This was posted to the FOSTER List, but since it mentions 2 HILL sisters, I thought I would forward it to the HILL List. If anyone has any connections, please contact the original poster. Kim > -----Original Message----- > From: jim foster [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Foster's in SC > > > > >From the old Appendix > > P 11 James Foster b July 21, 1786 in Columbia Co Ga. m Mary > Eleanor Hill b 1791 in Abbeville Co S.C. on May 19,1807 In > Abbeville Co S.C.James and Mary had 13 children. Hardy Foster > brother of James Foster b May 29th, 1792 m Elizabeth Wyatt Hill > sister of Eleanor Hill and had children. All fore of them are > buried in Foster Settlement Tuscaloosa Co Al. > I will try and put this the way I see it in the old Appendix. > > The Fosters In Union Springs Al.Bullock Co. Before 1866 Was > Pike Co.Al. > Info Is From The Old Appendix On The Fosters Family Of Tuscaloosa > Co. Al.and Fosters Settlement at Foster Alabama. > > Thomas J.Foster, a son of "Hon. E.M.Foster, was a member of the > Confederate Congress from Alabama. "Hon. Wilbur F. Foster, of > Tuskegge, now speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives > and a canidate for Congress from the fifty District, is a man of > brilliantintellect ? and culture and will very probably here after > occupy a high place in the confidence of the people of the state.he > is my intimate personal friend. I knew his father will and have > heard him speak ofton of the Foster family, of whitch he was very > proud. He was in appearance striking like my own father and about > his age. He died about ten years ago.He cam to Alabama from north > Carolina. He was well acquainted with the Union Springs Fosters, > and Mrs. Wills told me about haw they are related to him. He > certainly traced back to Arthur Foster of South Hampton, and my > collection is they he was the son of my grandfather John Foster > brother if not was of the Halifax branch of the family. > "the Union Springs Fosters are the Sam of the Madison, Ga.Fosters > and are from the Halifax branch of the family. I have known three > of the brothers and one sister of them.the brothers were "old" > Arthur Foster, of Bibb, (as he was called, ) Dr. James M.foster,Dr > Sterling Foster,of Union Springs, and Mrs. Willis of Union > Springs,Hon, H.G.Foster and Albert G. Foster, of Madison Ga . > Mrs. Willis died very recently. I knew her well as a very popular > cultivated lady.Dr .James M.Foster died a few years ago in union > Spring. Jim Foster at [email protected] > > > ==== FOSTER Mailing List ==== > Can't remember the address to use to unsubscribe? Just click > on mailto:[email protected] and put the one > word unsubscribe in the message. If you wish to rejoin the > list at a later time click on it again and use the one word subscribe. > >