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Horace B. Foster
Horace's farm was about 1 1/2 miles north of Elizabethtown. Owen Foster described the farm on which they lived as follows. "On this land are located the Foster Spring, and across the road and slightly north of the church, the house in which Horace Jr. was born and spent his childhood. The spring was also known as the Mose Woods Spring; the house was a big double log house". The reference to a double log house does not mean that it had "double" log walls. That type house was built as two log houses connected by a covered "breezeway". It was called a "dog trot" cabin, because the "breeze way" provided shelter for the person who was doing the family laundry, making apple butter, dyeing wool, rendering lard, weaving rugs, churning butter etc.
Frances Foster says that in 1935 the house was still standing and in fairly good shape. Horace's children were born and reared on that farm until he died. He was said to be the wealthiest man in Hardin County. His farm comprised what was known as the Miller and Ralph farms about 1915. He died on his farm, at the age of 35, 4 Dec 1846 and was buried in the old Foster Cemetery on the side of the hill just east of where the farmhouse stood. The cemetery is near the center of the land he entered, south of the Salt Spring, and about one half mile north of where the Bassett School used to stand.
The graves of Horace, Sr. and his wives are just above and adjoining a grave covered with arched rocks. Elizabeth Ann Hobbs Foster had related that the rock covered grave was that of a "hired hand" who willed his horse and few belongings to the family, and requested that he be buried in such a grave. In August 1935, Owen and Frances Foster visited the Salt Spring and the cemetery. Frances remembers that there were two identical markers, one for the grave of Phoebe, the other for the grave of Polly. A grave just to the left evidently was that of Horace, Sr. In 1993, Ray and Charlotte Vanzant, Dee Elliott and I attempted to locate the old cemetery but were unsuccessful. We did locate the old Bassett School just down the road from a new modern school and next door to the Reed family, but it was falling down and probably there won't be a trace of it now. Julia Adler file
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