THE FOSTER TREE (Note: The symbol (&) is to be read “who married.”) William and Geo. Foster were brothers. Geo. married Polly Walker. To George and Polly were born William who married Mary Justice; Tom who married Ann Combs; Mary who married B. Paine; and Sarah who married T. Justice. To William and Mary were born Fen who married Artie Lee; George married Ida Williams; Ed married Ora Williams; Chas. married Cordia Williams; Robert married Anna Singleton; Jim married Rose Endergee; Laura married E. Thurman; and Emma married T. Adair. To Robert and Anna were born Walter, Reva, Wallace, Orin, and Harold. To Chas. and Cordia were born Clyde who married Lucille Wethington; Bill who married Odella Emerson; Short who married Ollie Burgin; and Ernest. To Ed and Ora were born John who married Josephine Watkins; Adell who married Alton McAnelly. To George and Ida were born Mary who married Bee Lee; Albert who married Grace Overstreet. To Tom and Ann Combes were born George Washington, David, Willie, Louie, Lucy, Viola, Stella, Cora, Mary Jo, and Ada. Of this group, Louie married Ruth Phillips, Lucy married Bill Clements; Viola married Geo. Brown; Stella married Ezra Peck; Cora married Fred Sandusky; Mary Jo married Ebert Brown. Another wing of the Foster Tree begins with the father of Jas. Burdett Foster, probably a descendant of Bill, brother to George above. Jas. B. married first, Belle McAninch and later Cordelia Godby. To him were born Clayton who married Minnie Wesley (children: Clyde, Merdes, Beatrice, Ralph, Paul); Segal who married Bertha Vaught (children: Buel, Bennie, and Vernie); Florence who married Albert Rigney; Fred who married Eunie Shirts; Flora who married Dennie Moore; Fitch who married Marie Wesley, and Fisk who married Dortha Gundy.