Genealogy: Josephine E Foster (1836-1928)

I am posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Subject: Josephine E Foster (1836-1928)

Relationship to me: Fourth cousin four times removed.

Family tree management software: GenoPro

Family tree reporting software: Gramps

Other software used: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG), GedSite (evaluating for now)

Updates: Added information on spouse and children as well as census records.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations as generated by GenoPro. The chart at the bottom is the same chart as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.

Some of the notes below refer to Josephine's ancestors.

Foster, Josephine^{1a 2a}

Birth Name	Foster, Josephine
Gender	female
Age at Death	unknown

Events

Event	Date	Place
Birth	about 1836	MS, US

Death

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Foster, Henry Grant	1810-01-25	1853-09-09
Mother	Mckay, Elizabeth	about 1815
Sister	Foster, Elizabeth E	1832
	Foster, Josephine	about 1836
Sister	Foster, Emily	about 1840
Sister	Foster, Mary E	about 1842
Brother	Foster, George	about 1844
Brother	Foster, Charles A	about 1847

Pedigree

Foster, Henry Grant
1. Mckay, Elizabeth
  1. Foster, Elizabeth E
  2. Foster, Josephine
  3. Foster, Emily
  4. Foster, Mary E
  5. Foster, George
  6. Foster, Charles A

Ancestors

Foster, Josephine
*about 1836
+...

Foster, Henry Grant
*1810-01-25
+1853-09-09

Foster, Robert F
*1784-10-00
+1843-03-22

Foster, John
*1750
+1810-04-22

Perkins, Nancy
*1765
+1822

Grant, Elizabeth
*1786-06-26
+1856-07-29

Mckay, Elizabeth
*about 1815
+...

Source References

Ancestry Family Trees
1. - Page: Ancestry Family Trees
WLFoster: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=iwasa43fan&id=I8785 William L Foster's Families & Related Families
1. - Source text:
    
    ID: I8785
    Name: Ambrose Foster 1 2 3
    Sex: M
    Birth: 1720 in Essex County, Virginia 2 3
    Will: 1802 Halifax Co Va
    Death: 07 AUG 1802 in Halifax County, Virginia
    Note: Will of AMBROSE FOSTER of Halifax Co, VA dated 28 Feb 1802 wife, Peggy - land where they live. Daughter Sally Foster and 2 grandsons FOSTER MOORE and John Moore to have land in PERSON CO., NC purchased of Thomas ROBERTSON; Grandaughter Peggy Moore. Daughter Mildred Hudson; son Ambrose Foster to have plantation after wife's death purchased from Ferguson. 5 daughters: Sally, Peggy, Betsy, Patsy Bran(Brown?), Fanny Foster; son John Foster. Exec: friends Thomas WATKINS and HERNDON HARRELSON. Wit: Thomas BRANDON Jr, John MITCHELL, Henry MITCHELL, Clement LIPSCOMB. Proved Halifax Co, VA July 1802 ___ Spotsylvania Co. Deeds May 10, 1791, JOHN SHIRLEY, JR. and Frances, his wife, of Spots Co. to Jonathon Clark of same county, 105 pounds currency, 120 acres in Spots. Co., conveyed to said JOHN SHIRLEY, SR. etc...wit: Thomas TURNER, Edmund Clark, James Wilson, JOHN SHIRLEY, SR., William ARNOLD. ref: deeds 11791-1794 page 444 Oct 27, 1788, James Crawford Sr. and JOHN SHERLEY, SR. of Spots. Co. , for the natural love and affection they have for John Crawford and Phebe, his wife, of same county, deed of gift, 70 acres in Spots. Co., and two slaves, etc. Wit: John WALLER, Thomas TURNER, William ARNOLD, ***Thomas HICKS***, JOHN SHIRLEY, JR. and James Crawford Jr. ref: Deed book M page 424 Dec 14, 1752, Benjamin Hubbard and Mary, his wife, of Spots. Co to Mary Hall, widow of Robert Hall, deceased, and Robert, John, Ann, Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary, children of said Robert Hall, deceased of Caroline Co. 15 pounds currency, 100 acres in Spots. Co. which was devised the said Benjamin by his father, Thomas Hubbard, deceased. Wit: William WALLER, John TEMPLE, AMBROSE Foster, JOHN SHIRLEYS, and Jonathon GIBSON. ref: Deed book E page 192 Jan 29, 1793, JAMES ARNOLD and Nancy, his wife, of spots. Co., to THOMAS SHIRLEY, of same county, 22 pounds 8 shillings currency, 108n acres, part of tract conveyed by John Arnold to the said James in Spots. Co etc... Wit: John C. WALLER, Clement Boroughes, James Wiglesworth Sr., James Sams and Phillip YOUNG.
    
    Father: John Foster b: 1660 in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia, United States
    Mother: Ruth Hoskins Haskins b: 1662 in England
    Marriage 1 Margaret "Peggy" Link b: ABT 1742 in Halifax, VA
    Married: 1765 in Orange, Virginia, United States
    Children
    Has No Children Ambrose Foster b: 1794
    Has No Children Frances Fanny Foster b: 1755
    Has No Children Peggy Foster
    Has No Children Patsy Foster
    Has No Children Sally Foster
    Has No Children Mildred Foster
    Has Children John Foster b: 1750 in Caswell, North Carolina, United States
    Sources:
    Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Originaldata: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Note:
    This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
    Page: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Edmund West, comp.
    Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records
    Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com OperationsInc, 2000.;;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Page: Birth year: 1720; Birth city: Essex Co; Birth state: VA.
    Text: Birth date: 1720
    Birth place: Essex Co, VA
    Author: Edmund West, comp.
    Title: Family Data Collection - Births
    Publication: Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,Inc., 2001.;;
    Repository:
    Name: Ancestry.com
    Text: Birth date: 1720
    Birth place: Essex, VA, USA
  - Citation:
    e-mail: wlfgenealogy@yahoo.com