| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Ninth Generation2274. James Edgeman FOUST1358 was born on 15 January 1833 in Sullivan Co., TN. He died on 18 January 1914 at the age of 81 in Thornton, Limestone Co., TX. He was buried in January 1914 in City Cemetery, Thornton, TX.527 James and Margaret lived in the Old Washington are, Rhea Co., TN for a few years and then moved to Marshfield, Webster Co., MO, where they engaged in real estate and mercantile businesses. He answered the call of his state and served with the Missouri Volunteer Cavalry, Co. E, 8th Regiment during the Civil War. After tornadoes destroyed his property and threatened the lives of his family he removed to Limestone Co., TX; first, settling on a farm south of Groesbeck, TX; a few years later he moved to Thornton, a few miles south, where he again became a merchant. He was appointed by President William Harrison on 26th of April, 1890 to serve as postmaster. He served in that capacity for several years and returned to a farm east of town where he lived until his death. James Edgeman FOUST and Margaret Elizabeth Julia THOMPSON were married about 1857 in Pikeville, Bledsoe Co., TN.1358 Pikesville Methodist Church. Margaret Elizabeth Julia THOMPSON, daughter of James Steele THOMPSON and Eliza Jane HARNES, was born on 13 March 1829 in Warren Co., TN.1358 She died on 11 September 1905 at the age of 76 in Thornton, Limestone Co., TX.1358 She was buried in September 1905 in City Cemetery, Thornton, TX. Buried in City Cemetery, Thornton, TX. Thornton is in Limestone Co., TX. James Edgeman FOUST and Margaret Elizabeth Julia THOMPSON had the following children:
James Edgeman FOUST and Susan Barton SMITH were married on 5 September 1908 in TX.1358 Susan Barton SMITH was born in Cleburne, Johnson Co., TX.1358 She was buried in Keene, Johnson Co., TX.1358 |