MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - A. S. Foster
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A.S. FOSTER, farmer, was born May 9, 1816, in Lincoln County.  While
growing he strongly desired an education, but the opportunities were not
afforded.  In 1836 he wedded Martha M. Cunningham, and nine children
blessed this union.  In 1883 his wife died, and the same year he
wedded Fannie L. J. Foster.  Our subject is a Democrat and a member of the
Primitive Baptist Church.  He has been magistrate and deputy sheriff, and
is an example of what a young man of industry and determination can do,
having started to keeping house with less than $100 worth
of property, he arose by hard work and close attention to business to one
of the heaviest tax payers of his community.  For about thirty two years he
has lived in this county, and is accounted a food farmer and an
enterprising citizen. He is a son of Frederick and Sallie (Broadaway)
Foster. The father was born in 1798 in Kentucky, and the mother in 1797 in
North Carolina.  They were married in 1_13, and located in Lincoln County,
but soon moved to Illinois, where they remained seven years.  They then
returned to Lincoln County, where they spent the remainder of their lives
tilling the soil. The father was a soldier in the Creek war, and a Democrat
in politics.  He did in 1838, and the mother followed in 1857.

Surnames: Broadaway, Cunningham, Foster,
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."