Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - William Foster
WILLIAM FOSTER
William
Foster, retired, of Pharisburg, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio,
October 7, 1811. He is a son of John and Elizabeth (Parker) Foster, who
were the parents of three sons and one daughter. He was reared on a
farm and educated in Champaign County. He taught school for six months,
and is also a house joiner by occupation, but has devoted himself
principally to farming. He now owns about forty-six acres of land two
miles northwest of Pharisburg, on which he and his family have resided
forty-two years. He was married December 5, 1839, to Miss Elizabeth
Wood, one of a family of eight eons and four daughters, born to John
and Phebe (Bradford) Wood. She wag a native of Champaign County, where
she was born April 17, 1818, when that county was still in its youth.
By her marriage to our subject, she has had born to her two children.