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1. Alexander Foster [1710 –1767] immigrated 1725 m. Polly [Mary?] Connor

2. James Foster [b. April 6, 1738-1814] m. Ann Barclay* m. Phoebe Baldwin Dodd
3. Mary Foster [1767-1819] m. John Struthers 4. female Struthers m. Crooks
4. Matilda Struthers m. Abraham Morrison Galbraith
4. Alexander Struthers [d. 1813]
4. Emma Struthers [d. 1826]
4. Drusilla Struthers [d. 1826]
4. John Struthers
4. Thomas Struthers m. Eddy
4. Ebeneezer Struthers [b. 1801] 3. James Barclay Foster [1768 – 1845] m. Mary Kincaid* m. Jane (Jean?) Rutherford** [d. 1835] m. Rachel M. 4. John Kincaid Foster* [1797-1886] m. Margaret Morrow 5. James Foster [b. 1830] m. Charlotte Benton 6. Sara Antoinette Foster 7. Estella McCracken m. Harry Boertjes 8.  Virgil H. Broertjes
8.  Vernon H. Broertjes
8. Warren A. Broertjes 6. John Benton Foster 7. Ralph D. Foster
7. Helen Foster
7. Allen Foster 8.  Allan James Foster, Jr.
8. Gilbert Allison Foster 7. Olive Foster 6. Henry Albert Foster
6. William Morgan Foster 7. James Moulton Foster 8. Pricilla Jeanne Foster
8. James Mouton Foster
8. Irving Alden Foster 7. Helen Bernice Foster m. Orren L. Walker 8. William Morse Walker
8. Carolyn Louise Walker 7. Everett Alden Foster 8. Bruce Leon Foster 6. James Alexander Foster 7. Charles Earle Foster 8. Chas. Jr. Foster
8. Mary Mae Foster 7. Charlotte Louise Foster 6. Richard Franklin Foster 7. Florence Isobel Foster m. Harold O. Shurr 6. Marilyn Shurr 7. Richard A. Foster
7. Howard Lincoln Foster 5. Sarah Morrow Foster [b. 1824] m. Reid Miller
5. Mary Kincaid Foster [b. 1826] m. Joseph H. Phillip 6. Joseph Phillips [died in infancy]
6. Mary Phillips [died in infancy] 5. Samantha Foster [b. 1828] m. James Johnston 6. Orrin Alexander Johnston 7. Lloyd McM. Johnston
7. James H. Johnston 8. Nitta Jo Johnston
8. Jennie Luella Johnston 7. Emily Samantha Johnston m. Robert J. Cook 8. Violet Luella Cook
8. Emma Jean Cook
8. Emily Louise Cook 7. Nelliebell Johnston m. Clyde Barr 8. Orrin Calvin Barr 5. John Calvin Foster [1832-1889] m. Caroline Fawcett 6. William James Foster 7. Virginia Catherine Foster m. Earl M. Ayres 8. Barbara Jean Ayres 7. Howard John Foster 6. Clyde McCune Foster 7. Ruth Elizabeth Foster 6. Nancy Maloney Foster m. Elmer Fife 7. Elizabeth Caroline Fife
7. Louis Patterson Fife
7. John Elmer Fife
7. Ralph Adams Fife 5. Joseph Miller Foster [b. 1835 - 1929] m. Catherine Jane Moore 6. Elsie Robinson Foster
6. William Kincaid Foster 7. William Kennedy Foster
7. Joseph Arnold Foster 6. Mary Edna Foster
6. Ernest Moore Foster 7. David Ewing Foster 5. Alexander Scott Foster [b. 1837] m. Margaret R. Ban? 6. Maysie Foster
6. Ara Foster 5. Ann Eliza Foster [b. 1840] m. Hugh McCume 6. John Foster McCume 7. Byron Kenneth McCume
7. Maurice McCume 8. John Foster McCume
8. Jo Ann McCume 6. Annie Eliza McCume 5. Henrietta Jane Foster [b. 1845] 4. Ann Barclay Foster* [1800 – 1852] m. Joseph Miller
4. James B. Foster* [b/d 1802]
4. James Rutherford Foster** [1807-1837]
4. Elisabeth Foster** [1809-1832]
4. Mary (Maria) Foster** [1811-1839]
4. Jean Foster** [1813-1816]
4. Alexander Struthers Foster** [1815-1842]
4. Sarah Foster** [1817-1838]
4. Lucinda Foster** [1820-1837]
4. Jinney Foster** [1823-1824]
4. Matilda Foster** [1825-1842] 3. Alexander Foster [d. 1845]
3.  Ann Boyd Foster [1774-1872] m. Abraham Sankey 4. Elizabeth Sankey m. William Lyon
4. Isabel Sankey m. Joe Coe
4. Sarah Sankey
4. Mary Sankey m. William Lee
4. Ann Barclay Sankey
4. William Sankey
4. Jane Sankey m. John C. McCullough 5. Mrs. Hannah C. McCullough Torbert [d. 1938] 6. E.L. Robert 4. James Foster Sankey
4. Rebecca Sankey m. Abner Brown
4. Sarah Ann Sankey m. Stephen B. Dodd 6. James Foster Dodd 3.  Sally Cummings Foster [1776-1857] 4. Hugh 3.  William Barclay Foster [1779 – 1855] m. Eliza Clayland Tomlinson 4. Ann Eliza Foster [1808-1808]
4. Charlotte Susanna Foster [1809-1829]
4. Ann Eliza Foster [1812-1891] m. Rev. Edward Y. Buchanan 5. James Buchanan [1834-1871] m. Florence Myers
5. Charlotte Foster Buchanan [1836-1850]
5. Ann Elizabeth Speer Buchanan [1838-1927]
5. Harriet Buchanan [1841-1912]
5. Edward Young Buchanan Jr. [1843 – 1927] 6. James Buchanan
6. Agnes Foster Buchanan [d. 1924] m. Dr. Daniel Crosby
6. Henrietta Jane Buchanan [d. 1894] 5. Henrietta Jane Buchanan [1844-1905]
5. Marie Lois Buchanan [1847-1920] m. Alexander Johnson Cassatt 6. Edward Buchanan Cassatt (1869-1922) m. Emily Louise Phillips* m. Eleanor Blackford Smith 7. Lois Buchanan Cassatt m. John Borland Thayer III 8. John Borland Thayer IV [b.1918]
8. Alexander Johnston Cassatt Thayer [Jan. 31, 1920 – Feb. 9, 1920]
8. Edward Cassatt Thayer [b. Jan. 22, 1921]
8. Lois Thayer [b. May 31, 1923]
8. Julie Thayer [b. April 3, 1928]
8. Pauline Thayer [b. Aug. 30, 1930] 6. Katherine Kelso Johnston Cassatt [1871-1905] m. Dr. James Pemberton Hutchinson
6. Robert Kelso Cassatt [b. 1873] m. Minnie Drexel Fell 7. Alexander Johnston Cassatt m. Cassandra Morris Steward 8. Robert Kelso Cassatt II 7. Anthony Drexel Cassatt m. Madeleine Cochrane Randolph 6. Eliza Foster Cassatt [1875-1931] m. W. Plunket Stewart 7. Cassatt Stewart [1903-1912]
7. Katherine Kelso Stewart [b. 1905] m. Vicomte Eric de Spoelberch
7. Doris Lurman Stewart [b. 1910] m. William P. Weart
7. Elsie Cassatt Stewart [b. 1915] 5. William Foster Buchanan [1849-1875]
5. Ridley Buchanan [b/d 1851]
5. Alice Conyngham Buchanan [1853-1931] m. Maskell Ewing [1847-1931] 6. Cornelia Lansdale Ewing [b. 1877] m. Robert E. Brooke 7. Robert Clymer Brooke [b. 1898] m. Virginia Lafayette Blair 8. Virginia Brooke [b. 1927]
8. Robert Clymer Brooke [b. 1929] 7. Maskell Ewing Brooke [b. 1903]
7. John Louis Barde Brooke [b. 1906]
7. Cornelia Lansdale Ewing Brooke [b. 1912] m. Charles Donnell Marshall, Jr. 8. Charles Noble Marshall [b. 1942] 6. Alice Buchanan Ewing [b. 1879]
6. Anne Foster Ewing [1880-1909]
6. Lois Buchanan Ewing [b/d 1884]
6. Maskell Ewing, Jr. [1885-1938]
6. Buchanan Ewing [1887-1930] m. Belinda Meeks 7. Helen Ewing [b.1916] m. Richard Rundle Pleasants 8. Belinda Pleasants [b. 1941] 7. Buchanan Ewing, Jr. [b. 1917] m. Gretchen Winifred Wunder 8. Buchanan Ewing III [b. 1942] 7. James Hunter Ewing [b. 1920]
7. Edward Buchanan Ewing [b. 1921] 4. William Barckly Foster [1814-1815]
4. William Barclay Foster, Jr. [1806-1860] m. Mary Wick m. Elizabeth Smith Burnett* 5. Charlotte Frances Foster [1843-1881]* m. Judge Henry Reed [1876]
5. William B. Foster III [1845-1872]*
5. Henry Morrison Foster [1852-1859]*
5. Fanny Foster [b/d 1853]* 4. Henry Baldwin Foster [1816-1870] m. Mary Burgess [d. 1908] 5. Mary Burgess Foster [1847-1880] m. Jonas Butterfield 6. Lois Butterfield
6. Henry Butterfield [d. 1936] m. Katherine Lyons
6. Dorothy Butterfield m. Carl Cordes 7. Carl Butterfield Cordes [b. 1934] 6. Henry Wadsworth Butterfield m. Virginia Henderson 7. Barbara Butterfield [b. 1935] 5. Eliza (Lidie) Clayland Foster [1854-1890] 4. Henrietta Angelica Foster [1818-1879] m. Thomas L. Wick [d. 1842]* m. Jesse Thornton ** 5. Mary Baldwin Wick [1837-] m. George Hampden Crosman 6. Henrietta Foster Crosman [b. 1862] m. Sedley Brown * m. Maurice Campbell [d. 1842]** 7. Crosman Sedley Brown [1887-1939] m. Fay Wheeler 8. October [Toby] Brown 7. Maurice Campbell, Jr. ** m. Evelyn Fuller Magree 6. Hannah (Anna) Blair Crosman [d.1910] m. George Fawcett m. Robert Sayles [d. 1913]*
6. John Cushing Keith Crosman
6. George Hampden Crosman
6. unnamed baby boy 7. Robert Wilson Sayles m. Murlen Holdton 8. Murlen Elizabeth Sayles [b. 1927]
8. Robert Knox Sayles [b. 1928]
8. Steven Buel  Sayles [b. 1929] 7. John Sayles m. Mildred Lee Carr
7. Anna (Nancy) Blair Sayles
7. Alexander Sayles 5. Matilda Eliza (Lidie) Wick [b. 1839-1866] m. Abner H. Tyler 6. Robert H. Tyler [b. 1861 or 1862]
6. Thomas W. Tyler [b. 1863 d. about 1871]
6. J. Walter Tyler [b/d 1864] 5. Thomas L. Wick, Jr. [d. 1855]
5. William Foster Thornton ** [1848 – 1909] m. Mary Knox Crosman [1852-1924] 6. George Crosman Thornton [1874-1944] m. Frances Claybaugh
6. William Foster Thornton, Jr. [b. 1876] m. Ruth Moser [1879-1933] 7. William Foster Thornton, III [b. 1909] m. Frances Polack 8. Jane Thornton [b. 1836] 7. Henry Moser Thornton [b. 1915] m. Virginia Whiteley 8. Henry Moser Thornton, Jr. & George Whitely Thornton (twins) [b. 1936]
8. William Foster Thornton IV [1938 – 1940]
8. Virginia Thornton [b. 1940] 6. Mary Crosman Thornton [1878 –1902] m. A.B. Davis m. Norman Dodge 7. Gordon Davis [1898-1918] 6. Alexander Foster Thornton [1882] m. Corinne Gough 7. Mary Elizabeth Blair Thornton [b. 1917] 5. Dunning F. Thornton [1855 – 1881] m. Kate E. Eastburn 6. Dunning Thornton
6. Edward Thornton 5. George Thornton [died as a child]
5. Henrietta (Nettie) Thornton [b. 1861 or 1862 – 1895] 4. Dunning McNair Foster [1821-1856]
4. Morrison Foster [1823-1904] m. Jessie Lightner * [d. 1882] m. Rebecca Shields Snowden **[1848-1929] 5. Evelyn Louise Foster [1860-1884] m. George Frederick Murray 6. Morrison Foster Murray [b. 1884] m. Ella Maud Lee 7. Ruth Evelyn Murray [b. 1921]
7. Dorothy Anne Murray [b. 1923] 5. Evelyn Olver Foster ** [b.1887] m. Alfred C. Morneweck
5. William Barclay Foster ** [1890] m. Ethel Knowlson Caster 6. William Barclay Foster [b. 1922] m. Helen Eleanor Price
6. Richard Knowlson Foster [b. 1926]
6. Sarah Elizabeth Foster [b. 1933] 4. Stephen Collins Foster [1826-1864] m.Jane Denny McDowell [1829-1903] 5. Marion Foster [1851-1935] m. Walter Welsh 6. Jessie Mary Welsh [b. 1875] m. Alexander Dallas Rose [d. 1838] 7. Dorothy Jane Rose [1899] m. Ralph L. Melady
7. Stephen Collins Foster Rose [b. 1901] m. Estelle Sheeran [b. 1911]
7. Dallas Clayland Rose [1912] m. Dorothy Jane Armstrong 6. Matthew Wiley Welsh [b. 1877]
6. Maybelle Foster Welsh [b. 1887-1933] m. Ernest A. Reed 7. Marshall Foster Reed [b. 1907] m. Margaret E. Smith 8. Marshall Foster Reed, Jr. [b. 1931]
8. Donald Smith Reed [b. 1933]
8. Peter Leslie Reed [b. 1938] 7. Virginia Clarissa Reed [b. 1911] m. Arthur B. Hull 8. Gail Foster Hull [b. 1934]
8. Arthur Benjamin Hull IV [b. 1837] 4. James Clayland Foster [1829-1830] 3. Elizabeth Foster m. Andrew Morrison
2. John Foster d. 1824 m. Martha Margaret Donnell
3.Elizabeth Foster b. 1777 m. ? McClain 4. Josiah Scott McClain 3. Alexander Foster m. Miss Harris
3. James Foster m. Rebecca Williamson
3. Robert Albert Foster [1769-1818] m. Nancy Donnell
3. Mary Foster m. John Doak
3.Margaret Foster m. William Donnell
3.Martha Foster m. Robert Doak
3. John D. Foster [Dec. 11, 1784 – Feb. 28, 1838] m. Elizabeth Rogers 4. Rufus Harrison Foster [1814-1896] m.Sarah Spain 5. William Alexander Foster [b. Dec. 25, 1843]
5. Robert Verrell Foster [b. Aug. 12, 1845] m. Belle Braden 6. Laura Braden Foster m. Fred Lewis 5. John Stephen Foster [b. March 9, 1847] m. Mary Ralston & Viginia Charleston
5. Mary Adelaide Foster [b. Dec. 24, 1848] m. Thomas Ellington
5. Charlotte Elizabeth Foster [b. Jan. 16, 1854] m. Rev. Erskine Brandtley
5. Infant son [b & d June 23, 1853]
5. Benjamin Smith Foster [Feb 1, 1855 – 1928] m. Annie Stark McDaniel 6. Benjamin Smith Foster
6. Annie Stark Foster 4. William M. Foster [b. March 1, 1817]
4. Nancy S. Foster [b. Aug. 5, 1819] m. Thomas Spain
4. Benjamin S. Foster [b. Dec. 3, 1821]
4. John D. Foster [b. Aug. 5, 1824]
4. Martha Rebecca Foster [b. Dec. 5, 1826] m. Henry Dawson
4. James A. Foster [b. Feb. 25, 1829]
4. Elizabeth C. Foster [b. July 29, 1832] m. ? Johns
4. Carter A. Foster [b. March 14, 1837]
4. Mary Foster m. William Davis 3. William Foster m. Elizabeth New
2. William B. Foster [1740-1780] m. Hannah Blair [d. 1810]
3. Alexander William Foster m. Unknown Singer
3. Samuel Blair Foster m. Miss Donnell 4. Frances Foster m. Mr. Garrett
4. Alexander William Foster m. Jane Heron
4. Henry Donnell Foster m. Miss Young 3. James Blair Foster m. Mary Grier
3. Mary Foster m. Daugherty
3. Margaret (Martha?) Foster m.Rodgers
3. Susan (Elizabeth?) Foster m. Clark
3. Hannah Foster m. Stephenson
3. William Foster
2. Elizabeth (Betsy) Foster m. Charles Kneely
2. Susan Foster m. Walker
2. Mary Foster m. Lucky
2. Jeney [Janet] Foster m. Fulton
2. Violet Foster m. Josiah Scott
3. Sarah Scott
3. James Scott
3. Jane Scott
3. Abraham Scott
3. Alexander Scott
3. Mary Scott
3. Elizabeth Scott
3. Josiah Scott
3. Margaret Scott m. Russell

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