Foster family.

Sterling J. Foster was born on 1822 Dec. 16 to Arthur and Hannah Johnson Foster in Greene Co., Ga. He was graduated from Oglethorpe University, and in 1844, from Transylvania University. He then practiced medicine in Ga., and in 1850 married Caroline Virginia Heard. In 1852 they moved to Union Springs, Bullock Co., Ala., and Foster engaged in merchandising, real estate, and developing the railroad in Ala. He helped bring the Montgomery & Eufaula RR through Union Springs, and was a considerable stockholder in the Mobile & Girard RR. He and his wife had ten children, four of whom survived until 1899: Robert M., Sterling J., Hugh, and Virginia May, who married Cyrus F. Johnson. Foster died in Union Springs on 1899 Mar. 12.

Caroline Virginia Heard was born in 1833 to Abraham A. and Harriett Magruder Heard, in Madison, Ga. She married Sterling J. Foster on 1850 Feb. 26, and after they moved to Union Springs in 1852, she helped organize the Presbyterian Church there, and gave the land upon which the Carnegie Library and the Trinity Episcopal Church were built. She died 1912 in Union Springs.

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