Foster Collier

Foster Collier

• Foster Collier was born circa 1790 in Georgia.
• Foster Collier appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Monroe County, Georgia. Also in the household were children Lucinda (28), Elisha D. (25), and Benjamin F. (19), not yet recorded.
• Foster Collier died on 13 December 1851 in Washington County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 16 December 1851 in The Georgia Telegraph: Died. . . In Washington county, Texas, on the 13th ult., Collier Soster, in the 61st year of his age.
       He was formerly a citizen of Monroe county, Ga., and removed Texas during the fall of 1850. He was born in Columbia county, Ga. Mr. Foster was well known as an honest and upright man, an indulgent father, and pious christian. During his late illness he was patient and resigned to his sufferings, which were intensely grevious, owing to the nature of the disease under which he labored, (the cholera) He Died firm in the faith of christianity, relying on the promises and merits of a gracious Redeemer. He has left a disconsolate and unhappy family to mourn an irreparable loss, besides a multitude of relations and friends to deplore his untimely Death.

• Last Edited: 8 Nov 2011