled what is now the boundary between Collin and Dallas counties, on land now occupied by Breckinridge Park in Richardson, Texas and stretching north into Plano to about 14th St. His name is listed as one of the original land grant holders in North Texas under the Republic of Texas.

In 1856 Mack's parents died most likely from yellow fever or tuberculosis, which was found throughout the area. After his parents died Malcom and two under age siblings lived with his aunt Nancy P. Stigall and her husband, Peter. Mack married Mary J. Knox in 1866 in Collin County, Texas. Sometime after Malcom's wife died, he lived with his younger brother, James M. Foster in or around Simms, Bowie County, Texas. He is buried in Sand Hill Cemetery, Bowie county, Texas.

Buried at Sand Hill Cemetery, Simms, Bowie County, Texas, USA

Sources

• Marriage Records, spouse Mary Jane Knox 1865 Collin County, Texas

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXLV-5S9 : 12 April 2016), M R Foster, Collin county, part of, Collin, Texas, United States; citing family 264, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Living with MR, Sarah, G, WP, Wm H, Mary, Jno J, Jos.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXFN-H3Y : 7 December 2017), Peter Stigall, 1860.