Reuben J. Foster

ARNOLD, FOSTER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/1/2004 at 10:42:15

R. J. Foster, Ohio twp., farmer, Sec. 12; P.O. St. Charles; born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 14, 1828, and was raised there; he married Miss Barbara E. Arnold, a native of the same county, April 25, 1852; she was born August 22, 1830; came to Iowa in the fall of 1853, and to this county in the spring of 1855; has lived on his present farm since the fall of 1855; owns 240 acres of land, sixteen of which are timber; has a family of two daughters: Mary J., now Mrs. Albert B. Johnson, and Peree B.; was in the late war, in company F, Thirty-ninth Iowa; he enlisted in August, 1862 and was discharged February 17, 1863, on account of disability; was in the battle of Parker's Cross Roads.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 568