Born about in Knox, Tennessee, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of James Franklin Roach
and Diana (Dunsmore) Roach
Wife of
Robert Foust
— married
Aug 1891 in Knox, Tennessee, United States
Mother of
Grace Varilla (Foust) Lamb, Eva Stella (Foust) Aycock, James Foust, Mary Magdalene (Foust) Scarbrough, Walter V. Foust, Parlon D. Foust and Pern Russell Foust
Died
at about age 91
in White, Tennessee, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 5 Dec 2013
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Biography
Sources
- Find A Grave memorial 53185414 for Martha J Roach Foust
- "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD72-WTM : 24 December 2015), Russell Roach in household of Franklin Roach, District 4, Knox, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 152, sheet 248C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1265; FHL microfilm 1,255,265.
- "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZ43-VMX : 9 July 2016), Robert Foust and Martha J Roach, 15 Aug 1891; citing Knox, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 392, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 1,020,960.
- "Tennessee Death Records, 1914-1955," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSF1-B8D : 25 May 2014), Martha Roach in entry for Parlon D. Foust, 16 Jan 1947; citing Smiths Chaple Cemetery, Dean, Scott, Tennessee, cn 1320, State Library and Archives, Nashville; FHL microfilm 2,137,379.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Veronica Denton 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WX7678336 [compare]
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~1.56%
~3.12%
Kayla (Ewers) Danner :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch EC3026403 [compare], Ancestry member sierrajwl70
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Mona Mayberry :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Moromans
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~0.78%
Patricia Roche :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T287622 [compare], FTDNA kit #412330
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