Rufus Harrison Foster
[son of John Donnell Foster, Sr. and Elizabeth H. "Betsey" Rogers]
born: 4 October 1814 - Wilson County, Tennessee
died: 3 July 1896 - Wilson County, Tennessee
obituary
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee
married: 18 November 1841 - Rutherford County, Tennessee
wife: Sarah Ann Spain
[daughter of ? Spain and ? ?]
born: 5 July 1817 - Rutherford County, Tennessee
died: 27 January 1876
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee

Children of Rufus Harrison Foster and Sarah Ann Spain Foster:

1. Frances Hardenia Foster
born: 27 September 1842
died: 21 January 1843

2. William Alexander Foster
born: 25 December 1843
died: 3 November 1862

3. Robert Verrell Foster
Cumberland Presbyterian Minister
Presbyterian U.S.A. Minister 1906-1914
born: 12 August 1845 - Wilson County, Tennessee
died: 28 January 1914 - Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee
married: 7 November 1882 -
wife: Belle Braden
[daughter of Dr. D. W. Braden and ? ?]
born: 1853
died: 1919
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee

Children of Robert Verrell Foster and Belle Braden Foster:

3.1.

3.2.

3.3.

4. John Stephen Foster
born: 9 March 1847 - Wilson County, Tennessee
died: 11 February 1933
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee
1st marriage:
1st wife: Mary M. "Maggie" Ralston
[daughter of ? Ralston and ? ?]
born: 8 September 1848
died: 18 March 1884
buried:

2nd marriage of John Stephen Foster:
2nd wife: Virginia "Jennie" Charlton
[daughter of ? Charlton and ? ?]
born: 4 October 1854
died: 2 January 1944
buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery - Wilson County, Tennessee

5. Mary Adalaide "Addie" Foster
born: 24 December 1848
husband: ? Ellington

6. Charlotte Elizabeth Foster
born: 16 January 1851
husband: ? Brantly

7. Son
born and died: June 23, 1853

8. Benjamin Smith Foster
born: 1 February 1855 - Wilson County, Tennessee
died: 9 September 1928 -
buried: Rose Hill Cemetery - Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas
Principal of Lebanon College for Young Ladies - Lebanon, Wilson County, Tennessee

Obituary of Rufus Harrison Foster
FOSTER.--Rufus H. Foster died July 3, 1896, at Lebanon, Tenn., being within a little of 82 years old. He was born in Wilson County, and professed religion in the old Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Lebanon in 1836, during the pastorate of Rev. George Donnell. For many years he was an active and efficent ruling elder in the church at Bethesda--long ago so famous as the place of great camp-meetings. His colleagues in the eldership long since preceded him to the heavenly home. The last fifteen or twenty years of his life his membership was in the church at Lebanon, where he lived. His influence in everything was always on the right side.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 23, 1896, page 126]