1795-1860
ALBERT G. FOSTER was born in Guilford County , North Carolina in about 1795. He married Lucinda Major on Aug 12, 1828 in Wilson Co., TN. Lucinda was born in North Carolina in 1810. She was the daughter of John Major of Major, Wilson County, Missouri.
Marriage License of
Albert Foster & Lucinda Major
August 12, 1828
Wilson County , TN
Children of ALBERT FOSTER and LUCINDA MAJOR are:
1. ROBERT HENRY FOSTER, b. 03 Jun 1829, Wilson Co., TN; d. 20 Apr 1911, Vineland Community, Collin Co., TX.
2. JOHN EMSLEY FOSTER, b. 11 Sep 1831, Wilson Co., TN; d. 18 Jan 1900, Wise Co., TX.
3. WILLIAM PRESTON FOSTER, b. 19 May 1832, Wilson Co., TN; d. 04 Sep 1905, Wise Co., TX.
4. SAMUEL MAJOR FOSTER, b. 19 Jan 1834, Wilson Co., TN; d. 06 Feb 1900, Greenwood, Wise Co., TX.
5. MARTHA ANN EMILY FOSTER, b. 1836, Wilson Co., TN; d. 22 Jul 1916, Wilson Co., TN; m. RICHARD BRANTLEYJONES, 13 SEP 1855, Wilson Co., TN
After an eleven-year marriage, Lucinda filed for a divorce from Albert on February 16, 1839 but the judge dismissed the petition as evidenced by the following declaration found in the Wilson County, Tennessee court records, Civil Proceedings 1837-1839, Page 364
Lucinda Foster vs Albert Foster, Petition for Divorce
Be it remembered that this cause came on this day to be heard before the Honorable Samuel Anderson, Judge ...illegible... and by the court here fully understood and argument had thereon.
It is ordered and adjudged and decreed by the court that said petition is dismissed and that the petitioner pay the costs of this proceeding and that execution as at ...illegible... issue for the same.
Later that year, in October 1839, Albert filed for divorce from Lucinda
Albert Foster vs Lucinda Foster, Petition for Divorce
Be it remembered that the present term of this court, this cause coming on to be held before the Hon'l Andrew J. Marchbanks upon the petition and proof in the cause; in the presence of Counsel on both sides, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that a subpoena and copy of the petition in this case, has been executed in proper time, and that the said cause has been taken for confessed the defendant having failed to make any defense and regularly set down for hearing, exparte at the present term of this court.
And the court being satisfied from the proof in this cause that the petitioner Albert Foster was a citizen of the state of Tennessee at the time of filing his said petition for more than one year before filing of the same, and the court also being satisfied from the testimony that the defendant, the said Lucinda Foster, did willfully and maliciously desert and absent herself from her husband the said Albert Foster for a space of two whole years before the filing of said petition, without any reasonable cause, and that at the time of said desertion, that the parties were both inhabitants of this state, it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court, that the bonds of matrimony heretofore dissolved, it is also adjudged and decreed by the court, that all the right and title to a Negro woman named Sarah and her children which the said Lucinda brought with her, at the time or shortly after her intermarriage with the petitioner, be divested out of the said Albert Foster and invested in the said Lucinda Foster, for the only purpose and benefit of the said Lucinda, and that all other property which the said Lucinda brought with her at the time or after her said marriage remain with the said Lucinda for the only proper use of her the said Lucinda.
It is further decreed that the petitioner pay all the cost of this proceeding and that execution issue for the same.
After the divorce, Lucinda Foster returned to the home of her father, John A. Major Jr., who lived in Major, Wilson County, Tennessee. She took her five children with her. The oldest, age 10 and the youngest age three.
She remained in her father's house for seven years until Jan 8, 1846 when she married her second husband, William Bennett. She then resided with William and her five children. Lucinda and William had at least one child, Nancy, who was born in 1848 in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Marriage License of
Lucinda Foster & William Bennett
January 3, 1846
Wilson Co., TN
During the 1850 census Lucinda is listed as married to William Bennett and she was the owner of three female slaves, ages seven, thirteen and fourteen.